I started with A320 airbus on the Amiga and then moved onto FS5 and more recently to X-Plane. I will now switch to MSFS when it comes out.

In all of my 30 years of flight simming I have flown airliners only. I never touched any GA aircraft even the default ones. 

I always wanted to be an airliner pilot but circumstances did not allow it. I have never been interested in GA flying or flying small aircraft. Low and slow was boring over barren ugly scenery. The sim world looked nothing like real life. Even if you bought 3rd party addons like Orbx regions you could only fly in one fairly small area where everything looked pretty much the same.

Flying airliners was fun. Take off in sunny Barbados and land in smoky Delhi in the dead of night.

However after seeing the MSFS videos I may (after 30 years) try out some low and slow GA flying.  I dont want to see the glorious new world just from 35000ft. I feel like I would be missing out!

So my question is will you change how you fly in the new simulator or carry on just as you have done before?

nope, i am exactaly the opposite. i find the big iron pretty boring soon.

bushflying in all kinds of weather thats the real deal for me , so i am going to have a real blast.

The glory of the new sim is that it’ll allow for GA flights in any part of the world which was previously unimaginable for the sane, or required extensive effort in terms of addons/tweaking. 

MSFS will make GA fun again. I know it’ll be at least for me because it’s good to have some short hops or Bush flights just to mix things up a bit. 

Here’s an excellent video demonstrating just that. 

 

Unless someone has figured out how to land an airliner when it's still up at 35,000 feet which none of us have heard about, then the visual benefit is not just for GA aeroplanes. Most airliner flights commence a descent when approximately fifty miles from the destination airport, and for the last ten or fifteen miles of that distance, they're well below 5,000 feet.

In preceding sims, you could of course add photorealistic terrain and even custom autogen over the top of it, a good example being VFR France's Ile de France, which has the entire region around Paris, and its many airports, in pretty spectacular detail. But that comes at a very big performance cost, to the extent that it can make flying even an airliner into one of the Parisian airports an interesting FPS battle, especially if you have AI flights going into Orly, and CDG which in sim terms are pretty much right next to each other, with quite a few other airports well within visual distance too.

I'm hoping this situation will be vastly different for the new MS sim, and if it is, then it won't be so much a change in what you fly which is the benefit, but the fact that you can actually fly it. I guess we'll see.

3 hours ago, sanh said:

I started with A320 airbus on the Amiga and then moved onto FS5 and more recently to X-Plane. I will now switch to MSFS when it comes out.

In all of my 30 years of flight simming I have flown airliners only. I never touched any GA aircraft even the default ones. 

I always wanted to be an airliner pilot but circumstances did not allow it. I have never been interested in GA flying or flying small aircraft. Low and slow was boring over barren ugly scenery. The sim world looked nothing like real life. Even if you bought 3rd party addons like Orbx regions you could only fly in one fairly small area where everything looked pretty much the same.

Flying airliners was fun. Take off in sunny Barbados and land in smoky Delhi in the dead of night.

However after seeing the MSFS videos I may (after 30 years) try out some low and slow GA flying.  I dont want to see the glorious new world just from 35000ft. I feel like I would be missing out!

So my question is will you change how you fly in the new simulator or carry on just as you have done before?

Every RW pilot, whether he wants to stick with GA aircraft or later fly as ATP, begins with small (i.e. GA) aircraft, because this is the real flying. Flying modern airliners is mainly programming and. controlling a flying computer. The feeling of real flying is mostly lost. You will be surprised about how much fun it is to fly a GA plane after limiting yourself to airliners for such a long time.

Edited August 1, 20205 yr by Flyfox

I was one of those Airliner guys back in the days of Feeltheres Airbusses and stepped to Majestics q400 when it came out.

I'm off of simming for about six years now and will re enter service with MSFS. I am really looking forward to flying the TBM and the King Air. My time with virtual airlines is over and so is flying those airliners. MSFS will mostly be GA flying for me.

The reason I have flown Airliners during my FS2004/FSX days is because the scenery looked so horrible at low level and the only way to make it feel real was to fly really high.

This will change all of that now and I'll fly a lot of smaller aircraft between smaller airports!

3 hours ago, sanh said:

I started with A320 airbus on the Amiga and then moved onto FS5 and more recently to X-Plane. I will now switch to MSFS when it comes out.

In all of my 30 years of flight simming I have flown airliners only. I never touched any GA aircraft even the default ones. 

I always wanted to be an airliner pilot but circumstances did not allow it. I have never been interested in GA flying or flying small aircraft. Low and slow was boring over barren ugly scenery. The sim world looked nothing like real life. Even if you bought 3rd party addons like Orbx regions you could only fly in one fairly small area where everything looked pretty much the same.

Flying airliners was fun. Take off in sunny Barbados and land in smoky Delhi in the dead of night.

However after seeing the MSFS videos I may (after 30 years) try out some low and slow GA flying.  I dont want to see the glorious new world just from 35000ft. I feel like I would be missing out!

So my question is will you change how you fly in the new simulator or carry on just as you have done before?

Yes, for me it will be a significant change towards to VFR flying with the general aircrafts:-) .

I fly nothing but airliners 90% of that is the FSL A320, I will keep P3Dv5 for that.

MSFS2020, is for me the first time I can really look forward to exploring the world in a GA VFR, even flying around the UK will be fantastic with the detail MSFS2020 will bring. The list of places to go sightseeing seems endless. bring it on.

Edited August 1, 20205 yr by Nyxx

2 hours ago, FAZZ3 said:

Here’s an excellent video demonstrating just that.

somebody's nicked the SHB ?

It will be very interesting on VATSIM / IVAO where many button pushers will test their wings in GA and fly VFR and doing circuits and proper reporting. I will listen in for sure. If vatsim unicom is some sort of measuring stick, it will be quite wild.😆

(No VFR is not harder , just different)

I've always been a GA pilot in the sims, I don't bother with the big iron.

What WILL change for me is WHERE I fly though.  For many years now I've stuck to flying in ORBX regions of the USA with P3D, simply because they offer the best down low scenery and little airfields to fly in and around.  Flying GA on the default P3D scenery gets old fast.

Now, with MFS and it's incredibly detailed Earth, I'll be free to fly down low EVERYWHERE for the first time EVER while not making my eyes bleed out of horror!  😁

3 hours ago, sanh said:

So my question is will you change how you fly in the new simulator or carry on just as you have done before?

Oh yes, my flying spots have already changed a lot. Let's just say OrbX is everywhere. 😄

Edited August 1, 20205 yr by Der Zeitgeist

3 hours ago, sanh said:

 

So my question is will you change how you fly in the new simulator or carry on just as you have done before?

Both 😉.

Changing from a sim to another  sim (or version) is indeed an opportunity to also change the regions and type of aircraft you fly

I will continue my GA/bush/ WB flying. You will enjoy it . It is far from being boring and goes far beyond looking down at the terrain down. 

Finding your way in mountainous terrain to a difficult approach of a sloping strip, mastering a powerful warbird, flying IFR in a fast turboprop are challenges that I do not tire of. You feel like you are in charge and that sloppiness is not really an option. 

Bu an other other hand I feel like trying a modern airliner. Something I have not done for a very long time. FS20 seems to offer an opportunity to get a first bite out of that kind of flying with their default 320 and 747 and then move up to  PMDG or FSL if it feels good. 

Been exclusively flying GA for about 10 years now (since switching over to XPlane since it had superior VFR scenery and GA flight modeling physics).

I will continue mostly with GA because after 15-20 years of pushing buttons on airliners in the MSFS series these days Im still alot more interested in actually "flying" the plane instead of clicking on the auto pilot 10 seconds after departure. I've since leanred a certain appreciation for slipping into a windy landing on 1 wheel and flying the plane all the way to full stop, paying more attnetion to whats going on outside the window instead of endlessly staring at FMC's and autopilot control switches. IRL I will never fly that way (an airliner) so GA now, for me at least, seems alot more of a realistic way to fly.