What Add Ons do You Use?

[Eva]

I use:

1) Neofly 4 - I like its career mode. I like how you can both buy and rent planes. I like how you have to actually find them at an airport. I like the much greater variety of planes available for its career mode. And I definitely like the better way missions are selected and the filtering you can do when selecting those missions.

I have played the built in career mode enough to get up into the 150s. So I have obviously found ways to play the built in career and enjoy it. But things seem more logical and less arbitrary to me in Neofly 4. I like how it is less penal to switch the planes you are flying because of the renting option.

So far I have made it to first officer and my planes have been Cesna 152, Cesna 172, Nx Cub, Cesna 172, and Cesna 400 Corvalis. The 152 you start with and I own. The others have all been rentals.

2) SkyForSim. This is an alternative EFB you can use in addition to the builtin EFB. If you pay for the premium version (about 5$ or so) you can get it integrated into the regular EFB. Among the things I like:

a) The integration with Neofly 4.
b) The maps - I use open street and sectionals (both free). It is great knowing that road I just flew over was the Pennsylvania turnpike, the park I just flew by is Valley Forge, and the town was White Marsh. As for the sections, among other things, it is nice to know that oncoming peak tops out at 2700 ft.
c) It is resizeable and can be placed anywhere you want. I like placing it above the speed stripe on the left with external view.
d) It shows my GS, by default, which is really handy for taxiing.

Anyway, what do you use?

[1800popeofdopeTTV]

I use Neofly 4, Beyond ATC, GSX PRO, Beam Eye Tracker, FSRealistic, AIG Traffic, FlyByWire A320Neo, A380. Neofly, FSRealistic and Beyond ATC are game changers. GSX Pro is cool but takes alot of work to get it to run right on all the different planes. But when it works it is also a game changer. The next addon I will be looking to get is "Chase Plane."

[Twelvefield]

As software add-ons, I use BeyondATC, Lossless Scaling, and SimTrim. BeyondATC is beyond great! I don't care for a lot of software bloat, and won't touch a career game, that would drive me nuts. I agree that OpenStreet Maps are terrific, and I was using them in LittleNavMap, but I haven't been into LNM for a while.

I prefer hardware over software. I like to be able to touch the controls. So, I have the Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo as well as Virpil Constellation and Mongoos. Good old Saetek rudders, good old Logitech radio stack, TrackIR, and Sony headphones.

Chase Plane looks great, either that or Camera Preset Pro, I will decide later. SkyForSim, I will look into maybe as a replacement for LNM.

I have enough stuff that I have printed checklists just for booting up MSFS, let alone flying the airplanes.

[Tosei]

Except for the already listed thing of which I use a few:

1. Stream Deck XL for all those neat buttons
2. Realsimgear GNS530 and 430
3. Tobii eyetracker

[Big Poppa]

引用自 Eva：

I use:

1) Neofly 4 - I like its career mode. I like how you can both buy and rent planes. I like how you have to actually find them at an airport. I like the much greater variety of planes available for its career mode. And I definitely like the better way missions are selected and the filtering you can do when selecting those missions.

I have played the built in career mode enough to get up into the 150s. So I have obviously found ways to play the built in career and enjoy it. But things seem more logical and less arbitrary to me in Neofly 4. I like how it is less penal to switch the planes you are flying because of the renting option.

So far I have made it to first officer and my planes have been Cesna 152, Cesna 172, Nx Cub, Cesna 172, and Cesna 400 Corvalis. The 152 you start with and I own. The others have all been rentals.

2) SkyForSim. This is an alternative EFB you can use in addition to the builtin EFB. If you pay for the premium version (about 5$ or so) you can get it integrated into the regular EFB. Among the things I like:

a) The integration with Neofly 4.
b) The maps - I use open street and sectionals (both free). It is great knowing that road I just flew over was the Pennsylvania turnpike, the park I just flew by is Valley Forge, and the town was White Marsh. As for the sections, among other things, it is nice to know that oncoming peak tops out at 2700 ft.
c) It is resizeable and can be placed anywhere you want. I like placing it above the speed stripe on the left with external view.
d) It shows my GS, by default, which is really handy for taxiing.

Anyway, what do you use?

Wow B sounds amazing where do you get this please tell me?

[Big Poppa]

i found i am so pumped this is awesome.

[Eva]

引用自 Big Poppa：

i found i am so pumped this is awesome.

Glad you like it!

[Big Poppa]

Yea i got the free version set up and running i was gonna get the upgrade and the addon but i guess i have to call my bank, they stopped payment because it was overseas i guess. Glad i saw your post though city names missing from the sim was a bummer. Thanks again for posting it.

[Sawyer]

I use Onair, BeyondATC, Navigraph, Autofps and for airliners A pilots life 2. There is gonna be another career addon release called Fly the Line I will give this a try aswell.

[Dank Williams]

Career:
Air Hauler 2
APLv2

Nav:
igraph
simbrief
Skyvector when I'm lazy/VOR flying

Planes:
Fenix
Avro RJ
Maddog
Comanch

[Mightylink]

NeoFly is a must if you want to play a proper career mode, I got so fed up with the base game, so many missions bugged and making no progress. Also it supports all planes (except balloons), all airports, missions of all ranges so you can do shorter ones if you prefer, I also liked that you can filter missions by runway type and lights so you're not always landing in a dirt field and it works in free flight with all the benefits of free flight and less bugs.

[Big Poppa]

The xbox version of career is a childish attempt at best,Neofly has a pretty bad interface but once you get it figured out it is pretty nice.

[Eva]

The most irritating thing about Neofly for me come about because of the fact it isn't integrated into the game. Two things in particular bother me:
1) The fuel sync button doesn't work right, at least in 2024. If I turn it on, then no fuel is used by the missions. If I turn it off, then I have to manual go in and match the fuel amount. (I.e. lack of integration).
2) Each mission, I need to configure the plane so I can load the cargo correctly in the EFB. I don't mind loading the cargo - but it is a pain to have to go into the configuration for the plane each time so the EFB has it. I wish the weight and balance option just automatically was the default in the EFB, but for me it isn't and it doesn't stay once set. :(

Neither of these things are deal breakers for me, but they do make using Neofly less integrated and seamless than it could be.

Both ultimately can be blamed primarily on bugs in MSFS 2024. For example, the EFB setting should stay once set until you tell the sim to revert.

Anyway, compared to the myriad problems of the regular career mode, the terrible interface for getting and finding missions, and the inability to fly so many of the planes in career mode, Neofly is a pleasant change of pace as a whole.

[udidwht]

None.

[testmonkeyuk]

I play in VR and on a DOF Reality H3 motion rig with a HF8 haptic pad mounted on the chair and a digital inclinometer accelerometer for motion compensation as well so behind the scenes I'm running PimaxPlay, Sim Racing Studio and Haptic Feedback Software to control all of that as well as MSFS_AutoFPS and OpenXR Toolkit Companion to try and boost VR performance.

In the sim itself I'm really only using SimBrief for now as I'm trying to restrict how much extra load I put on the sim until VR performance improves. I'm keen to add BeyondATC when they add VFR functionality providing it delivers what they hope it will using a locally ran AI LM. In 2020 I also use REX global textures, MSFS Map Enhancement, FSRealistic, AnyoneFly (occasionally).

引用自 Twelvefield：

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I prefer hardware over software. I like to be able to touch the controls. So, I have the Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo as well as Virpil Constellation and Mongoos. Good old Saetek rudders, good old Logitech radio stack, TrackIR, and Sony headphones.
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I have enough stuff that I have printed checklists just for booting up MSFS, let alone flying the airplanes.

I use a similar list of hardware to Twelvefield as I've got quick release mounts all over my rig so I can move hardware around to match different cockpit layouts up to a point. So also running the Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Saitek rudders and radio stack but using a Winwing Hotas and flightstick. I actually have 2 of the flightsticks - 1 with an extension tube fitted for centre stick mounting and 1 normal for left or right side stick control. I only use 1 or the other stick at any time so for every aircraft I use configurations split across the 6 input devices (Alpha, Bravo, hotas, stick, rudder & radio).

Again, like Twelvefield, I have spreadsheets of configuration and layout settings stored as I need to know which plane I want to fly and what type of flight I want to do before I start MSFS so that I can configure the rig layout and get everything up and running in the background first.

[Tyvolus]

引用自 Eva：

I use:

1) Neofly 4 - I like its career mode. I like how you can both buy and rent planes. I like how you have to actually find them at an airport. I like the much greater variety of planes available for its career mode. And I definitely like the better way missions are selected and the filtering you can do when selecting those missions.

I have played the built in career mode enough to get up into the 150s. So I have obviously found ways to play the built in career and enjoy it. But things seem more logical and less arbitrary to me in Neofly 4. I like how it is less penal to switch the planes you are flying because of the renting option.

So far I have made it to first officer and my planes have been Cesna 152, Cesna 172, Nx Cub, Cesna 172, and Cesna 400 Corvalis. The 152 you start with and I own. The others have all been rentals.

2) SkyForSim. This is an alternative EFB you can use in addition to the builtin EFB. If you pay for the premium version (about 5$ or so) you can get it integrated into the regular EFB. Among the things I like:

a) The integration with Neofly 4.
b) The maps - I use open street and sectionals (both free). It is great knowing that road I just flew over was the Pennsylvania turnpike, the park I just flew by is Valley Forge, and the town was White Marsh. As for the sections, among other things, it is nice to know that oncoming peak tops out at 2700 ft.
c) It is resizeable and can be placed anywhere you want. I like placing it above the speed stripe on the left with external view.
d) It shows my GS, by default, which is really handy for taxiing.

Anyway, what do you use?

None I cant barely get the game to work as-is.