MSFS 2024 - First Impressions

[N4208T]

Hey everybody.  Surprised (a bit) that there has been no discussion of MSFS2024 here.  Maybe not so surprising since home cockpits and builders are not a priority at Microsoft.

After promising myself to wait a few months I caved and got FS2024 and installed it.  Install was fine and went easy and I have it on the same drive as fs2020.  I still have a full size twin engine turboprop simulator but I switched to VR completely a few years ago using a combo of flight sim hardware and an HP Reverb Gen 2.

First impressions:  not surprisingly I would consider this a late beta and a lot of stuff still does not work though I am sure that will self-correct over time.  Graphics are beautiful and very smooth in VR with the Reverb (using Mixed Reality and OPENXR toolkit) on an i9-10850k; 64 GB ram and an RTX3080.

Flight characteristics (so far) seem similar to FS2020.  I have not seen any major differences yet.  Also have not yet checked out my add-ons from FS2020.

ATC is terrible.  Sound is horrible, IFR flight plans not really working and controller in my latest flight in a Pilatus PC-12 kept looping and switching me between 2200 and 3500 feet in icing conditions....repeatedly all the way to the airport destination.

Anyone else have experience yet?  Thoughts?  I am not sorry I got it though I am disappointed though not surprised that it is not quite ready for prime time.

I am expecting to probably having to replace the Reverb within the next 12 months or so but, so far, it is working fine with the new sim.

Steve

[jackpilot]

Hi Steve
Of course grass blades moving in the wind are not top priority for c. builders.
MSFS goals are different.
Thank you for your input.
Jack