Man. I spent about 4 hours just flying the X-Cub around in mountains between Bozeman and Yellowstone. My original goal was to overfly Yellowstone. Never made it, was too busy gawping at the scenery on the way and occasionally landing in meadows just because I could. .

Airliner systems need a lot of work, the more advanced autopilots need a lot of work, ATC and live weather need a lot of work (or at least a lot more server capacity), and someone needs to calm the control inputs down so I can zoom in and out in the cockpit at a sane rate. But I never in all the years I've been simming, which I started doing back when it was SubLogic, spent so much time low and slow in VFR. That experience is absolutely brilliant in this sim. I initially got into higher-end airliners like Leonardo and PMDG because flying near the ground was so drab and boring in FSX/P3d. I can easily see myself spending a ton of time doing it in this sim, even after PMDG and the other heavy hitters get some planes out. This is the first sim I've used that will make bush flying actually feel like you're flying in the bush. Awesome.

 

 

I am glad Asobo released this instead of postponing for months just to get the known bugs worked out that, in my opinion, do not affect gameplay drastically.  I would much rather play it now, than having to endure more waiting.

Edited August 20, 20205 yr by Heli

This is what MS Flight was trying to be but the technology just wasn't there yet.

The technology and the will weren't there yet. I've never seen anything cancelled so quickly out of the gate. Yeah, Flight had lots of problems (some core ones much more severe than anything I've seen in MSFS) but I think if MS had stayed with it it might have developed into a decent sim.