Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

[grommet]

I was actually thinking of upgrading to an RTX 3060. But geez, if a 3070Ti has trouble with MFS, what's the point? My Nvidia 1660Ti works great for what I do, even with just a few games.

Being a lover of flight sims in the past, I know how easily newer ones take up so much in the way of system resources. To a point where indeed, it simply isn't worth it.

I did not know flight simulator games were different. I think my PC can play anything else pretty well. My 12th generation i-7 is fast. I like FS so much I want to play it no matter what . I am thinking different things. Maybe buying FS 2020 on discount now, so I can play that. It worked perfectly. Do that while waiting for FS 2024 to work after they fix it. I would like to get a new PC for it but I do not have much money and it seems a bad idea since I do not know if the game will ever work right. My friend is very happy though. He has spent $3,500 so he can play it. He might get a faster desktop PC to play. He has saved up enough to do that.

I really did not know flight sim games were different.

 

[Judge]

I did not know flight simulator games were different. I think my PC can play anything else pretty well. My 12th generation i-7 is fast. I like FS so much I want to play it no matter what . I am thinking different things. Maybe buying FS 2020 on discount now, so I can play that. It worked perfectly. Do that while waiting for FS 2024 to work after they fix it. I would like to get a new PC for it but I do not have much money and it seems a bad idea since I do not know if the game will ever work right. My friend is very happy though. He has spent $3,500 so he can play it. He might get a faster desktop PC to play. He has saved up enough to do that.

I really did not know flight sim games were different.

Try versions of IL-2. Made a long time ago, but still being designed to run on current hardware.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad on Steam

And there are others....

Digital Combat Simulator | DCS World | Combat Simulator

Rise of Flight

 

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If you have ever watched old videos of crop dusters, you see they fly very close to the ground, then pull up and turn around at the end of the field. He told me a story of clipping the head off a wild turkey with his wing.

That is some real flying.

These pilots are insane. There's a high fatality rate in this industry but it doesn't seem to deter any of them.

 

[grommet]

Try versions of IL-2. Made a long time ago, but still being designed to run on current hardware.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad on Steam

And there are others....

Digital Combat Simulator | DCS World | Combat Simulator

Rise of Flight

I do not know. I do not want to fight. I just want to look down from the plane at the beautiful ground. I love seeing the sun change colors and the shadows come as the afternoon ends. I wish I could show you my friend's video. So real, beautiful and amazing.

 

[Judge]

I do not know. I do not want to fight. I just want to look down from the plane at the beautiful ground. I love seeing the sun change colors and the shadows come as the afternoon ends. I wish I could show you my friend's video. So real, beautiful and amazing.

GeoFS - Free Online Flight Simulator

FlightSim.Com Home Page

 

[Mary Terry]

These pilots are insane. There's a high fatality rate in this industry but it doesn't seem to deter any of them.

Ha! I was a passenger on a little Greek airplane in 1983 that landed on a small Mediterranean island with a very short runway, skidded off the runway onto mud, and the plane was suddenly surrounded by Greek military in jeeps with machine guns and whatnot. The Greek passengers were screaming, the pilot was talking in Greek over the public address system, and I thought the Turks had invaded or something. I finally understood in real time the phrase "it's all Greek to me"! The military was just "rescuing" us, but I had no idea at the time what the heck was going on!

 

[Mary Terry]

This is wonderful It sounds like the things my friends tells me. In his long flight in FS 2024, in the video he made to show me, I asked him about different things. I said he was flying so smoothly. He said when he got near the airport he also had to look out for other planes, the tower did not tell him about them but he is a real pilot and so was doing real pilot things. I did not know he knew so much.

I am glad you were a lawyer. I loved contracts law. I thought "consideration" was fascinating. Was there a perceived benefit, does that make it a real benefit, does it have to be an intentional benefit? I loved it so much, I still find it wonderful. The law is all about fairness. It cannot work out that way in the real world but it is based in fairness and I really loved that. I am still confused about the "four corners doctrine" because my impression is that it is not real but a guideline but I like the idea.

Res judicata

The four corners rule is solid law. If it's not written within the four corners of the contract, then it doesn't exist.

Another thing I always liked is the concept of stare decisis. The law should always follow prior law because it gives stability and certainty to the law. Judicial deviations from established law should be on rock solid footing with clearly stated reasons for abandoning prior, established law and precedent. A wise old attorney who mentored me when I was young called cases that were right on point for the legal issue I was dealing with "old gray mule cases" because the prior cases were on all four points/hooves when applied to my case. (In other words, the prior case provided the answer for the case I was handling). There are lots of neat things in the law and it is indeed idealistically intended to do justice in all cases.

 

[grommet]

The four corners rule is solid law. If it's not written within the four corners of the contract, then it doesn't exist.

Another thing I always liked is the concept of stare decisis. The law should always follow prior law because it gives stability and certainty to the law. Judicial deviations from established law should be on rock solid footing with clearly stated reasons for abandoning prior, established law and precedent. A wise old attorney who mentored me when I was young called cases that were right on point for the legal issue I was dealing with "old gray mule cases" because the prior cases were on all four points/hooves when applied to my case. (In other words, the prior case provided the answer for the case I was handling). There are lots of neat things in the law and it is indeed idealistically intended to do justice in all cases.

Super happy reading this. Thank you for telling me about stare decisis. My first friend to teach me about law was a clerk at the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals. He had such wonderful stories and explanations. He would tell me about a case that sounded silly then explain why it mattered. The prisoner who sued because he did not get the chunky peanut butter he paid for at the commissary. Some others but they involved people who died and I do not want to talk about that.

He also taught Constitutional Law to L1's. I asked him all sort of things and I remember him telling me about one particular law people argue about and he said no one knew for certain what it meant.

I studied by watching videos or reading anything I could about tort law. I love contracts. Different cases were discussed and fascinating small things changed everything. Huge contracts changed by very small things. Fairness kept coming up. Consideration was fascinating because it had to exist for the contract to exist but consideration it seemed to me was decided by a judge and that did not seem objective but artistic. Still, I agree with most of the decisions I learned about.

It was exciting when some company thought they had made a clear and strong contract only to lose because of lack of consideration or the opposite, that they themselves had received consideration despite their attempt to avoid it and void the contract. I thought they were being dishonest so it felt good when they lost.

Criminal law, which my grandfather practiced and wrote a book about, scares me a little but I liked learning about elements. Lack an element and the crime does not exist also lacking mens rea could change everything.

Habius corpus baffles me. I do not understand it. It seems it can mean different things.

Eventually I thought I realized something. That no matter what the legislators or voters did, it seemed the it was the judge who decided what was law. I thought that was precarious and maybe wrong.

I once spent five hour in a law library looking for a definition or a particular criminal element but I could not see it. The law librarian was very nice and I asked him to read and tell me what he thought. I felt proud of myself when he said the same thing, it was unclear.

I hope you liked your work

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

I do not know. I do not want to fight. I just want to look down from the plane at the beautiful ground. I love seeing the sun change colors and the shadows come as the afternoon ends. I wish I could show you my friend's video. So real, beautiful and amazing.

Have you thought about getting a drone and looking at the earth in real time? I have noticed commercial films now have dramatic shots from the air, swooping in over mountains and rivers.

 

[grommet]

Have you thought about getting a drone and looking at the earth in real time? I have noticed commercial films now have dramatic shots from the air, swooping in over mountains and rivers.

No because I think drones bother people. Someone flew one outside my window and it bothered and frightened me and, it was very loud. I would not want to do that to someone. But you are talking about over things not people, so maybe that would be okay. I cannot leave my city, I do not have a car. I would like one and think about it. I do not think it is possible to fly a drone miles away. If I could I could go over the hills about ten miles away.

Hm, there are some National Park sites I could get to. I would have to find out the regulations on flying there. If I lived in some place like Arizona or Nevada where I could be outdoors, I think it could be very nice.

 

[grommet]

I am trying so incredibly hard to learn this game. It looks so good it is hard to describe. So beautiful. FS 2024 is worth it. The problem is me learning the controller. The buttons do not work like they are supposed to and I am hoping it is a bug. I learned a lot tonight though I feel awful now, brain like it is running down the street and angry.

My friend said you fly one step at a time. I am trying to learn this that way. I was using ChatGPT which I know is trying but is not a real friend and also not always very good because I explained I need it to tell me things one step at a time. It will give me a six step numbered answer. Ach. I had to keep telling it to give me one step, over and over. I got the plane flying, a little Cesna. It would not stop pulling to the left. That meant when I went into the cabin to change the control surfaces and fuel mixture, the plane went out of control. Ach.

I am promising I will learn this, I want it too much to not fly in it. I told myself that I can figure it out on the Xbox, which looks so good on my television I do not need better graphics with a PC, I told myself that if I cannot make it work on the Xbox I will do it on the PC. Mine should be fast enough, the specs say it will, and I have a Logitech X52 joystick and throttle so I could finally adjust the trip which so far I cannot do.

Super fun but I feel so bad about myself when I .. when I cannot learn something. I feel dumb.

 

[Mary Terry]

Super happy reading this. Thank you for telling me about stare decisis. My first friend to teach me about law was a clerk at the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals. He had such wonderful stories and explanations. He would tell me about a case that sounded silly then explain why it mattered. The prisoner who sued because he did not get the chunky peanut butter he paid for at the commissary. Some others but they involved people who died and I do not want to talk about that.

He also taught Constitutional Law to L1's. I asked him all sort of things and I remember him telling me about one particular law people argue about and he said no one knew for certain what it meant.

I studied by watching videos or reading anything I could about tort law. I love contracts. Different cases were discussed and fascinating small things changed everything. Huge contracts changed by very small things. Fairness kept coming up. Consideration was fascinating because it had to exist for the contract to exist but consideration it seemed to me was decided by a judge and that did not seem objective but artistic. Still, I agree with most of the decisions I learned about.

It was exciting when some company thought they had made a clear and strong contract only to lose because of lack of consideration or the opposite, that they themselves had received consideration despite their attempt to avoid it and void the contract. I thought they were being dishonest so it felt good when they lost.

Criminal law, which my grandfather practiced and wrote a book about, scares me a little but I liked learning about elements. Lack an element and the crime does not exist also lacking mens rea could change everything.

Habius corpus baffles me. I do not understand it. It seems it can mean different things.

Eventually I thought I realized something. That no matter what the legislators or voters did, it seemed the it was the judge who decided what was law. I thought that was precarious and maybe wrong.

I once spent five hour in a law library looking for a definition or a particular criminal element but I could not see it. The law librarian was very nice and I asked him to read and tell me what he thought. I felt proud of myself when he said the same thing, it was unclear.

I hope you liked your work

You have an excellent grasp of "the law", Grommet. Far better than most non-lawyers I know. Maybe better than some lawyers I know. Yes, I loved being a lawyer (usually) but law is described as a "jealous mistress" that requires constant study, attention and dedication. The law is always changing because of legislatures and judicial interpretations of laws passed by legislatures. It is never stagnant.

 

[grommet]

I did it for the first time. I updated drivers and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 worked on my PC

Because it was the PC, not my Xbox, I was able to use a good HOTAS. My Logitech X52. The game is so much better this way.

I am not done, I am waiting for an HDMI 2.1 cable that will connect it to my television. Then I will see how it looks and what settings I can run at. Using a computer monitor the game ran on High-End. That is the second highest after Ultra. A lot to still do and things to try. I may not be able to play like this because I have trouble leaning forward to use controllers like the HOTAS (Hand On Throttle And Stick), the mouse and especially reaching for the keyboard but I will see.

I made a mistake with this game, I thought it was a game, like the shooters I play. They are forgiving. This game really is a simulation. If I do not do everything exactly as I would in a real life plane, I can crash. I cannot miss a tiny step. I was on a flight and a warning came on, it bothered me because it would not stop. It was telling me to turn the pitot heaters on. The pitot tubes are something on the wings or the body of the plane that tell the plane how fast it is going. I guess they can freeze up.

Really cool looking all around the cockpit at every dial and switch to find the switch. Great feeling when I turned it on and the warning finally stopped.

I have been crashing a lot but I forgot the game has flying lessons. Thank you. I have been doing them over and over and learning why I crash. Flying is so hard, I had no idea. Getting better and having fun

My friend got the game for me and is playing it too. We found out there is a way we can play together, I guess two planes in the same air space. We have not done it yet but I really want to.

If anyone is interested in flying I hope they will try this game if they can. I think a person could almost learn to fly. If that sounds silly, I mean it, the game will not let you make a mistake that in the real world would cause a problem, it has the same effect on the plane in the game.

 

[Judge]

I did it for the first time. I updated drivers and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 worked on my PC

Because it was the PC, not my Xbox, I was able to use a good HOTAS. My Logitech X52. The game is so much better this way.

I am not done, I am waiting for an HDMI 2.1 cable that will connect it to my television. Then I will see how it looks and what settings I can run at. Using a computer monitor the game ran on High-End. That is the second highest after Ultra. A lot to still do and things to try. I may not be able to play like this because I have trouble leaning forward to use controllers like the HOTAS (Hand On Throttle And Stick), the mouse and especially reaching for the keyboard but I will see.

I made a mistake with this game, I thought it was a game, like the shooters I play. They are forgiving. This game really is a simulation. If I do not do everything exactly as I would in a real life plane, I can crash. I cannot miss a tiny step. I was on a flight and a warning came on, it bothered me because it would not stop. It was telling me to turn the pitot heaters on. The pitot tubes are something on the wings or the body of the plane that tell the plane how fast it is going. I guess they can freeze up.

Really cool looking all around the cockpit at every dial and switch to find the switch. Great feeling when I turned it on and the warning finally stopped.

I have been crashing a lot but I forgot the game has flying lessons. Thank you. I have been doing them over and over and learning why I crash. Flying is so hard, I had no idea. Getting better and having fun

My friend got the game for me and is playing it too. We found out there is a way we can play together, I guess two planes in the same air space. We have not done it yet but I really want to.

If anyone is interested in flying I hope they will try this game if they can. I think a person could almost learn to fly. If that sounds silly, I mean it, the game will not let you make a mistake that in the real world would cause a problem, it has the same effect on the plane in the game.

Yes, it's what I call a "hardcore simulator". Not a game...but a scary, realistic simulation. Though I always preferred military combat simulations, particularly of World War One. Much less sophisticated flight dynamics to deal with, though the Sopwith Camel could end your flying career rather quickly with all the torque created by their spinning rotary engine.

 

[Mary Terry]

That is so cool, Grommet!

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

Very cool, Grommet. It sounds like fun and something I would even like to try and I am not generally into the video gaming experiences.

 

[grommet]

People said they were interested and I should post more if I had it. It has been hard but I have this video showing a desk for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. This uses a monitor instead of my great tv so it does not look as good but I can leave things set up so I can play easier. I can get my chair underneath the table. I mounted my phone so I can FaceTime with my friend who is teaching me and he can guide me live. I learned a lot today.

On the runway inside the cockpit I set the Heading to 163º, Altitude to 7,500 though the plane is flying higher, have to figure that problem out. Then after I took off I turned on Autopilot and HDG and ALT. the plane went to that heading and altitude and I am flying form Oregon to San Francisco.

I am trying ton include the YouTube vide here

 

[Judge]

Makes me recall when my coworkers gave me a parting gift in 1996 when I left insurance. A gift certificate from a software store.

So I picked up a combat helicopter simulation called "Hind". Boy was it difficult to fly a chopper. A totally different experience. Took a while just to be able to fly without immediately crashing.

 

[grommet]

Hello. I am tired. I did too much today but this is what I finished. The mouse was too high and far away. My friend gave me a joystick extender, something like that. I used it with a piece I had left form the light desk I first got and made a much lower and further out mouse tray.

The desk was falling forward when I pulled back on the yoke so I put the PC to counterweight it but then the monitor was too close. I moved it back as far as possible (it touches the PC) and moved all the controls over to the left.

 

[grommet]

Makes me recall when my coworkers gave me a parting gift in 1996 when I left insurance. A gift certificate from a software store.

So I picked up a combat helicopter simulation called "Hind". Boy was it difficult to fly a chopper. A totally different experience. Took a while just to be able to fly without immediately crashing.

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Neat. I am too tired now but I have questions. I hope I can remember them later.