MSFS2024, BeyondATC, and Flysimware C24R Sierra Steam Gauges!

[@kurtvwSims]

A couple little glitches in this vid, sorry. At the beginning of it, me doing the normal "Welcome back" was from an earlier version of this video, and I thought I had removed it, but I was monitoring audio only on my right ear, and that was only on the left side, so I didn't hear it till after it was already on KZbin and fully ingested and ready. ooops! The other problem I had was that normally all the recording is done with the audio separated so I can adjust for instance my voice vs the sim, vs BATC and any other audio. But it all got crammed into one channel so I couldn't do the clean up that I normally do (such as removing the chair noises, or my occasional sniffles or coughs). I try to make the audio in my videos as flawless as possible, it is important to me, and to you (even if you don't really think you notice it - you do)... And for some people it is critical. This one came up a little short in ways I couldn't really fix after the fact. Sorry.

[@tellyjoossens4186]

As a ppl pilot, I learned to fly in a 152 aerobat and moved on to renting a 172n with steam gauges. For the last few years, I have rented a 172sp from 2006 with the G1000 setup. Although the steam gauges are cool, I'm much more relaxed and better informed flying with the g1000. The only moment I still rent the one with steam gauges is for local flights and every 2 years for the sep checkride (it's cheaper to rent).

[@kurtvwSims]

My feeling on it is that in real flight, especially IFR flight, a glass panel is a great thing to have and better situational awareness is never a bad thing. The newer avionics packages provide so much more awareness that if the option is available, its the way to go every time. But that's real world. In the sim, I find it to be sterile and boring. Too much 'easy mode'. So in the sim I'd rather fly on old round gauges. If I was still an active pilot, I'd probably want to use whatever is most similar to the planes I was flying just for procedural practice. But I'm not. I just in it for the grins at this point. Thanks for your comment, and for watching!

[@IamBrianDickson]

I'm considering adding B-ATC to my basic setup as a casual flight simmer. I stick mainly to GA, but as someone who has learned to fly a C152 IRL (over 15 years ago), I thought some ATC might be good to help me remember my training. B-ATC will be releasing an updated version soon according to their website, to include AI models.

[@kurtvwSims]

Thanks for watching. It already handles the AI traffic, we just didn't see much in this flight. If you look on my GTNXi-750 as I'm near Van Nuys, you can see there are lots of other planes appearing on that traffic map. With all the frequency confusion they may have been talking on another channel. The Cessna's on the ground at Van Nuys were also from the BATC AI traffic. It doesn't really do VFR yet, and does require a simbrief flight plan, VFR is coming, but they haven't nailed down a date for that yet.

[@StardrifterSimulation]

Looking forward to grabbing this on a sale. My days of paying this much for addons not from Black Square or A2A is over.

[@kurtvwSims]

In fairness, it is about 30% less money than the Comanche, so the difference in fidelity is accounted for in the price. But its a solid little plane as long as you're happy at 120kts. None the less, if you're big on those extra features, then waiting on a sale for the Sierra makes sense. I love both honestly, and the speed of the Comanche is a big bonus. But sometimes I don't want to deal with all the finniky little details of keeping A2A's systems happy. Just depends on my mood. Thanks for watching!

[@StardrifterSimulation]

@@kurtvwSims Totally fair point! I do really like the way this one looks, the landings look very satisfying from the videos I've seen (something I've felt about their other addons as well, I don't know what it is but they just nail landings.)

[@kurtvwSims]

That is a little hard to quantify, but yeah. They aren't like the Black Square or A2A, but FSW's planes are very nice to fly. Like the other two companies, they work closely with real owners, so they are getting good info. The C24R feels very stable on approach much like the various Piper singles. Its just how the wing loading works out on those designs I think. I never flew any Beechcraft in my real experience, but lots of the low wing Pipers. Using that as a baseline, the C24R does have a pretty believable behavior on landing. It gets a little nose heavy tho, and that needs to be trimmed out a bit during the flair. The only FSW plane that is hard to grease the landing in would be the Lear. But that is a genuine property of LearJets and is accurately modeled. Nobody even tries to grease the landing in a Lear, just land it like an F-18.

[@justanotherday1345]

Great vid. Thanks. For some reason the 6 pack Sierra is not showing up in my 2024. All other variants show but not the steam gauge version.

[@kurtvwSims]

Thank you! If you bought from the in sim Marketplace originally, it might not have updated yet. If you bought from the FSW website, just go back there and download the latest version.

[@justanotherday1345]

@@kurtvwSims Yes, from the market place. All "Glass" are in 2024 just not the steam gauge "Six Pack" is not showing up. hopefully another day or so. Thanks

[@kurtvwSims]

@@justanotherday1345 According to Momo at FSW, the folks behind the scenes at MSFS are busting tail trying to bring all the marketplace up to current. I don't remember if he has a patch for the marketplace version or not that would get you up to date without waiting on MSFS, you might ping on the FSW discord.

[@justanotherday1345]

@ I checked on Discord and that was mentioned also about waiting MS to push the updates thru the market place from 2020-2024. Thanks

[@justanotherday1345]

You are using the 29.99 version of beyond atc ?

[@kurtvwSims]

Right now both versions are the same, the more expensive 'supporter' one just gets you earlier access to new alpha stuff they are working on, but at the moment they haven't deployed the next alpha (which will be the improved conversational AI). I did not use any of the paid voices in the video, those are all the voices that are included in the $29 version.

[@RV6Pilot]

My long-awaited upgrade to FS2024 lasted roughly five minutes before it completely shut down my PC. Thank goodness for the Steam refund policy. What a shame. I won’t try again.

[@kurtvwSims]

Remember when 2020 came out and all the Xplane loyalists swore they'd never move... We're all mad, but time marches on. Probably best not to speak in absolute terms. ;-)

[@foolerysworld3324]

Nice flight - thanks for sharing! I'm on the fence about buying MSFS2024. Not sure how my Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB ram and 3080 will run it. My Honeycomb flight gear, BATC, Navigraph sub, etc is just sitting there as I've already uninstalled 2020 and don't really want to go through the hassle of reinstalling and configuring that.

[@kurtvwSims]

Thanks for the comment, and for watching! There are a lot of little frustrating issues with 2024 right now. Unless the money is just burning a hole in your pocket, I'd hold off a bit. It is beautiful sim when it works. But it can really test my patience. Most people flying small planes like I do are having a pretty good time, but ppl that like the big iron are getting a mixed bag. I can't really guess at how it might run on your machine. It grinds the GPU super hard -- I think this is actually a bug, like a bad optimization somewhere. It can't possibly be intentional to peg the GPU at all times, even in menus.

[@foolerysworld3324]

@@kurtvwSims Good information, thank you for that. Yeah, flight sim is at the top of my most frustration and most rewarding hobbies. I've been in it since SubLogic Flight Simulator II and it seems like I'm all in for awhile then the frustration level increases to where I'm doing more fiddling trying to get things running correctly so I drop it for a couple years - rinse and repeat. I think I will 2024 a bit more time to bake.

[@KurtVW]

@@foolerysworld3324 I'm similar normally. Not as long with my breaks tho -- I've also been at it since 1983. It inspired my going for a the license in the late 80's. For me the breaks are a couple months at most. Although after FSX cancelled I didn't do any flightsim till 2020. I don't like X-plane, and had a negative interaction with Austin many years ago that tainted my opinion of their product. That was effectively a 10 year hiatus for me. But, when you see a long gap between my videos, odds are I'm not simming. Making the videos can be labor intensive and add a layer of frustration, so sometimes I remind myself to just enjoy the sim and not record anything... OBS increases the odds of a crash by a fair bit, so not recording is a much smoother experience.