Microsoft Flight Simulator 1935

[DennyA]

I've moved fully on to MSFS 2024 for general flying, as virtually all of the add-ons I use work there, and I enjoy the various performance, visual, and flight model improvements. I had debated finally deleting MSFS 2020, until I had a wonderful idea.



I realized I'd purchased a bunch of the Redwing 1935 airports a while back in discounted bundles, and not done much flying around them. They replaced modern airports, and were Marketplace items, so it was a pain to use them when 2020 was my primary sim. But now I could just make them my default and strip out everything modern in the older sim!

I went into the content manager, downloaded all of the 1935 airports, and deleted all of my modern aircraft.

Then I went into Addons Linker and enabled all of my 1910-1945 airplanes, Arrows Across America, and my WW2 airports.

So now, I have a dedicated 1940s-and-earlier flight sim. I'll pick up more of the US Redwing 1935 airports next time they go on sale, and I also have Bagalou's 1935 additions and a few other random retro airports for 2020. No more hassle configuring the sim, as 2020 will only be used as a dedicated WW2-and-earlier sim. I can just leave Addons Linker untouched.













Would be awesome if someday there was a way to replace the scenery and navaids with period stuff, but in the meantime, this is as much fun as my old CalClassics's FS2004 setup.

 

[Jacek_Kasprowicz]

I'm in Germany in 1935, and as far as navigation goes, there are 189 lighthouses in Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
You navigate from lighthouse to lighthouse to your destination airport, and then you fly over the airport's fixed lights to find your landing direction.

 

[lagaffe]

Denny: it's a very fun idea ! You intrigued me to the point that I looked up scenes from Bagolu and Redwings online.

Unfortunately, Redwings only releases them on the MarketPlace and individually. If they had the idea of making bundles by region, I think that would be very appreciated.

 

[guzzi]

Looks like a kind of Golden Wings 4 set up . I had a whole website dedicated to Golden Wings 3 at one time - with all the pre 1940 downloads available. Then one or two people pissed me off with their ungratefulness and other things in life came along that took up my time......... God Bless Bill Lyons though - way ahead of most.

I don't get this developers putting things only on Marketplace. It's bad business putting all your eggs in one basket and only having one route to market. Seen so many small businesses go belly up over the years for just doing that. It's the only vendor I can't buy from because most of my credit/debit cards are registered in another country from the one I live in most of the time now. No payment through paypal or anything. Tried 4 cards including one from the bank I use whilst living here and they have all been declined or I can't get my Microsoft account to accept them -used all of my cards with multiple other vendors, no issues. Some guys have said MS has better security to stop their stuff from being pirated - but other developers don't give this a lot of creedance. The former have lost sales to me and my money, so their loss.