Timestamps Introduction 0:07 MCD flight plan 0:45 AFCS settings 2:42 Departure 3:25 Autopilot ON 4:32 EPNOD 6:02 DAXET 6:19 PENDR 6:35 GOVAV 8:09 Flaps half 8:35 Gear down 8:49 Autothrottle OFF 8:58 Approach ON 9:13 MISAR 9:36 Glideslope capture 10:04 2500 call out 10:25 Autopilot OFF 10:36 Displays magnified 11:02
Perhaps a silly question or thing to ask, but is there going to be a livery expansion at all? I just found it odd that there isnât a single USAF livery available for this aircraft out of the gate. And since we, the community still donât have the ability to paint our own liveries for 2024. It seems like it has to be requested by the aircraftâs developer in order to get any. Maybe this has been covered or brought up before. But I didnât see any and this thread has been active since launch.
Have you looked on flightsim.to?
Here is an Alaska National Guard livery for the FS24 (Miltech) C-17
https://flightsim.to/file/86065/alaska-ang-c-17-00185-8k
Theres probably more, user-made liveries ARE possible - just more difficult than beforeâŠ
Due to various reasons⊠including licensing, the liveries will be available from Miltech directly in the future (once the modular version of the aircraft is released).
This was stated numerous times by Miltech, hopefully it is released soon!
I hope they make this possible to use in career mode for the cargo company. It would have been awesome.
Thanks for that. I have scanned there and that is the only USAF scheme available currently. At least for the Miltech one. Thereâs a ton for the Delta and others.
Hopefully thereâs an expansion soon. A lot of people seem to also be feeling the sim being âtiredâ already due to the lack of variety. Sadly it seems a lot of content seems to be lagging behind in terms of stuff getting released for this sim due to itâs lack of friendly files that are easily modded/painted. I know itâs possible. It just seems like thereâs not many people that want to deal with the hastle of how the process is at the moment.
True, Iâve a dozen or more FS20 liveries at fs.to, but attempting to move one of them to FS24 was just a pain in the butt and simply not worth the effort.
And now Iâve lost most of my source files in a disk incident so even less likely now 
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When can we expect new patch?
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When can we expect new patch? Plane canât even keep wings straight on AP, half of the lights donât work correctly, Flight Path Vector is not pointing to correct directionâŠ
I paid money for this. To my detriment, I had to use Marketplace, which I will never do again, because who wants to wait months for simple bugs to be fixed.
Developers are waiting until Flight Sim Expo 2025 to put out any information. They want to be able to say something new at the Expo.
How do you know this? Do you know some?
Not true. Updates are submitted to MS/Asobo and are just waiting on them to release.
Thank you for dispelling this bizzare assumption.
According to what they said in discord, even though they didnât say it directly, Miltech already provided the patch even before SU2 was released. I donât want to spread rumors but thatâs what I just read between the lines.
When asked (many times) they repeat that itâs up to MS to release the patch.
I find it absolutely ridiculous that we have planes streaming from the cloud, which means it should be very easy for developers to push fixes, but we have to wait months for simple bugs to be fixed, just so Asobo can do some, very questionable, âââquality controlâââ.
I would give anything for a study level C-17 from Miltech sold outside the Marketplace.
Why does one mean the other? The process of them submitting updates is the same as before - the release process basically (with focus on streaming vs downloading the content on client (!) side) stays the same.
Streaming only offers the advantage of you not having to download updates manually, instead the files are just updated on server side an your simulator automatically downloads this content on demand to a temporary folder in rolling cache so you donât have multiple gigabyte of data from aircraft or scenery you are not actively using on your drive.
Thatâs about all the magic, not more.
The release itself still has to be tested and accepted by Microsoft before it is provided to all users when it comes down to first party releases. For third party they now want to skip their testing part.
Asobo doesnât test any aircraft beyond their own.
The quality control is also not questionable - it just tests against the Microsoft (XBGS) technical guidelines (not art, not flight models, not anything else) for Xbox releases, to be specific for releases which ultimately end up in a completely enclosed sandbox environment with high security requirements we know as âXbox Seriesâ.
For Microsoft branded aircraft (which all first party releases of the editions are) there is to keep in mind that Microsoft also takes the risk as itâs their product after all, so the have to ensure this stuff does not causes exploits or something which ultimately crashes the sim.
Surely under certain circumstances CTDs by first party products will still happen but most likely less than within such tests.
I was under the impression a benefit of the streaming model was a different release process. Planes release whenever they are ready, not tied to some other SU or WU.
So far, however, it seems plane updates are still largely tied to SUâs. Perhaps thatâs just a consequence of how many overall changes are being pushed to fix sim issues, so things are not stable enough to release planes at will.
Yes, that was said but that could also have been done on MSFS 2020. Aircraft are individual packages ever since, just like 3rd party releases. Itâs more a political decision to release updates to first party aircraft all together with a whole pack of fixes and not something because of the way things technically are provided 
On some updates that however will also never really change - some aircraft changes may be tied to changes on avionics frameworks or other SDK related things, so it would not make sense to release one without the other.
Right, but in 2020 I would be downloading updates for every plane, even ones I donât fly. I really donât need Ornithopter updates 
In the end I donât really care how they do it, I just wish they would do it more frequently.
I know that pain - however it must have some reason. The C17 especially is, letâs say, interesting due to the amount of screens which are simulated and which bring other core systems to their limits. I could at least imagine that they hold the update back while also working on improving this on the core sim. Or they wait for the cargo missions to check if itâs already compatible.
That way or the other this is anyway just guesswork. At least there must be something special about this aircraft as the G.111 already had multiple neat updates, but this one is not even planned to be featured on missions for now 