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I've seen real air traffic, but it seemed to be delayed compared to flight radar, probably about 5 minutes behind. If they actually used flight radar data then they probably would have gotten better results.

Ye doesn't work if you plan a 8 hour flight, but won't be doing that anytime soon anyway :P.

Ok well at least the lag issue is now confirmed as being FSUIPC7 beta, closed that off. Far too laggy.

Literally tried it for the first time today, I saved and closed off flight sim, thinking I was gonna install FSUIPC7. Then realised FSUIPC7 no longer needs to be installed, started everything back up, loaded the flight and experienced three big problems: 1. The FPS just went and pooped itself, don't know if it is FSUIPC or the load that caused that though. Ended up abandoning the flight as it was so bad. 2. Not everything loaded back properly, I had a route planned to Birmingham airport in my Cessana 172 and it just disappeared. There was no pink line anymore. 3. The weather toolbar just disappeared and when I tried to enable it again, it wouldn't let me, I was annoyed because the clouds around me had disappeared and the barometric pressure had changed to 2992, it seems I couldn't carry on using the weather that was there at the time or carry on using live weather right now.

"Rushed" is the word that comes to mind, I got access yesterday for the first time and was very disappointed to immediately notice bugs and issues. The game seems nice though, a significant improvement over X-Plane, but far from perfect. I need a better PC spec to be able to run it on good graphics though.

So as we are close now, I am wondering if anyone knows what time the release is going to happen. I remember Microsoft advertising you will be able to pre-load the game if you pre-order it or get the Xbox Game Pass, but it seems that is not the case anymore? So does anyone know what time we will actually be able to start the download and what time it will actually be playable?

I am wondering, now that add-ons are going to be through the MS Store (I assume this will be the case with all major add-ons like PMDG), if we play multiplayer will we see the add-ons exactly as they should be or will they be replaced by an alternative default aircraft?

Can anyone help explain what the pricing model is? Is it literally just like FSX was, multiple tiers of buy it. There is no subscription right?

Ye I kinda agree with the clouds, they seemed to be much better in earlier previews I've seen, not sure why they look so cartoony in this one. Maybe it's because they are being viewed through the cockpit glass.

Just watching the IFR episode now and is it me or does it seem laggy at times? I guess they are using 2080 Ti's but seems like they still are not powerful enough to handle this sim?

Haven't been up to date with Flight Sim for a couple months, is there better chance of being selected for Alpha now? Looks like I still don't have any e-mail, despite signing up on the first day 😞 - any others in the same position? Also, was there no tech update yesterday?

So what is the verdict? very good sim? yes? no? maybe? I don't know...

Pretty sure they don't want anyone to sign up yet, hence why they have hidden that link. When sign ups are actually open it will be automatically approved via e-mail, the human verification step is only there to prevent people from getting access.

How do we know you are real? lol Tell us about FSX please :P.

That literally made my jaw drop, looks like a very well done and detailed model. Awesome job Microsoft / Asobo.

You don't understand what insider trading is lol, to answer your question, no it is not insider trading. For starters the information has to be internal to MS.

I don't think so, X-Plane as far as I understand can already model the entire world based on real world data. Asobo is doing exactly the same thing, albeit late and in better detail as they have more detailed data to work with. It works well for flight simulation where you look at the generated objects from great distance, but it does not work well for a first person game, a driving game, etc. The detail level is no where near that and being able to achieve that is going to take a lot more time. It's not impossible but we are still very far from being able to do that (or even having the hardware to be able to handle that).

I'm pretty sure you are not the first person to think of this, devs would have thought and dreamed about this many times. But the truth is, although everyone wants it, it's not so easy to do. Remodelling the entire world in good enough detail is just an insane task, that I think would take more time and money than any company could afford. What MS has done is actually a great step closer to that dream, by utilising bing data, but even that will have massive limitations (especially as you get closer to the ground and realise how much more work it still needs).

The truth is the alpha testing selection was a massive anti-climax. Everyone had a date in their diary and dreamt of what could be, the date came and many didn't get in and even the ones who did still had to wait weeks. Not a critisim of MS, I am glad they have given us target dates and weekly updates. But I guess people realise that they can step back and get on with their lives as it will be a lot longer before they get their hands on this new sim.

I'm Alpha Testing right now. Testing my patience that is. Testing... Testing... Testing... Test failing... Test failing...... Test failing!!!!!!!! TEST FAILED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GIVE ME ACCESS NOW MICROSOFT!

Basically, anyone who didn't get into Tech Alpha 1 can now expect to be playing MSFS at the earliest in December IF you manage to get into Tech Alpha 2. That's how I understand it anyway. No mention about Tech Alpha 1 but pretty sure it will happen well before 2 as they originally intended.

Think it is MS who release it? Doubt the French will be working at this time.

Lol, calm down. I clearly made the statement bold to show what I was referring to, let me paste it here again: "It is a fallacy to think that making use of unused equipment in a datacentre has no cost associated with it." Who said this and where? You still have not answered this question. You don't like people making generic statements like "It is a fallacy to assume Azure runs at maximum capacity" when you didn't say that? Oh I wonder why I made it 🤔? Isn't that some what ironic? Next time, before you go off on one putting words into peoples mouths and then arguing it, maybe you should read what they actually wrote.

No one said that at any point, way to twist someones words. Also, you clearly don't have a clue what is required to run a platform like Azure, they have to buy and install equipment that has to sit around being unused. The whole point of big corporations putting things in the "cloud" is so they can upscale for those rare moments and descale and not worry about what to do with all the unused equipment in their business as usual. But the data center owners do. The whole concept means that most of the time they have huge amounts of unused extra capcity which is ready for any large upscaling at this very second. You think a full capacity data center can do that? Ha, you don't have a clue. It is a fallacy to assume Azure runs at maximum capacity and as soon as new capacity is added it is immediately being used by something on an ongoing basis.