NZFF

Previously… the Cessna from Dunedin to Palmerston North got sidetracked in Christchurch.
Over the weekend, I continued the journey, a somewhat faster and more sophisticated mount, the TBM 930.
Good for 250kts and a range of 3,300km at 30,000ft this one can go anywhere in NZ, and back.
It’s in a class of only two, really.

Always an issue with stock FS aircraft is how much fidelity is built into the systems.
This one does CTRL-E and you’re off, but the AP defeated me.
But a simple Google delivered the small fact that there’s a little switch overhead, far far away from all the other switchables, that must first be UP.



So away out of NZCH, don’t you love the texturing that NZA did on the tarseal…



Up the east coast in short order, but wait! Another worthy airport essentially under the track!



So into Wellie which was a bit quiet at that time of day.





Upward and Onward, over yet another well-known airfield. But Robin has not yet completed NZPP so no stopping here.



Got quite bumpy… not sure if FlickR can embed a video…Nope, OK YT then



Straight over the top, LH circuit, greaser of a landing. Good scenery, does need a squadron of Massey Uni aircraft over on yonder apron though.

Very very very impressive screenshots and more impressive flight report.

Regards,

Aharon

Thank you Aharon, and nice of you to say so.
It's such a BIG sim, I've spent most of my time just looking and discovering all the bits.
But it is fun to get back into actually "flying" the thing.
At some point I guess proper AI traffic will follow, and the bigger planes and larger airports, with all the proper procedures.
I have a notion that the upcoming A350 might be worth the time investment...

Debating whether to spring for the ORBX COWS DA42... expensive but it does up the ante a little from the (many) stock Diamonds.
And the whole Massey fleet is on FS.2

What is your pc's configurations, please?

Regards,

Aharon

Charl wrote:Debating whether to spring for the ORBX DA42... expensive but it does up the ante a little from the (many) stock Diamonds.
And the whole Massey fleet is on FS.2

I have the COWS (Orbx) DA 42...not as featured as the A2A Comanche but its my go to GA aircaft when I want something modern.to fly.. everything works as it should with excellent visuals and sounds.

Thanks Paul.
I am after the look, sound, and flight fidelity.
Not sure if I *need* to have multiple systems failure modes, and I s'pose you cannot avoid the glass cockpit.
The Garmin is "sort of" modern but to me, complicated in the sim: mouse clicking all the bits just seems 10x more difficult than the real thing, VR is even worse.
But I can see it becoming "go to" as you say, for that certain flight.

Aharon:
12th Gen Intel CPU: Intel i7 12700KF
LGA 1700 Motherboard: Z690 DDR4 Motherboard (w/ wifi)
Graphics Card: RTX 4080 Super
RAM: 64GB DDR4 RGB
Primary Storage: 2TB NVMe Gen 3 M.2 SSD
Secondary Storage 4TB 3.5" HDD
CPU Coolers: 360mm All-In-One Liquid Cooler
Power Supply: 1000W 80+ Gold
Windows 11

The machine was upgraded for MSFS 2024
RAM from 32GB
Graphics from RTX 3080

Charl, I don't know how I missed this
What a post....presentation perfect as usual
I really must do something similar, but at the moment I'm stuck in poser mode

Charl wrote:CPU Coolers: 360mm All-In-One Liquid Cooler

Thanks for important information on your pc configuration that runs MS2020 and MS2024 well.

How does liquid cooler work?? Do I have to feed water into computer or what, please?

I see that wording liquid cooling or liquid cooler in many pc configurations and I have absolutely no idea what in the heck it is.

Regards,

Aharon

Aharon, it's just a watertight cap that is fitted over the CPU.
Water circulates via 2 hoses to a radiator which is fan cooled.

Marty, thanks for the encouragement, I look forward to your exploits of this splendid sim

Charl wrote:Aharon, it's just a watertight cap Water circulates via 2 hoses to a radiator which is fan cooled

Thanks If I want to buy new pc for MS2024, do I really need water cooler or can a new powerful pc do without water cooler??

Regards,

Aharon

Go for water.
No rush MSFS 2024 won't be ready for a while.

Start a new thread for computer spec when the time comes.

Charl,

Thanks for interesting advices.

Regards,

Aharon