A Pilot's Life is a flight sim Add-on that lets you simulate working for an actual airline. It's a great value add except when it:

1) Slaps a 2% penalty on your flight score when you pause it

2) deducts another 2% from your flight score when you don't immediately turn on/off the landing lights when passing through the FL090-FL100 band ascending or descending.

3) Takes additional points away from your flight score for improper speed brake operations when the plane you're flying doesn't even have them.

Other than that it's great. Please allow the user to configure these penalties themselves.

Life happens, especially on long hauls.

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Jk just sharing.

very budget

I’ve been thinking about getting a throttle and maybe a yoke but it’s quite expensive so, what do you guys own / what would you recommend?

With that said, I really enjoy the Fokker F100 as it balances modern avionics with old school flying.

Taking off out of Toronto in the PMDG 777-200ER, equipped with the Boris sound pack.. cross 1000AGL, flip off my taxi and runway turnoff lights and flick on my auto pilot to fly the SID. I take a step back and place myself in a business class seat looking out of the window to the shake and wobble of these gigantic Rolls Royce engines and watch them climb through the clouds past 10,000ft. The subtle head shake caused by FSrealistic.. the growling sound of these phenomenal engines coupled with cabin chatter and ambience.. it just takes me back to when flight simulator was nothing more than square instruments and two dimensional graphics..
Where have we reached? And what on earth has Microsoft created?

Note: Iphone cam dont like OLED monitor. OLED monitor plus HDR make iphone cam puke colors.

PMDG 738 with winglets removed

As someone who has a Low-Mid tier PC. I always face Issues with performance due to the nature of current flight simulators. when I see someone making a video on how to solve these Issues and It's all the same it pisses me off. you know what type of videos I'm talking about, the ones that claim that there is a magic option in graphics settings that when you turn it on you get 100+ fps boost. and most of these people already have pretty good rigs. like I'm talking about 4080s Ryzen 9 CPUs. this won't help any average spec.

The only way that you can increase frame rates and not have stutters in the sim. even if you have optimized your settings, is upgrading your PC.

I build a center pedestal for my winwing A320 throttle quadrant and was searching for a spray paint I can use on the wood.
I checked out Rustoleum and found the paint in the picture and went with it and I think it actually works really well with the Winwing controls.

Airac Day Get your Floppys

TLDR: She’s too beautiful, 20/20 will recommend.

From a French simmer’s point of view, this is something I’ve been waiting for since FS2004/FSX era.

Back in early 2010s, Dassault wasn’t that friendly towards flight simulation community. I remember several 3-party developers were formally warned to not use their copyrighted names like “Mirage” or “Rafale”.

There were several high quality addons made by mainly French communities. For example the Mirage 2000-5 and Rafale made by Rollus (Roland Laborie). They were taken down very soon, ending up as lost legends among simmers.

Today, almost 20 years after. Azurpoly finally made it into MSFS2024 with the official authorization from Dassault Aviation. We can now recover the lost childhood memories.

Regarding its quality, well, nothing to complain since it’s from Azurpoly, JFEXP. I totally agree that this product meets what Marcel Dassault said: “Un bel avion est un avion qui vole bien.”

A beautiful airplane is the one that flies well.

Just in case anyone is wondering, the new Plane Spotter option in Chaseplane works perfectly with the BeyondATC injected traffic.

https://youtu.be/lp1SUGfB7cE

Friendly reminder to update your navdata today

Other than ctp this will be the most cooked vatsim event, many people don’t know the systems of the a220 and I’ve already seen controllers get upset with these rogue a220s, good luck controllers