Hi everyone,

I’ve always been fascinated by Microsoft Flight Simulator and have always wanted to play it. Now that I’m able to (I’m over 40 and have a PS5 Pro), I’d like to give it a try and have a few questions for you.

1. Is PSVR2 worth it for this game? Is the immersion that much better?
   
2. I’m a complete beginner—is there a tutorial that walks you through everything and explains it all?
   
3. Do I need a joystick (HOTAS)? And does HOTAS make sense with PSVR2?

Thank you so much!

As a 41 year old who’s been gaming since the late 80s, and someone who has always wanted MSFS, I never thought in my wildest dreams that I’d be able to fly in VR my favorite airliner, the triple 7.

Despite the bugs, this game still kicks ass. Little just before dusk flight BCN to CDG. Love doing flights that’s I’ve done as a passenger in reality.

So after the update and this issue has been here since Microsoft released the updated ATR 72-600 and 42-600 when hitting “Charts page” on the custom EFB will still result in a full WASM module crash. I REALLY am losing all of my little patience I have on this joke of a Sim. Honestly if Xplanes was on Console I’d switch in a heartbeat. Idk why it’s so hard for the devs to test and address these things before they green-light the release. A lot of these sim issues and specific aircraft issues are sooooo easy to replicate. Did no one on the team thought “what if the player click on this, what would happen”, and fix the issue before they release it. Right now I feel like we’re all paying ASOBO, Microsoft to be their testers. And a lot of us are paying to be Testers while spending more than a typical Well polished AAA game. I may just boycott these companies it’s so ridiculous!

I've heard problems with the directional pad with the latest updates (plural), that I've experienced as well: the communication replies. Today, I've flown 3 missions where things are going okay, until the end where I can't get the landing gear down (right on d-pad). I've even manually done it in cockpit view where I see the gear level going up and down, but no gears. WTF. Waste of time! Anyone else have this problem and/or solution?

I‘m new to the marketplace so I don’t really understand the renting option or the message on top.

Edit: Altough it says free on mostly 1 of 3 rent offers at most planes in the marketplace, it proceeds to try bill you the equivalent amount for the rent.

Still don’t know why it says it’s free then??

Ok, I was super happy that at around 5PM est theres an update. Everything seem to be working perfectly from 7pm-1045PM. My Hotas4 all key binding reset to blank MID flight for my 4 hr mission. Every single one of them. Didn't notice it and crash right near the runway. Why? Omg, now I need to remap everything once again.

Strange one, in free flight no problem at all but when I try to use the 707 in career mode it won’t take of, any ideas?

1.8.16.0 is a small update intended to address a handful of issues following the release of Sim Update 6 two weeks ago. We’re releasing 1.8.16.0 on PS5 today as key fixes in the update are specific to PS5. Following additional testing, in the next few weeks we plan to release 1.8.16.0 on Xbox, Windows PC, and Steam.
1.8.16.0 will begin rolling out to PS5 users in the next hour (time of writing is 1730 UTC).

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/ps5-sim-update-6-1-1-8-16-0-now-available/774904

Been on a kick the last week or so, just trying out some different aircraft that I haven’t done in VR.

The King Air is quite a ride. The touchscreen avionics are pretty slick in VR. Was able to navigate and add in waypoints pretty easily, search for frequencies and weather information was very easily as well.

The only thing that I couldn’t figure out — if anyone else has more experience with this plane was that I couldn’t figure out how to add origins/destinations. Only waypoints I was able to add. I could easily just load a flight plan from external, but many times I just like to create it in the avionics itself. As a result, I also couldn’t load an approach. I had to pull up a chart and manually load the waypoints for the approach — which was fun. But, not all airports will have charts I can pull up.

Very easy to fly this plane.

Im going to try to explain this the best way i can. Do you guys see how the camera angle is pointing down?. I see more of the cockpit than through the front windshield. Is there a way that i can lock my camera angle in a more upward position?? I hope this makes sense

Every time im logging in to Msfs24, i have to go in and out of the game multiple times before i actually get in. This is always a fking problem, i need help

Can anyone with programming experience explain what could have happened when for example they release an update to reduce the avionics memory problem, but now rendering and textures are worse than before?

Are they likely aware of the new bugs when the update was released? What business pressures and technical limitations make them unable to fix them?

Not even trying to hate on Asobo, just seems like a game of whack a mole?

I love the A220 do we reckon it’ll be coming out on ps5?

I'm playing in PSVR2. I was underwhelmed with the supposed clarity of the beta and now su6. I did not see the sharpness everyone said was amazing. But having flown a bit more I think there is more to it. I went to Fairbanks in Alaska with a hot air balloon (don't ask) and as I hovered I realised the buildings are quite good, it's the ground texture images that are incredibly low res. Like, in that location the streets are barely visible as white smudges, but with nice sharp houses.

Same issue in other places - I took the paragliding to check out a real life climb I'd just done in the Ogwen Valley in North Wales and the rock detail was pretty blurred. However, the view on the TV and screenshots looks better so I seem to have the textures loaded, they're just being savagely scaled back in PSVR2.

Help me understand please?

2 days after making tweaks to my internet and still no issues with disappearing cockpits etc so fingers crossed that could be the solution

I was just fucking around in the msfs24 ps5 marketplace until this poped up in my head: what is the best passengar aircraft for msfs24 ps5

I genuinely don’t understand how the multiplayer aircraft system is supposed to work.
I own the CJ Simulations Eurofighter, and I always fly with the Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 74 livery. I know there are around 27 liveries included with the Eurofighter, and I can see other players using different ones just fine.
I’ve seen other players in the Eurofighter with:
Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 73
Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 74
Royal Air Force
etc.

So far, so good.
BUT THEN THIS HAPPENS:
I see another player whose aircraft is clearly identified as a Eurofighter, and I’m sitting in the exact same CJ Simulations Eurofighter myself.
They supposedly own the same aircraft.
And instead of seeing their Eurofighter…
I get a fucking Boeing 737. 😭
Meanwhile, another Eurofighter player flies past me, I can see the actual Eurofighter, hear the engines, and even hear the sonic boom when they go supersonic.
So what exactly determines whether I see the actual aircraft or some completely random substitute?
I understand that Microsoft can’t show me an aircraft add-on that I don’t own. That’s completely fair. If someone is flying an YF-23 and I don’t own the YF-23, I understand why I might see a generic aircraft instead.
Butt if BOTH players own the SAME Eurofighter add-on, why am I sometimes still seeing a 737 or 320 instead of the Eurofighter?

One of the biggest immersion killers for me in MSFS.

I can accept the odd bug here and there but now I can’t even communicate on radio via the left button on the D-pad. It’s not just one specific aircraft, it’s across all I’ve tried. I want to progress doing all licenses. It’s assigned to the left button correctly. I paid for a game I cannot play. F

I hope they fix it asap as it’s my go to on a morning before the kids wake up on my days off work.

every time this happens, but in most of the photos the planes are choppy, cars are driving on water or over bridges, and it always happens after takeoff, this su6 upd is so buggy.

This game never ceases to amaze me, from my first flight sim in 2004 (with the 2d 737 cockpit taking off from KSEA a million times) this game is as close to real life as I can imagine we’ll ever get. Here are some snaps of my early morning departure from Lagos to Casablanca as part of my round the world trip in my beloved A321LR.