I hear you. I do. I’m just the wrong person to come looking for fun in a defective product. I didn’t have to do that with 2020, so I was hoping there was more here that I could do than fly a defective airplane and look out the window at the pretty scenery.
Basically, if 2024 is as @SmotheryVase665 has described it, then it isn’t what I am looking for right now.
Maybe it will be in the future, I have no idea.
Have you perchance tried out the Corvalis and Optica? Heard good things about both, flew them a bit. Might be just the things for your GA need
“What I don’t know about a Boeing 307…” 
I did fly the Optica and it was alright. It’s a bit slow, but worked basically okay.
I could try to dive a bit deeper with it.
I tired the Corvalis, at night, and its lighting issues kind of turned me off to it. I could try it again in the daytime.
Absolutely not. You (and I) bought it for all the right reasons.
But those reasons were things the marketing department promised. Sadly, the development team’s work hasn’t lived up to what was advertised…yet.
I’m enjoying GA sightseeing. But I’m planning to get into more of the things you’ve talked about, like IFR navigation. I’m focused on the FSR500 right now. I’ve successfully imported a Simbrief flight plan created in Navigraph, but it was only for proof-of-concept. So far I’ve spent all my time programming my Streamdecks and other peripherals in SPAD, and haven’t even tried a full flight yet (in FS2024, that is…)
I’ll do more testing soon, and hopefully will be able to add a little more to this discussion.
Also, I do like the G36, and recommend the G36 Improvement Project as an addon. I put it in my AOL folder and the plane shows up in my Library when I want to fly it.
I had only flown the Corvalis at day, my bad. The Optica’s worth a deeper look, as are Got Friends’ contributions to 2024 in general. If the Draco wasn’t so hilariously overpowered… 
I was hoping you would respond, because I’ve seen your posts about only using 2024 for now and I know you fly the G36 a whole lot.
Let me know how that ends up working for you.
Part of my “issue” here is the magic of 2020’s first few flights is years in the past. Sitting down with 2024, for me with my flight hours in 2020, isn’t going to wow me for the reasons 2020 did. I can’t just pretend I don’t want an enriched flight experience. And let me be clear, too, I know that 2020 has a ton of add-ons and whatnot that make it full featured. However, I’m able to strip all that away and have a far better flying experience in 2020 with it in vanilla than I am in 2024 in vanilla.
I guess I was hoping someone could say, “Hey man, this aircraft works pretty dang well, you can import a flight plan, its autopilot works, the lighting is able to illuminate the instrumentation in a way that is either able to be read in the dark or not so bright that it is burning out your eyes and if you use BeyondATC you can have some modicum of success with ATC for IFR flying, too.” (I can’t believe that I just wrote that. That that is what I am asking for here. Just that the basics work? Man…)
If that is impossible right now, okay, it’s impossible.
Hopefully someone with more experience than I have will be able to help.
As I learn more about IFR (and the other things you’ve mentioned) in the aircraft I like to fly, I’ll be sure to share my thoughts with you. I’ve bookmarked this thread, because I think it’s important.
Funny, in my case I am back to 2020 because it’s awful in 2024. As an example I love New Zealand for mountain flying and it’s simply horrible compare to 2020 on my side at least
Thing is, when the new sim was launched, those mountain textures looked amazing - even at 8,000 AGL. They did something in one of the early patches that caused terrain to look blurry at altitude. I think too many folks were complaining that there was too much data for their system (or server-client data transfer) to allow the clarity we had early on. Terrible compromise, if that’s the case. Hopefully temporary.
During my 1$ trial i experienced the following:
Not to derail this post, but you are absolutely spot on, we are all compromised due to a failure to optimise or work through the foundations of this game
Similar here, but instead I set up 3 folders in addon linker, 2020 community folder, my own custom folder and 2024 community folder. Now I can just create links to 2024 from these without having to have multiple copies across different sims. Worked a treat for FSLTL models for use with BATC. 
I’d read that for FS2024 you need the new 2024 version of AOL.
I have my 2020 Community folder linked to the old version, and my 2024 Community linked to the new one.
I copy things from the 2020 AOL folder into the 2024 folder. Sounds like you’re skipping that last step and still using the 2020 version of AOL. Or am I misunderstanding your post?
Yep, I am using that version. Not tried to do it in the old version, it’ll probably break something in the sim that not even Bill Gates could foresee. 
Basically I link addons into 2024 CF from 2020 CF, which then as I say, stops the need for multiple copies of the same thing taking up further space (I know with your 800 tons of SSD space, this isn’t a problem for you lol). Of course there’s all that extra voodookery to do with “the folder is on C drive but isn’t” etc, but it seems to work fine so far.
Hopefully I’ve explained this in a way that makes sense, my gaming chair is only small.
That does make sense to me (shocking, I know…) 
I’ll try it that way. Since I don’t fly 2020 anymore, it’s a good trick to avoiding unnecessary copy pasta.
I love this post!
I have another flight-simmer friend that quit flying for the exact same reason. Even my father had to “hang 'em up” after he got married, (and he sold his airplane), because he couldn’t afford to raise a family and an aircraft at the same time.
I’m probably the wrong person to comment here, but I’ve followed your posts religiously and have learned much. Totally mad respect for you and your contributions!
Me? I’m still trying to get my arms around this beastie, what with all the glitches and problems I had at first - which have hopefully been solved by a motherboard replacement.
My own needs are simple:
I mostly fly VFR “fantasy” weather in something like a DV-20, punt the nav-aids, beacons, flight plans, and generally fly like a completely irresponsible barnstormer in the 1920s or '30s. “Darn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”
I absolutely agree that you should enjoy what works instead of ripping your hair out.
Given my choice of being trapped in a locked room with a dozen cocaine-soaked cobras or sitting on the beach sipping daiquiris, I’m choosing the beach!
Pick your battles. Unless you’re being paid to bug hunt, (or you’re a card-carrying masochist like me!), you should concentrate on what makes you happy.
If you can do that in 2024, wonderful!
If you end up going back to 2020, just as good!
The bottom line is that the goal at the end of the day ISN’T the number of flight hours you’ve logged or how many “certificates” you’ve earned - it’s having fun.
There’s too much horse-hooey out there in the world today to allow you to loose sight of the joys of your hobbies.
So mote it be!
And I absolutely love this post!
I am trying quite hard to pick those battles. There is only so much time and I want to spend that that I have for enjoyment on actual enjoyment.
The thing is I’m also stubborn and persistent, which is why I’m here on this thread looking for answers!
You and me gotta’ lot in common that way.
After being awake at oh-dark-thirty to converse here on this forum, I fell back asleep and dreamed of a low flying blue & white Stearman performing daring feats in the sky. Eventually, it flew straight at me.
At first, I thought it was going to be a repeat of a long-standing, repeating dream I have of frighteningly loud aircraft engines roaring, followed by an extremely low airplane headed straight for me. I usually wake myself at that point.
However, instead, I saw two smiling pilots who, as they drew closer to me, stuck out their right arms in a gesture for me to high five them as they flew by.
I felt their finger tips brush mine in only a way that “dream physics” can do, as I was also not struck by the wing as it simply seemed to pass through me.
Perhaps this is a sign that your call to 1922 is what I needed? Was that Jimmy Doolittle’s ghost in my dream?
As I head off to the dentist, I will be pondering this.
