My heart is Cologne, but my youth is LTU, and LTU is Düsseldorf. 
I did nothing but I finally did the flight in real life that I had practiced in MSFS a few times (see earlier post).
Apart from the less visible wind turbines I have to say that in general everything looks very much the same IRL and in MSFS. Everythig was where I expected it to be, and it looked similar from a distance or up close.
I’ve always felt things look further away in a simulator than in real life, and I still have that. I don’t know why that is. IRL everything just looks like it’s right there and I don’t have that with a simulator - same altitude.
One thing MSFS doesn’t simulate, a thick dust layer limiting visibility to the horizon.
Another thing: keeping my eyes peeled for other traffic on a busy sunday afternoon.
I remember one of the promo video’s said you could “fly VFR everywhere in the world”. I felt that was a bold claim to make, but I feel now like that is true. At least it is for the area that I know.
What did I do in MSFS today, well let me tell you.
I did absolutely Sweet B%**@r All and have done so for the past four days because the blasted thing keeps crashing at the READY TO FLY SCREEN.
My help desk son-in-law got it working for me early last week and that lasted for three days before the thing got a mind of it’s own and went back to crashing. He tried many things again today for me but, no joy, so in the last 12 days I had 3 days of the sim working.
So, glad that a lot of you can enjoy flight simming but, I am so PO’d with this thing.
I have spent nearly 5K AUD on a new rig and Honeycomb yoke and throttle quadrant on saitek combat pedals and other bits and pieces and it is sitting here being absolutely useless.
Now waiting for the update this week to see if that goes any way to getting it to work works.
Well that my rant, going to go have a scotch and soda.
May you have, clear skies, fair winds and happy landings.
Cheers
I have uninstalled it…Over it since last Thursday, No update, no avatar, no marketplace, no live weather, 787 and Longitude missing…so it’s gone. Incredibly annoyed…
Flew from Cyprus to Santorini, landed there, got drunk with ouzo at a local pub and couldn’t fly any more…
Did some more OnAir cargo runs.
first some runs in the A320:
EGSS to LFMI (LFMI doesn’t exist in MSFS however the area is smooth enough to land, as it is one of the “removed” places and you can make out where it would be by the slightly darker shaded rectangular area that would contain the runways and taxiways).
LFMI to DAUL
DAUL to LFMT
LFMT to EGSS
Then switched to the 787-10 for a flight from EGSS to OIAA (Southern Iraq) which will be the starting point for the next leg later today once I have been to bed when I head over to Spain.
Landed in Madrid in the FBWA320. Beautiful landing at minimums was very rainy. Never flew into the airport before didn’t realise how huge it is a very nice looking airport!
Tomorrow I’ll do a few hops around Japan in ANA/Peach livery.
It has to do with your zoom level. Because a typical screen is so “thin”, we tend to zoom out so we get a wider view. This of course makes things look further away.
Your best bet when flying is to set a zoom at 1:1, IOW, zoom almost all the way in, or rather, set it so the zoom looks proper. In FSX, that was a zoom of 1 (I used to use 0.9). Since you’ll now feel claustrophobic since you’ll lose the width of your view, the best way to do this is to use a TrackIR so you can look around. That or use a 3 screen setup. The problem with a 3 screen setup is the warping MSFS adds in to the outside panels. You can alleviate that a bit by turning off the screen warping or whatever it’s called in the graphics option. I also turn off the silly delay while turning thing. I don’t know why people like that, but, that’s a personal thing.
Personally, I use a 55" screen (LG 55UN7300 $379 at Costco) so things are nearly life size, or bigger . And I’m happy enough using the mouse to pan around. A bit of a pain, but, works; I need to upgrade my TrackIR as the v4 I have is very susceptible to screwing because of the windows behind and beside me, even with the shades shut.
Testing the new XCub amphibian mod: 
A long video, but it’s nice scenery even on a gloomy March day.
Download the Bush League Legends XCub amphibian mod from here:
https://www.bushleaguelegends.com/addons/msfs/msfs-aircraft
We had two blackouts in Sunland on a rainy and windy day. No point in flying. Did buy Rex Weather Force, will test that out now that mother nature has settled down.
How did you manage to get your fuel switches pressed on. Doesn’t seem to work for me and the engines shut down too. You have a suggestion?
I use the 787 XE mod and I haven’t had any issues with the switch. I do find occasionally the switches don’t take right away just have to click it a couple times. Cutting off the injector switches behind the throttle is how I turn engines off on the airliners. There is the auto engine off option however I find that turns the APU off as well.
Personally my favorite.
Great! I’ll try the xe mod. Thanks a lot!!
a quick dawn flight Melbourne - Hobart
fricken FP vanished half way through the flight. A last second remprogram and it refused to catch the GS.
Got it down by hand… but c’mon I am getting very tired of these vanishing plans mid flight, or just before takeoff
finished my VR research.. from what I gather, the Oculus Quest 2 is the way to go… wireless, solid performer and best in class… unless you wish to pay double for a 10% better experience.
I FULLY expect it to be a metric tonne better than the Dell Visor - Please tell me if this is incorrect, or my selection. I hate facebook, but I like accurate head tracking even more (I think that is a big diff with the HP)
I am not ordering it for another few days, so if you have something to add… please do so now!
Many thanks to the posters in the FS forums who have discussed this issue and helped inform about the pro’s/con’s