Flight Simulation

Getting started with the SDK & Project Editor in MSFS 2020

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Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) is the latest release in the franchise which spans some 37 years. This release boasts impressive graphics employing satellite imagery from Bing maps acallylong with AI assisted automati generated scenery and buildings. I’ve sunk quite a number of hours into it already and it …

Start flight simulator with higher priority

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A peculiar issue of Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X is that at times ATC forgets to vector me in to my final destination leaving me cruising at 2000′ burning fuel going away from the airport. There are other troubles with the FSX ATC but this one will be the focus of this quick article. Before we go on please make …

Saitek X55 Rhino conflicts with TeamSpeak client

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I ran into some issues tonight with my Saitek X55 HOTAS: each key press was repeated instead of showing up just once. This made the aircraft systems uncontrollable and at least once it caused my computer to lock up. I couldn’t figure out what had changed since last week when everything was fine until I realized I …