What are you gonna do first when it's out?

[OzWhitey 3,353]

7 minutes ago, Mengy said:

Yep, he posted a pic from Flight, pretty funny honestly!

Truthfully though the Icon is the plane I want to fly the most in MFS.  I love flying amphibians in bush flying territory, searching for isolated lakes and landing in them!

You prefer the Icon, even over the Premium Deluxe 787??

[dobee51 346]

22 hours ago, Thomasso said:

The title should be self explanatory 🙂.

I will do an around the world tour in the TBM 930! Starting from my home airport LKTB, going east and returning back from the west 🙂. 

First thing I will probably do is see if I can import the FS 2004 Wright Flyer or Curtiss-Jenny into the new sim. I love to tinker with MS flight sims.

[andyjohnston.net 617]

36 minutes ago, Mengy said:

Yep, he posted a pic from Flight, pretty funny honestly!

Truthfully though the Icon is the plane I want to fly the most in MFS.  I love flying amphibians in bush flying territory, searching for isolated lakes and landing in them!

Yes, I read it from my work computer which didn't show me the pic, so I didn't know it was in jest.

[LHookins 3,102]

39 minutes ago, OzWhitey said:

You prefer the Icon, even over the Premium Deluxe 787??

 

It's kinda hard to land that on a small lake. 😄 

Hook

[n4gix 4,947]

2 hours ago, andyjohnston.net said:

That's exactly what you had to do with Flight...

For those who haven't caught on yet, that screenshot is from Flight. He just faked the "watermarks..." 🎨

[andyjohnston.net 617]

Yes, see my last response.

[OzWhitey 3,353]

32 minutes ago, n4gix said:

For those who haven't caught on yet, that screenshot is from Flight. He just faked the "watermarks..." 🎨

Possibly, Bill, possibly. Though if memory serves me correctly, there was less snow in Hawaii - even in winter - on that wedding yacht mission. 😉 

[carmined 132]

FAKE news! 🙂 

Edited July 14, 2020 by carmined

[OzWhitey 3,353]

21 minutes ago, carmined said:

Nice try with the overlay from a Flight! screen grab and adding Your ID: OzWhitey in Photoshop! 🙂  Anyone else interested to know this is NOT from the upcoming version!

Well, part of it is from the upcoming version, and other parts of it - not so much. You can decide which is which. 😉

As for the backstory - it is possible that MS thought - "Hmmm...Let's try and recapture the glory of Flight. A product that lives fondly in our memory, just like Windows Me, IE 6 and Microsoft Bob. So...Wedding Yacht Mission v2 it is!". 

Edit: For any of the 2013 kids who are getting nostalgic for that MS Flight mission, here's a video to bring back the memories: 

 

Edited July 14, 2020 by OzWhitey

[jpc55 185]

1 hour ago, OzWhitey said:

You prefer the Icon, even over the Premium Deluxe 787??

NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!

[Hyperfocal 186]

I'm going on a VFR flight departing from Telluride Regional (TEX) in the Bonanza G36, flying around the area for an hour, and landing back at the airport.

[badderjet 181]

6 hours ago, Brandon01110 said:

I will buy the addon for CGX for MSFS just like I did for FSX:SE. 

Nice. I hope there will be one for MSFS. Since I stopped at FSX and that was years ago, and skipped the entire P3D era, I don’t know how that add-on is (although I’m pretty sure I know which one you mean), but if it’ll be available I totally need it. Just for the memories.

[ThrottleUp 617]

Do a lot of short flights in the part of the world where I live (Southeast Asia) to see how it looks in the new sim. So a lot of hops around Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan etc.

 

[109Sqn 1,554]

Fly past my house as slowly as possible, peer through my window and see if I can see myself flying a plane on my PC.

Meanwhile, I'll be looking out of my window to see if I spot my plane flying past. 😊

 

 

(No, I'm not stupid enough to think any of the above is possible!)

[DiscoSweat 40]

Takeoff from KPWK, fly the Chicago VFR skyway past my apartment and land at 1C5.

Flight I've done a bunch in real life and it's always my first one in a new sim.

Edited July 15, 2020 by DiscoSweat