March 26th, 2020 – Development Update

[Victoroos 205]

It looks amazing. WOw. Interested in how alpha develops and new invites.

Those grasses, those landings! ❤️

 

[Pastaiolo 1,688]

I still believe it's a new simulator and comparisons shoudn't be made with previous titles, but only with titles of the same generation (and at this point, there is only MSFS).

Nobody is taking away your old simulators and old way of flying. If you want to continue flying on Pilot Edge, Ivao or Vatsim, if you want to show the world what a manly chair pilot you are and how professional you look in your boxers in the house basement using a videogame and a piece of plastic to move a virtually simulated plane, nobody is forcing you to stop doing that now. Stay with your sim, do what you like to do.

Everybody helps is hopefully more open minded in the sense they can use multiple simulators at the same time with different goals. Just like now (a minority) is able to switch from civilian simulators to combat simulators, ship simulators, truck simulators and so on

As for the video itself, i like it. Only "complain" is how the formation flights, especially the Airbus ones, looked a bit scripted and likely it wasn't actual people flying all the planes but just a leader plane and AI aircrafts behind mimiking the leader plane in all the movements.

Edited March 27, 2020 by Pastaiolo

[Shack95 2,658]

Great update as always. Particularly now that many of us are locked up in our homes these sneak peeks are a most welcome diversion. What a wonderful world your are creating here. Thank you very much! 

Edited March 27, 2020 by Shack95

[Humpty 751]

Just now, Pastaiolo said:

Nobody is taking away your old simulators and old way of flying. If you want to continue flying on Pilot Edge, Ivao or Vatsim, if you want to show the world what a manly chair pilot you are and how professional you look in your boxers in the house basement using a videogame and a piece of plastic to move a virtually simulated plane, nobody is forcing you to stop doing that now. Stay with your sim, do what you like to do.
 

🤣

[SierraHotel 982]

10 hours ago, Lorenzog said:

Finally no more lag!!! bye bye ivao and vatsim

Perhaps both orgs should start thinking of ways to integrate their live ATC services?

[Noooch 1,084]

Amazing update, thank you!

Unlike most of us here, the most important news for me in this update is the realistic hope I have now to be accepted in the Alpha next week.

Since I registered on day one, I am very hopeful I will finally be able to put my hands on this amazing sim and starting to enjoy these long weeks while I am stuck at home.

Can't wait for next monday!🕑🤤

Edited March 27, 2020 by Noooch

[NZ255 309]

8 hours ago, aleex said:

I can see a sloped taxiway 

But does it UNDULATE?

[Dominique_K 10,149]

In the nitpicking dept , the OperatorLand468's shot is bizarre. A setting or rising sun in a black sky  with only some golden hues on the haze below ? Except for the clouds, it looks a little bit like an alien  world !

[badderjet 181]

8 hours ago, aleex said:

I can see a sloped taxiway 

I can't. Also I would not know how to judge that from a still picture. You might still be right, I just don't see it.

Great video. Also I like that they changed the HUD appearance. In earlier shots it seems there was a generic VSI with a range of +-6000 fpm. Also it seems the instruments can be customized now, something I had hoped for. At least the ASIs look different for different aircraft. And +-2000 fpm on the VSI seems a lot more appropriate for single engine props too.

For the long term I still hope for shared cockpits, which unfortunately was not mentioned with a single word here. Also some instructor station functionality would be awesome. After all, the name of this product will be Flight Simulator. In any real FFS you can trigger all kinds of events from the rear seat, the absolute essence of any flight sim. Otherwise you could just go and fly a real plane. It would be great to have this at some point in the future.

Even more, I'd love to have some sort of a tower/radar feature in the future. Would really complement all that multiplayer stuff nicely. FSX had this super basic thing, but with Asobo going full throttle on this project and getting everything right they possibly can, I hope this is on their list of things to consider.

[Kopteeni 819]

26 minutes ago, domkle said:

In the nitpicking dept , the OperatorLand468's shot is bizarre. A setting or rising sun in a black sky  with only some golden hues on the haze below ? Except for the clouds, it looks a little bit like an alien  world !

I'm thinking there might be some sort of photo filter on it that darkens the sky.

[F737MAX 5,608]

2 hours ago, domkle said:

In the nitpicking dept , the OperatorLand468's shot is bizarre. A setting or rising sun in a black sky  with only some golden hues on the haze below ? Except for the clouds, it looks a little bit like an alien  world !

It's a picture of a total eclipse 😉
(No, it really isn't - was an attempt at a joke).
The only way you can get as dark an atmosphere as the screenshot you reference is during a total eclipse.



You're right though. I think the shading is off.

While a dark blue / black sky can be visible on commercial airline flights, that MSFS screenshot makes the world too dark.
- https://www.picfair.com/pics/05760181-red-centre-viewed-from-aeroplane-showing-clouds-and-red-earth-over-central

Either make it brighter:
- https://c8.alamy.com/comp/BHC4CC/aerial-view-of-cloud-formation-at-40000-feet-from-an-airplane-BHC4CC.jpg

- https://res.cloudinary.com/twenty20/private_images/t_watermark-criss-cross-10/v1440751256000/photosp/c191c920-124c-48be-8cb6-bc4c9e5fc578/stock-photo-daytime-outdoors-sun-sky-reflection-horizon-bright-clouds-glare-c191c920-124c-48be-8cb6-bc4c9e5fc578.jpg

Or if the sun is low enough on the horizon for lots of darkness and shadows, then you should get a sunset feel with lots of colours as the Sun's light is refracted in the atmosphere:
- https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/_farcimAGxBTo88a1IsBjHZoSug=/fit-in/1072x0/https://contest-public-media.si-cdn.com/9817170d-a466-4c3d-b7b2-97988c2b1060.jpg

(I'm aware that cameras and photoshop can alter pictures to make them look different from real-world conditions).
 

Edited March 27, 2020 by F737NG
clarity

[Mengy 814]

1 hour ago, Noooch said:

Unlike most of us here, the most important news for me in this update is the realistic hope I have now to be accepted in the Alpha next week.

Since I registered on day one, I am very hopeful I will finally be able to put my hands on this amazing sim and starting to enjoy these long weeks while I am stuck at home.

Eh, I registered day one too, but I've given up hope at this point.  I'm just waiting for release at the end of this year now, until then I'll do my best not to think about all the great experiences other pilots are having with the alpha now.

[tweekz 2,165]

12 hours ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

 

Screenshot Credit: Djays72

That looks like Salzburg. (LOWS) @Shack95

 

Funny that I am most impressed by the grass on fields. You can see that perfectly in the video. I remember how happy I was everytime a payware airports uses 3D grass! 😄

Edited March 27, 2020 by tweekz

[frila 13]

This very amazing update has only one screenshot with big disappointments at the second glance. It is the Salzburg screenshot from Djays72. Compared to real world photos (I have often been there) and Google Earth it seems that Bing has much much less visual data from Salzburg than Google Earth.

I do not mean the castle, which is acceptable, but mainly the surrounding houses on the left side reminds me of the old times with FSX autogen houses. Not a single house in Salzburg look like these houses. Even the places with houses or parks or streets are wrong. I do not know if this is the latest version of this area and I hope this will be corrected.

A big progress can be seen in trees and grass, where size, color and shape fits perfect to the scenery.

 

[Chock 17,769]

7 hours ago, snglecoil said:

I'm having visions of Airforceproud95 videos on YouTube 😂.

Gotta be honest, anything which facilitates more Airforceproud95 videos can only be a good thing. 🤣