• Welcome to Autism Forums, a friendly forum to discuss Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, High Functioning Autism and related conditions.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Private Member only forums for more serious discussions that you may wish to not have guests or search engines access to.
    • Your very own blog. Write about anything you like on your own individual blog.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon! Please also check us out @ https://www.twitter.com/aspiescentral

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

grommet said:
Neat. I am too tired now but I have questions. I hope I can remember them later.
Click to expand...
LOL...that's ok. I can't say I remember many details about that simulation. Just that learning to fly a helicopter was quite different compared to a plane.
 
Judge said:
LOL...that's ok. I can't say I remember many details about that simulation. Just that learning to fly a helicopter was quite different compared to a plane.
Click to expand...
I hope it is something I can learn because MSFS 2024 has helicopters. I am wondering if I need to get a collective. Virpil makes a nice one but I cannot buy anything now.
 
grommet said:
I hope it is something I can learn because MSFS 2024 has helicopters. I am wondering if I need to get a collective. Virpil makes a nice one but I cannot buy anything now.
Click to expand...

Just be patient if you do decide to try them. I just found them conceptually very difficult to get a feel for compared to conventional aircraft. But who knows?

Learning something new isn't always easy. But learning something contrary to what you think you know has always been more difficult, at least for me.
 
Last edited:
My friend sent me speakers. They are on the desk now. I tested them playing Crab Rave on Youtube. They are very loud. I cable managed everything this morning then these speakers came and I did it again. I am tired. It looks and sounds goo though 🙂

 
Judge said:
Just be patient if you do decide to try them. I just found them conceptually very difficult to get a feel for compared to conventional aircraft. But who knows?

Learning something new isn't always easy. But learning something contrary to what you think you know has always been more difficult, at least for me.
Click to expand...

I am bad at being patient when I am having fun and want to have more fun. I have so much to do with MSFS but I have finished building my flight desk so I can just play and practice now. So much to learn.

Do you really thing the helicopters in the simulators can be flown without collectives and if they could, would that still be fun?

tempImagehyccOw.webp
 
This is more. My seat up is really nice now and lights for my controls and labels for the buttons are arriving soon from Australia. A man there makes just things like that for people who play this game. Look on the screen now, I am using autopilot and a lot of waypoints, places the autopilot will head to so I can fly low along the coast and enjoy the scenery. The plane turns automatically for me. So fun to see it do that. I will include the video and a picture of my very complicated flight plan though it will be more complicated when I also figure out how to set altitude points which I badly need because close to the airport and landing are high mountains. I crashed because of them last time.

 

Attachments

  • tempImageSh3TgW.webp
    tempImageSh3TgW.webp
    241.1 KB · Views: 8
My lights and switch labels arrived. The lights let me see the switches, I could not before. On the throttle there is a row of seven switches I could not use because I did not know what they were set for. Now I have labels and they look like real ones in the plane, a Cessna 172. I can also re-map the each switch to control something different and I have extra labels for that. This all came from Australia.

It was clean but opening the package and having more wires again I did not clean up yet. I will and it will look nice.

With the lights it will look more realistic, I can read my switches and it will look really neat in the dark. I can change the color. I wanted blue/white but my friend who is a pilot said in the real plane the light is red.

 
Deskaspie.webp


Now: curved OLED ultra-wide monitor, ASUS ROG gaming laptop RTX4070H, 32Gb RAM, running at max settings.

Only bought the monitor, friend gave me his laptop gaming PC, he bought a desktop. MSFS 2024 runs really well. Had to change a lot of graphics settings until it was right. Monitor is wide so I see cockpit better, feels more real. I like that part but monitor is not as bright and clear as I wanted bit the wide makes up for a lot. It does show things in full widescreen, this YouTube video is just not widescreen but when I fly I have the whole screen.

I cable managed. I made a fairlead for the mouse cord and polished the inside of the fitting so the cord slides easily. Split loom tubing organizing cables.
 
@grommet - Are those Bose Companion 2 computer speakers on your desktop? Are they as good as they are advertised to be? Just wondering....been looking at them for some time.
 
Last edited:
Judge said:
@grommet - Are those Bose Companion 2 computer speakers on your desktop? Are they as good as they are advertised to be? Just wondering....been looking at them for some time.
Click to expand...

When my friend changed his set up to a desktop he sent me his old one. I did not know what was coming, I just put it together and I am finding out later what the parts are. They say Bose. I think they are okay. The soundspace is not big enough, I would like more base but I think smaller speakers cannot do enough because they do not move air like big ones do.

I compared them to my Soundcore Motion + I paid $100 for years ago. The Bose are much better, I think you would like the Bose.

Edit: I just turned them up and paid close attention, they are quite good. Very accurate, the sounds are so clear. I feel lucky.
 
grommet said:
When my friend changed his set up to a desktop he sent me his old one. I did not know what was coming, I just put it together and I am finding out later what the parts are. They say Bose. I think they are okay. The soundspace is not big enough, I would like more base but I think smaller speakers cannot do enough because they do not move air like big ones do.

I compared them to my Soundcore Motion + I paid $100 for years ago. The Bose are much better, I think you would like the Bose.

Edit: I just turned them up and paid close attention, they are quite good. Very accurate, the sounds are so clear. I feel lucky.
Click to expand...

Thanks so much! I appreciate the articulate feedback.

I've become a bit partial to Bose given I have a 9-speaker 280 watt Bose stereo system in my car. Always wondered about the computer speakers, having read numerous reviews of them. However I never knew anyone personally who actually had them.
 
Judge said:
Thanks so much! I appreciate the articulate feedback.

I've become a bit partial to Bose given I have a 9-speaker 280 watt Bose stereo system in my car. Always wondered about the computer speakers, having read numerous reviews of them. However I never knew anyone personally who actually had them.
Click to expand...

I think we are both older and small speakers have gotten so much better than when we were young. I think it is the development and availability of rare-earth magnets. I am just guessing. I think younger people do not know how good the sound is now.

Being a little silly now but if you want the best sound you could hear for you set-up, Klipsch Heresy speakers from the 1970s. The sound would be amazing though I do not know how you would connect them. Somebody could figure it out.

I like these speakers, it just came to me that I could use a subwoofer with them then I would have the base for the plane engine noise. Neat idea.

It looks like Amazon is selling a modern version of the Klipsch. Impossibly expensive but nice.

Screenshot 2025-02-21 at 10.34.03.webp
 
grommet said:
I think we are both older and small speakers have gotten so much better than when we were young. I think it is the development and availability of rare-earth magnets. I am just guessing. I think younger people do not know how good the sound is now.

Being a little silly now but if you want the best sound you could hear for you set-up, Klipsch Heresy speakers from the 1970s. The sound would be amazing though I do not know how you would connect them. Somebody could figure it out.

I like these speakers, it just came to me that I could use a subwoofer with them then I would have the base for the plane engine noise. Neat idea.

It looks like Amazon is selling a modern version of the Klipsch. Impossibly expensive but nice.

View attachment 140425
Click to expand...
Glad I asked you. I too love Klipsch speakers, but never had the disposable income to buy them.

Been lusting after them since the early 80s. ...lol.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

New Threads

Top Bottom