Well, didn't quite achieve what I wanted to do with Sochi.  Although ATC use r/w 24 for take offs (correct) they are hell-bent on using r/w 20 for landing, no alternative given, from whatever direction I or AI aircraft are coming from.  There are no published STARs for 20 (or 24) and no published SIDs for 02 or 06.  Crossing the Caucasus Mountains at 12,000ft then descending in 25nm to r/w 20 means a scary dive, flaps and gear down at too high a speed....   Anyhow, it's all good fun!  This has been a learning experience, and even after 18 years flying FS2004 I'm still learning, and would never think of 'graduating' to later versions!  As usual, thanks for your help.  Maybe Sochi was a bad airport to try star/crosswind technique; somewhere like Tunis, far from high terrain would have been easier!

It'd be coffee in my case, I drank my last cup of tea on Sept 3rd 1965, at b'fast at my parent's house the day I got married (the first time.......) 🙂   Whatever I fly I want it to be something larger, with more engines, more space, a higher moment of inertia, and a GOOD autopilot. I'm tempted by the Aerosoft Boeing 314, which I have filed away somewhere on my archive drive. A very complex model, but very satisfying when you master its complexities. 

Two ways.  You can edit the sound cfg or ini files (whatever FS2020 uses) and increase the level of the internal engine sounds;  or you can edit the wav files themselves and increase their volume (this is tricky, if the level is already near max any further increase could clip the signal and produce horrible distortion).   A third alternative, especially if only the one aircraft is using this sound set, is to lower the level of all the other sound files til they balance with the internal engine sounds.  You may then want to increase the overall system volume.    

Airbus A321 NEO Wizz Air (HA-LZW) takeoff (short) at Alicante Elche Airport (ALC) with ATC audio included  

Training mission from Haneda. RJTT   Magnificent decoration of the f15,   The Japanese have a lot of ideas   https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tokyo_Haneda_Airport   Near Ariake bridge.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariake_West_Canal   https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_de_ponts_du_Japon   https://store.flightsim.com/pizzagallich-_bymfg_97-4-1.html

I only have the Flying Fortress for FSX, but I would like to have it for FS2020

Can I get the Flying Fortress mod for FS2020 from someone you want?

How can I get more engine volume inside the cockpit? ATC, flaps and gear are fine but engine is very low to none. I have the sound maxed out.

Absolutely have enjoyed sharing the adventure with you.

Kit, When you settle down with a mug of hot tea in your favorite chair, exhale, and realize there's no yoke in front of you, what's next???  😄

And I FINALLY made it home! 🙂 And no apologies for this leg being pic heavy...........   Starting off the MilOps side if the Gib runway required taxying all the way back down to the west end before turning for take-off.     Naturally there was one suicidal car driver who dashed across the road right ahead of me! 😟     Sitting there at the 09 threshold makes you realise just how BIG that lump of rock is!     But I was soon up and away, and it was bye-bye Gib.     Because of the Spanish air space restrictions I had to fly up the coast quite a way before I could turn in on a more direct path home.     But as soon as I made that turn off the coast the true nature of mid-Spain became apparent. It's a very rough and bleak looking country, and hardly farmed at all, at least not that I could see any farming from up there.     Toward the centre of the country, and passing west of Madrid, the capital, I came across this hefty river, and it turned out it was called the Aulencia River.     Heading on further north and approaching the northern Spanish coast at Santander, I came across this inviting looking lake, called Embalis del Ebro apparently, but I was eager to be home and didn't do a 'splash and go' there.     And shortly afterward I reached the coast at Santander, a major ferry port for sailings from the UK and Ireland. I went there once en route to see my youngest brother who lives in the South of France, and it's a much shorter drive from Santander than it is from Le Havre or Caen!     From there it was a straight north flight across the Bay of Biscay, well known for its rough weather, which I luckily missed on this occasion.     And the coast of France loomed up after 2 hrs or so of Flying. That's the southern coast of West Brittany there, and very welcome it was too.     It took a very short time to cross that narrow bit of France and soon it was 'Next Stop England' time as France receded into the distance.     And before long I was back over my home country! That's Portland Bill down below me, and a very welcome sight it was too.     Naturally, this being England I'm flying over, after a very short while it started to cloud over and soon I was out of sight of the surface yet again.     And pretty soon after that I was out of sight of EVERYthing, total IMC conditions!     Carefully letting down, I cleared the cloud base right over Chew Valley Lake, a reservoir built in the 50s to feed Bristol's water supply and has since become a wild life centre as well.     Travelling further north west, and just to the west of Bristol itself I crossed the M5 motorway on its massive bridge across the River Avon (That's NOT Shakespeare's Avon, there's 4 of 5 of them in the UK....) before heading out into the Bristol Channel. The FSX bridge is nowhere near as impressive as the real thing sadly.      By now I was down to less than 100 ft above sea level and as I turned up-river I came down even lower, to 50 ft or less,  to do my usual 'Bridge Pass Flight' on suitable occasions. 🙂   Here I'm just going under the New Severn Bridge, an architectural monstrosity to my mind........     An then turning a little to the north east toward the older and much better looking Old Severn Bridge.     This one too was treated to an 'under fly' before I turned onto the approach for Dean Forest Regional. One plus point about doing such bridge passes in an amphibian is that it doesn't matter quite so much if I get a little TOO low. 😉     And here it is, my 'home field', and a very welcome sight it was too. My house is just about under the red arrow there.     Naturally I plonked 'Austral Rose' pretty well right on the numbers, as so I should after all the practice I've had there!     The Tower View shows just how much the two Bridges dominate the scenery around here.     Before long I was on the Scanman Airmotive ramp and shutting down at long last.     And the very first thing we had on our list of stuff to do was get that socking great over-load tank out of the cabin, and maybe we can do some proper air taxi flights again!      It's been a long, weary but very rewarding series of flights, a) getting out there, b) meeting all you guys again and competing in the Oz Rally, and then c) getting back home again the long way by completing a total round-the-world flight, the first time I've ever done it in FS., or in any other way, come to that. 🙂

The only things I can think of are USB 3.0 to 2.0 interface for the Ports, or something in W11 is reading/mapping the Joystick differently. If you've got other Peripherals like a Throttle Quadrant or Rudder Pedals they could also be the cause, but hard to say. I have an Issue with my Logitech Extreme 3D Pro; Joystick Properties show the Throttle works through its entire Range, but in Sim the Throttle only goes to 40%. I had to use two of the Joystick buttons for Throttle Increase/Decrease.