Any recommendations for good Android companion apps, particularly flight planners, charts, routes, and maps?
I've done a fair bit of looking and it seems that they're all either iOS only (Foreflight is the common recommendation), USA only, or very expensive.
Vfrmap plugin looks interesting, but is only really a Google Maps vfr overly.
Ideally I'd like to use it on my Android tablet. Beginning to think I should just use a web-based service combined with the better vfr map.
I've been enjoying using VFRMap although I wish I could run it on a different device (on the same network) as that was I could stick it on my Android Tablet or even work Surface.
For VFR flight planning SkyDemon is pretty good; I tried it on iPad but there's an Android version too that I mean to try and make sure its the same; there's a 30 day free trial although its not cheap after that.
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I would say go for the direct purchase from MS.Looking at the Premium Deluxe version on CDKeys there are different options : Windows 10 (US) - Windows 10 (UK) - Windows 10 - PC (Steam), I imagine the US & UK ones are specific to those countries and the just Windows 10 version is region free, but is there any benefit to having either the Microsoft activation one or Steam which is £7 more expensive than the Windows 10 (UK) version
The game says that it recommends high-end graphics with this hardware, and whilst it looks amazing and is generally smooth there are times where the game stutters a bit and even sometimes pauses for a couple of seconds and then runs ok, the latter doesn't happen often, probably happened a couple of times last night and I must have been on it for about 2 hours.
I would say go for the direct purchase from MS.
This is one title where buying from Steam has no real advantage. Most of the game files (100Gb+) and maintenance patches are downloaded from the FS/Asobo server, not from Steam - which is why the current annoyance over file looping and having to throttle speed to 500KB/s to prevent it. While this huge download interspersed over several days is going on, Steam thinks you are playing FS so you can't run any other title in the meantime or use your Steam account on a different machine.
Steam also seem to have stooped their no quibble approach to refunds - I tried a couple of days ago being totally fed up with the d/l situation and it just got knocked back.
I see there is going to be a Japan update this week, It looks excellent but I wish they would concentrate on getting Global problems fixed first. bridges underwater and everywhere seems to be covered in trees, even some city streets from videos I have watched
Japan update :
https://twitter.com/Xbox_JP/status/1309104009832263684
6 high definition cities with photoprogrammetry, various landmarks and landscapes improved.
I think the main thing I'd like to see is better distribution of cpu load across multiple cores. My 2700x is pinned on one core most of the time.
And I want to fly under bridges
it confuses me when I see people saying this. On my 5930k I see almost equal use across all 6 cores and all 6 threads in this game. How come?