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I keep holding off on buying 2024 due to all the reported bugs and I'm still sad to hear it hasn't been fixed.

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X-Plane is a good alternative.

https://www.x-plane.com/

Unless you want realistic scenery or an up to date g1000 implementation (I love X-Plane really but because of these two points I keep going back to MSFS - maybe there are some add-ons I haven’t tried?)

When did you last try it? The scenery and GPS/FMC has come a long way in the last 20 years I've been an X-Plane casual, but not so sure how much of that was in the last few.

I’m comparing X-Plane 12 to MSFS 24. MSFS 24 is a great aid and near picture perfect when preflying real world routes, with 3D buildings and everything, and the latest G1000 implementation is pretty complete too. But X-Plane still wins on physics realism and systems fidelity. I’d be happy if there was a way to combine the strengths of the two in one simulator somehow..

I don’t know much about MSFS plugin system so I don’t know if this is possible but you can easily extract data from X-Plane and then send over to MSFS. So that you use XP as physic and model engine, only MSFS as out-the-window view.

Basic things like latitude/longitude/altitude/heading should be straightforward. But then you might have problems with mismatch scenery, like missing airports/runway, different terrain heights, etc. And then the weather synchronization is another can of worms. Matching what you see with the physic model can be challenging.

I'm still waiting for the bugs in MSFS 2020 to be fixed.

Yeah ... by now 2020 reached a beta quality, still plenty of bugs left to squash but most of them are minor. 2024 on the other side ... is just transitioning from tech demo to alpha quality. It needs a few more years to reach beta and then by 2035 or so it might actually become a reliable product.

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