One of the many confusions FS2024 brought to me, as a long-time flightsim user, is the changing of many widely used FSX/P3D/FS2020 hotkeys and commands.

For example the Toggle ATC Panel action, it took me a while to figure out that I need to change to use the new “Open Communications Panel” command instead of the previous “Display ATC”.   Because the latter now can only open the panel but not close it.

Similarly bad, due to the minimum size of the UI texts used in FS2024 is still relatively big and the ATC panel is unable to resize vertically, only four choices can now be listed.

In other words, we are forced to use the mouse to scroll forward and backward on the narrow scroll-bar many times if we want to see all the options available.

This is awfully clumsy and not user-friendly at all, not even to the X-Box platform.

I know complaining won’t help change what has happened. Continue reading →

I have both MSFS 2020 and 2024 installed on F:\Drive of my computer.  Followings are my mostly accessed folders during configurations and modifications.

Main Programs

FS2020
F:\Steam\steamapps\common\MicrosoftFlightSimulator
FS2024
F:\Steam\steamapps\common\Limitless

Controls (Input Devices)           

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The hazy atmospheric effect in FS2024 is even worst than FS2020 IMO, making the scenery dull and pale.  Fortunately, ReShade is still good for the new platform.
Better still, all my FS2020 ReShade settings can be applied onto FS2024 with no issue.  That comforts me a lot while playing the sim with so many bugs to be fixed.

Here’s my current Continue reading →

If you have many custom cameras set up for aircraft in FS2020, you can make use of them immediately in FS2024 via simple copy-and-paste.

In FS2020, the custom cameras are stored under specific aircraft folders beneath the following directory path:
C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\SimObjects\Airplanes\

In FS2024, the path is similar:
C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024\SimObjects\Airplanes\

However, the custom camera folder structure of DEFAULT AIRCRAFT in FS2024 are now more complex than that in FS2020 (click below image to enlarge):
Therefore, we’ll need to pay extra attention to find out the correct folders when copying DEFAULT AIRCRAFT cameras to FS2024. 

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