New MSFS 2024 Trailer - Release date: 11/19/2024

[Sky_Pilot071]

37 minutes ago, Sweetd31 said:

IDK about yal but when it comes to weather I just go into Metar-taf.com and plug in the weather stations by hand. Doesn't take but like 5 minutes. I don't see the purpose of buying or relying on the weather engine 

How much does it cost?

sp

[Sweetd31]

It's free https://metar-taf.com/ 

You just have to manually set up custom weather in game 

[andy1252]

20 hours ago, bonchie said:

Would I normally research some backwoods Aussie strip or where to go hot-air balloon in Africa?

Not criticising your post at all, @bonchie, but I saw that line and just wanted to say that this is pretty much exactly how I do use the sim. I either have areas where I know the scenery is simply amazing, or I'll look on the map (or Google Earth) and think - "that looks like it might be interesting", or maybe I'll see a new little airstrip available for sale or on flightsim.to. Pick a plane, whatever I feel like using, sometimes appropriate, sometimes not. Jump in and go exploring. Record a flight while sitting in the cockpit with all the waypoints and POI markers on, just following my nose. Then turn the markers off for the replay, where I will spend almost all the flight in outside views or paused and exploring with the drone cam - grabbing screenshots all the time. And not just in out of the way places - pick an interesting major airport, use a big tin tube, and have fun with GSX and explore the airport and surrounds with the drone. Sometimes I might even push back and take off, but I will hardly ever actually then do a "proper" flight. Mostly I'll just "esc" out of the sim after a couple of minutes. Arrivals are the same but in reverse (start the flight mid air a few miles out).

And then there are things like flying F-111s to Libya, taking Chinooks around SE Asia etc if I feel like using military aircraft. I recently did a mini-recreation of a Red Arrows display over my hometown on the day after their actual airshow.

This sim is already effectively packed with missions. And I've got to say I won't personally be bothered about using any specific missions in 2024, but it will be nice to have a whole new set of aircraft or facilities to just play around with on my own.

[El Diablito]

30 minutes ago, andy1252 said:

Not criticising your post at all, @bonchie, but I saw that line and just wanted to say that this is pretty much exactly how I do use the sim. I either have areas where I know the scenery is simply amazing, or I'll look on the map (or Google Earth) and think - "that looks like it might be interesting", or maybe I'll see a new little airstrip available for sale or on flightsim.to. Pick a plane, whatever I feel like using, sometimes appropriate, sometimes not. Jump in and go exploring. Record a flight while sitting in the cockpit with all the waypoints and POI markers on, just following my nose. Then turn the markers off for the replay, where I will spend almost all the flight in outside views or paused and exploring with the drone cam - grabbing screenshots all the time. And not just in out of the way places - pick an interesting major airport, use a big tin tube, and have fun with GSX and explore the airport and surrounds with the drone. Sometimes I might even push back and take off, but I will hardly ever actually then do a "proper" flight. Mostly I'll just "esc" out of the sim after a couple of minutes. Arrivals are the same but in reverse (start the flight mid air a few miles out).

And then there are things like flying F-111s to Libya, taking Chinooks around SE Asia etc if I feel like using military aircraft. I recently did a mini-recreation of a Red Arrows display over my hometown on the day after their actual airshow.

This sim is already effectively packed with missions. And I've got to say I won't personally be bothered about using any specific missions in 2024, but it will be nice to have a whole new set of aircraft or facilities to just play around with on my own.

I still have a downloaded Bush Trip of last year's Tour De France which I haven't gotten around to yet

[JBDB-MD80]

10 hours ago, Sky_Pilot071 said:

How much does it cost?

sp

IF you have to ask that question you can't afford it.

[Sweetd31]

7 hours ago, JBDB-MD80 said:

IF you have to ask that question you can't afford it.

LMAO... it is a free website, ignore this person. 

[Sky_Pilot071]

2 hours ago, Sweetd31 said:

LMAO... it is a free website, ignore this person. 

Looks good.  Half the fun of MSFS is doing your own weather.

sp

[Fielder]

A closer look at the eye candy in the 2024 trailer. Back and forth from 2020 to 2024 at the same places. Sorry, not about the weather or clouds...

 

[Shack95]

Two other places from the first trailer that are also shown in the video.

Grand Canyon:

Verbier, Switzerland:

[ca_metal]

On 6/17/2024 at 3:56 AM, Shack95 said:

Two other places from the first trailer that are also shown in the video.

Grand Canyon:

Verbier, Switzerland:

I think it is too soon to conclude, but I feel the greenish tint from 2020 is gone in the 2024.

[Sweetd31]

FSexpo 2024 is payware 🙃 anybody watching tell us something exciting

[lwt1971]

39 minutes ago, Sweetd31 said:

FSexpo 2024 is payware 🙃 anybody watching tell us something exciting

The MS/Asobo related presentations will be livestreamed and placed on their YT and other channels:
Saturday presentation on MSFS 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6riRXgRsCU
Sunday presentation on MSFS marketplace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfA0NHuPlT8

I'd assume other major devs will also place their presentations and related info on their channels/forums/etc right after presenting at FSExpo.

FSElite is live streaming today's announcements seminar at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsuBNiyjtn4&list=TLGGWbWEEB8RTeYyMTA2MjAyNA
 

Edited June 21 by lwt1971

[Krakin]

I think Seb and Jorg will be on a mission to set the record straight tomorrow. I expect Jorg to drop a, "what is wrong with you guys?" at some point lol.

[Tuskin38]

Unrelated to 2024, but Navigraph is also announcing something tonight at FSEXPO

Edited June 21 by Tuskin38

[Baber20]

On 6/19/2024 at 1:05 AM, ca_metal said:

I think it is too soon to conclude, but I feel the greenish tint from 2020 is gone in the 2024.

Looking at those shots, msfs2024 makes msfs2020 looks like fsx.