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#4491097 - 10/02/19 08:30 AM Re: 4K flight simulator footage, jaw droping [Re: Blade_RJ]  
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I'm liking what I see so far. We all have our micro-bugbears, be it trees or buildings or whatever, for me it's clouds. I had Active Skies for FSX and absolutely adored it. I'm excited to see such development in the skies alone for this smile


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#4491124 - 10/02/19 01:32 PM Re: 4K flight simulator footage, jaw droping [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
OH it's a civilian flight sim. Yawn.


I can understand that sentiment, especially when playing combat flight sims like DCS for a long time.

However, being a real pilot, I take interest in this because there are days when I simply can't get out to fly due to weather or whatever else and with a civilian flight sim, I can still at least practice techniques or good in-cockpit habits, and especially instrument procedures such as approaches, en route IFR cruise, DPs, STARs, etc etc. And I can do it anywhere in the world, not just in the Caucuses or Persian Gulf, or Vegas or Normandy. I can also add live weather which looks really great with Active Sky 2016.

Don't get me wrong, I love flying combat flight sims, but things like instrument approaches are somewhat limited if not by the lack of good instrument charts or in some cases even a shore ILS-capable aircraft (I'm looking at you, Navy aircraft! But I love you anyway!), or live weather, and even just the location is limited because these sims are meant for combat more than flying from point a to point b. That's why even though I fly ALOT of DCS, I still do fly quite a bit in FSX and besides, I can fly my F-14A/B/D and F/A-18E in FSX and have a little fun shooting stuff down there too (although limited).

Sometimes I just want to fly a Cessna or Tomcat into the ILS 9 approach to Ohare in a snowy Chicago winter day and pat myself on the back for a great, safe approach...I can't do that at all in DCS.

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#4491220 - 10/03/19 02:45 AM Re: 4K flight simulator footage, jaw droping [Re: Pooch]  
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Originally Posted by Pooch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj8h6yibHHc

A detailed look at the sim, from frooglesim.


Anyone who hasn't watched this video has no idea what they're speculating about.

All other flightsims just became as obsolete as Windows 95. The only way that's not true is if somehow this never is released.

#4491316 - 10/03/19 06:43 PM Re: 4K flight simulator footage, jaw droping [Re: Blade_RJ]  
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The notion of Google maps on this? Apparently not too far off. Bing maps is what is used:

https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/30/flight-simulator-2020-hands-on-pre-alpha/

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#4491384 - 10/04/19 05:28 AM Re: 4K flight simulator footage, jaw droping [Re: bones]  
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Originally Posted by bones
The notion of Google maps on this? Apparently not too far off. Bing maps is what is used:

https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/30/flight-simulator-2020-hands-on-pre-alpha/

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That is just one part of what's being used. That is NOTHING.

To anyone interested in true flight simulation - watch the entirety of the video Pooch posted.

Anyone else? Stay with what now qualifies as "Video Games".

Don't get me wrong - I've had various iterations of DCS, MSFS, X-Plane, and more...

That's all Win95 tech now...

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