3 hours ago, domkle said:

I can propose you something : Venice Athens Istanbul Antioch Palmyra Bagdad Ekbatana Teheran Meshhed Bukhara Samarkand Kashgar Duanhuang Zhange Langzgou Xi’an, the Marco Polo Tour 😉

I like that idea!!! Time to have a look at google bing 🙂 maps! And wikipedia!

13 minutes ago, RALF9636 said:

At least when it comes to small airfields the accuracy is not so important for me but the plausibility.

For me it would be good enough to have some high resolution buildings, lots of clutter, moving vehicles, humans and animals around the airfield where they look plausible. It does not have to look exactly like the real thing. That could be left for third party addons.

I think there is a big chance we will see all of that you said. I would be more than happy if the airports are as detailed as you want. 

Identical terminal buildings are nice, I won't lie, but it's not reallistic to demand 40000+ accurately modeled airport terminals. Even asking for 100 of them would be too much and wouldn't please everyone. So I just hope the A.I. and their generic models would be enought to have good looking aiports, this way all 40000+ would look good, not just a few selected ones.

Take off from LaGuardia and Immediately head to Central Park and measure the trees. 😉

Definitely checking out my house like the rest of us then it’s going to be a European tour heading south.
 

Edited January 6, 20206 yr by Carts85

I'll be flying from Halifax , NS to the airport near my home town.

Find my home and visiting the world.

And after seriously work my skill in a little aircraft , With hope, gain enough confidence to take real sessions and pass the simplest vfr pilot licence.

Like a lot of people, I'll immediately fly over my house.

After that, I plan to finally explore Africa and Asia.  I rarely fly in these areas now because the default scenery is so poor and inaccurate.

Dave

On ‎1‎/‎6‎/‎2020 at 10:24 AM, greggerm said:

The first thing I am going to do is...

Beat me to it 🤣🤣

Edited January 8, 20206 yr by n4gix
DO NOT QUOTE THE WHOLE LONG MESSAGE WHEN REPLYING!!!!!!!!!

I will examine my brand new Airbus at the Airbus plant in Toulouse. Make 3-4 test flights in Europe (Toulouse - Toulouse) and then finally place it in its new hangar at Zurich Airport. 

Hello all,

I had a fleeting thought that I may just use this new sim in exactly the same manner as I do with XPlane11 or XPlane 12, P3Dv4.5 or P3Dv5, DCS, and Aeroflyfs2.  I really had not thought of doing anything else.

In yet another attempt to keep this new Flight Simulation platforms' publicity roll going, watch out for my new MSFS 2020 (or whatever) topic "What are you going to be doing out of the new flight sim?"

This publicity is crazy and from my point of view mostly, competely unnecessary  ... I am going to buy this Platform very soon after release.

Regards

Tony

Look for the cfg file, then tweak! Only kidding of course. After the obligatory flight from my home airport and a barnstorming attempt at my property, I'll probably do the following:

- Norwegian coastline from North to South;
- Check out METARs and go to places with storms;
- Check out Africa and Asia - areas that have never been done in any detail before;
- Check out Edwards Air Force Base and Friday Harbor - my virtual home bases since 2006. 

On 1/6/2020 at 4:41 AM, Anthracite said:

First thing I do in all flight sims - go to the airport I first enjoyed a flight from.

I would like to do that too... but Meigs is unlikely to be usable in FS2020...

Maybe Renton

 

So many things to try out I wouldn't know where to start, but the obvious answer, like most, is check out my home airport, city and home. While doing that, I want to see for myself the new environment (clouds, lighting, etc.), experience the aircraft modeling changes incorporated into the planes, and see how my system handles the new sim.

 

I'm retired and have a lot of free time this winter; hoping Tech Alpha 2 is coming up soon and I'll be included this time and allowed to participate. 😊

Around the world flights seem to be popular and are independent of what sim you might use. So I wonder if there are any collections of flight plans already compiled somewhere on the Internet, and if not, could we compile some here? Although the planning is part of the fun, for some, just picking one and discovering someone else’s idea of a scenic route is would be a great resource.

I'll start a career mode instantly. I hope it will have one. Don't want another xplane or fsx where you have no goals. I hope for good set of achievements too, love collecting them. Hope a lot of third party developers will go out of business, we don't need orbx and similar ones.

1 hour ago, Bottle said:

Around the world flights seem to be popular and are independent of what sim you might use. So I wonder if there are any collections of flight plans already compiled somewhere on the Internet, and if not, could we compile some here? Although the planning is part of the fun, for some, just picking one and discovering someone else’s idea of a scenic route is would be a great resource.

After the Marco Polo flight (aka the Silk road) here is the first flight across Africa, one hundred years ago. I partially reconstructed van Ryneveld and Brand' s journey : England to Southern Italy  and crossing the Med (by night !) then Derna (Lybia) - Sollum  - Cairo (Egypt) -  Abu Simbel  (approximation of the the city of Kurusku north of Wadi Halfa where they crashed) - Khartoum (Sudan) - Nimule (South Sudan) - Kisumu (Kenya) - Mbala (aka Abercorn - Zambia) - Ndola -  Kabwe (aka Broken Hill) - Livingstone  (Victoria Falls !) - Balawayo (Zimbabwe) -  Cape Town.

 http://sthp.saha.org.za/memorial/articles/across_african_skies.htm