Thanks for posting that.  Good info.

Real world pilot, 23,000 hours, XPlane user.  "MSFS flight model doesn't suck."  "The scenery is compelling." 

Not bad. 🙂 

Hook

whats new? some say the flightmodel is yuck, others say it sosos, others say its good.

is all personal opinions(mainly), what matter is : does the flightmodel work for me...and i can say for me it does. some

rough patches here and there, but very well and believable flyable.

 

1 minute ago, wim123 said:

whats new? some say the flightmodel is yuck, others say it sosos, others say its good.

Just a guess, but the people who like the flight model are flying GA aircraft.  The people who don't are flying jets.

Hook

Never ask a pilot to comment of flight simulator flight dynamics 🙂

Edited August 24, 20205 yr by jcomm

If he likes the FS2020 airliner flight dynamics, then I wonder what he thinks about Xplane. Because the difference is night and day. IMO they should be close if both did their job well. It's not about "personal taste" 

Edited August 24, 20205 yr by flightsim1818

3 minutes ago, flightsim1818 said:

If he likes the FS2020 airliner flight dynamics, then I wonder what he thinks about Xplane. Because the difference is night and day. IMO they should be close if both did their job well. It not about "personal taste" 

He hasn't reviewed the airliners

23,000 hours on jets, with the autopilot. Hours in actual manual control of the aeroplane: Ten and a half. 🤣

Edited August 24, 20205 yr by Chock

That avionics flashing happens if you bump the ignition key to "start" while in flight.

No idea if that's realistic - but its the cause of the issue in the sim.

I would love to see a video on what Austin Meyers thinks about MFS.

great video my opinion exactly !!!! 

3 minutes ago, captain420 said:

I would love to see a video on what Austin Meyers thinks about MFS.

Perhaps the most unbiased opinion yet?

All kidding aside, flight model works in some planes pretty good (in avg situtions), in others not so much. It's not the general GA flight model that has too many issues, it's mostly under extreme conditions where the flight model fails.

The stock 172 in MFS to me flies and feels word not allowed near identical to the stock 172 in XPlane. I felt right at home with it.

The TBM in MFS feels fantastic to hand fly. Can't comment on how accurate the performance is. Can't comment on how it compares to the TBM XPlane payware either, that was the next aircraft I was going to buy...

Overall at this point the MFS aircraft feel to me like they are in various shades of alpha/beta, with the 172 feeling the most 'finished'. Lots of issues with the AP panels in the TBM for example.

Meanwhile the view outside the window continues to absolutely floor me.

14 hours ago, LHookins said:

Just a guess, but the people who like the flight model are flying GA aircraft.  The people who don't are flying jets.

Hook

Yes spot on, I haven't touched any jet as I know they won't compare to pmdg and same in other sims but the c152 and c172 default are pretty good

Flight model feel in the GA is pretty great.  The jets need more work in a lot of facets.  Some atmospheric things need to be tweaked a bit, because the impact is a little extreme (ie. icing).

The reality is that you could ask ten people with ten different backgrounds in real flight what they think of the flight model, and probably get 10 different responses right now.  The major points of agreement seem to be that GA is pretty good, and airliners are not.  Though with the airliners it's a bigger issue of the avionics, etc.