Sport Pilot Talk

I know I am. I bought FS2 with lawn mowing money as a kid for my Tandy 1000 and loved it.
I got into FSX in 2014 and have a Cessna branded yoke, rudder pedals, push pull throttle mixture prop control and some radio controls.
When the new sim is ready I will load it up and see how it works on my rig and that will most likely prompt some upgrades.
I am looking forward to realistic VFR flying.

Can barely wait for the release - New gaming PC, Logitech yoke and throttle quadrant, Thrustmaster rudder pedals and soon to arrive IR head tracker headset.

I know I am! Can y’all post your PC specs?

HP Pavilion Desktop, Intel i5-8400, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, DVD R/W, Media Card Reader, Type-C, HDMI, VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, Mouse & Keyboard. I have since upgraded it 16GB RAM and added a 1TB M.2 SSD card as the primary BIOS and file source.

Mine will meet the 'middle' PC specs, which is fine by me.

I got Gforce GTX 980Ti , Intel i7-9700 , 16GB memory

Nice y’all! Well unfortunately space is at a premium for me so I had to go the laptop route but I feel like I got a really good deal. I bought an ASUS G15 that isn’t even available yet from a YouTuber who reviewed it. I got one of the new 7nm Ryzen 7 4800HS processors, an RTX 2060 Max-Q graphics card, 16GB of ram, 1TB NVMe SSD, and a 240Hz 1080P panel that has super fast response times. It’s run everything I can throw at it so far and I’m pretty amazed by how thin and sleek it is! I can’t wait to see how well it runs Flight Simulator!

I have a custom PC that I honestly don't remember the build on it.
I rebuild it every four or five years or so and typically get a 300 dollar video card a new MB CPU and that's about it.

Two years ago I got a new laptop and its an Asus Republic of Gamers with a 17 inch screen Core I7 2.8GHZ 12GB RAM with a 1070TI video card.

I will first install FS on the laptop and see what happens.
I kind of hate running my desktop PC because it heats up the room so much.

Wow! Just watched the trailer. Makes XPlane 11 look positively ancient!

Hambone wrote:Wow! Just watched the trailer. Makes XPlane 11 look positively ancient!

This video did that for me haha. https://youtu.be/8uo3uZdBiFE

How much is it?

Aes256 wrote:How much is it?

The game is still in Beta testing. No hard pricing yet from Microsoft, nor a firm release date for us anxious consumers. They have made system requirements official.

https://www.flightsimulator.com/save-the-date-04-21-20/

Ahh! August 18th I seriously cant wait! I also can’t believe there are not one but two Zlin aircraft in this and a VL-3?! Amazing.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/13/2132 ... th-pricing

Bought a new Honeycomb brand yoke and waiting for release of the new sim.

Hoping it may work good enough to justify buying a few screens and making a sim to use for initial training before getting in the real airplane.

I’m not worried about it counting in a logbook just something to give the students an idea of how to fly before starting them out. I think it may enable them to complete training in closer to the minimum hours and save them money plus abuse on the training airplane.

I think motion sim is not needed. It would be possible to pause to explain procedures or point out errors. Fly on bad weather days to get things started to the point they can get around the pattern and understand basic concepts.

The Flight Design CTLS is listed as one of the included airplanes to fly.

Oh a computer thread! Being super young and working in IT, besides flying computers are my second interest. I don't have the best gaming specs but they can run most everything I want at medium settings. I mostly use X-Plane to keep my skills up but I bought the $1 first month Xbox game pass and I'll get the beta release, I noticed they had two LSAs in the release with the Flight Design CTLS and Icon A5 so I'm curious how they'll fly.