Welcome to the forums @UnlimitedBagels !
Also, great username 
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Hi @sTiKyTiSsU3 ! Welcome to the forums and great to hear youāre enjoying the experience!
There are many knowledgeable people here that are happy to share their knowledge so I think youāre in a good place 
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Happy flying!
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Hello all. New to flight sims. I go by Edward60, unless someone else is using that moniker. Playing MSFS2020 on PC since Dec 2022. I have wanted to get this since the 80ās. But family, kids and wife always came first. So far it has been a lot of fun.
There is so much to learn. That is the most enjoyable part: learning and understanding.
Very good chance I will be on here to pick brains. I hope to chat with some of you folks in the near future.
Have a good day and see you soon.
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Hi @Edward609155 ,
Welcome to the community! Totally agree on the learning and understanding part. And thereās a lot of brains to pick here 
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Happy flying!
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Hi, my name is Tim and I am from Texas. While I am not new to simming it has been a number of years since I have been active, so I figure it is best to just start as brand new beginner. I am planning on a VR Flight Sim (or possible a hybrid). I am a retired USAF fighter pilot, but that was a long time ago. Just looking to have a lot of fun and hopefully get some help from more experienced VR pilots along the way. Thanks in advance to all who provide some guidance.
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Iām Mike. Recently moved from Texas to Williamsburg to be near family after retiring from tech industry. Build high end PCās as a hobby. Iāve been flying 5 months. Thanks to all the sim YouTubers who got me in the air! Just started a coastline world tour. Posting all my flight plans at oceanscoast.com along with YouTube highlight videos of the journey. My father-in-law flew in World War II as a bomber pilot.
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Greetings!
Waiting for my 118GB Steam (PC) download to complete. Played earlier versions of FS, itās been probably 20 years since Iāve flown. Got the itch to pick it up again.
KSDF is my home airport (Louisville, KY).
Air Force vet - avionics - Pave Tack on the F-111F and IRADS on the F-1117A.
For a long time I wanted to be a commercial pilot, but my nearsightedness kept me from really pursuing it. Passed the FAA pre-screen to become an ATC (after I got out of he Air Force in '91), but they werenāt doing a lot of hiring then and I eventually gave up on that.
Playing on a home built PC - Win 11, Core i5 12400F, 32GB, nVidia RTX 3060, 3x Acer 23" monitors, MS Sidewinder Precision 2 from way back when.
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Hello !
I am NixonRider also known as MythicSimPilot depending on the platform. I am from Quebec, Canada. I work in the IT sector, living happily with my wife in our home. I also am a World of Warcraft performance player, which I also play a lot.
Even though I played a very few hours younger to flight sims, I really started when MSFS2020 came out. I was hooked. Iāve learned all the way from small GAs to Airliners, from VFR to IFR, Spent 1 hour of flying for about 5hours of video of learning. Videos from flight simmers or real airline pilot. (I thank Chewwy, TheFlyingFabio, 737NgDriver, A320SimPilot, Mentour Pilot, 74Gear, and many more). Learned ATC for VATSIM, I now have about 500 hours on that same platform and a bit more than 800Flight Hours logged on MSFS. All this learning even brought me to start a PPL, surprisingly for my instructor I known so so much prior to the ground school and flying because of all my reading and video watching. When I fly on the sim I want to be perfect from start to finish.
Like many, I decided to drop my PPL, because as weird as it sounds, I much rather flying the simulator (in a realistic way) than flying in real life. I realized I am an IFR lover, I donāt much enjoy flying VFR in real life or in the simulator - it takes a lot of time and money to be able to fly IFR in real world. Flying in real life is somewhat complicated and very expensive, also very costly on the precious ressource : Time. Here, I can do whatever flight I want, from the comfort of my home, present for my wife.
Thanks all and happy flying to all !
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Hello, Iām also new to MSFS 2020 but not new to flight simulation. Have you tried updating your firmware on your thrustmaster?
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Welp here goesā¦ I go by Nacho Xbox1X. Reason for is that I made that gamertag for a Xbox one x that I happen to win from taco bell a x never changed it. That gamertag migrated from that console once I gave it to my 8yr old daughter when the series x launched and I got one of those.
Ive played msfs in the past as I used to be a PC centered guyā¦ I built and rebuilt or upgraded my PC about twice a year back when gfx cards were more like 3 and 4 hundred bucks or so instead of 1600 or more.
Ive gotten pretty heavy into msfs 2020 on Xbox as I love console gaming since you can play on a huge 65 inch tv on a couch or in bed with a nice turtle beach flight stick and itās just comfy and the game plays decently enough for me. I am an eye candy and fps guy but I started to hate over time hunched over a desk.
And Ive spent a few hundred on planes and a controller etc so far so itās safe to say itās got me. Iāma pretty decent pilot but the 2 or 3 things that irk me areā¦
The store just doesnāt give us the love of folks get. Hopefully that changes soon with updates and wasm etc. If I can get some.bae 146, antonov. C5 and itās big brother, b1 and b2 and sr71, along with pretty much all of md80, 727, 737 old school, 757, 757, 777, 737 max done right, and a whole slew of other planes.
The only 2 planes I havenāt popped for but want and could are the f15 and f16, I just honestly donāt know how much Iād fly them as lately Iāve been all about the jumbo jets and bush missions. I love military planes but Iād much rather drop that money on some GA planes in the above list, even tho I love the f16 and f15 is a goat too.
Other thing is I canāt for the life of me get down auto land. Iāve followed.guides etc, and my plane will descend and all that and fly right over the line and just never enter the pattern to land. It sure acts like it will but at the end itās just like āgotemā and last time (today) it did a circle over OāHare and headed BACK towards where I took off from. ā ā ā ?
Odd thing is about 3 or 4 days ago my plane was doing the same stuff and I was close to the landing pattern so I started clicking off all buttons for auto pilot and ils and everything I had on, grabbed the controlls and dove into the flight path (Iāve been loving my a318 and I think this was either thet or my a319)
And like all other times it wonāt auto land I was like screw it Iāll do it myself (I like landing but I just wanted to see the plane lane itself yanno).
Anyhow the oddest thing happened. As soon as I got into the landing pattern, and all my auto pilot buttons I pressed and turned offā¦ all the ones you use for auto land and such, so I was flyingā¦ the plane all of a sudden took back over control and followed the landing pattern, the turns, flaps, gear, throttle, you name it. I still was about 2 inches from my flight stick in case it tried to commit suicide like the autoland I tried on the Concorde, but wouldnāt you know itā¦ it landed itself. I didnāt flare for it or anything so it touched down all 3 wheels at once but it was nice and smooth and then I took over but I couldnāt believe it.
Because I had everything turned off so it had to of been the game bugging out on me, but I canāt lremember for the life of me what I did other than turn all the auto pilot buttons I had on off because I wanted to repeat it to see if it would land again.
Iāve tried it again tonight and nopeā¦ I couldnāt even get both aps to turn on at the same time and again it just about faced and tried to fly back to where I took off from. Landing was ILS only and I just said screw it and landed in vfr even tho the tower was blowing me up but I could easily see the lights and runway through light rain and some fog/clouds with barely any wind so it was easy for OāHare.
But yeahā¦ Iāve read and watched and tried 100 times to auto land and for whatever reason it just wonāt in my a318, a319, a320, 737max, 787.
I donāt care THAT much, but it would be nice to auto land once in awhile and do an observed landing here and there if I want to.
Aside from those couple things and not having more planes to buy (osprey and antonov too) I love the game and hope to catch yāall in the skiesā¦ I live in Seattle so I take off outta KSEA a whole lotā¦ plus itās a great place to fly from and too since you got water planes, bush trips and a busy and very beautiful airport in the morning once you punch through the fog and cloud layers to watch the sun come up over the sound or see mt rainier etc.
Love the game. Updates and new aircraft canāt come soon enough. Autoland, you butthead, Iāll get you someday.
Cheers 
and sorry for the lengthy introduction
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Thanks for your extensive introduction @NachoXbox1X ! Welcome to the forums!
MSFS has a AI pilot function that basically takes over control of your aircraft. This could be what youāve experienced.
I donāt know if the planes you listed actually have autoland functionality implemented but it should work on the standard A310 that came with the 40th anniversary.
Good luck!
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Hello all like-minded people on this forum!
I bought in the 2000ās Microsoft flight sim, but never came close to it! Small children and family took up most of the time - So there was never an opportunity to fly right away. - Now times have changedā¦ And I acquired Pc + Yoke + Headset and 2 monitors . And Microsoft Flight sim .2020 Editions ā¦ And a new world opens ā¦ with possibilities that never end! I have a flying interest in RC Aviation as background. -But am useless at computers and software. But at least managed to start flying in Simulator since fall 2022 ** So youāll have to put up with some āDummiesā questions" that may arise!? In my defense, I usually joke that I was born before the typewriter. 
And itās not easy to keep up" with todayās developments.
I guess Iāll have to skim through the forum a bitā¦ And hope it can give me many answers?
Would it end up in the wrong forum section? Can the administrator move it 
Have fun
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Welcome! No question is a bad one
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Hi, I used to fly FS in the late 80ās and early 90ās and am just coming back to it so I can introduce my grandkids. Having some trouble with setup - I want to run on a PC (both desktop and laptop), tried via Game Pass but realised this only worked with an XBox controller and we want to use HOTAS (have bought Thrustmaster HOTAS One to get started). If I buy a download code, can I use it on PC and laptop (only 1 will be in use at a time, or do I need to buy 2?) / If I buy a CD/DVD can I install it on 2 machines? Thanks in advance, MartinS
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If I recall correctly, you can havs MSFS installed on two different devices and use one account for each.
As you said though, You will only be able to log into one at the same time.
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Hi, you can call me: Perkser2131 OR P21
I am playing Microsoft Flight Simulator on: Both PC and Xbox regularly
I want to try flight simulation because: I have always heard cool things about MFSM2020
Iām most interested in learning about being able to have fun in Microsoft Flight Simulator!
I also know @HamMan2118
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Hi, you can call me: Reza
I am playing Microsoft Flight Simulator on: PC
**I want to try flight simulation because luv to fly
Iām most interested in learning about nav and avionics in Microsoft Flight Simulator:
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**Hi, you can call me: Anthony (or CagyPit72 since that is my xbox handle, even tho I play on PC, more on that)
I am playing Microsoft Flight Simulator on: I play on my computer, but think i originally bought the game on XBOX. I have no idea if this if the PC or XBOX version, which is one frustration.
**I want to try flight simulation because: I would love to learn how to fly. The game looks so fun when i see vids online, and Iām consider getting my GA pilots license. I invested some $ into the game already, but a couple months later Iām about ready to just quit. Itās too complicated and i get nowhere on my own. Do you need a computer science degree to enjoy this game?? I tried to get some decent equipment here is my setupā¦
Computer: HP OMEN with Intel Core i7 and NVDIA GEFORCE RTX 300Hz refresh rate. Idk, those are what the stickers say. In my online searches, I found I able to use NVIDIA DLSS SUPER RESOLUTION with this set up. Which i have been happy with, but why is my game still sooo glitchy so often, something else??? So frustrating, I read that my internet speed, tho not fast, is not the issue? Any advice on optimizing gameplay and graphics would be welcome to start. I bought this dang computer soley to give flight sim a shot.
I bought Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo throttle setup and yoke. Currently just flying the Cessna 172 with steam gauges (had to buy the premium pack to use this dang plane!). Good plane to learn with? Here i am at my wits end on how to program these things. Doing things like changing comās, or changing a squack code w/o having to try to do it with my mouse while flying??? There is a knob that i have tried to program on the dial. I could go on and on here. Any help to set up my buttons just to fly the Cessna 172 would be great.
It also has a commercial setup, that looks/sounds fun, realistically iāll never program on of those it seems, but long run would love to fly commercial planes on here and join a VATSIM or similar community w/o looking like an idiot.
EFB: Is this the only way to create a flight plan? See weather for planning purposes? Find out good info on an airport? I want to plan flights and follow them. I have Garmin Pilot and ForeFlight, been unsuccessful connecting either to my flight simulator. Super frustrating. All i have is a samsung tablet (i know Iām poor) so that makes Garmin Pilot out. Please help me get an EFB connected to my flight sim, I want to plan flights and follow them, with end goal of learning enough to join VATSIM and do a career mode. I can barley find the airport Iām looking for at this point. It canāt all be this hard. Could my EFB issue be somehow cause i am using an XBOX version on my PC? I downloaded Flight Events to connect the EFB to my MSFS, says connected and it connects to my MSFS, but EFB apps will not connect.
Camera: how do you guys control your cameraās so well? I just use the mouse and hold right click down to move the camera, but its kinda awful, and goes all over the place. Help to program the camera so on my yoke setup maybe??
Thanks for reading my rant. Iām concerned i just dropped thousands on something that is just too complicated and i wonāt be able to enjoy correctly. Any help is welcome I will be checking back. Thanks Flight Sim Community!
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very nice!!
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