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What the feck.....!! A Stipa-Caproni Flying Barrel......The tease of the rudder markings was my lead.....

I think really, that's not so much of an issue Kev. After all, if I want realistic flight modelling I'll fire up DCS. I'm hoping MSFS will just fill that hole of taking in a scenic ride from A to B to C etc. If it looks half decent in VR of course.

Doing banner towing from Gloucestershire Airport atm

Less of the negative vibes Moriarty..... It is a cinch to fly though...

One small word of caution Chris, whilst the scenery side of Msfs is amazing, they didn't put quite so much work into the flight part.

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chaps can i just add, if you want to take MSFS to a completely different level, download "neofly", basically its a career add on for MSFS. It seems quite daunting at first to set up, but its bloody amazing, it just adds a bit more than "bimbling" although I do just love doing that....but....why not bimble to an airport and drop off some cargo....bottles....which break if you have a hard landing.......take that doctor to a nearby field where a B737 has crashed, land in the field and let her out of a cub....watch those trees though!...it simply is amazing....I have currently worked myself up from 0$, to have 2 people flying for me, 3 different aircraft...im currently flying an islander because its short take off but has a decent fuel/cargo load......oh and just when you think your all set up....a random event of an engine failure and you have to put it down... The best thing about all this is sound effects of cargo loading, bird strike etc, its quite immersive...i think the end idea is to have animations etc (there are some such as aircraft crash and smoke on a motorway you have to land on etc ) please take a look. if anyone's keen I can always jump onto TS and show you the ropes......you can also get extra money for multiplayer flights.....!!!

A windmill too far?

Did they "Reighley" (rally) round? Editor: it is never good if you have to explain a joke/pun

I should say that the scenery in this piccie is an add on, not standard scenery...it is a particular section around an Antarctic base

I don't know about VR....that may take some reading up. It didn't support TrackIR to start with.... 🙄 Standard is....standard. Deluxe gives you 5 more aircraft and 5 more airports, Premium gives you 10 extra planes and 10 extra airports. Price might be a consideration as it is £50 difference between standard and premium. If you have Xbox game pass Standard is free. I bought from their store but it can be got through the XBox store too.

These are my current mods. JSGME works a treat. I installed it in 'Local Disk (C:)\Users\......\Appdata\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe'. It makes it's 'MODS' folder in there. The path I use for a mod I install is eg. 'AeromacchiMB339\LocalCache\Packages\Community\indiafoxtecho-mb339' This puts it into the 'Community' folder where mods are placed. I like JSGME rather than direct install. The mod folder content should look like the piccie attached and contain things like 'ContentInfo', Effects, Fonts' etc.

That's exactly what you get from it, an opportunity to bimble around admiring the view as well as testing your landings...loads to do. Tip 1 - get it. Tip 2 - it's quite intuitive to set up the controls after a bit of head scratching. Tip 3 - To just bimble around you don't need many controls at all, just basics eg. flight controls, flaps, gear, trim, external view, internal view, cockpit view upper (basically changes the seat height), zoom, brakes and parking brake, refuel/repair. I use engine management but so far all is well with just mixture and prop control (rpm). For the float planes use the water rudder. Tip 5 - Trackir works fine Tip 6 - I use realistic settings Tip 7 - there are loads of addons, paid or free ....be choosy I suppose otherwise it could get unnecessarily expensive. The in game marketplace is a great place to browse..... Have fun BB!

Looks great! I have been seriously considering MSFS recently Sidly, just to quench that thirst for bimbling around and admiring the view. Got any tips?

Flying over the Antarctic in what appeared at first to be pleasant conditions....closed in very quickly but managed to land and tuck her into the hangar. Weather is very well done...

Fun fact: Just realized this wind mill is a movie star!

Well done sir! Quite a fugly abomination isn't it?! Over to you