Hear me out: when you create your Angel Air livery, create an opposing fictional company, something like "Infernal Air" for when your alter ego wants to be bad and scare the people on the ground!
Leave the scenery for streaming, and put the airplanes back on the hard drive and I'll bet that would solve a ton of problems. It may even solve every problem. Loading times would slow down a bit, but you can't have everything.
This crazy bird is absolutely ridiculous! Literally a chopper with wings! I tried Pesim Maule the other day, seems like one of the few addons that work more or less properly so far, enjoyed it big time! Bush flying in 2024 has a lot of opportunities!
DracoX will be 1090hp, derated to 850hp. At sea level, that means the difference in HP between Draco and DracoX is 170hp, but as you go up in altitude, Draco HP would decrease due to Density Altitude. DracoX will maintain 850hp above FL180 (I believe that's what Mike stated) which would mean on high DA days where Draco may only be producing 450HP, DracoX will still be at 850hp. Very rough numbers but you get the idea.
Thnks for the video. I believe we should have an option to disable ground crew. It's so annoying and really breaks the immersion when doing bush flights or using small airstrips. Regards
The first time I flew the Draco, I didn't realize the elevator trim was set as far nose down as it could be. Ran the throttle up, tail popped straight off the ground then it was grab the tiger by the tail after that. Crazy aircraft
23:48. Cool! Try Ardmore Airport, Auckland, NZ. runway 21 Grass left and stop before the intersection. I used to have great fun in the Piper Tomahawk PA 38 with my instructor in real life! For my PPL way back when. Really enjoyed your video. Laurie. NZ. 😊😅🎉
I completely agree with your comment about streaming aircraft being a mistake. In my current job, we started streaming many of our programs, and it's been a disaster. Nothing loads properly, and it slowed down production.
I don’t comment much at all, but thank you for your video! I have a major fear of flying in real life, but love flight sims (for some reason!). Your calming flight today helped me relax for my real flight today! Thanks!
What a shame. Flying is the most intriguing thing I have done in my life. I own an SPL licence and flying gliders over the swiss Alps is a joy. As a young guy I had fear for many things then it went away and at the age of 54 I earned my flying brevet.
Weirdly enough, I started playing around with flight simulation years and years and years ago as a way to try to cure myself of fear of flying before a big trip I was supposed to take for school on a plane. I never took the trip and I've never stepped foot inside of a plane because it's a rich person's hobby. I still play flight sims sometimes though just out of boredom. Not very often though because that's also a rich person's hobby
The takeoff reminded me of how the Hype H160 performs for me. Feels like a long delay in the control loop suddenly happens…during the initial moments after takeoff. Leads to a wild, random-feeling takeoff akin to “Mr. Toad’s wild ride.”
I am also mourning my dog being put on the NO FLY LIST. I took the Reims Rocket by bagolu out for some fun and it behaved itself in 24. I also found that Duxford by Chicomick works well in 24. I took the Ironworks P-38 out for a circuit there and it looks great aside from runway lights which I don't think are there in real life. The P-38 performed well too. Thanks a bunch for this trip in Alaska and as always have a Happy Turkey Festival! -Mike
Such a fascinating little birdie. I am glad they added it to the sim. Of course I have yet to sit in it and try it out in VR. So here I am looking for your thoughts on it. Thank you!
"Rude with wings!" Ha! Love this video and love the Draco! Any tips on landing this crazy beast? I love flying her, but I just can't seem to get her tame enough to land. After slowing down a bit, I always start veering to the left. I try to compensate, but it never seems to work quite right, and I know it's operator error. Thank you and looking forward to what you have in store; I'll definitely be picking up some of those liveries!
That stutter on takeoff: Maybe it has something to do with the more accurate way air disturbances are modeled in 2024? Maybe it'ssomething to do with the physics of the prop (number of blades, speed, proximity to the ground requiring certain calculations that aren't needed when in the air, etc)
Regarding the choppy take offs, I'm only having the choppy propblem after playing for a couple hours. It doesn't happen on take off, it starts as soon as I enter the game world. I've had it happen once during landing (it was a catasttrophy). Going back to main menu has rememdied the problem sometimes. Restarting the game usually does.
It's nice to see you up and flying in the sim. This video is a great help to learn how to fly the DracoX. My first attempts have not gone well. I have been encouraging you to get back into texture art. I think you would be creative and have an eye for detail. It's great to be able to make your own mods for the sim. The 206 performs well because it's quite low poly compared to a lot of addons. But the new flight modeling and ground action make it in my opinion feel a little better in MSFS 2024. I have already been experimenting with some of the new SDK features and I think people will really like where this sim is heading.
Liked your video and just subscribed but that judder on take off, its the reason I love my series x and ps5 pro, they deliver the goods without the costs.
If I can't fly with My old mate Minty (aka Panther) by my side, well that's just another dealbreaker tbh. He may disagree, as I have crashed us on numerous occasions. Ps. Hudson btw "he's Hicks" :)
Mike Patey have crashed this airplane in an sidewind takeoff a couple of years ago. He fly from Utah and of course never been in Alaska with this red bird. Recent news say they try to search found to put it in production.
Loving the Draco. Takes off like a rocket. Fast to get to destinations quickly I'm also hooked on Dornier Seawing. Draco, Seawing and Piaggio P149 are the planes I've been flying the most. The only bad thing 2024 has brought is the overlap of one airport (LAX). I have two iterations of the airport from 2020 that now stream at the same time. One is the old LAX with dirt runways and that overwrites the most current LAX. Something I'm sure will be fixed shortly. Other than that, the scenery and lighting are so much better in 2024 for me.
I love how, at the beginning, the other airplane is literally floating in the air. Once they fix all these things, I'll "think" about buying 2024. I am impressed with this plane though. Everything but the kitchen sink.
I haven't experienced that slowdown on takeoff but im running a more modern powerful computer. That was crazy and im impressed you didn't lawn dart into the hillside in front of you. LOL. That plane is extremely impressive.
@@AvAngelI get exactly same stutter effect just on take off (and landing) and I wonder if it’s that dynamic setting where at ground level it hasn’t quite figured out yet what to set to get decent FPS … just a thought ?
So I don't know if this means anything, but I have pretty much the same problem in '20, with the random stutters at takeoff! I've got a fairly low-end system, running the sim on settings as high as I can to still hit 60fps most of the time, which also seems to be what you're going for, settings-wise? Maybe it's an engine bug, since I assume they used a lot of code from '20 in '24, right?
The only thing I did was increase to 64M of RAM as it was mentioned if you are multi-tasking that was the recommendation. My 1600 Super seems to be chugging along just fine and I seem to be able to run my video recording fine.
Dont add 2 sticks of 16GB of Ram, despite i would recommend to change it for 2x32GB. Its because running it in Quad-Channel mode (4 Sticks) has quite a performance penalty. Thanks for your videos. Seems Terrein lod and PreCaching are influencing the Ram needed quite a bit. 💙
Your stutters on takeoff could be related to the dust cloud rendering. I know i have issues at low speeds where the game decides there needs to be a bunch of dust but it won't "blow away" because you aren't moving.
Are you using the head tracker for your setup? VR performance for me is so horrible right now that I am considering getting a head tracker until I can upgrade my pc.
When you make a livery does it let you change the interior, or just skin the exterior? If the former, you could replace the cushion in the observation dome with one with Captain Whiskers on it.
Nice review AvAngel but pineapple on pizza? Not sure about draw distance but if it's got anything to do with terrain LOD and objects LOD I have managed to get mine up to 300 and 140 respectively on a 2080 Super. I am happy with the results. Gets a bit choppy over big cities though.
My Draco seems to be broken… I have a black screen on the avionics instead of synth view. And “both” actually burn only left tank of fuel. Don’t know if I can try something or just wait if it “updates” itself 😢
I wonder who made this aircraft. Hmmmmmmmmmm does this give you a sense of dejavu lol I have only tried the draco once must give it another whirl. 👍 again AV thanks. Also I tried the map enhancement addon and adjusted the quality of the underlying map images and it was a huge improvement in imagery suggesting the underlying imagery in MSFS2024 is overexposed as it flares badly in direct sunlight, it is only the AI trees etc that cover this flaring some tweeking by Asobo may help.
Did they ever add any reason to do preflight checks? I expected some randomly broken stuff or random emergencies to happen so you could mitigate or catch issues but in 2020 it was just a waste of time
I am running an RTX 3070 and also had a lot of stuttering on the ground with High-End preset. It looks like the 3070s 8GB GPU memory could be an issue. I dropped down to Medium preset and have had no stuttering on the ground.
I believe stuttering during takeoffs may be attributed to backblast calculations and associated particles calculations and rendering. So may be this is why stuttering occurs during takeoffs at high graphic settings.
I'm on a ryzen 7 3700X with 32 GB of ram and a RTX 3050 and all is smooth as butter.By the way,lossless scaling app works.My problems are more with control settings and the Tobii not working bug........................................................
There seems to be a lot of different experiences for people right now. Mine runs really smoothly most of the time at 1440p. I use high-ultra settings and I get higher fps than 2020. My PC = Ryzen 7 5700X, rtx 4070, 32gb ddr4 3200mhz, 1tb nvme m.2 ssd with 300mb fibre broadband. Hope this helps.
I'm confused why they're calling this Draco X? It's Draco, Draco X was supposed to be the new Draco he was gonna build at some point after this one was crashed, with a bunch of improvements no?
I think it might be the 'future' draco build... I'm not positive myself. I know I think I gave the existing (former) Draco's stats like a goon >> (the X exceeds them all)
@@AvAngel Hmmm, interesting, as I don't think (I may be wrong) that Mike's ever given any details of what the future Draco X will be, other than better in a whole bunch of ways than the original. Either way, it's cool to have something like it in sim.
I mean it's week one still.. well start of week 2. Reliability it ain't... and I'm not super bothered by that YET. If it's still this in a month I'll join ya.
Hear me out: when you create your Angel Air livery, create an opposing fictional company, something like "Infernal Air" for when your alter ego wants to be bad and scare the people on the ground!
ooh, I like it...
Infernal Airways.... ooh yes :D
"Fixed Wing Helicopter" made me laugh out loud 😂🤣😅
Leave the scenery for streaming, and put the airplanes back on the hard drive and I'll bet that would solve a ton of problems. It may even solve every problem. Loading times would slow down a bit, but you can't have everything.
This crazy bird is absolutely ridiculous! Literally a chopper with wings!
I tried Pesim Maule the other day, seems like one of the few addons that work more or less properly so far, enjoyed it big time! Bush flying in 2024 has a lot of opportunities!
Take off in 3-point position with a stick fullback....put down a couple notches of flaps and full throttle and you'll be off the ground in a blink
Draco's more archangel than angelic ha. One'd imagine saving key assets locally on an M2 has gotta be faster even with full fibre. Loving the new sim!
DracoX will be 1090hp, derated to 850hp. At sea level, that means the difference in HP between Draco and DracoX is 170hp, but as you go up in altitude, Draco HP would decrease due to Density Altitude. DracoX will maintain 850hp above FL180 (I believe that's what Mike stated) which would mean on high DA days where Draco may only be producing 450HP, DracoX will still be at 850hp. Very rough numbers but you get the idea.
Didn't know that. Insane numbers for a bush plane!
Thnks for the video.
I believe we should have an option to disable ground crew. It's so annoying and really breaks the immersion when doing bush flights or using small airstrips.
Regards
Yeah true.
The first time I flew the Draco, I didn't realize the elevator trim was set as far nose down as it could be. Ran the throttle up, tail popped straight off the ground then it was grab the tiger by the tail after that. Crazy aircraft
23:48. Cool! Try Ardmore Airport, Auckland, NZ. runway 21 Grass left and stop before the intersection. I used to have great fun in the Piper Tomahawk PA 38 with my instructor in real life! For my PPL way back when. Really enjoyed your video. Laurie. NZ. 😊😅🎉
I completely agree with your comment about streaming aircraft being a mistake. In my current job, we started streaming many of our programs, and it's been a disaster. Nothing loads properly, and it slowed down production.
I don’t comment much at all, but thank you for your video! I have a major fear of flying in real life, but love flight sims (for some reason!). Your calming flight today helped me relax for my real flight today! Thanks!
I'm glad, and good luck!
What a shame. Flying is the most intriguing thing I have done in my life. I own an SPL licence and flying gliders over the swiss Alps is a joy. As a young guy I had fear for many things then it went away and at the age of 54 I earned my flying brevet.
Weirdly enough, I started playing around with flight simulation years and years and years ago as a way to try to cure myself of fear of flying before a big trip I was supposed to take for school on a plane. I never took the trip and I've never stepped foot inside of a plane because it's a rich person's hobby. I still play flight sims sometimes though just out of boredom. Not very often though because that's also a rich person's hobby
The wilgest Wilga on earth.. I loved "pick up truck of doom" 😂😂
The takeoff reminded me of how the Hype H160 performs for me.
Feels like a long delay in the control loop suddenly happens…during the initial moments after takeoff. Leads to a wild, random-feeling takeoff akin to “Mr. Toad’s wild ride.”
I am also mourning my dog being put on the NO FLY LIST. I took the Reims Rocket by bagolu out for some fun and it behaved itself in 24. I also found that Duxford by Chicomick works well in 24. I took the Ironworks P-38 out for a circuit there and it looks great aside from runway lights which I don't think are there in real life. The P-38 performed well too. Thanks a bunch for this trip in Alaska and as always have a Happy Turkey Festival! -Mike
Nastiest plane in 2024, flown by the sweetest voice in flight simulation 🥰
@tubeloons, MOST people, cannot stand the accent, of this wanker.
Draco X is actually nicer than I expected. I took it on a few trips this morning and it was fantastic.
Such a fascinating little birdie. I am glad they added it to the sim. Of course I have yet to sit in it and try it out in VR. So here I am looking for your thoughts on it. Thank you!
This is my go-to Favorite Bush Plane it's an absolute Beast!!!
"Rude with wings!" Ha! Love this video and love the Draco!
Any tips on landing this crazy beast? I love flying her, but I just can't seem to get her tame enough to land. After slowing down a bit, I always start veering to the left. I try to compensate, but it never seems to work quite right, and I know it's operator error.
Thank you and looking forward to what you have in store; I'll definitely be picking up some of those liveries!
Fixed rotor helicopter. I've seen someone take off and land in their own wheel marks in a good breeze with this badboy.
Power to weight ratio: YES.
Power to weight ratio: YEET.
Sign me up for the Angel livery! Another beautiful flight in an awesome plane.
Looks like I have to do it now :D
I've been waiting for you to showcase this plane. Thank you.
meanwhile bridges are still "rock solid" and most city centers apparently have never seen a gardener. No news since 2020
RUclips recap just told me you're my top RUclipsr! Top 2% of your viewers. We love you AvAngel!
Aaay!
That stutter on takeoff: Maybe it has something to do with the more accurate way air disturbances are modeled in 2024? Maybe it'ssomething to do with the physics of the prop (number of blades, speed, proximity to the ground requiring certain calculations that aren't needed when in the air, etc)
Regarding the choppy take offs, I'm only having the choppy propblem after playing for a couple hours. It doesn't happen on take off, it starts as soon as I enter the game world. I've had it happen once during landing (it was a catasttrophy). Going back to main menu has rememdied the problem sometimes. Restarting the game usually does.
It's nice to see you up and flying in the sim. This video is a great help to learn how to fly the DracoX. My first attempts have not gone well.
I have been encouraging you to get back into texture art. I think you would be creative and have an eye for detail. It's great to be able to make your own mods for the sim.
The 206 performs well because it's quite low poly compared to a lot of addons. But the new flight modeling and ground action make it in my opinion feel a little better in MSFS 2024. I have already been experimenting with some of the new SDK features and I think people will really like where this sim is heading.
Oh the ground she feels downright lovely in 24... really spongy on dirt and rock with the tundras.
Liked your video and just subscribed but that judder on take off, its the reason I love my series x and ps5 pro, they deliver the goods without the costs.
Nice little trip and a great little bird.
Great video of an amazing plane, Mike Patey is a genius.
Genius, Engineer and Builder.
I also get the takeoff stutters, but things seem to be much smoother in external view
If I can't fly with My old mate Minty (aka Panther) by my side, well that's just another dealbreaker tbh.
He may disagree, as I have crashed us on numerous occasions.
Ps. Hudson btw "he's Hicks" :)
it's such a beast he crashed it, walked away and in two weeks both were back in the air!
Both? You mean Mike and Draco? cause Draco definitely have not flown again, it was sadly totalled.
Mike Patey have crashed this airplane in an sidewind takeoff a couple of years ago. He fly from Utah and of course never been in Alaska with this red bird. Recent news say they try to search found to put it in production.
For the record, Mike definitely took Draco to Alaska.
@@larssorensen5251 did not knew. When?
Loving the Draco. Takes off like a rocket. Fast to get to destinations quickly I'm also hooked on Dornier Seawing. Draco, Seawing and Piaggio P149 are the planes I've been flying the most.
The only bad thing 2024 has brought is the overlap of one airport (LAX). I have two iterations of the airport from 2020 that now stream at the same time. One is the old LAX with dirt runways and that overwrites the most current LAX. Something I'm sure will be fixed shortly. Other than that, the scenery and lighting are so much better in 2024 for me.
I'd fly the Dornier more if it didn't lag a fair bit for me :(
Nice video! keep it up!
Drag and drop to community folder.
To avoid the issue on take off turn off dinamic settings toggle
It already is :D
@AvAngel ill keep knvestigating it. I fixed it in mine. Ill keep you posted about it
Draco. AvAngel. I’m in !
I love how, at the beginning, the other airplane is literally floating in the air. Once they fix all these things, I'll "think" about buying 2024. I am impressed with this plane though. Everything but the kitchen sink.
I have the same issue on take-off, don't know why it stutters on take-off roll.
I haven't experienced that slowdown on takeoff but im running a more modern powerful computer. That was crazy and im impressed you didn't lawn dart into the hillside in front of you. LOL. That plane is extremely impressive.
I mean... slander! I'm on a modern powerful computer! I even described the specs in the video (Ryzen 9 5900x) I'm far from NOT modern.
@@AvAngel i dont have the issue on xobx sx even..and i dare say it looks sharp for me al the way.
@@AvAngelI get exactly same stutter effect just on take off (and landing) and I wonder if it’s that dynamic setting where at ground level it hasn’t quite figured out yet what to set to get decent FPS … just a thought ?
The smaug on flight Sim to actually outperforms Draco x in some ways but overall this will be a more polished airplane
Bush strips look much better now even the runway lightning in an Alaskan bushstrip is rather funny.....
quite lol
Great stuff. I am curious, how are you getting into beta so seamlessly? I must be missing the right setting and am having to use the mouse.
So I don't know if this means anything, but I have pretty much the same problem in '20, with the random stutters at takeoff! I've got a fairly low-end system, running the sim on settings as high as I can to still hit 60fps most of the time, which also seems to be what you're going for, settings-wise? Maybe it's an engine bug, since I assume they used a lot of code from '20 in '24, right?
I keep trying to remove the co-pilot but, they keep coming back lol
you did it in the create a pilot screen?..they stay away for me..over all aircraft i flown.
@wout123100 yep. Under customize identity, co-pilot. Maybe a glitch on my end 🤷
The only thing I did was increase to 64M of RAM as it was mentioned if you are multi-tasking that was the recommendation. My 1600 Super seems to be chugging along just fine and I seem to be able to run my video recording fine.
I think that's the biggie... I'm really filling up the 32 as a bottleneck. Should be sorted Sunday :D
Dont add 2 sticks of 16GB of Ram, despite i would recommend to change it for 2x32GB. Its because running it in Quad-Channel mode (4 Sticks) has quite a performance penalty. Thanks for your videos. Seems Terrein lod and PreCaching are influencing the Ram needed quite a bit. 💙
Quad channel mode has no negative or benefit outside of threadripper. There's no positve or negative for 4 over 2 in Ryzen.=, just more.
Your stutters on takeoff could be related to the dust cloud rendering. I know i have issues at low speeds where the game decides there needs to be a bunch of dust but it won't "blow away" because you aren't moving.
The Draco X suppose to have 1000hp the first Draco Mike crashed had 600hp.
Are you using the head tracker for your setup?
VR performance for me is so horrible right now that I am considering getting a head tracker until I can upgrade my pc.
Headtracking yes.
Reverse thrust works but as far as I can tell only when the landing gear is touching the ground
It does work, just needs some finesse
Were you able to get any kind of reverse or beta mode up off the ground?
When you make a livery does it let you change the interior, or just skin the exterior? If the former, you could replace the cushion in the observation dome with one with Captain Whiskers on it.
Yeah textures are textures but i couldn't add a physical cat, that's modeling I'm afraid.
It's a take-off faster that the FPS of the videocard
XD Quite possibly
Nice review AvAngel but pineapple on pizza? Not sure about draw distance but if it's got anything to do with terrain LOD and objects LOD I have managed to get mine up to 300 and 140 respectively on a 2080 Super. I am happy with the results. Gets a bit choppy over big cities though.
HELL YES
My Draco seems to be broken… I have a black screen on the avionics instead of synth view. And “both” actually burn only left tank of fuel. Don’t know if I can try something or just wait if it “updates” itself 😢
I wonder who made this aircraft. Hmmmmmmmmmm does this give you a sense of dejavu lol I have only tried the draco once must give it another whirl. 👍 again AV thanks. Also I tried the map enhancement addon and adjusted the quality of the underlying map images and it was a huge improvement in imagery suggesting the underlying imagery in MSFS2024 is overexposed as it flares badly in direct sunlight, it is only the AI trees etc that cover this flaring some tweeking by Asobo may help.
Oh its Got Friends Alright :D Hey, trust me to review the big bush beasts first... they just happened to make them all :D
Did they ever add any reason to do preflight checks? I expected some randomly broken stuff or random emergencies to happen so you could mitigate or catch issues but in 2020 it was just a waste of time
Not really but it is fun.
Now if they will just do "Scrappy" 😊
Scrappy will be disgusting.
I am running an RTX 3070 and also had a lot of stuttering on the ground with High-End preset. It looks like the 3070s 8GB GPU memory could be an issue. I dropped down to Medium preset and have had no stuttering on the ground.
I believe stuttering during takeoffs may be attributed to backblast calculations and associated particles calculations and rendering. So may be this is why stuttering occurs during takeoffs at high graphic settings.
Entirely posible, I may mess with those settings.
That plane IS rude...and nasty... and cool .... and sexy as hell!
I want one!!
I'm on a ryzen 7 3700X with 32 GB of ram and a RTX 3050 and all is smooth as butter.By the way,lossless scaling app works.My problems are more with control settings and the Tobii not working bug........................................................
Hey guys,
I have a I7 14700, 32GB RAM and RTX4070. Do you think the game would run well?thanks
There seems to be a lot of different experiences for people right now. Mine runs really smoothly most of the time at 1440p. I use high-ultra settings and I get higher fps than 2020. My PC = Ryzen 7 5700X, rtx 4070, 32gb ddr4 3200mhz, 1tb nvme m.2 ssd with 300mb fibre broadband. Hope this helps.
I'm confused why they're calling this Draco X? It's Draco, Draco X was supposed to be the new Draco he was gonna build at some point after this one was crashed, with a bunch of improvements no?
I think it might be the 'future' draco build... I'm not positive myself. I know I think I gave the existing (former) Draco's stats like a goon >> (the X exceeds them all)
@@AvAngel Hmmm, interesting, as I don't think (I may be wrong) that Mike's ever given any details of what the future Draco X will be, other than better in a whole bunch of ways than the original. Either way, it's cool to have something like it in sim.
epic
2020 never did this…i expected reliability …but I wonder..- oh and it sometimes crashes to the desktop…surprised me
I mean it's week one still.. well start of week 2. Reliability it ain't... and I'm not super bothered by that YET. If it's still this in a month I'll join ya.
Too bad Mike got careless.
holy hell this game runs like crap
This is very rude and nicety😮😁
How to download aircrafts ? :)
Draco X = PZL-104 Wilga.
On steroids :D
Sometimes it freezes
Most likely its the 3070.
The card is more than sufficient… it’s way over recommended spec of a 20 series. It’s also barely running over 50% while my ram runs high
He crashed it.
In my version..most of the planes do not work. Not a lot of fun
32GB is not enough
It is... but for what I want out of it, i need more. 64 will do nicely.