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The buildings are auto generated by the mod together with Bing maps satellite images. Any airfield not specifically modelled by the developers will only have a vague similarity to reality. The explains the situation fairly well: https://www.eurogamer.net/flight-simulator-airport-list-standard-deluxe-premium-hand-crafted-airport-listed-7043 CJ

After seeing me fly MSFS on my XBOX with Thrustmaster One HOTAS my cousin went off and bought an XBOX with the same stick purely to learn how to fly. XBOX is so much cheaper than a PC of even close spec and Games Pass make it so cheap to own the base MSFS as well as being to able to add the Deluxe packs etc. My cousin has not even owned a console before. I suspect that this is not un common. I myself have moved from MSFS on high end laptop which ran it perfectly at 1080p to me Series X which runs it even better at 4K. Further it required no extra software payment at all as I already owned it via Games Pass on the PC and also my Deluxe upgrade ownership is shared for free across the two platforms. It seems to me that to maximise your sales of MSFS products of any type - hardware or software then you are going to want to support XBOX console too. CJ

What PMDG and MS has found, in this case, is that the XBOX dev kits that are suppose to be the same as the XBOX itself for testing are not performing the same way. When PMDG tested on the dev kit it worked fine. This situation, the difference, is very unusual in console development. CJ

Just looking at the two screenshots of the runway - developer shot versus Guenseli - the former is clearly using different textures for the grass as the grass is a lot greener in the developer pics. CJ

Ever been on Soarin' at Disney? CJ

I use a 60" LG Oled with my XBOX Series X. It is stunning. Had the screen for about 3 years and no sign of any burn in and used every day. My cousin came round the other day and left with the full intention of buying the same system to play MSFS she was so blown away by it. It did help, as it is our business, that it also had a state of the art surround sound hifi system too. CJ

Form = How it looks Function = What it does That is what I meant. CJ

Now this is a proper down the pub discussion. Imo the F-35 looks a lot better - the sort of plane Batman would fly, The Harrier is too functional and not enough form.

You are a bit out of date with Harriers, it is F-35s now on British Carriers

Me too. Suspect Martin has made a mistake somewhere. CJ

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Read the instruction above. You drop the exe in the Ships folder which you have already placed in the community folder. You then drag and drop the layout.json on top of the exe file in the folder. It works brilliantly, very impressed. The wake needs a little work for full beauty but the ships are great CJ

I don't think so!!! In the drving sim world Gran Turismo Sport for the Playstation has by far the biggest global championship.

Also bear in mind that it will be the same Marketplace when the XBOX version of the game is released and that is a very mature environment with respect to DLC pricing. Further if you thought there were a large number of new people playing the sim now that is nothing to the numbers when it is released for XBOX. Remember with the latter the Marketplace will be the ONLY place to buy new content. CJ

I am an inexperienced flight simmer but am gaining expereince rapidly. Am an engineer and came from a vast amount of driving sim expereince. I did find Mir // Flightbeams comment extremely arrogant. CJ