Microsoft Flight Simulator

I guess that is what I was asking even if I didn't know it.
Thank you!

Cheers guys, my emails suggest to me that I ordered a T Flight at around midnight last night. Thankfully it looks like its somewhat useful and PS4 compatible too so thanks for the tip.

Turning on AI flight assist literally just turns on the autopilot, and if you haven't got that properly setup it won't work well. If you have an actual flight plan setup it should be auto configured to follow that, but if you don't it'll probably just plummet out the air. Also it's probably setup by default to automatically trim anyway so turning it on to trim also will be a bad idea.

EDIT: Although to be clear there are subtle differences between proper plane autopilot and the AI flight controls, but yeah, same principles probably apply. You're trying to adjust something the AI or autopilot is trying to maintain itself and probably turning it all off by doing so.

I'll figure it. I've pretty much lost this afternoon to it, especially being able to use Remote Play too. Just been cruising around places I've been on holiday, my house, etc.

The autopilot – sorry, AI Pilot – fucked me in Iceland: I was flying from Reyjkavik to Selfoss, was checking where I was on the flight computer, then all of a sudden I'm climbing vertically before plunging back to earth. Really not sure what it was playing at. My latest flight around Seattle seemed alright though – it kept me on the straight and narrow while I gawped.

Not yet!

Taking off in the jumbo: piece of piss.
Landing: nah.

I had a blast on the Discovery tour around Everest last night. Woah. I got suckered in by the sunset, the music, the mountains themselves. I tried landing at the nearest remote landing strip, got beneath the cloud and the golden sunlight was beautiful.

Sadly the airstrip was too short for the speed I was carrying and I died.

Have you done all the bush trips? Doing the US Bush Trip without GPS or using the Back On Track was an absolutely amazing experience for me. Doing it full VFR and even having to pull up airport maps on a tablet etc was brilliant and challenging. Lasts a good few hours, but is broken up into stages so easy to do in chunks.

When is the Top Gun DLC actually out? Looking forward to being able to cover large distances in short times.

The ATC tower will tell you the wind direction and strength if you are using comms. Usually they will guide you so you are landning against the wind.

I've played an unholy amount of Flight Sim since its release on Xbox.

No F14 in the ingame store, only sold on a 3rd party site so leaving it for now as I cant use my xbox rewards on it. Also new update been delayed a week.

This barely works for me on Xbox. On several screens, literally the only controller input that does anything is B to go back to the previous screen. I've got this on PC too (the Game Pass version) - is that what's messing my controls up? Seem to remember reading something along those lines.

Fark. I’m turning into a right nerd. Flew around the mountains which surround the Königsee in Germany and even got my map out to help my fly VFR. Didn’t help it was a huge thunderstorm which meant to clear the mountains I had to fly in cloud.

Then had a spell in an Airbus doing a jaunt from Venice to Dubrovnik. When you’ve got Autopilot and all those waypoints, it’s a piece of piss! 😂

ETA: I’d seen Smoothpete flying over London so tried to join, but couldn’t spot him for toffee once in the air.

Haha, yes: I’ve got a walkthrough bookmarked. To avoid needing a pushback and starting all the engines, pick a runway rather than ramp or gate at a big airport. You’ll be primed and ready for take off.

Otherwise you’d have needed to engage Cursor Mode and talk to the ATC for clearance etc.