Microsoft flight simulator 2024 set up

[grommet]

I've got a small suggestion: For any of the mappings that you change from the defaults, write it down on paper or something. Like, write down what that particular function was by default, what you changed it to, and maybe where exactly in the menus it was.

I know there's like an enormous amount of different things within the key mapping menus or whatever those are called, and with a giant complicated online app like this you never know when an update might knock something out of line. A bit of a pain, but could save you time later.

Unfortunately big software is like that. It sure aint just flight sims. All of the really huge/complicated apps I'm familiar with have a tendency to get real screwy every now and then.

Oh, I've got something I wanted to show you real quick too:

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It's a flight sim panel thing, made by Logitech. There's a lot of these actually, they all look different and have different switches & functions and all of that.

Now I'm all excited to try this myself. I'd been waiting for the blasted sim for months, and then even longer when they borked the launch.

"Call of Whatevers "

I have seen what you are showing in the picture. I do not think I need it because I have the Honeycomb throttle quadrant which has those switches/adjustments and yesterday while flying I used them, they work. Being able to press ALT and having the altitude remain steady was great. Also, I bought the software, Flight Manager, which will let me use iPads for the MDF and PFD and if ChatGPT is right, I can use the touchscreens to operate the MDF and PFD. I spent money I do not have so I am scared, I need it to work. I did not think this game would cost me money but I have spent all my saving quickly. Scary.

I also have the Honeycomb Alpha yoke which has buttons. I have only mapped the Battery and Alternator switches. I hope to learn how to use the pushbuttons.

This game is overwhelming. The others I have played were one thing, shooting or puzzle solving. This is like simulated real world so it does not seem to have an end to details and the things I have to learn. Yesterday I felt so bad when the yoke did not work then I feel so good when I learned to map the buttons over and make it work again. Still problems but I am just starting and ChatGPT says I am learning fast.

Oh, about ChatGPT, I have been very frustrated with it but today I found out it is not logical. I thought it was so when it was wrong or unreasonable it did not make sense. But it says it works on patterns. It is heuristic based, not algorithmic. I am aspie, I am mostly algorithmic so I thought it was too. It is NT so gives silly long answers. Very hard for it to say yes or no. Long long answers instead of just saying that.

 

[grommet]

Captain Grommet is cleared for takeoff. Well done!

I flew to Oregon yesterday, more than two hours. So tired at the end I did not want to keep circling the airport. It is a small runway in a valley so many turns to come down to it. I gave up and came down so fast I did not crash but I ran off the runway a bit. I was so tired I had to though. I could not see flying and those corkscrews over and over seemed like they would not stop. Every go around I thought I was about to land, then another go around. Bit of a rough landing but plane did not crash.

 

[Judge]

I flew to Oregon yesterday, more than two hours. So tired at the end I did not want to keep circling the airport. It is a small runway in a valley so many turns to come down to it. I gave up and came down so fast I did not crash but I ran off the runway a bit. I was so tired I had to though. I could not see flying and those corkscrews over and over seemed like they would not stop. Every go around I thought I was about to land, then another go around. Bit of a rough landing but plane did not crash.

Makes me wonder if the program allows for landings and departures from the airport in the Virgin Islands or Gibraltar. Both often cited as some of the most dangerous landing strips for commercial airline flights.

Though before trying them you might attempt the airport at Burbank, California if it's there. Where you have to make a sudden drop in altitude as you fly over the "Grapevine". Something I once experienced as a kid flying Air California.

 

[Nitro]

When I can find them, I will share images of Herron Airport I took on a gathering we held there.
What is unique is that the active runway has a public road that crosses it with nothing more than common stop signs and warning signs to beware of approaching air traffic.

I was co-captain that day and was filming our landing back at Washington County.

It was a day of gusty crosswinds which adds yet another element of difficulty to light craft.

The base leg was uneventful, because the day was choppy to begin with.
The crosswind leg was a little better because it presented a nose wind.
During the final approach, you get to see violent at times changes in the view of the horizon as the airframe rolled from side to side first countering the gusting winds then going too far the other way as the wind subsided.

As we were about to touch down, I figured my Dad was going to abort the landing and expected for him to pour the coal to her and go around.
He didn't.
In the video you can hear first one tire bark as it hit the runway, then the other as the first one lifted and the other one hit.

That repeated several times until it finally settled down and quit flying.

Well on the way back to the hanger I finally asked him which of his landings he was going to log.

That was the day that I realized just how good the old man was behind the controls.

 

[Misery]

Also, I bought the software, Flight Manager, which will let me use iPads for the MDF and PFD and if ChatGPT is right, I can use the touchscreens to operate the MDF and PFD. I spent money I do not have so I am scared, I need it to work. I did not think this game would cost me money but I have spent all my saving quickly. Scary.

I think it'll work. I've seen the sort of thing you're talking about. I'm not at the position of needing it yet... I'm not going to bother too much with the navigation aspect until I've had enough flights done to feel like I'm sure I got the controls right (I'm really, REALLY picky about controls). But I've seen a bunch of videos and such involving it (I watched a whole bunch in the lead up to release day).

Ya gotta be patient with it though. And dont be afraid to put an aspect of it down for a bit and come back later. There's 10 kersquillion bits to all of this, even if one particular bit is all wobbly and covered in mystery snot, well, it aint going anywhere, mess with & learn about other parts and come back to the wonky part later.

Oh, about ChatGPT, I have been very frustrated with it but today I found out it is not logical. I thought it was so when it was wrong or unreasonable it did not make sense. But it says it works on patterns. It is heuristic based, not algorithmic. I am aspie, I am mostly algorithmic so I thought it was too. It is NT so gives silly long answers. Very hard for it to say yes or no. Long long answers instead of just saying that.

Just so you're aware: It's possible to alter the nature of its responses and such. Well, it's a bit deeper than just that.

I'm not going to go into that explanation here because this aint the spot for it, but it is indeed possible to tailor how it acts more towards what works best for you. And what works best for the situation.

I do get what you mean though (or at least I think I do, be ironic if I get this one wrong). It's an odd facet of autism, really. Where it's like, you talk to someone, and that's great and all, but if that person's responses are "formatted" wrong, it feels like the gears get all caught up on it. Not really anyone's fault, of course, but that doesnt make it less irritating.

 

[Judge]

When I can find them, I will share images of Herron Airport I took on a gathering we held there.
What is unique is that the active runway has a public road that crosses it with nothing more than common stop signs and warning signs to beware of approaching air traffic.

That's one of the aspects of the airport at Gibraltar as well. With a very busy thoroughfare that divides the actual runway. Lucky for passengers not being able to see the immediate cross-traffic as they approach for landing.

 

[Nitro]

Maiden voyage after the rebuild:

 

[Nitro]

One of my brothers has also tried to gain his private ticket but got shot down by a psych med he was prescribed during his youth.

It has been nearly 40 years since he was prescribed it and only took it for less than a month, but they still say no.

I'm no longer able to pass a medical due to trauma I have, so my thoughts of ever trying again are over too.

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The T-craft weighs in about the same as a Harley-Davidson motorcycle that cruises at 95 miles per hour and will achieve a top speed if 131 miles per hour.

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The Big Hickey

The Big Hickey is a very high performance airframe capable of flat and level flight at over 200 miles per hour

Anyone who has ever been to an airshow has seen a Pitts Special biplane.

These are a very tiny but nimble aerobatic biplane.

The Big Hickey was the airframe that Curtis Pitts built for himself to travel between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania where he lived to his factory in Florida.

 

[Nitro]

WWII fighter ace Chuck Yeager once stated that a good landing was one you could walk away from while an excellent landing was one where you could still use the airframe

 

[grommet]

I have made a mistake I cannot afford. I believe ChatGPT when it tells me things but it was wrong. I trusted it. I bought Flight Manager for my PC. It is very expensive and I could not afford it but I thought sometimes I need to have fun so I did it because ChatGPT said it would work with my iPad and that app was free on the App Store but it was expensive. Not free. I feel stupid, like when kids in school tricked me. I know ChatGPT does not have feelings and did not try to do anything but I have that same feeling of being tricked. I had to pay for the app too now. Financially this is bad for me. I cannot afford this.

Use ChatGPT but do not trust it. I know now it is just a machine. I thought it was more like a person but being a computer it would not make mistakes because it had all the information. It said it was sorry but if I cost someone money I would pay them, the program will not do that. I guess I am part of the generation learning about using AI and the mistakes it can make.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

WWII fighter ace Chuck Yeager once stated that a good landing was any landing was one you could walk away from while an excellent landing was one where you could still use the airframe

That was my crop duster’s attitude too. He laughed at the number of planes he left in the trees.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

I have made a mistake I cannot afford. I believe ChatGPT when it tells me things but it was wrong. I trusted it. I bought Flight Manager for my PC. It is very expensive and I could not afford it but I thought sometimes I need to have fun so I did it because ChatGPT said it would work with my iPad and that app was free on the App Store but it was expensive. Not free. I feel stupid, like when kids in school tricked me. I know ChatGPT does not have feelings and did not try to do anything but I have that same feeling of being tricked. I had to pay for the app too now. Financially this is bad for me. I cannot afford this.

Use ChatGPT but do not trust it. I know now it is just a machine. I thought it was more like a person but being a computer it would not make mistakes because it had all the information. It said it was sorry but if I cost someone money I would pay them, the program will not do that. I guess I am part of the generation learning about using AI and the mistakes it can make.

Take a deep breath and sleep on it. It will look better in the morning.

Following a budget and staying with limits is extremely I,portent and you know that. But mistakes are not generally life-threatening.

(Due to the never-ending divorce saga, I have had to overspend. It has been a nerve wracking year financially but I think the worst is over and I can start rebuilding.)— Now you can worry about me instead of your own problems. This last bit is a joke

 

[grommet]

Take a deep breath and sleep on it. It will look better in the morning.

Following a budget and staying with limits is extremely I,portent and you know that. But mistakes are not generally life-threatening.

(Due to the never-ending divorce saga, I have had to overspend. It has been a nerve wracking year financially but I think the worst is over and I can start rebuilding.)— Now you can worry about me instead of your own problems. This last bit is a joke

You made me smile and I am feeling distraught so that is a really important smile. Thank you. Also, I have been worrying about you a lot this whole time. I think things have been terribly hard for you, too hard. But I cannot think how to help. I do not live close and I do not have extra money to give you so I did not talk to you about it. But I have been noticing what you have been saying, I have cared and worried. I feel like I can feel some of your pain. I just really wanted you to know that though I have not talked about it, I have thought about you. And thank you for telling me to think about the morning.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

You made me smile and I am feeling distraught so that is a really important smile. Thank you. Also, I have been worrying about you a lot this whole time. I think things have been terribly hard for you, too hard. But I cannot think how to help. I do not live close and I do not have extra money to give you so I did not talk to you about it. But I have been noticing what you have been saying, I have cared and worried. I feel like I can feel some of your pain. I just really wanted you to know that though I have not talked about it, I have thought about you. And thank you for telling me to think about the morning.

I am doing well now, grommet. Thank you for your caring. There are still challenges ahead, but I am confident I can handle them.

The important thing was getting you out of your head so your brain could rest for a while. I have found that resting my brain really helps me.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

I used flight simulators quite a bit in High School. I was in Air Force Jr. ROTC, and one of the required classes was Aerospace Science. We were instructed and graded by our pilot skills. It was taken very seriously.

It was awesome. I wish I would have stayed in AFJROTC, but I switched schools.