Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 !

I fancy a bit of GA action and have been watching reviews of the new Black Square Bonanza which looks superb when I noticed they have also created the Velocity XL which is a strange looking thing with Canards on the front.

My all time favourite GA aircraft in P3D was the RealAir Lancair Legacy because of its great range and cruising speed.

The Velocity looks like it may tick those boxes with a 400hp piston engine giving it a 400mph top speed and a max range of 1600 miles.

£20 on Just Flight .... I may give it a go I don't suppose anyone else has it do they ?

I need a hotas. I treated myself to a Logitech X56. It was perfect. I assigned all the buttons and switches and flying was brill… until I noticed the throttle increasing ever so slowly from 80% to full over about fifteen minutes.

This is a known fault by all accounts, but I don’t know if it affects everyone.

The reason I went for this one was the Thrustmaster Warthog doesn’t have the Z axis. And it’s twice as much.

What other options do people suggest. Looking to spend a couple of hundred. I’ve sent the X56 back and am now back on with my trusty sidewinder 2.

I’ve been enjoying the CJSimulations Typhoon on Xbox recently! With the most recent update it sounds absolutely incredible through headphones too

Keep saying to myself I will play this more when I have finished building my sim, but that is taking longer than anticipated.

Question for those who play a lot what buttons that arent part of the main flight controls do you use a lot? My sim has a G1000 but the audio panel is largely uselsss so was going to change the buttons into sim buttons so I can move the keyboard out of the way. Was thinking, start/stop pushback, active pause, some camera view points. Any others?

I am struggling to get time to build mine (the wooden shed type arrangement ont he previous page) as well, did a bit this weekend but was at the airport doing my Saturday on the old planes there, didnt actually do much but gave a friend a tour, planned to do some when I got in at 4 but was knackered, then it was mothers day on Sunday, got a couple of hours in later on Sunday.

Got the walls packed with old kitchen worktop in the cavity where the monitors will be as something to mount them too solidly, left an air gap using shims so shouldn't get damp, battened the walls and ceiling, cut the door frame down and fitted another piece of kitchen worktop which will be the desk, was liberated from the couple over the roads skip as they are having a kitchen replaced, its pristine so that will be perfect as the desk, all measured for height and am mocking up everything else for sockets, cabling etc.

At least the light nights are just round the corner so can finish work and get some time in, week booked off over Easter and will re-roof the whole thing.

Bought some Logitech 5.1 speakers SH on eBay, normally well over £100 so at £50 a good saving if all ok, spent way too much on this whim as it is

Been learning about plasterboarding for the inside, doesnt look too bad to do.

Then will paint, carpet and fit lights and may actually play some FS2020, possibly with a few little system upgrades, that Boeing stick looks good...

Any suggestions of things to add or do gratefully received,

A bolt on the door, on the inside.

Fan on desk= methane removal+pretending you're in a Tiger Moth

Lock fitted !



Never done that before so rather amazed that it looks that normal and fully works, no doors were ruined either.

That wont fit in my broom cupboard !

Got a 75 in my office though, have tried it with the Xbox but didnt get on with it, quite like a desk for everything.

got a cockpit room now running simulator, its a great escape