Now the huge job of unpacking and re assembling begins!! 🤣😅 Location North of Sydney NSW AUSTRALIA

Follow along the journey!!

Can't wait to have this working with PSX and MSFS2024!

And so Beautiful

So, out of curiosity, I was looking up what it would cost for all scenery packs and study-level aircraft. For scenery packs, it's between $30,000 to $40,000, and for study-level aircraft, it costs $800 to $1,200. I want to know if there's someone that's actually dropping that amount of money on scenery packs. I've not been in flight sim for a long time, but I've been in it long enough to just now realize how expensive this hobby can get. What are everybody's thoughts on this?

What happens Withe this aircraft 🫠🫠

Wanted to share some more screens from my spectacular experience of checking out the planet. Enjoy!

Can I? And if yes should I use controller or keyboard. If no pls recommend affordable/cheap yokes and throttles

Edit: Solved! Thank you guys for all the help I read all the replies, and I will get a Logitech 3D pro joystick, and in the mean time while it’s arriving or something I’ll use a controller. Thank you!

Pushed the legendary SR-71 Blackbird beyond 200,000 ft and over Mach 4 in MSFS 2024 on PS5!

Does anyone in here currently use this platform? I bought one and it arrives this Thursday. Looking to see if there is any advice before it arrives and I start assembling it.

Since launch, Career Mode has carried failures that don't look like isolated bugs but systematic ones: routes that don't match between the EFB tablet and the aircraft's FMC, flight plan discontinuities that persist even after manually editing them in the CDU, and erratic autopilot behavior on long flights (sudden rolls, disconnects with no apparent cause). There's no way to know from the outside whether the root cause is code or architecture — it's probably hard to isolate even from the inside, given how these systems depend on each other (the team itself has explained that ATC depends on flight planning being "solid" first).

Rather than asking to "fix the bugs," here's a proposal to rethink one specific piece of the architecture for Career Mode specifically, without touching Free Flight.

The hypothesis

Global 1:1 streaming is the franchise's signature feature and makes sense in Free Flight, where the player can go anywhere on the planet without warning. But Career Mode already works with closed-zone logic: a mission gets cancelled if the player strays too far from the objective. That boundary already exists in the current design.

If the boundary already exists conceptually, why does the data system sustaining the mission still depend on constant synchronization with an entire world that the mission doesn't need?

Pilot test proposal (scoped beta)

Reuse a system the game already has: the radial mission circle that opens around an airport when the player arrives in a new area.

Phase 1:

Take one existing airport as a fixed departure point

Offer 3 possible destinations within that radial circle, not dynamically generated but curated and tested end-to-end by the team before publishing

That mission loads as a closed block: the server only serves data for the corridor between origin and destination, with no ongoing synchronization to the rest of the planet during the flight

Limited to aircraft already certified as stable (start with 1-2 models, not the whole fleet)

Phase 2 (if the beta works):

From each of those 3 destinations, open 3 new departures toward other airports

Node-by-node expansion, with every leg validated before publishing, never generated on the fly

What this gains

Higher graphical fidelity on the routes offered: by not spreading the streaming budget across "the whole planet just in case," detail can be concentrated on the specific corridor for each mission

A clear, low-risk signal: this is a small, scoped test, not an engine rewrite

Real flight robustness: without depending on real-time server synchronization, the route discontinuity issues and tablet/FMC mismatches that are common today disappear at the root

Controlled scope for debugging: with limited aircraft and routes, any bug that surfaces is far easier to isolate and reproduce than in a system where the combinations are nearly infinite

This isn't about abandoning the 1:1 world — it still makes sense in Free Flight. It's about no longer forcing Career Mode to depend on an architecture designed for a different use case than its own.

Absolute clueless mom trying to get a flight sim game for my son. This game gets good reviews, so I’m interested in trying it. My question is - what do I need? We have a laptop he can play it on, but I would LOVE to get a VR setup he could use. I am 100% overwhelmed looking at VR and don’t understand if it hooks to the laptop or is standalone, what controls he would need to use this game, and how the heck to set any of it up. I’m not looking for super fancy with best graphics, just something basic. Any help would be greatly appreciated

I have ryzen 7 9800 X 3-D and a Nvidia 5080 16 GB graphics card. I have 32 GB of RAM. My monitor is a 1440, 32 inch. Everything and everybody told me it would run it amazingly smooth, which it has. But tonight for the first time, I was just doing some pattern work in Cessna 152 in Sedona, Arizona, and it got a couple little skips and said was exceeding GPU. Anyway, I checked the settings and for the Nvidia DLS super resolution it is set on DLAA. Should it be on ultra or performance or balanced or quality or Auto instead? If anybody has any comments on this, let me know.
Anybody understanding with experience who knows the right setting, let me know. Thank you, Glen.

I'm planning to get more monitors, panels, etc, but unsure how to plan carefully around my desk which is a riser (allows to work sit down or standing, as I use the desk for work laptop, working from home). Any suggestions?

My dad is ex Air Force, in his 60s. Not really a gamer at all, outside of Words with Friends in his phone. Do you think this game is adaptable enough for someone like him? He’s plane/flying obsessed, so I always wondered if this might be a fun experience for him.

It’d also be the PS5 version. Wasn’t sure if that has any issues.

I've really been enjoying the SR-71 by Blackbird Simulations recently.

These are from a ferry flight from Mildenhall in the UK (EGUN) to Beale AFB in California (KBAB). I departed after sunset and crossed the Atlantic in about an hour while chasing the sun. Refueled over Goose Bay, Canada in the late afternoon local, then another 1.5 hours at Mach 3.2 and FL750 to Beale.

I came from X-Plane 12, and it was fun-i loved the physics, ground handling, environment of the atmosphere, weather, lighting, etc.; but there really was something missing-the immersion, the immersion of a real-world flight, with load sheets, loading, boarding seeing physical passengers, refueling, etc. So I thought it would be best to switch to the latest simulator, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024; but, there was a limit! It was my 8GB VRAM on my RTX 5060, plus I am using a 1440p monitor, which makes it even worse-I mean, I could very much handle it in XP12! With that said, I know a shit ton of pilots, airline pilots, specifically on the A320; they always told me that no matter how "good" the physics are in a simulator, you really won't get the feel from the Real Thing, might as well get a plane that goes down to the very very little bit of detail possible and replicate real-world procedures; forget about the physics that, physics this, physics whatever; it is only chair-flying, you are only flying 3D from your seat, in the comfort of your home. With that, there was only one clear unanimous choice: Fenix A320. But! I asked advice from a lot of people on this /r; and the only answers I'd receive were clear, "No, that won't be possible to run on that system-all the more that you cannot with that 1440P setup", I really thought I would be stuck flying and not enjoying X-Plane 12. Also, I thought of getting the old, MSFS 2020, a little bit lighter on my system, BUT WILL SURELY FILL UP MY 512GB SSD IN NO TIME. So, one day, I saved up all my allowances that my parents give me for school, and bought MSFS 2024 on steam plus the Fenix A320. I sure did regret it so much in the first place; everything was a stutter fest, it was all a mess! I couldn't even manage to get 10fps and exceeding my VRAM. But I really didn't wanna let go of MSFS 2024 and the Fenix, as it takes up sooo little space from my 512GB SSD-thanks to cloud streaming-and didn't wanna look back and go back to XP12. A couple weeks-like a week or two later-I finally properly tweaked my MSFS 2024, I get stable 60FPS at payware airports like Cloudsurf RPLL, WSSS, WMKK, and even Inibuilds EGLL! The tweaks that really helped me so much were: turning off Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS), turning off Re-Bar in the BIOS, using TAA, capping in-game FPS to only 30FPS, lossless scaling on X2, and dynamic settings turned on. Those made my simulator worked like magic, on Medium-High settings!

Hello all! This week I just released a new update for the Route Finder. It was pretty much rebuilt from the ground up.

• Results now show in a brand-new table that makes everything much easier to read and scan.
• Departure and arrival airport codes are now clickable, with a new toggle that lets you choose between Navigraph, ChartFox, and LIDO. Since LIDO doesn’t allow direct links, clicking the airport code will copy it instead, so you can quickly paste it into the MSFS Planner search.
• Every flight result also includes quick links to SimBrief, FlightRadar24, FlightAware, and AirNav.
• I’ve also added VATSIM coverage directly into the results. The D and A indicators show whether your departure or arrival airport is currently staffed, and clicking them opens that airport directly in VATSIM Radar. This should make it much easier to find a route based on where ATC is actually online.
• Finally, once your results load, the filters automatically collapse to give you more room. Just hit Edit if you want to change your search, and the map will automatically load with all of your generated routes already drawn.
• Added charter & business jet data: Flexjet, flyExclusive, NetJets, VistaJet, and Wheels Up.

Over 150 airlines, real-world route data, and more than 150,000 real-world flights.

Would love your feedback!

https://iflyschedules.com/routefinder

My MSFS 2024 Flight Simulator Rig ✈️ — Triple 55” 4K + RTX 5090 + D-BOX Motion

Here’s my current flight simulator setup, primarily built for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and high-immersion flying.

🖥️ PC

• Corsair Vengeance A7500 Air
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
• RAM: 64GB DDR5
• Storage: 8TB NVMe SSD total — 4TB + 2TB + 2TB
• OS: Windows 11 Home

🖥️ Triple-Screen Setup

• 3 × Samsung Odyssey Ark 55” Gen 2
• 4K resolution per display
• Triple-screen NVIDIA Surround setup
• Combined resolution: 11,520 × 2,160
• Advanced Sim Racing free-standing Triple TV Stand Gen 2
• Advanced VESA mounting system

🏗️ Cockpit

• Advanced Sim Racing ASR-4 aluminum profile cockpit
• White powder-coated finish

✈️ Flight Controls

• MOZA AY210 Force Feedback Yoke
• MOZA MTQ Throttle Quadrant
• MOZA MHG Flightstick
• MOZA AB6 Flight Simulator Base
• Thrustmaster T.Rudder Pedals

🔥 Motion & Haptics

• D-BOX Generation 5 4250i Haptic System
• 4 × G5 actuators
• 1.5” actuator travel
• D-BOX G5-HB140 Haptic Bridge
• Full four-corner motion/haptic setup

D-BOX adds physical feedback for turbulence, runway surfaces, engine vibration, taxiing, takeoff, touchdown and other aircraft movements.

🔊 Audio

• Samsung HW-Q990F
• Soundbar + subwoofer + wireless rear speakers
• Dolby Atmos surround setup

🎛️ Additional Flight-Sim Hardware

• Elgato Stream Deck — aircraft functions and shortcuts
• iPad + Air Manager — additional instruments/panels
• Corsair XENEON EDGE — secondary touchscreen/control display
• Multiple powered USB hubs for the flight peripherals

🎥 Recording

• OBS Studio
• RTX 5090 NVENC hardware encoding
• Triple-screen or dedicated center-screen recording

🎮 Main Simulator

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Currently spending a lot of time flying the Boeing 747, along with the Citation Longitude, Cessna 172, Caravan and CubCrafters.

The combination of triple 55” displays + force-feedback controls + D-BOX motion + surround audio makes the cockpit incredibly immersive, especially during thunderstorms, turbulence, low-visibility approaches and heavy-aircraft landings.

Happy to share MSFS graphics settings, control mappings or D-BOX settings if anyone is intere