So Airbus pilots (you know who you are). In the sim, can you confirm that pitch attitude will not be maintained by the fly-by-wire if there is any amount of roll input? It is my understanding that the Airbus FBW will allow you to roll and pitch and then will hold those inputs. I see that the roll will stay steady (input 20 or 30 degrees of bank) and it will hold it, but if as soon as you put any roll in, pitch drops steadily and the plane will start to descend.
So just getting around to looking at the Boeing 787. Canāt say Iām a huge fan of the cockpit layout, BUTā¦it does have a kind of cool HUD. And it has cool fly-by-wire, but I think it is the same Airbus logic that will not hold pitch once you roll. The MS sim series has always depicted roll as a loss of lift (which is correct), but the FBW seems not to be able to adjust for this.
The HUD is missing a heading tape or compass though unless Iām missing something. And it is colorfulā¦which is kind of cool. But I also wonder how they are rendering the display and if the HUD will be compatible with VR (that whole left eye / right eye thing)ā¦
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If you type āwinverā into your Start bar, do you see ā2004ā as your version? Only thing I can think of off-hand that could be causing chaos.
The rumor is that first patch day will be Sept 1st, so might be worth hanging on for that as well.
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I actually figured it out just a few minutes agoā¦ Iām a little embarrassed, but Iāll share in case anyone else has the same problem.
I mapped ātoggle pushbackā to one of the on-off switches on my throttle.
Then I accidentally left that switch in the on position, and forgot Iād bound it. So I was trying to pushback all the time next time I launched the game.
Oops. 
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Between West, TX a few years ago and now Beruit, I think the whole world knows what it looks like! 
Yeah, come to think of it I shouldnāt have made that joke.
Edited it out.
Iām reading about the accolades and flaws of this new flightsim and Iām thinking Iāll just let them squish the big bugs before I join in.
Am I too old for this 
?
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If I bought MSFS through the Microsoft site and not Steam, can I install it on a second computer (laptop)?
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I didnāt take any offense, and didnāt mean to come across that way, I was just making the observation.
I was in West shortly afterward, and the level of destruction was incredible! Made a mental note not to live anywhere near any silo-looking buildings.
Getting back on track here (sorry!), some of the systems implementation is bizarre. Just like the lack of prop feathering that BeachAV8R pointed out, and the fact that thrust reversers open an close proportionally to reverse axis, instead of deploying fully and modulating throttle. Weird stuff that leads me to believe the programmers didnāt do any research on some items.
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Really? Thatās a bizarre one!
Yeah.
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According to the replies at MSFS forums, I can install it on two computers and use itā¦it knows if another computer is using it at the moment and will limit it to one playing at any one time.
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Yep, itās tied to your account not your PC.
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I have a feeling Iāll be playing from Texas in the very near futureā¦ 
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Ah. I would have assumed that you were buying it under a different account to play twice :-). If you are just doing it on a separate PC, a steam install on both is okay to play on different hardware. I thinkā¦
I like to be my own copilot, that way I donāt get mad when I order myself to do something silly. Weāre in this together.
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So that was a pretty convenient move. I just copied my desktop MSFS install (108GB or something) to my portable SSD, plugged it into my laptop, launched the install through the App and pointed it at the SSD folder and it hemmed and hawed for a few minutes and started right up. I think it only downloaded the 1GB installer portion, but I didnāt have to sit through hours and hours of downloading.
I approve.
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Unfortunately no Asian cities outside of Australia are included in the list of photogrammetric / photorealistic cities. So the only thing in there that isnāt generic is something that was so famous they went in and handcrafted it ā keeping in mind that they didnāt even think Buckingham Palace was important enough to handcraft (nor was most of the London skyline) it seems like their bar for handcrafting is quite high for cities not on the photorealistic list.
Iām presuming at some point theyāll do a big Asian upgrade with one or more of their World Updates. I would love to fly around Japan, but I think Iām going to hold off. I saw someone else on a different forum mention that he was from Kyoto and while Tokyo does seem to have at least some of its iconic landmarks, Kyoto was almost completely devoid of anything other than completely generic stuff.
Aaaaahhhhhhh!!! 
OMG i am so relieved that I am not quite as crazy as I thought.
Here is the story:
I just flew the Baron a bit more to test out my G940 button assigments (sadly the FFB is not supported but I still like that stick).
ā¦and then I remembered how I failed to properly use the FLC and ALT AP modes of the G1000 yesterday. I havenāt flown a lot of G1000 planes so I am not very familiar with it. So I decided to do some training with it.
So I activated AP and played around with it for a bit. And then I got stuck. I wanted to assign a different altitude. I did not find the knob. So I looked for it. I was sure it was there. Somewhere. Didnāt find it. Probably it was a second layer of the heading knob or something? Or maybe this G1000 used the buttons like for the VS mode? I fiddled around with it. Nope. Gotta be a knob somewhereā¦ I even bound the altitude increase/decrease functions to buttons and looked if anything in the cockpit moved. I could change the altitude setting that way, but the knob still eluded me.
I quit the sim and did something else, but my mind was occupied with the damn G1000.
ā¦finally I bit the bullet, swallowed my pride, and looked up a tutorial on YT. A guy with a DA62 explained the functions.
And sure, there it was, right near the bottom left corner of the MFD. But in my Baron there isā¦ nothing! Just a white circle that cannot be clicked.
I havenāt had the opportunity to check other planes yet. Can anyone confirm that there is an altitude button on the G1000? Even in the Baron? Do I have a borked install? If yes: is there a repair function?
Thanks @fearlessfrog, yes I updated to Version 2004 and activated HAGS. I suspect its my i5. My wife, sensing my frustration last night actually gave me the green light for a full upgrade. My PC while its a bit like grandadās axe, has some bits that are 7 years old!
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