Andrew

Yeah, I don't see Microsoft/Asobo dropping support any time soon. Especially considering Bing Maps and MSFS are kind of the same thing. I do think eventually we're going to get photogrammetry updates for all countries except North Korea as well as probably China and Russia as photogrammetry (at least with current tech) is only possible with lowish flying planes. Once we've managed to get it to work accurately enough with satellites, we'll get those in updates as well. The Halo Pelican is a pretty fun thing to fly around with. I like that you can open the rear door mid-flight then you can walk towards it while hovering. If you don't have VR, I'd strongly suggest you get it. Performance for me is pretty poor, but I do have an RTX 2070 which is quite a bit less powerful than both your 4090 and 3090. I can't do DLSS though, not with glass cockpits anyway. I don't know if this is just an issue with the 2000 series cards, but the information on the screens becomes a blurry mess with DLSS on. Here's DLSS on vs off

I can't recommend the PMDG 737 enough. It is very expensive and the learning curve is pretty steep, at least if you want a cold and dark start as well as setting it up to fly properly with autopilot. There is a pre-set "start" option in the in-plane settings that will let you fly it like normal, stock, MSFS 2020 plane. I do only have the 737-700 because it was the first to release and I didn't want to wait for the -800 that most airlines use. They do have the -600 available for $35 USD which I would recommend getting if you just want a 737 and don't care which version. Aside from some physics changes for obvious reasons, all of the systems in the -600, -700 and -800 are all the same. So if you can fly one, you can fly them all. There is also an upcoming -900ER coming on the 7th of Feb. I am really looking forward to their 777-300ER when that does finally come out. EDIT: The 737-700 can even go above the speed of sound briefly. Ignore the point at the start. This is mach 1.019, not 0.1019. It doesn't have the sonic boom effect. Turns out that is part of the plane audio, not world audio.

Too bad DLSS3 is only available on RTX 40xx cards.

lmao I didn't even see the GPU there the first time I saw that photo.

Have those ever worked? every one I've ever used were either at 100% no matter the charge, or 0%.

I haven't bought a car battery in a very long time and it turns out they all have witchcraft in them these days with the charge indicator window. It looks like this Green for good, red for needs charging, nothing for dead. It's not an LED either which I thought it was.

8 power I am honestly surprised it started like that.

IMG_3433.mov ngl I wasn't expecting this. I initially had some issues when I connected the battery. Mostly security related. The alarm (which unluckily for me but luckily for my neighbours is silent) would constantly go on and the immobilizer was active not letting me start it. Turns out, I had to lock the car using the key fob, then unlock it again with the key fob. Started up straight away, 0 issues as if it has been running this whole time and the last time I started it was yesterday. Not even a warning light except for the brakes but I'll get onto that in a bit. I let it run for a bit to see if anything bad would happen and it didn't. I didn't even have to use the fire extinguisher I bought. I did also very slowly drive it backwards and forwards for a couple of metres to see if there are any gearbox issues, and again. No issues, like I just drove it yesterday. The brakes are a bit of an issue The brake pad sensor warning light is on, which I'm not sure exactly what's causing that. The brake pads still have more than enough chonk on them. The brake pedal is really spongy and goes straight to the floor which is not a good thing. I'm hoping it's just because the fluid is 10+ years old and is mostly water now. That's going to be an easy fix and something I had to do anyway. I do still need to buy new pads + rotors just because I don't trust these to be safe, let alone pass an MOT. @Artikbot did buy a Toyota Supra that has been sitting for a very long time and he said he had the same issue as me with the brake pedal, even after changing fluid. He did say the issue with his was the slave cylinder was stuck, it just needed to be taken out and cleaned and that if that doesn't fix it, there are rebuild kits you can buy for £10. Given that my car is effectively a Toyota and they were built during the same era, this is very good news for my wallet. Not so much good news for me though, removing and cleaning/rebuilding the slave cylinder is a PITA, so I'm hoping new fluid will fix the issue. So now, the potential repair list has basically been cut in half, all that remains (to get it safe to drive) is: New brake rotors New brake pads New brake hose (rubber, not metal) All fluids flushed and replaced 9 lugnuts Requirements to get it road legal (potentially, they might find something wrong that I missed): New front license plate Insurance MOT Tax Misc repairs/replacements: Repair/replace AC compressor (needed this when I bought the car) New AC gas HVAC screen replacement New headunit so I can have Apple Carplay Ironically in me suddenly speed running getting it fixed is because someone reported my car to the government, even though it's on private property. They came around to inspect it and said it was a fire hazard where I parked it. The reasoning behind this is because "you don't legally have a driveway because there is no drop curb so the car is a fire hazard". I don't understand this logic either and I'm not going to attempt to fight this legally. That's going to cost far more than just fixing it. I have until April to get it off my property when they come around to inspect it again, otherwise it will be taken from me. Because I've now put some petrol in it and started it, it is now more of a fire hazard than it has ever been in the 28 years it has existed.

What? A tech company creating artificial scarcity on hardware to increase the price of said hardware? That is insane and definitely hasn't happened before with hard drives in 2011 that made hard drives suddenly significantly more expensive than they should have been for several years.

I've done another thing!

Yes. The top one on the list is going to get a new icon to differentiate it and archived (all channels closed for replies, but you'll still be able to view the messages) as there's quite a bit of useful information in there.

He pretty much got bullied off OCN around 2015/16 after getting a little too trigger happy with the threadban button in the off topic section.

The messages in the original EHW will be lost as this is something that can't be transfered over, but we can recreate the channels. No, I've given you the role to gain access. That system was originally bought in because too many people not from OCN would join the server and start causing issues. Bringing in that DM requirement stopped that from happening entirely. The DM requirement system that we have now is going to be removed as it's no longer necessary with the system that ENTERPRISE has implemented with the forum and Discord.

Unfortunately, yes. I don't think you can unboost a server and you (or at least we) can't transfer it. What we can however do, is give an honorary B O O S T Y B O I S role to Bastiaan_NL and iamjanco until they're able to boost again should they wish to do so.

I don't think that person is here, no.

Banned for butterscotch.

The rumours of Simmons death were greatly exaggerated.

Yeah, I noticed those boats around now. It's pretty neat that they've added them. I would like to see functional aircraft carriers outside of that Top Gun event though.

Well, it was on 24 cans of ravioli the last time I changed it so

We were supposed to get some snow here again, but never got it, it's starting to heat up again and the days are getting longer.

This is bullying

I put a socket on my crankshaft today and rotated my engine 2 revolutions to see if it is seized as well as to have a look at the belts conditions. It's not seized and the belts are in poor condition, so that's half good.

I need to get my car started soon and hopefully running. I was going to wait until I had the job that I want but I need some things done that i have 0 control over. I've been waiting for it to get done since the start of 2020. Finally got those things in, I could go do the next step, except when I got to the next step, I got told it had been cancelled due to the power being out. Now i have to wait until at least March for me to be able to do it again. Anyway, I do like that 95 RON is the cheap petrol here now, which at the time of manufacturer, was premium and it's what my car requires. However, it's also E10 minimum now. My car can't do E10, so I have to find some ethanol free fuel that isn't leaded or £5/L

I have no idea how long those posts are going to stay up there for. All of the current moderators are people who have been members for over a decade now and I don't think any of them are going to delete it, including me. It's going to have to be someone from VS who deletes it and I'm certainly not reporting them lol