I've been putting off getting MSFS_2020 due to some negative reviews and reports of update issues over the past year.

I posted the following stunning video on a flight forum a few weeks ago before I got the sim, but one veteran commentator wrote it off as just eye-candy, with unrealistic flight dynamics .

I'm happy to say that having finally got the sim its as good as it looks, and handles pretty well for such a new release.

* How is everyone else getting on with it?
* Points out of 10 please for visuals and flight realism?
* PC or Xbox? 

Landing in Most Dangerous Airport! Microsoft Flight Simulator [Bhutan]

https://youtu.be/UtAF1I_H01w?t=562

 

It's good now, but there have been some issues with updates and fixes, but it's getting better all the time.  I had enough of FSX about 5 years ago and had given up on simming, but MSFS has got me well and truly hooked again.  The visuals are fantastic and what flying is really about for me.

I'm a glider pilot and lapsed PPL in the RW and have been flight simming since FS2.

Yes, some improvements tweaks and fixes are still needed, but this sim is something I knew would happen one day back in the early 1990s.

PC.

 

Get yourself the Bonanza mod with the NXi with some freeware scenery and you'll never look back

 

17 minutes ago, cianpars said:

Yes, some improvements tweaks and fixes are still needed, but this sim is something I knew would happen one day back in the early 1990s.

Good post. Thanks.

4 minutes ago, fakeflyer737 said:

Get yourself the Bonanza mod with the NXi with some freeware scenery and you'll never look back

 

Bonanza mod sounds good.  

30 minutes ago, FlightSpinner said:

Bonanza mod sounds good.  

Nxi mod too cant live without it 

Get the PMDG DC6. That will really step your flying skills up a few notches. 

1 hour ago, cianpars said:

I'm a glider pilot and lapsed PPL in the RW and have been flight simming since FS2.

Make sure you check this one out then. 🙂

14 minutes ago, Chock said:

Make sure you check this one out then. 🙂

Nice plane (and lifelike circular scratching on the canopy). 
Nice video, but as  headphones user, you might have warned me about the loud record scratch noise at the start of the vid ;-)

1 hour ago, Bobsk8 said:

Get the PMDG DC6. That will really step your flying skills up a few notches. 

Thanks Bob.

But as my name implies, I've a way to go yet. ;-)

3 hours ago, FlightSpinner said:

but one veteran commentator wrote it off as just eye-candy, with unrealistic flight dynamics .

The 'eye-candy' comments are just their way of dismissing the value of flying thru a real world, versus the paint-by-numbers land-class garbage they have to cope with and pay $1000 to try to overcome. MSFS has been out now, on two platforms, for a grand total of 13.5 months now, whereas the others sims the veteran shill commentator is still trying to support over two decades now.  Of note:  the really innovative, really hard part, is mostly done now in MSFS, including unbelievably good performance on a wide array of systems.  The easy stuff, fine-tuning various aspects of the sim, the ATC, flight modeling, AI aircraft, is largely what's left, and there is hardly anything innovative required for these aspects since it's very well known and has been done before.  MS/A had a gargantuan task to port this to two platforms even though they share a similar OS.   Upcoming for MSFS is a major weather update to come describes as 'impressive', plus the PMDG 737 NG is due out in a couple of months.   Real world pilots, not simmers posing as RWP, will often tell you they prefer MSFS over the others because once again, those 'eye-candy' attributes are what separate a 'flight simulator', from a 'cockpit simulator' that more aptly describes P3D, IMHO of course 

14 minutes ago, Noel said:

The 'eye-candy' comments are just their way of dismissing the value of flying thru a real world, versus the paint-by-numbers land-class garbage they have to cope with and pay $1000 to try to overcome. 

Well said. But I seem to remember the guy who made the 'eye candy' comment was a developer at loggerheads with Microsoft current 3rd party policy, who had abandoned MS2020 for that very reason. So some sour grapes there perhaps..

Real world pilots, not simmers posing as RWP, will often tell you they prefer MSFS over the others because once again, those 'eye-candy' attributes are what separate a 'flight simulator', from a 'cockpit simulator' that more aptly describes P3D, IMHO of course

True. But no mention of X-plane there! ;-)  

Absolutely loving msfs, granted there are some minor issues, but the issues are no major enough for me not to enjoy it..Liking it so much I Haven’t touched any other sim since msfs released.

Edited October 2, 20214 yr by flyinpilot212121

1 hour ago, flyinpilot212121 said:

Liking it so much I Haven’t touched any other sim since msfs released.

That's a good advert for the new sim.

Happy flights

4 hours ago, FlightSpinner said:

Bonanza mod sounds good.  

I may be getting confused here... is the one below the same as the turbo mod version?

https://flightsim.to/file/21221/bonanza-g36-improvement-project

https://msfsaddons.com/2020/10/23/bonanza-turbo-v2-a-free-and-highly-improved-mod-of-the-default-bonanza-g36/

Edited October 2, 20214 yr by bofhlusr
Added link.