Thanks Nixon, I will need to try the zoom again. I spent half the night either clicking on that spot or looking for a stray rotary knob somewhere in the cockpit! I didn’t try dragging it up or down though.
Eventually got my controls back. No idea what was wrong, but they were missing on every other aircraft too! So I quit the sim, checked calibration in windows and it was fine, but decided to reboot windows anyway, and fresh sim launch and controls working again. A mystery. I’m really lost for words with fs2024 at times. Been using fs2020 for 3+ years and I’ve never lost the comtrollers function completely before.
Anyhow, I used and flew your flightplan and it was fine and I had IFR clearance the whole way. It’s fun doing something different for a change. ATC still a mess trying to get me to climb to 11000ft on final, but that’s another story.
What I did note was how poor the LOD over CA was from 11000 ft. All the terrain looked soft and rounded, I dont think I’ve ever seen things that bad in fs2020, which was always sharp and detailed. It could be my broadband speed, but I’m really thinking the dialled back LODs are to blame. Landed at Santa Barbara with a low LOD/not fully loaded airport and a ridiculously blurry runway. Not sure I’m really enjoying this whole streaming methodology. The LODs seem to be set way too close in.
Are they limiting/controlling server bandwidth? Same for big airports too. It’s quite a vishal regression / shock after fs2020. I do admittedly need faster broadband (i still have ADSL) though, but it’s not available here yet.