21 minutes ago, Simjockey said:

I love the feeling of dread knowing that the airframe at -10C is going to ice up as I descend into a beautiful, scary overcast (and it does!) in mountainous terrain, hoping for the occasional glimpse of the terrain (thinking - I wonder how soft those trees really are - if I hit them?) to stay safe and on-course down to finals - AWESOME!

Had the most awesome flight yesterday into Switzerland..  actually it was an OnAir jobby to a small airport...   heres the challenge...    couldn't fly over the mountains...  all cloud capped and temp was below freezing and the Cessna 172 doesn't like icing 🙂  Cloud base at 7000ft with mountain tops > 9000 in places..   runway in a valley at 5,500 ft.   In the end, my approach was to take a long detour, flying through river valleys and through one mountain pass..  and then following the river to the airfield.   Was a wonderful trip in the end and fascinating having to literally fly the whole route by hand through the valleys and then do a 180 between the mountains for the correct landing direction. 🙂

Graham

Edited October 19, 20205 yr by Moria15

the SDK 😈

1) Free High Resolution Megascenery with autogen Trees (dense) and autogen buildings far more accurate for the whole world

2) Environment and 3D clouds and amazing 3d Clouds and rain effects and snow etc for free (or default)

3) No need for buying HD of humanogous TB size for sceneries.

4) For the first time I am flying in India cause I have good real world landscape there...if not good airport addons as yet.

5) I am actually liking the default ATC. Lot better that what we had in FSX and P3D.

6) Enjoying the Drone feature to view addon airports.

7) Enjoying the A320 Neo with freeware update. I can wait for the PMDG since I have an Airliner to fly in MSFS.

😎 Overall eyecandy is fantastic.. I never expected such a good sceneries.

9) Still need addon airports...good too spoilt with good addon airport scenery for P3D and FSX

4 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

 

And I say this as somebody who hopes that P3D and XPlane can up their game to match MSFS.  If P3D and XPlane can generate the same graphics as MSFS, at the same FPS, and can use satellite data to generate actual terrain (not autogenerated terrain), at the same price as MSFS, then MSFS will have a competitor in 1 to 1.5 years. 

I agree completely. The only way they can compete is to generate real-world graphics on a par with MSFS, and I don't see any way realistically that this is going to happen. The task would be a monumental one, and they would be chasing a rapidly moving target -- it would likely take years just to get to where MS/Asobo are right now. The game has changed, as I see t.

I'm really amazed how much more FPS I get in this compared to FSX/P3D. The building and Tree density in MSFS would kill my FPS in P3D/FSX

Actual VFR flying.  Being able to fly and actually recognize not just streets, but buildings and other landmarks.  Plus, the performance on my 3 year old PC is amazing.  I can fly on high with FPS mostly in the 30s or higher. 

In past sims, I'd have to spend hundreds on mesh and landclass to get an approximate representation of an area, but even then it wasn't the same.  Now I can just fly anywhere and look out the window.  

Being able to fly approaches into my local airport and immediately recognizing the area.  It is just amazing.  

In other sims, I would never fly around my area much, because it was so dull.  There was little to look at.  Now I spend hours looking out the window and trying to figure out where I am without looking at the GPS.  

4 hours ago, Moria15 said:

Had the most awesome flight yesterday into Switzerland..  actually it was an OnAir jobby to a small airport...   heres the challenge...    couldn't fly over the mountains...  all cloud capped and temp was below freezing and the Cessna 172 doesn't like icing 🙂  Cloud base at 7000ft with mountain tops > 9000 in places..   runway in a valley at 5,500 ft.   In the end, my approach was to take a long detour, flying through river valleys and through one mountain pass..  and then following the river to the airfield.   Was a wonderful trip in the end and fascinating having to literally fly the whole route by hand through the valleys and then do a 180 between the mountains for the correct landing direction. 🙂

Graham

Check out the Idaho backcountry area and you'll have challenges like that everyday 🙂 dont you feel like a 100bucks completing those kind of flights? 🙂

8 minutes ago, kerosene31 said:

Actual VFR flying.  Being able to fly and actually recognize not just streets, but buildings and other landmarks.  Plus, the performance on my 3 year old PC is amazing.  I can fly on high with FPS mostly in the 30s or higher. 

In past sims, I'd have to spend hundreds on mesh and landclass to get an approximate representation of an area, but even then it wasn't the same.  Now I can just fly anywhere and look out the window.  

Being able to fly approaches into my local airport and immediately recognizing the area.  It is just amazing.  

In other sims, I would never fly around my area much, because it was so dull.  There was little to look at.  Now I spend hours looking out the window and trying to figure out where I am without looking at the GPS.  

Sometimes wish for more steam gauges aicraft WITHOUT gps. GpS is cheating ☺️

Love the proper VFR navigation, old style. And agreed, MSFS is a mind blower when it comes to that. 

I enjoy the amazing scenery detail around most of the world.  Its the best I have seen outside some very specific regional add-ons.  Being able to fly and enjoy VFR flight is awesome along with Bush flying.

21 minutes ago, kerosene31 said:

Actual VFR flying.  Being able to fly and actually recognize not just streets, but buildings and other landmarks.  Plus, the performance on my 3 year old PC is amazing.  I can fly on high with FPS mostly in the 30s or higher. 

In past sims, I'd have to spend hundreds on mesh and landclass to get an approximate representation of an area, but even then it wasn't the same.  Now I can just fly anywhere and look out the window.  

Being able to fly approaches into my local airport and immediately recognizing the area.  It is just amazing.  

In other sims, I would never fly around my area much, because it was so dull.  There was little to look at.  Now I spend hours looking out the window and trying to figure out where I am without looking at the GPS.  

I had 1,5TB "photoshoped" ortho-images and W2XP files for X-plane11. I have deleted everything together with XP11. Really don`t need them anymore. 😀

Edited October 19, 20205 yr by OSM

What I love about MSFS, this:

Freeware devs updating the world....giving us the coolest places to fly (Monument Valley here....paid for it in previous versions...still a wip, but looking fantastic so far...and LOVE the price!) 🙂

 

I am not a a true believer in MSFS by any means. Too much incomplete and/or not working yet.

That said, the performance of the sim at high graphics settings is really amazing. A huge and welcome surprise. 

Also the procedurally generated scenery is remarkably good. Suspect that some of the performance magic is actually scenery generation magic. 

The quality of models, aircraft, POI, etc. is stunning.

Agree with all of the above. Just tried the Baltic bush trip for the first time yesterday, and even with the bugs (leg completion, fuel...?!), I never thought I'd be enjoying a prebuilt sightseeing tour as much as I am. 

I agree with everyone here.  I'll just add it's the smoothest sim we've ever had in the community considering what we get in visuals. 

7 hours ago, OSM said:

Just was "switched off" to have a TRUE VFR experience and not be scared of low altitude! 😄

If your that close to the water IRL you would not be looking at the instruments 😄

The local crop dusting pilots here you would regularly clean their planes by flying low and dipping the wheels in the water of a local dam until the civil aviation authorities caught on and issued a cease and desist 😄  Pretty sure they were NOT watching the altimeter 😄

Edited October 19, 20205 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick