That video was epic...

50 minutes ago, James Britnell said:

I'm thinking this could be Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Brickyard.

You're right.

1 hour ago, James Britnell said:

A stunning video indeed, I'm thinking this could be Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Brickyard. Certainly a location one would imagine to have been the subject of much aerial photography over the years,  as well as Aerobatic Displays

It's so awesome that we'll have a sim that lets you identify landmarks like that out of the box 🙂

Yeah, the scenery in MFS is just spectacularly close to real life.  Just compare this to Shacks pic above:

Edited August 30, 20196 yr by Mengy

Filthy

Again, this is a non-photogrammetry area (the city in the distance has some). 

How in the world they are able to model everything so accurately on top of the ortho, I have no idea. I do know it's probably the most exciting thing I've ever seen in a flight simulator. 

You can see that the speedway itself has the press booth and stands in 3D with their probable heights, that the autogen around it fit perfectly, etc. 

Edited August 30, 20196 yr by bonchie

5 minutes ago, bonchie said:

How in the world they are able to model everything so accurately on top of the ortho, I have no idea. I do know it's probably the most exciting thing I've ever seen in a flight simulator. 

Yeah, the tech is super intriguing.  My guess is they are using an AI routine to study the ortho images which in turn creates a very accurate worldwide scenery landclass?  And possibly the AI is even creating custom sized and textured autogen buildings and such based on the ortho images?

However they are doing it the result is amazing.  I mean they could be hand modeling specific areas just for photo and vid capturing to make it seem more capable than it is but I don't think they are.  I think the tech is just really that capable.

15 minutes ago, bonchie said:

Again, this is a non-photogrammetry area (the city in the distance has some). 

In Earth View the whole area that you can see in the video has photogrammetry.

 

Couldn't it be, that "the reflection" is from the nose outside or dashboard inside.

The aircraft should have the respective angle so that the sun could reflect there and scatter its rays in the canopy (hope you understand my "english")

 

What do you think?

Mind-blowing stuff! The rain effects ( weather in general) look soooo good! Unprecedented. The last time I felt that enthusiastic about rain on a windshield was when Flight Unlimited 2 came out.   

3 hours ago, guenseli said:

Couldn't it be, that "the reflection" is from the nose outside or dashboard inside.

The aircraft should have the respective angle so that the sun could reflect there and scatter its rays in the canopy (hope you understand my "english")

What do you think?

Pause the video at 6 seconds. What you are seeing is the reflection of the horizon under the clouds. You can see daylight off in the distance under the clouds and that strip of lighter sky is what is moving along the canopy as the plane completes the loop.

Love the buffeting as the pilot pushes her...

So far... This is looking exactly like the flight simulator I was hoping that they would build. Phooey on the naysayers... 😄

Reflections or transition from the cloud, the first three seconds  are a little weird. 

If we're really picking nits on this one, the rain effect on the canopy looks to me like a fixed effect, not responding to the airflow over the plane as it goes through the loop and then the roll towards the end. I'm not sure you'd actually see individual rain drops sticking to the canopy at these speeds either.

Just a minor nitpick, but I'm hoping the rain effect changes with airspeed, most visible at low speed or taxi, and then thinning out and disappearing at higher speeds.

10 minutes ago, Paraffin said:

If we're really picking nits on this one, the rain effect on the canopy looks to me like a fixed effect, not responding to the airflow over the plane as it goes through the loop and then the roll towards the end. I'm not sure you'd actually see individual rain drops sticking to the canopy at these speeds either.

Just a minor nitpick, but I'm hoping the rain effect changes with airspeed, most visible at low speed or taxi, and then thinning out and disappearing at higher speeds.

I thought of that but I've never in a small aircraft in the rain so I was not sure. Not a minor nitpick.

3 hours ago, Paraffin said:

If we're really picking nits on this one, the rain effect on the canopy looks to me like a fixed effect, not responding to the airflow over the plane as it goes through the loop and then the roll towards the end. I'm not sure you'd actually see individual rain drops sticking to the canopy at these speeds either.

Just a minor nitpick, but I'm hoping the rain effect changes with airspeed, most visible at low speed or taxi, and then thinning out and disappearing at higher speeds.

I remember FSW had this feature, raindrops moving according to speed.

Dovetail was very proud of that.