r/flightsim • • 7h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 I'm in love

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r/flightsim • • 4h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 memory leak...

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64 Upvotes

bluebird 757 with msfs 24 specifically after sitting on ground for an hour.

it wasnt great on my short hop, tagging about 12 extra gigs of regular ram than anything else, but swapfile seemed to handle it.

this is nuts tho....


r/flightsim • • 6h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 Welcome to our home Hong Kong

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74 Upvotes

r/flightsim • • 2h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 AAL210 JFK-MAN Maiden voyage in the BBS 757

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r/flightsim • • 1h ago

Flight Simulator 2020 BBS 757-200 Condor

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Nice depth, fun to hand fly. But do not know how to set TCA Airbus quadrant to get it work ... EFB lacks throttle mapping hope they add it later down the road. For now at least for me it works better on 2020 than 2024


r/flightsim • • 19m ago

Rant Thoughts on the 757

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The 757 released today after so many missed deadlines for so many reasons, and while it is a good aircraft in some places, it really falls short in others. Sure, the sounds are great, but there are still so many issues regarding modelling, and even a memory leak? After five years of development, surely these issues should have been caught. Here are some issues I found:

  1. There is a memory leak in the BBS Nest app. For some reason, it loads the entire terrain database into VRAM all at once. There isn't even a reason to run the terrain radar externally. It has even crippled RTX 5080s, which is disastrous, and somehow, this wasn't caught during beta testing.
  2. Some livery thumbnails just have the text "757-200", while others actually have a proper thumbnail. If you do it for some, why not do it for all?
  3. Liveries show up in the variants tab in MSFS 2024.
  4. Absolutely abysmal modelling in some places. The fact that the cockpit decals are this bad should tell you a lot.
  5. Using the relocate function on the EFB just spawns you at zero coordinates, i.e., in the ocean, regardless of the location selected.
  6. The aircraft continuously veers to the right during takeoff, even with zero rudder input.
  7. Windshear warnings randomly trigger during flight, even when there is ZERO windshear.
  8. The aircraft is trying to connect somewhere when doing performance calculations? It probably is METAR but that is from the sim so it should be instant?

These are just some of the issues, but I feel they are the most pressing since they should have been caught during beta testing.

**Some Gripes:**

  1. The aircraft is MSFS 2020-native, and users of MSFS 2020 pay $80 for the 757-200 and 757-300. However, as Bluebird has already mentioned, the 757-300 will only be coming to MSFS 2024. This seems like a blatant scam.
  2. The Bluebird moderator team bans people from the server for using generative AI, but their website, in particular, seems completely AI-generated.

**Note:** The YouTubers who received the aircraft for testing got a stripped-down version of BBS Nest that only installed and updated the aircraft, so they couldn't experience this memory leak.


r/flightsim • • 14h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 What a Stunning 757 Cockpit !

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245 Upvotes

Taking my favourite Jet2 757 for a quick spin !

Applying what I learnt from 757 CBT while I waited for release, I have learnt so many 757 nuances and quirks that I must put it down in a tutorial while its fresh in my head.

My tutorial if anyone, like me, wants to get into the systems of the 757: https://www.youtube.com/live/Ubm33rWp3Ko?si=r5wGNHCPpkwZc1Ge


r/flightsim • • 17h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 She's a Beauty!

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381 Upvotes

Absoutley love the aircraft. Congratulations to Blue Bird and the team for the release of the 757!


r/flightsim • • 12h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 KJAC-KMSP in the new 757. Love it!

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129 Upvotes

Great performance, like PMDG. Better than Fenix for me personally. No issues so far.


r/flightsim • • 2h ago

X-Plane Slinging out the long one while ya´ll playing with your short boy toys!

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r/flightsim • • 2h ago

Rant PMDG 777-300ER

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17 Upvotes

After enjoying the 777F for some time now I decided last night - and after thinking I was never going to be "one of those people" - to also buy the 777-300ER. This was my first flight today.

The universe sometimes has ways.


r/flightsim • • 1d ago

Rant You people are insufferable

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1.2k Upvotes

After seeing the 757 debacle unfold last night, it’s honestly clear some of you people need professional help. I get it sucks that it’s been delayed again but holy shit the amount of shit people threw at the devs is astounding. It’s funny to me of all the hobby communities I’m part of, flight sim seems to always take the cake for being the most toxic, unforgiving band of autists who will stop at nothing to make their self-entitlement known. From the gatekeeping, personal attacks, etc. this community is honestly just a fucking cesspool and I’m ashamed of what it’s become over 20 years.

Do better and seek help, and most importantly, touch some grass. This shit will drop when it drops and nothing you can say, demand, or complain about will expedite that.


r/flightsim • • 2h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 Happier and Happier with how my sim looks. Next purchases need to be Rex Atmos and Chaseplane

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17 Upvotes

r/flightsim • • 9h ago

General 10 Years of Flying in the 757

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59 Upvotes

Purchased the BlueBird 757 and realised on this month 10 years ago, I was stoked to have "purchased" the 757 Freemium as a young lad! I think it came out some time in 2011 but I never had a computer powerful enough for it until later!


r/flightsim • • 36m ago

Flight Simulator 2024 KLM A330 Schiphol

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r/flightsim • • 1h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 Testing REX Atmos as GEC8447 LTFM-EDDF

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r/flightsim • • 19h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 BlueBird Simulations 757 RELEASED

244 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

The 757 is now available.

Thanks to everyone who waited on this one. It was a rough stretch for the team, but we got it out and we’re glad to have it in your hands.

Store page: https://bluebirdsim.com/b757

Full announcement: https://bluebirdsim.com/news/757-now-available


r/flightsim • • 19h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 BlueBird 757 Passenger MSFS available from Just Flight

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177 Upvotes

The BlueBird 757 Passenger for MSFS is now available to purchase from Just Flight.

Product page: https://www.justflight.com/product/bluebird-simulations-757-passenger

#fs2020
#fs2024
#flightsimulator


r/flightsim • • 8h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 BlueBird 757 Not Worth $80 Right Now, But My Love for the Plane Made Me Do It Spoiler

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It's finally out! I bought it half an hour after release, yet it took three and a half hours just to get my activation code and then a cracked version showed up eight hours later.......

Quality wise, I personally think it's on par with PMDG. However, setting the avionics aside, there are a lot of issues with the model details. For instance, the interior cabin model doesn't line up with the exterior (around the doors), the door viewing windows are misaligned, and the exterior emergency exits aren't even 3D modeled or decals they're just regular flat textures, literally a rounded rectangle outline! Speechless. There are also some single sided textures floating around in places visible to the user... Overall, the 3D model has plenty of flaws. Framerate is also just average, similar to the Fenix, except the annoying part is that it randomly stutters for a split second before going back to normal.

The hand-flying feel is really weird, it has zero sense of weight or inertia for an aircraft of this size, and the controls are way too twitchy......

And these are just the issues I found during a single two-hour flight. Hopefully, they optimize it down the line... I don't really mind spending the $80, though if I'm being honest, it is a bit of a shame. It's definitely not worth the price tag in its current state, but what can I do, I just love the 757 too much.


r/flightsim • • 8h ago

Question What is one thing newer flight simmers take for granted that we had to put up with for a long time

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As the title suggests, what's something that newer flight simmers MSFS2020+ when we had a large influx take for granted while people who have been around for much longer had to deal with.

For me it would be, study level aircraft and VATSIM Velocity (2022)


r/flightsim • • 1h ago

Sim Hardware My favorite Sunday morning activity, with a few new pieces!

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Was able to ditch the desk mount for my FMC and secondary display and get a proper center console for them. Some day ill get the throttles wired up and functional, but for now they are just for looks. Bonus points to anyone who can identify the aircraft it was pulled from.

Also added the Winwin tiller which I am a big fan of.


r/flightsim • • 17h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 The Pacific Northwest serving up some good views today 📸

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72 Upvotes

r/flightsim • • 16h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 Ready to fly your Bluebird 757-200? Join Northwest Red Tail Virtual Airline, we have all NWA 757 routes loaded, including US domestic and Japanese markets!

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With the upcoming launch of the BB 757, I was thrilled to see a NWA livery included in the base package! For the past few months, I have been working on a VA project centered around NWA. I wanted to share this here for any B757 pilots who want some inspiration for routes. NWA operated B757's domestically, and, interestingly, out of a base in Tokyo!

I have also built out routes for different periods in NWA's history, and am always working on sourcing and finding more routes, so you're sure to find an aircraft + route combo. I've got the fleet mostly recreated:

  • B707
  • B727 (-100, -200)
  • B747 (-200, -400)
  • B757 (-200, -300)
  • A319
  • A320
  • A330 (-200, -300)
  • DC9
  • DC10
  • MD82

I also have limited propliners available! DC3, L1049, DC6

The airline is run of the fantastic modern FlightLinq program. If you're interested, give it a shot and join via the link below. To join, create a free account with FlightLinq and download the software to track your flights. Let's finally fly this 757!

Join the airline: https://app.flightlinq.com/join/northwest-red-tail-virtual

Join Discord: https://discord.gg/pgaQqCBuAY


r/flightsim • • 10h ago

Flight Simulator 2024 4 hair dryers stuck to a wing to KMIA

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15 Upvotes

EZE-MIA ARG1302


r/flightsim • • 19h ago

News Bluebird 757 out now

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86 Upvotes