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Thanks to all who joined on this, I'm aiming to do it every Sunday at the same time, so hope to see you again.

Also, to help navigation, Red Square is located on the north side of the second bridge east of the MSFS "Cathedral of Christ the Saviour" POI marker.

We'll be taking off from Moscow Sheremetyevo airport at 21:30, and it's a 12 minute flight south-east to Red Square. Here is a video of the route: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-BR4zpgtUE. I'm not doing any special in-game hosting or discord group for this (just hoping to see lots of people in Cessna's doing this route, and take some screenshots), but if anyone else wants to please go-ahead! My tag is Basatasa.

Inspired by this cold war busting flight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust#Flight_profile MSFS Northern Europe server. Everyone welcome, and I hope it goes without saying including those born in Russia. This is an event for citizens of the world who want peace.

I must have been lucky but I've played for hours now and not had a single crash, nor any other annoyances that outweigh the benefit of the scenery. One big issue I do have though is that the game runs your graphics card like the clappers when on the menu and also when paused! All because of some fancy background animation they have. Really hope they fix this soon.

I'm sure someone will add that landmark soon, with the addition of Trump to it ;-)

If you search youtube for 'fs2020 unboxing' there are some good videos that take a close-up of the manual and poster.

ebay.co.uk is your friend here, interestingly the disc version is currently sold out on amazon.co.uk and selling for about 30% above retail price on ebay! I'm sure they will do another print-run soon though, and you could order from amazon.co.uk to deliver to a freight forwarding service (they won't ship it outside europe). Be warned though, the disc version requires the disc be inserted in the drive while playing and also is key locked (so you can't resell it).

I'm finding that settings that get me about 30fps 2000 feet over a city seem about right, if I strive for higher fps it's a bit smoother but not worth the loss of scenery quality. But going ultra and getting 20fps or below is not worth it. The biggest issue I have with the graphics however is that I can't find how to increase the detail radius. Took off from from O'Hare today and not being familiar with the region did not know if Chicago would be north, south, east or west - assumed I'd see the sky scrapers from 1000 ft, but no, ended up having to check which way to fly on google maps - when I did get to the skyscrapers (which appear as weird triangles at first) it was awesome though.

Or on the contrary, will you be asking MS for a refund on FS2020? For me, the scenery is the killer, doing a lot of low level flying I can't go back to x-plane now. Also these competitive landing challenges are very addictive. I might occasionally dip back into FSX or X-Plane to fly my PMDG purchases, but 90% of the time it's going to be FS2020.

yep, I was disappointed that they had so many single engine props and not a single fighter jet. With Citation though we basically have one given how it performs :) Seriously the biggest mis-judgement MS have made is going for quantity over quality when it come to aircraft in FS2020

I don't think I'll be able to resist not going for the premium edition, but only really expect to use the 787 and LHR. How good do people think the 787 is likely to be? I'm mostly interested in throttle-and-stick flying, practicing landings, short flights. Won't touch autopilot or fmc, so if a few of these things are non-op like on FSX it's not the end of the world - it is important to me that the plane handles like a 787 though - if it's letting me do loops in it like the Extra 300 then forget it.

Looking forward to being able to do some scenery tours and seat-of-the-pants flying from my sofa, but can we get decent joysticks/yokes for the xbox one? Doubt it, and can't imagine trying to fly with an xbox controller (done it in hawx, and flying x-wings in star wars - it's just weird)

Interesting pricing model, I was expecting the scenery streaming resolution/realtime weather/traffic to be factors in the different editions. As it stands for me I see no compelling reason to go premium, can live without my local heathrow airport. Would be interested in the 787, but I expect PMDG will come out with a better one before long.

Aside from MSFS, anyone else old enough to recall these ones? Fighter Pilot - My first experience of flight simulation, saw it on a friends ZX Spectrum when I must have been 9 years old, made me want to be a fighter pilot. ACE (Air Combat Emulator) - a lot like the above, slightly better I think. Chuck Yeagers AFT - the best of all the 80s ones, arrived at the end of the decade. Tomahawk - Really good Apache sim, had a weird security feature called a lenslock or something. Gunship - Another Apache sim, not as playable as tomahawk, but had more features. Acrojet - one of the few non-shooters, object was to fly around doing stunts, cutting ribbons. Strike Force Harrier - Wasn't as good as I hoped it would be. Jump Jet - Another Harrier game, was an even bigger disappointment Ace of Aces - Think I spent some good hours on this one. Did I miss any? Arcady ones like Afterburner and Thunderblade don't count. In some ways I'm jealous of kids born today, starting out with amazing flight sims available, on the other hand I feel privileged to have seen the evolution and progress of home flight simulation since the beginning.

Looks like a good spec, but I'd be tempted to go all in on SSDs (is your 1tb storage a spinning disk? that's going to be a weak link). As for storage space, if you're only playing FS2020 then according to their specs you should be fine, but if you may find you want to do other stuff too. I spec'd and purchased a mid-range gaming PC last year with 500Gb SSD and immediately regretted not getting more storage, I found I wanted to try other games, DCS, VR, blu-ray ripping and editing, also bought 80Gb of orbx UK scenery for xplane 11 (xplane 11 is horribly slow loading from spinning disk). Within a month I'd bought a 1Tb SSD for it.

thanks, interested to hear how it goes.

A search for trackir on the UK ebay site turns up loads of trackir sets that look identical to the one on the naturalpoint site but half the price (same on Amazon but a bit more expensive). Has anyone got one of these and do they work ok? Not interested in the LED headset clip one (I don't wear a headset), the one with the reflectors that go in baseball cap is what I'm looking for.

Thanks all, I'd been trying the default load, and coming in around 140kts, full flap. Or much faster on a steeper glideslope then trying to peel off the speed over the runway. Sounds like you need to actually fly the 747 onto the runway - which is precisely what I learned NOT to do with the cessna (stall it just a few feet over the runway).

Been struggling to land the 747 the same way as I can land the Cessna - which I'm able to make settle softly on the runway at stall speed +1 or 2 knots. If it try to land much faster than stall speed in the 747 I'll nearly always float or bounce, and at best use up a large chunk of runway before having all wheels on the ground. Trying to land near stall speed I'll nearly always end up stalling and crashing or at least wrecking the undercarriage.

Hi, I picked up a ps3 eye cam for the cost of some peanuts (literally) and have been experimenting with facetracknoir. Spent an hour flying circuits in x-plane with different settings, but not sure I'm going to be able to get used to holding my head still when I don't want the view to change, and not looking down at my keyboard. Is this something you get used to with time? If worth persisting, would it also be worth picking up an IR pass filter for the cam, and a headset? facetracknoir seemed a bit jerky, and buggy (gets lost completely sometimes), will this be better with the freetrack software and ir? Also, is it really necessary to have the cam mounted on the top of the monitor? I have mine on the desk pointing up at me

1920x1080 res. FPS number from top-left of screen: Settings:

Thanks for the advice, one thing though "Your system will have a very difficult time running XP11." I was tearing it up around the alps in a phantom last night, with default settings, getting 60fps looked like. Pretty sure my system more than meets the recommended specs.

Just tried x-plane 11 for first time, and I think I'm going to become a convert. Had tried xplane 9 years ago and wasn't impressed, but 11 is so much more polished. FSX just looks really dated now.

After a long hiatus from flight simming I'm now back, and with a more powerful PC. I always used to play FSX on my old core2duo, it was never up to running the latest xplane. Just purchased xplane 11, along with TrueEarth South UK Demo and getting my feet wet. First impressions are very good, only thing that disappointed a little was the default scenery isn't great. The trueearth scenery does a nice job though, and the free demo even has my local Ikea in Southampton. I was looking at the settings menu and see some of them (particularly antialiasing) are set low by default. Are these initial settings based on what it detects my system can handle, or are they the same for every install? What is a good location/aircraft from which to test and benchmark performance? I used to use Rio, and a fast jet in FSX. What settings are my system likely able to handle? I have a single 28" monitor, an SSD, and 32Gb RAM (in addition to the specs in my signature) Was thinking about further investing in VR or multi-monitor, would my system be up to it?