Hello everyone!
I started playing flight sims with FS98. I bought an Xbox S and recently upgraded to the X. Im blown away how great the sim looks on console. It’s been loads of fun learning to fly new planes. Having been a KC10 mechanic, I hope the KC/DC10 being develpoed by Aero Dynamics comes to console now the we have WASM.
Welcome both @DHunterA and @KC10MECH75! We are thrilled to have you with us 
Happy flying and head to #gd-interests:general-discussion if you would like to discuss anything regarding the sim 
Welcome again!
Hey @DHunterA, great you are here. I’m sure you can do everything you want to in this sim and it you stick with it in a years time you’ll be amazed at where you are.
My thoughts are that you’re doing this for fun not for work, so set easy goals with a low bar. You’ll achieve these, that’ll be rewarding, then you’ll be fired up for the next slightly harder goal. If you try to fly an airliner from no experience it will be offputting.
I’d suggest to not focus on the in game tutorials too much, they’re quite shallow. Instead head over to these realistic flight school lessons…
Watch them, do them yourself alongside Jane, repeat as you feel you need to. In weeks you’ll be flying just great, and understand what and why you’re doing it. Once you can fly the 152 the other things are just bigger. 
Ironically, the airliners are easier due to the throttle controls matching better with my controller. That whole Vernier system with its fuel mixture and hyper-sensitivity is messing up my experience. Not to even start about the Trim sensitivity…
In the case of the tutorials they are not that bad (especially compared to 2020), if it weren’t for the fact that they aren’t always clear, but most of all the moment the game hands over the controls it immediately jumps to whatever my throttle and stick are set to. I may have to play them with the stick and mouse only. I wish I knew why my game has a memory leak loading the airliner tutorial though. Possibly have to find and delete the files. My fs-base was corrupted as well, everything was pink hotness and rainbow unicorns.
Thank you for the link! I have some work to do this weekend it seems.
I live near Munich in Germany and I am retired. I use to fly a lot during my 4 to 5 visits to the USA, often with a good friend of mine who had a share of a Bonanza 35B. About a year ago he contacted me to fly together using MSFS. He lives now in Hawaii. So I did make myself a PC with a 11700k CPU, an RTX3038 Graphics card, and the full set of Saitel peripherals for MSFS. Additionally, I have the Tobii 5, but the Saitek peripherals prevent Tobii 5 to track my head and eye movement. So the cockpit shown is still a work in progress. My latest purchase is the Brunner CLS-E NG force feedback yoke.
I made my pilot license in Germany in a flight school at EDMJ. EDMJ has a runway of 438x12 m, so my landing procedure was one that applies when having such a short runway. So to touch down at the slowest speed possible and touch down at the beginning of the runway. That speed is given when the stall warning rings at the moment the plane touches the ground. This steep approach required to “feel” the plane at the yoke and so the purchase of the Brunner yoke was a must-do if my sim experience should match the real feeling at the yoke.
Welcome! You have a nice setup.
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Hello, good afternoon. My name is Virgilio Millán, I started with simulators many years ago, first with FSX and then I switched to X-Plane 11. Now I return to Flight Simulator 2020, although unfortunately I don’t have much time for it.
I have an I7-9700, with 32Gb of RAM, an RTX 3060, several SSDs and the X-56 Rhino. Here I am, not knowing the best configuration of MSFS 2020 yet and going crazy to configure the joystick as close to how I had it in X-Plane (out of habit). Do not take it into account if I ask a lot of nonsense about it
A pleasure to join this group and happy flights.
Hola, buenas tardes. Me llamo Virgilio Millán, Empecé con los simuladores hace muchos años, primero con el FSX para luego pasarme al X-Plane 11. Ahora regreso al Flight Simulator 2020, aunque por desgracia no tengo mucho tiempo para él.
Tengo un I7-9700, con 32Gb de RAM, una RTX 3060, varios SSD y el X-56 Rhino. Ahí ando, sin saber la mejor configuración del MSFS 2020 todavía y volviéndome loco para configurar el joystick lo más parecido a como lo tenía en X-Plane (por costumbre). No me lo tengáis en cuenta si pregunto muchas tonterías al respecto 
Un placer entrar a este grupo y felices vuelos.
Hello (or ¡Hola!) to you too! Welcome and we are glad you are here
Happy flying!
hello,
I am really novice on Steam FSX and i have a lot of issues trying to download scenery and planes . i have been on a lot of differents sites , they all seem to give the same process but nothing works ; Other issue is to find the right files to download on FSX directory . last I tried to download a plane I can see it in the library but I am able to lauch it .
I know it is such a joy to fly and certainly enjoy learn to fly as a pro but these issues are a bit annoying and spoil the pleasure
can you help or give links which are easy to follow
I tried this one and others with no luck
thank you for your solution if there are any
STUCK TO THE GROUND !
in French : Collé au plancher des vaches !
Daunted badger 13
Hello All, I go by CyclicalObsessv here, (because I have too many hobbies: Flight sim, birding, photography, Raspberry Pi / GoPiGo3 Robots, ElevenTableTennis VR in Quest 2, Biking, Running, Flute, Piano, and eating pizza).
I have 70 years of dreaming about flying under my wings, including a PPL-SEL but these days only sim. I am new to MSFS but have been sim flying for over 40 years. I primarily sim in the LongEZ canard pusher, and the CabriG2 heli. I occasionally fly the DV20 standard six, the ICON A5, and the C152 standard six that I spent 50 IRL hours flying to get my PPL.
I have spent the last 5 years flying over 400 hours in X-Plane on a Mac Mini with VATSIM and IVAO, where my X-Plane “hangar” includes the LongEZ, CabriG2, ICON A5, Diamond DA-20-C1, and an F-16D Block 52+.
I like to fly VFR out of KLNA Lantana Florida USA where I got my PPL. Lantana still feels like “my airport” and “where my planes are parked”. KLNA is an uncontrolled class G airport in the shadow of the class C Palm Beach International Airport. I have a few hours instrument but never pursued IFR rating and primarily sim VFR at 1000 feet AGL. When simming, I try to stay out of the clouds and fly with real weather, but if I get trapped I can handle the turbulence and navigate my way out safely. I have difficulty stick flying VFR, handling squawk code and frequency changes while flying, so I tend to avoid controlled airspace.
Learning MSFS and the MSFS LongEZ is quite a challenge coming from X-Plane. I bought the MSI Aegis R gaming rig with RTX4070 specifically to enable simming MSFS with the goal to learn how to use my Quest 2 VR headset with MSFS. (I got tired of waiting for X-Plane on Mac to support VR.)
Looking out the window in MSFS gives a tremendous feeling of realism. The colors seem a little over saturated to me, but the contrast and 4K detail are really excellent (I have all scenery settings except windshield effect at Ultra).
There are too many trees to my liking, and I cannot find a way to adjust the quantity of trees. The greatest problem with this is finding aero community grass strips that often have homes with trees around the strip. IRL there will be “a tree or two”, yet MSFS will place a forest there which sometimes completely blocks visibility of the runway on downwind or off angle to the runway heading on base.
Another MSFS scenery aspect is the grass height and flowers of grass runways and grass aprons. IRL most grass strips (at least here in south Florida) are more like a golf green than flowering grass that hasn’t been mowed in several weeks.
The modeling of homes in MSFS does not distract from the realism (a serious flaw of X-Plane). The modeling of class G airport hangars must be limited as 3rd party dev efforts at modeling the actual buildings is aspirational at best.
Being a VFR GA simmer I enjoy whatever I can have, and try to report these aspects without judgement. MSFS automatic scenery generation is a tremendous advance from my having to spend hours generating orthographic scenery for each VFR flight segment I intend to make.
Since I like to fly the canard pusher LongEZ aircraft most often, in choosing to invest to sim with MSFS, I was encouraged to find the IndiaFoxtEcho LongEZ available in the marketplace, with both standard six and glass cockpit liveries. MSFS limits modeling some of the aspects of the LongEZ such as putting the nose gear up to park the plane, and only providing two speed brake positions (0 and 100% spoilers) if you don’t have an axis to assign to the lever, but in all I am enjoying learning the personality of this MSFS version of the “homebuilt” LongEZ.
While simming in the X-Plane community, I built over 20 airports. Eventually I will have to look into the Dev Mode process for trying my hand at improving the uncontrolled airports I like to fly into.
I am hoping to find someone to join me at KLNA Lantana airport for some group flights, so I can practice patterns getting to know my “new LongEZ” and learn the secrets of flying in MSFS.
Hi, I’m fairly new to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. I’m finding a few usability niggles, but I think they can be solved and I’m looking forward to seeing if other users find my solutions workable.
Hi and welcome! Feel free to browse the #community-support category!
Welcome @PinsPop and @cyclicalobsessv! Happy flying!!
Hello. You can call me Midnight.
I play on Xbox X/S series.
I am an older gamer. I am almost at 1000 flight hours on the sim. I enjoy piston powered aircraft and 4 engine props like the DC6.
I’m most interested in connecting with legacy pilots/simmers that like to fly these types of aircraft.
Thank you.
Hi all,
New to these forums. I played Flight Simulator decades ago when our computer screens were black and white 
Now, I’m here for supporting my son. So you’ll probably find me back in the tech support forum, for putting a nice PC together for him.
Greetings all.
I’m Luna, a Royal Air Force Air Cadet from Herefordshire, I have only recently started flight simulation, late 2019 to be exact. My first flight simulator was Flight Simulator X, which was a gift for my birthday. I recently picked up MSFS and I am quickly getting used to the controls.
My favorite aircraft is the Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint
My favorite flights to fly are real RAF reconnaissance flights in Eastern Europe.
I hope you have a nice day, goodbye!
Hello @parathumper, @OtRiMa, and @GhostLuna218213!
Welcome to the forums and we are glad you have joined us
Hi there,
I am new to the forum and am using MSFS on a PC. I am specifically interested in hardware and am wondering if anyone knows if any of the flight simulator hardware companies make an A320 autopilot/glare shield module that can be used with MSFS and possible the FlyByWire A32NX?
Forgive me if I am posting in the wrong section - I have noe yet figured out how to create my own posts on this forum 
Hello @MushroomLion388,
Welcome to the forums!
I have advanced your Trust Level so that you are able to create a new topic.
Hi I am Foxx (Chris) not new to flight simulation but been a while since I dabbled. Hope to get back in and enjoy the experience. Current setup = VKB Gladiator throttle & Stick with Thrust Master Pedals.
