i hope we will be able to fly from Hawaii to Alaska and beyond, lol please Microsoft. I still love FSX but i also want Flight to feel alittle more simmy :Praying:

Guess we'll find out soon enough. I'd like this too, hard to say exactly what plans MS has at the moment.

I suspect it will be possible if we get an aircraft with that range, but I think it will probably be a while before we see something capable of successfully making the flight.

Given the way the map works with just Hawaii, so that you are limited to an area just a bit bigger than Hawaii, I doubt they'll change that to expand to include Alaska in the same map. There would be too much map scrolling.

 

I suspect that the main menu will have a list of options with all the possible flight areas.

 

In order to fly between Hawaii and Alaska or California, you'll need a plane with at least a 2000 mile range, and sufficient speed so the flight doesn't take 12 hours. Well... perhaps the "N" key will help. :D You'll still need the range though.

 

Hook

You can already fly off the map to various low-res islands beyond Hawaii. There are no invisible walls. It's a given that you will be able to fly between DLC regions, so long as an aircraft has enough range.

While you can fly as far as you have fuel, if you go back to the map (to refuel in the hangar screen, for example) your position is reset to the edge of the map area.

 

One thing we don't know is, if we start at Hawaii and fly to Alaska, will the Alaska scenery be loaded when you get there? I have no way to predict this.

 

Hook

I expect it will load. It's inevitable that future DLC will be closer together than HI-AK and probably some will even be contiguous. It would be rather bizarre to have the terrain suddenly become untextured while flying along and force you to go into a menu to load the next section.

RoboRay: Agreed. But it wouldn't surprise me to get a loading screen.

 

Hook

I'm just hoping they wait till after April 15th to release it, otherwise I might not get my taxes done in time .

 

- Gary Letona

i hope we will be able to fly from Hawaii to Alaska and beyond, lol please Microsoft. I still love FSX but i also want Flight to feel alittle more simmy :Praying:

 

Your question is pertinent but there is a firm intent by Joshua Howard to prevent that from happening at all costs.

Yeah what are they thinking, that is just what I need - the ability to sit in my chair looking out through my VC at the scenery at 28k ft, during my several hour flight.

Wait, I can do that already in FSX...

I'm just hoping they wait till after April 15th to release it, otherwise I might not get my taxes done in time .

 

- Gary Letona

 

I don't think you have anything to worry about, I wouldn't suspect it to be released until a little later than that.

Your question is pertinent but there is a firm intent by Joshua Howard to prevent that from happening at all costs.

 

You'll have to give us a specific quote that says that, because I've studied everything that's been published that he's said and I can't find it. If I could have found ANY evidence of that at all, I wouldn't have posted what I did above.

 

Hook

Your question is pertinent but there is a firm intent by Joshua Howard to prevent that from happening at all costs.

 

Well, thats probably not a personnal opinion of Mr. Howard. There is probably a large team of market researcher that provided input into the orientation of Flight.

 

We don't know yet if their decision will be successfull or not but they are certainly consistent with their finding about the market.... And the overall market is not the bunch of fly simmer enthousiasm that have followed the title for years ...

 

Beside that, I love Flight for what it is now. I expect improvement in areas that are consistent with MS orientation (better flight model and immersion, simplicity and regional expansion) and I forgot about the replacement of FSX by Flight.

You'll have to give us a specific quote that says that, because I've studied everything that's been published that he's said and I can't find it. If I could have found ANY evidence of that at all, I wouldn't have posted what I did above.

 

Hook

 

Let's wait for the release of Alaska, that will be the best evidence you are looking for.