18 minutes ago, ual763 said:

I just noticed that the water in the following shot does not match up with the water in the satellite image.  

when was the satellite image taken?

46 minutes ago, rob169 said:

The weather in these screenshots/gifs looks awesome! Maybe it's just me, but it does seem a bit unrealistic with all those clouds moving up so rapidly and also the heavy rain visualisation effect from the clouds, don't you think?

Did you know a time-lapse video? This is the answer 😉 This is not a real speed of flight.

Edited April 10, 20206 yr by ludekbrno

9 minutes ago, ludekbrno said:

Did you know a time-lapse video? This is the answer 😉

Yeah I realise that of course! 😂 But given the speed the plane would be flying at, it does seem like the clouds might be metamorphising a bit fast. I hope it looks great when played at normal speed!

Maybe it is accurate - it's just I don't think I've ever seen rain look like this from the ground

 

Edited April 10, 20206 yr by rob169
Update with video link

3 hours ago, captain420 said:

I really hope that this means something and that we will be receiving our invites.

That’s happening to everyone, so no.

17 hours ago, ErrorCode said:

My biggest question is how @ChaoticBeauty is getting this post so fast, before I see them on the website.

Why? Of all the questions to ask and you ask that!  

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We are wrapping up work on the Alpha build and have started to focus on the Alpha participation.

That caught my eye. I wonder at what point they enter beta?

At this point, I'd be surprised if they don't have a public early access in the summer. They are moving very quickly.

3 minutes ago, bonchie said:

That caught my eye. I wonder at what point they enter beta?

At this point, I'd be surprised if they don't have a public early access in the summer. They are moving very quickly.

Many and many games has not an early acces or public beta before release 😉

12 minutes ago, bonchie said:

That caught my eye. I wonder at what point they enter beta?

At this point, I'd be surprised if they don't have a public early access in the summer. They are moving very quickly.

I take that to mean THIS Alpha build. Doesn't mean it's the last.

4 minutes ago, Jazz said:

I take that to mean THIS Alpha build. Doesn't mean it's the last.

Yeah, that's what I could infer as well. They probably mean the upcoming build with the A320.

8 hours ago, tweekz said:

If you think about it, something like this was really needed. You need that level of detail to do proper VFR flying. This might be a sim that is able to train your real life VFR flights. Even if some landmarks are missing, the landscape overall is detailed enough I guess.

When I was doing my PPL training back in the late 80’s I would have given anything to have a sim like this to practice my solo cross country training flights. I could have flown them a few times in advance just to get a feel for what I’d be seeing in real life. 

I still managed without it but this would have been ideal.

47 minutes ago, bonchie said:

That caught my eye. I wonder at what point they enter beta?

At this point, I'd be surprised if they don't have a public early access in the summer. They are moving very quickly.

Not quickly enough for those of us how are so eager for us to get into the Tech Alpha unfortunately.

Great! where is my invite? I signed up day one! Zzzzzzzzzzzz😴

Lucky there is a V5 of another simulator which I can fly in the mean time 😉

 

Edited April 10, 20206 yr by rob0203

7 hours ago, Mengy said:

In all honesty, as a non alpha guy, I really enjoyed those potato pics.  It was nice to see some off the cuff in game shots of things we hadn't seen yet.

Considering that the last nda leak, the awful videos, caused an instant outpouring of concern about the actual visuals of the product, despite the steady flood of info from the developers, one has to wonder if such leaks are really worth the momentary satisfaction of non-tester curiosity.

Fortunately, the pics were pretty instantly drowned out by yet more official info.

21 hours ago, Doug47 said:

Never did get the meaning of the F5 key thing. 😓

Haha, me neither at first. Everytime I saw that "F5"-thing being mentioned I just thought about my beloved Nikon F5... 😃 

4 hours ago, ludekbrno said:

Many and many games has not an early acces or public beta before release 😉

The way they are doing this public alpha points toward a public beta release IMO. That's kind of the norm these days anyway for PC games. There's noway they are gonna build all this hype and then wait for a full release a year from now. They will release something I think.