None of my friends are into flight sims and I never tried to get them interested either as to me the flightsim is just my personal hobby. But MSFS is so revolutionary and just for the sake of giving them the chance to escape this depressing pandemic by touring the virtual world it is worth my little effort to get my friends to have a look at the MSFS.

I think the easiest and the best thing is to show them couple awesome MSFS videos to get them hooked, but there are so many youtube videos now I have a hard time to decide which one will be the best one to showcase. Any suggestions?

I think the E3 2019 announcement trailer is pretty darn good. Short and sweet

 

 

 

And release trailer too 🙂

https://youtu.be/TYqJALPVn0Y

Find something with people having fun.  It won't be very interesting watching someone setting up a flight for 10 minutes in an airliner.

My favorite video is the bush flying in New Zealand.  It has the yellow Cub on the opening static graphic (whatever the heck that's called).

Hook

Depending on where you live I have found showing your local city, if you can find it, is best.  I just showed a video that did a fly over of Toronto.  When people can recognize the detail in buildings, roads, etc, it makes a big impact.  Having said that, those that don't care about a flight sim will say "looks cool, next".

15 minutes ago, MarkW said:

Depending on where you live I have found showing your local city, if you can find it, is best.  I just showed a video that did a fly over of Toronto.  When people can recognize the detail in buildings, roads, etc, it makes a big impact.  Having said that, those that don't care about a flight sim will say "looks cool, next".

Got a link?

i am still under NDA but my videos would do wonders 😅

 

Those commercial release videos are well made, but I thought a more personal approach could be even better. Too bad I'm not into making any videos, otherwise my town is among the 400 lucky 3D cities in Bing map and I could make a video showing me flying over my friends' houses...  

This is Airboyd's 4K video from the Seattle preview event back in 2019, he gives a very good description of the sim:

He's also an ex-Airline pilot, and flight training tutor at one time I think, so he knows what he's talking about.

Very good, interesting video. (especially with the pin sharp 4k views of Seattle)

2 hours ago, FlyIce said:

None of my friends are into flight sims and I never tried to get them interested either as to me the flightsim is just my personal hobby. But MSFS is so revolutionary and just for the sake of giving them the chance to escape this depressing pandemic by touring the virtual world it is worth my little effort to get my friends to have a look at the MSFS.

I think the easiest and the best thing is to show them couple awesome MSFS videos to get them hooked, but there are so many youtube videos now I have a hard time to decide which one will be the best one to showcase. Any suggestions?

Maybe this one, by Squirrel, with multiplayer bush flying.

 

 

14 hours ago, odourboy said:

Got a link?

 

As a long-time flight simmer, going back decades, I repeatedly found that when I demonstrated the program (FSX in recent years) to friends, the usual reaction was that it was "interesting" or "cool", or other polite noises, but few people were really appreciative. Most folks were surprised to find that their house, or some other building, was not there. In other words, few people have any understanding of the gargantuan challenge of reproducing the earth in realistic detail, or the impossibility of storing that much data on a home computer even if it were available. So I stopped giving demos. I wonder if the reaction to MSMS will be any different? Frankly, I don't care.

What's the name of the airport in the preview event vid ?

What's the name of the airport in the preview event vid ?

1 hour ago, FPStewy said:

What's the name of the airport in the preview event vid ?

Its Renton airport.  (KRNT)