RELEASE NOTES 1.20.6.0

To celebrate the launch of Windows 11, Microsoft Flight Simulator is lighting up some of the world’s most famous points of interest in Windows 11 colors! There is also a free livery for the EXTRA 330LT.

Stability

• Several crashes have been fixed across the title
• More optimization work has been performed including performance issue with Real-time AirTraffic after a long period of time
• Improvements of the installation logic for outdated / missing packages

Navigation

• New AIRAC cycle 2110 is now available
• Improvements on offset localizer/LDA approaches for the Navdata
• Updated the in-sim Magnetic Variation model
• Fixed ATC announcing a DME Arc approach with 10 times the radius
• Separated different airways with the same name in the Navdata
• Fixed cases of corruption in Title and Descr fields in flight plans

Weather

• Activated gust tweaking in custom weather settings
• Ambient pressure is now smoothly calculated across the entire air column
• Improved ATIS Cloud layer reporting

VR

• Fixed aliased menus and ingame panels
• Fixed some lighting issues in VR
• Fixed wrong camera initial rotation in some cockpit
• Fixed “dot” cursor when using the mouse
• Fixed mouse cursor depth when hovering the toolbar
• Improved general stability in VR mode

Activity

• Fixed Friends status as offline friends were still marked as online
• Better handling of edge cases when loading save files
• Fixed Balkan bushtrip which could not be completed due to missing airport
• Fixed conversion error in POH takeoff speeds in the Flight assistant panel
• Fixed issue where the altitude displayed on the nameplates was incorrect
• Fixed VFRMap icons disappearing during bushtrips
• Fixed bug causing the female voice to be heard instead of MALE voice in the Deadstick Landing tutorial
• Fixed ICAOs on main path disappearing from the VFR map after resizing it

Planes

General:

• Fixed a bug that prevented Live/AI aircrafts lights from showing
• Reduced the effect of clouds water density on air density (source of drag when flying through clouds) by a factor of 10x
• Altimeter reading should now properly coincide mathematically with atmosphere ambient pressure
• Fixed physical altimeters so they can now display different values
• Fixed UseTemplateValue put inside an Action for custom checklists
• Corrected issue that would cause trim keys to start repeating instantly when held down
• Fixed shar

Greetings Candidate!

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Who are we?

We are the 7th Armoured Division, a casual-milsim unit that has previously followed the real 7th Armoured Division “Desert Rats's" exploits during the Second World War. For the next few months, we will be taking a trip to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, where we will portray members of Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division. The slotting for the company can be viewed in our Order of Battle. Our weekly operations, taking place every Sunday, will see us follow the route taken by the 1st Recon Battalion, from Kuwait to Al Kut, the post-invasion mop up and the search for Saddam Hussein’s supposed WMDs…

For a little sneak peek, check out two trailers put together by M. Surren, the head of our Opfor/Roleplay detachment

WW2 trailer from our previous campaign.

Schedule

Basic/Specialization Training

• Fridays @ 1900 GMT | 1400 EST

These are weekly trainings that are optional to attend but encouraged in order to build proficiency and cohesion. You must attend at least one when you first join the unit. This is for learning the basics of Arma 3, as well as the basic tactics we utilize.

Campaign Missions

• Sundays @ 1900 GMT | 1400 EST

These are missions run by our head mission maker(s), which follow the setting of our current campaign. These missions are mandatory, and you must attend at least 2 a month to remain active.

Casual Missions

• Any other day @ Any time

Anyone in the unit is free to make and host their own Arma 3 missions, as long as they follow the rules of the unit. These missions can be run at any time, and can take place using any of our mod packs, including World War 2, Cold War (1955-Present), and Vietnam.

Requirements

• 16+ years of age, and by extension a good sense of maturity
• Be able to speak and understand English
• Own a legal copy of Arma 3

How do I join?

If you’re interested or have any questions; hop onto our Discord, fill in a short form and one of our staff will have a short interview with you on Teamspeak to see where you best fit into the unit! All informa

I have been contemplating this question for a while now, so I decided to do some research and come up with the best timeline that fits the past and likely future as possible.

I think everyone can agree, one day airlines and business jets will regularly fly themselves. Whether it's 10 years or 1000 years...it will happen. So the question is, when? I would love your feedback on my estimates!

First, It's nearly impossible to talk about pilot-less planes without talking about driver-less cars. Eventually, aircraft will have to borrow some of the technology from driver-less cars (such as detecting runway edges, taxiway edges, finding it's way around an airport and park, etc...current aircraft cannot taxi themselves).

Conservative estimates on when we will see truly driver-less cars is around the year 2030, with mass adoption by year 2040. By 2040, cars should be autonomous for a good 10 years plus, proving the technology. This I would consider the earliest possible truly autonomous airplane. But adoption of the technology this early, I think, is improbable.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/khs/question_driverless_car_forecasts/ http://www.driverless-future.com/?page_id=384

There are many reasons I doubt we will see autonomous commercial aircraft as early as 2040, as there are many technological, practical, and safety hurdles that would need to be addressed.

 Air traffic control systems need to go fully digital first. 

Fully digital en route services are planned to be operational around 2024, and "D-taxi" is planned to become operational around the year 2028. Lets add 5 years for good measure and say 2033, and that would be the starting of implementation. It will have taken 20-some years before all the old ATC equipment has been replaced under the STARS system from 1996 to 2018, so lets add 20 years to the mass adoption of fully digital ATC nationwide. That puts us around 2050. But that would only be for class B, large international airports. Until smaller airports are capable of communicating with autonomous aircraft, they would be off limits and would detrimentally limit the benefit of autonomous private/charter aircraft.

http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/tamr/phased-approach/ https://www.aiaa.org/uploadedFiles/Events/Other/Corporate/2013_-_Aerospace_Todayand_Tomorrow/Bradford.pdf

I don't know what to think about smaller towered airports (class D)...as they still do not even require transponder (equipment to communicate information to rad

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

[Removed]

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

Greetings Candidate!

https://preview.redd.it/vxap6vfhrob81.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=786b3fc514e9aea9a88a19a88c2273346e5ba904

Who are we?

We are the 7th Armoured Division, a casual-milsim unit that has previously followed the real 7th Armoured Division “Desert Rats" exploits during the Second World War. For the next few months, we will be taking a trip to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, where we will portray members of Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division. The slotting for the company can be viewed in our Order of Battle. Our weekly operations, taking place every Sunday, will see us follow the route taken by the 1st Recon Battalion, from Kuwait to Al Kut, the post-invasion mop up and the search for Saddam Hussein’s supposed WMDs…

For a little sneak peek, check out two trailers put together by M. Surren, the head of our Opfor/Roleplay detachment

Schedule

Basic/Specialization Training

• Fridays @ 1900 GMT | 1400 EST

These are weekly trainings that are optional to attend but encouraged in order to build proficiency and cohesion. You must attend at least one when you first join the unit. This is for learning the basics of Arma 3, as well as the basic tactics we utilize.

Campaign Missions

• Sundays @ 1900 GMT | 1400 EST

These are missions run by our head mission maker(s), which follow the setting of our current campaign. These missions are mandatory, and you must attend at least 2 a month to remain active.

Casual Missions

• Any other day @ Any time

Anyone in the unit is free to make and host their own Arma 3 missions, as long as they follow the rules of the unit. These missions can be run at any time and can take place using any of our mod packs, including World War 2, Cold War (1955-Present), and Vietnam.

Requirements

• 16+ years of age, and by extension a good sense of maturity
• Be able to speak and understand English
• Own a legal copy of Arma 3

How do I join?

If you’re interested or have any questions; hop onto our Discord, fill in a short form and one of our staff will have a short interview with you on Teamspeak to see where you best fit into the unit! All information regarding mods, TeamSpeak, and Arma 3 server IPs are available on our Disco