Back in the days when I start using flight simming software like FSX and XP 10, the default planes and scenery was less than mediocrity. What we have now for defaults was unimaginable ten years ago. New flight simmers can and will never appreciate that, which is understandable.
@@CanadianPonchman And further back still, for those of us who started with FS4 and earlier. A great dose of imagination was required just to take what was shown on screen as an "instrument panel" and as "outside scenery". For those of us who used that generation of MSFS, the current product is nothing short of science fiction.
Well, how about playing for hours on end in the original Bruce Artwick’s flight simulator with it’s lovely 10x10 grid, rendered at a sub 10 fps speed? 😅 I was in heaven even back then.
I made similar comments on your channel before about how we all bitch about msfs2020 but I couldn’t imagine it not existing now. There are many times when it’s truly breathtaking the tech for the scenery still amazes me how they get it to work so well. As someone who never had a chance to be a pilot due to medical condition I can honestly say without such products as this DCS and Xplane I would never have the chance to at least do as much as I can with my aviation interests. Would say that su14 apart from the download issues has been pretty good especially the SR22 which Im really enjoying its a great little plane. You cannot deny that Asobo and partners have updated the sim beyond all recognition although still plenty to improve on. I agree with everything you say plus creators and professionals such as yourself and talented devs add so much to the experience too. Thx to all who have contributed for what has become a golden age of Fsim experience. Thx for flight was a nice change from concentrating all day on flying in sim 😊
I fully agree, if you take the first release version of MSFS and compare it with what we have now it's like the difference between night and day. A whole new universe! They indeed did an amazing job and all the issues aside, it is a great simulator - probably the best we ever had. I can't wait for FS24 and what it will hopefully offer!
I started flying MSFS before Microsoft owned it. SubLogic back then. I started my own scenery company back in '95 as Safari Fliteware. The goal was to give us sim pilots better VFR views. We were the first outfit to utilize aerial photography (not satellite) in flight simulator. Back then, those images had to be reduced in colors to fit into a 256 color palette of which only some 120 colors could be used. Needless to say, we are long since gone from those days but I did fulfill my dreams of creating the first photoreal depiction of the Grand Canyon and many other great sites so they could be enjoyed by other sim pilots. Having worked on many sceneries in my time, I have an incredible respect for the developers at Asobo for the amazing accomplishments they've achieved and glad that I had a chance to contribute my own work to that end. It still amazes me to this day!
I have never talked crap about fs2020. When it was gone for more than a decade, I am still appreciative they brought it back to life at all. I have only been impressed and grateful for any and all updates.
I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments about Microsoft Flight Simulator. It's truly a remarkable platform that has opened up new possibilities for us. However, I would like to add one thing. Without your dedicated time and effort to teach us, we wouldn't be the pilots we are today. Your guidance has not only made us better sim pilots but also great content creators. We've learned to love Microsoft Flight Simulator beyond its normal usage because we've grown and improved through your teachings. For me, You and Microsoft Flight Simulator represent the pinnacle of this journey. I'm incredibly grateful for the chance to learn from you and to immerse myself in the beautiful world of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Thank you for everything!
I think it’s a very common phenomenon where people are never happy with something and never take a moment to step back and realize what we already have. Humans constantly want more and when we get that “more”, the dopamine wears off and we are going back to wanting more and never step back to be thankful for what we already have. And I feel it’s easier to see something bad and complaining about it rather than seeing something good and appreciating it. I struggle with doing this as well so I sometimes need to stop and realize everything I do have and be thankful for it.
This simulator is still amazing. I come from the times that one of the first versions ran on C64. Massive green was ground and massive blue was air LOL! We should all appreciate it so much how far Asobo and Microsoft have come. Great positive video Emanual.
wonderful to see such a positive video about the sim for a change. Despite numerous hardships especially early on, I'm really appreciative of what Asobo and Microsoft did and continue to do with this platform, I think it's wonderful. Thank you for the beautiful video!
Love you decision to remind us of how lucky we are to have this product all for a few tens of dollars. Towards the end of the video I started to thing of the idea to make two more videos showcasing in one some of the excellent freeware (perhaps a FBW or Headwind) with freeware airports etc and the second one showing the best of pay ware addons (Fenix or that other company you keep mentioning).
That’s an idea I’m also playing with for a while. Partially I did something the likes recently when I flew the Horizon Sim 789 to Dubai, both of which have excellent freeware mods.
What a GREAT video! I'm glad you made it. This weekend I flew IFR in IMC from KRYY (Cobb County, Ga.) to 24A (Silva, North Carolina). Visibility was 1.43 NM on takeoff, and the ceiling was just above the airport. AWESOME. I could see a few buildings moving below, in and out of thin spots in the clouds, and then even those disappeared. (I was in the A2A Comanche 250.) I leveled off at 9,000. As I approached my destination, the clouds really cleared away, just as I was beginning my approach. I admit, I was a little disappointed. But don't worry! As I approached the airport through the little valley between mountain ridges, the clouds loomed up ahead! Before I got there, the weather moved in. Heavy rain and low clouds and VERY little visibility. Like you . . . I was skeptical about what this sim would deliver, but NO MORE. I LOVE this sim. It feels and flies and now LOOKS realistic! Thanks again for this video! Edit: I flew in the U.S. Navy a long time ago. I was in VT-3 at North Whiting. The simulators we used had ZERO graphics, as they were only designed for instrument flight. They were on a platform that would move up and down, tilt left and right and yaw. Even so, we always wanted time on them, but since there were only a few simulator seats, they had to be checked out ahead of time like library books. They were so booked up, I never got a single chance to practice in them. If we had had MSFS 2020, we would have LIVED on it! No, you can't feel the feedback nor can you feel it moving, but the overall experience is AMAZINGLY accurate.
What a refreshing review with well deserved comments for the FS2020 crew. FS2020 is a phenomenal achievement. As an ex programmer myself I wouldn't know where to start to write something as great as FS2020. So thanks for doing the video and for having something good to say about FS2020.
I always appreciate MSFS whenever I start it up and especially its evolution within the 3 official years + the alpha/beta phase. It's always amazing to see what Asobo, a developer studio which had 0 experience with flight simulators and a pretty vague direction (it was not decided if the sim should become more arcade or more simulation from start) pulled off on the long run. I guess the best idea and greatest win was to make community members from Working Title part of the journey to work on avionics and also partnering with 3rd party developers like iniBuilds. This somewhat pushed to simulator into the "right" direction and more and more away from the arcade side of things. I also appreciate that Microsoft (so Jörg Neumann) pitched for the sim to get new and free aircraft - some may say most of them are just there to be uninstalled as they are "not realistically flying" but honestly I'll never be able to judge if the "Spruce Goose" is flying correctly or not BUT I love to be able to just see aircraft like this in action without spending tons of Euros. I'm really looking forward to see what's coming next year and if there maybe will something amazing for MSFS 2020s farewell when MSFS 2024 is going to be released (and also I'm looking forward to the 2024 iteration ofc).
Flying on MSFS 2020 helped me breeze through my first orientation flight last summer. The instructor could not believe it was my first flight ever until I told her I fly a lot on MSFS. She said she's met a lot of people that have used MSFS and had a very easy first flight. Also, this simulator is amazing when flying using VR. I flew the activity in Rio the other day and was so amazed when I approached the Cristo Redentor statue and when over the mountain and saw the drop. I was not expecting that.
MSFS is taking chair flying to another level - wish I had a tool when I was doing my training. Now I fly flights in MSFS before I do them IRL to help pick out landmarks (in combination with Google maps). It is such an incredible tool.
I’m probably gonna put myself under fire from a vocal part of the community but I really started appreciating MSFS2020 way more after I bought X-Plane 12. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a sim with some amazing physics and features but I didn’t realize how much I took for granted in MSFS - live weather working 99% of the times, default graphics looking realistic without any 3rd party magic AND running smoother on the same hardware, fantastic default avionics (infinite kudos to Working Title), constant stream of payware-quality world updates and the lowest entry bar ever considering it’s on Game Pass. I’ve become a dedicated airliner simmer in the past 3 years and I would have NEVER picked up the hobby in the first place - never mind spending hundreds of $ on it - if not for that MSFS “wow” factor out of the box. I cannot wait for 2024, especially in such a thriving community of devs and simmers.
I'm still quite amazed how beautiful this sim looks and performs. Even with my old Dell Precision T3600 with Xeon processor, MSFS performs well above what I was getting in P3D. Great video! We all need to stop and appreciate how far we have come in regards to flight simulation.
FS2020 truly is phenomenal. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we'd get a simulator that looks like this. Just one piece of constructive criticism - my flight instructor always told me you don't rotate a small aircraft, you simply apply light backward pressure. Rotating would likely cause a stall. Great landing BTW!
Just yesterday I was flying a Transavia B738SSW AMS-SZG. A beautiful sunrise inflight, followed by a challenging RNAV Approach to RWY33 in gusting wind conditions. Afterwards I really felt so happy with our MSFS. Thx a lot for this vid! You being german and myself being austrian (viennese to be exactly), we both know how easy it is to get into this arguing state of mind. Yes, there are a few things like the 2d wx radar and some other shortcomings, but hey...isn't it still by far the best flightsim in history? I'd say yes without thinking about it!!
ever since I started sim flying,over 20 years ago I have been constantly flying around the world. When I saw msfs 2020 I fell in love with the sim. There is a real reverence for the earth and its atmosphere and weather. It is inspirational for me. When i get a plane that is half finished i see it as a black mark on a beautiful sim. Those developers that do that do not understand. It is about flying but also about the incredible complex nature of our planet and the amazing work done to bring it to life in the sim. A crappy plane is just a dirty smear on such awesome work. They have no business in being in it and they do not even understand that they have no place in such magnificent work. Thank you for taking the time to praise all the people that have given us such a beautiful sim. I love your videos
Nice video. 👍👍Yes FS is good and beautiful. I am more like fast jets, GA aircraft and landing challenges, not real pilot, but I did several flights at the commands of small aircraft with a pilot of course. With my limited experience I can say FS is brilliant. At an airshow in Sion, Switzerland in 2017, I was lucky to try the German Luftwaffe Typhoon simulator and it was brilliant. The German Luftwaffe Typhoon simulator personnel were surprised I could do loops, rolls, etc. And I can say the CJ Simulations Typhoon is very good. And when a real pilot like you says what you say about FS, we know FS is not just a "game". Most people I tell about FS think it is just beautiful BS...
Thank you very much for this video. I have been using versions of MSFS for 40 years. Your video reminds us to appreciate and ENJOY what we have with MSFS 2020, rather than focusing so much on what we don’t have. 😊Above all else MSFS should be fun. 😎
as a complete platform end to end, this is the top of the simming mountain and like other platforms it is evolving. so we have a lot to look forward to a honest video that gives you a passion for aviation, not just flight simulation your channel is part of this platform for me. Thank you.
My dad and I used to always wonder when the simulators were going to "look like real pictures." That was back in the FS95-FS98 days. :) Oh how far we've come!
I don't know why people are complaining all the time. The team is delivering updates at regular interval and trying to improve the sim with each update. Take FSX for example, no updates after it was released. Live with whatever you got including bugs and functionalities. MSFS team on the other hand is putting a lot of effort to cover all the areas as we know people have different taste, some like airliners while some like GA. It's not easy to satisfy all sim players. Appreciate the work!
I completely agree, MSFS is a beautiful game. We shouldn't expect study-level simulation in a software that is ultimately a game. The realism in terms of scenery however is what makes this so enjoyable. It allows me to visit loved places like my home, girlfriend's house, favourite parks etc etc
It’s one of the best games that has evened been created. I’d probably say for an aviation fan and pilot myself this is the best game that’s even been made. To be able to fly anywhere on the planet is insane
I flew my first cessna 152 in the year 2000 with no glass cockpit of course , only basic nav radios. Prior to that I had played the old flight sim 98.. Definitely made me quick to understand how the analog gauges worked. That way I could focus on vfr and actually flying the plane.
Very well deserved praise for MS, Asobo and every single person involved in building this little miracle. I sometimes wonder where they get the energy to continue when I see the incessant and unjustified whinning. Might I add this video further places you, our dear Emanuel, as one of the top content creators for our beloved hobby. 😊
You are totally right. When it started it was a bit disappointing with all the bugs and the lack of high fidelity planes. But nowadays it can't be denied it has become one of the best, if not the best sim and it's only getting better. It's a joy to fly like this.
Thanks for this, nice to see someone being positive for a change. Is MSFS 2020 perfect? Obviously not. But as someone who has been simming since the days of the original SubLogic Flight Simulator on Apple II & TRS-80 it is truly amazing to me how far things have come. It can be breathtakingly beautiful, who would have thought not that long ago that you might just go for a sim flight to sightsee? A wonderful sim, and I am excited to see how it improves with MSFS 2024.
Asobo has got way too much flak from UA-camrs, influencers and forum users over the years. Asobo and anything "default" has somehow been connected to "bad", "unrealistic" and "limited". Some people tend to make it look as if the simulator was completely useless without modding absolutely every aspect of it. It's nice to see someone actually appreciate MSFS basically redefining what "default" means in flight simming. Very good video, thank you!
Thank you! I can definitely see where those connections came from though, if we think back to the avionics and default aircraft in the first release of MSFS and compare those with what they are now, then there’s a huge difference. The aircraft and avionics updates, as well as the world updates, are what imo turned the sim into what it is now. At the same time though it’s still worth noting how excellent the standard sat scenery is and how good the weather has always been.
Congratulations on being selected for the final featured Community Video of 2023 by the MSFS2020 team! They definitely saved the best for last😊 I'm glad to see you receiving the recognition you deserve. I always look forward to the next video that you create, and I'm sure many others do as well. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into your content. Greatly appreciated! Pops McDaddyo
Good video. I share your enthusiasm. It's all too easy to be hung up on bugs and as-yet unfulfilled wishlists, but as you quite correctly point out, we could all take a while to appreciate what a great product the sim is, right here and now. For those of us who like me came from MSFS in the 80s, it is sometimes hard to to believe this is not science fiction. The future has arrived.
I think ppl forget just 1 year before MSFS2020 was surprisingly announced.....we thought our little hobby's support from Microsoft was done! Little did we know what they had in store for us! What a time to be a flight simmer!!!
I agree with all your comments in this video. What an amazing time we live in to have this level of technology in our living rooms at such an affordable cost. The ability to travel anywhere in the world, to own and fly hundreds of million dollar aircraft, to learn how to operate them in such a realistic way, to be able to experience flight in such a realistic way. How greatly we have been blessed and how thankful we should be!
Thanks so much for this video and your perspectives about MSFS 2020. I really hate when people just bitch about it. Yes, if there are issues, sure make your complaint and seek a solution, but just bitching about it is not productive. I belong to several MSFS groups, and I am slowly leaving them because of people's negativity. I have been doing this since the first edition of MSFS in 1983, and I really appreciate the progress.
I absolutely love MSFS and consider it my main sim. But ever since getting the Felis 747-200 in the Black Friday sale, I haven't booted up MSFS once. I can't wait for the day when MSFS 20 (or 24 probably) has options like the A340-600 or 747-200.
Even with all the addons you could purchase in the past. I don't recall any that could do photogrammetry, which in my opinion is one of best technologies introduced in MSFS 2020.
I am curious to know how you look around in the cockpit? I can't live without my trackir 3 but for cockpit clicking , I might need to use your technique. Thanks!
I have a few different addons for MSFS. Where you can't seperate the vector graphics from the host SIM PC. Contrararly, still turn to P3D v6 for thsi feature. Don't get me wrong I love MSFS but am holding out (saving for a new video card) for 2024.
Are all of the default/Asobo aircraft considered study level / full fidelity now? I tend to ignore default aircraft in MSFS iterations as payware always brings the correct "fly by the numbers" experiences. But have things changed?
I surely wouldn’t consider any of them study level, but many of them are now on a good medium’ish system level which is certainly worth trying. I tend to say they can now do what a good part of summers would want them to do.
Emanuel, thank you for all the work you do to entertain us. I want you to know that that I for one REALLY appreciate it. I am a content creator in the field of music podcasts and syndicated radio shows so I have an idea how much of a commitment it is. A question for you : how do you control your viewpoint. In the cockpit? Do you use eye tracking gadgets like trackIR.? Or do you rely more on fixed camera views?
I wholeheartedly agree. FS2020 is an awesome piece of software and it's still getting better with every update! I remember spending hundreds of Euros on add-ons for FS2004, just to get decent-looking terrain and airports in Germany alone. Then I had to spend more hundreds of Euros to get decent airplanes as well. Now I have awesome terrain and airports (almost) all over the world, and some great default aircraft. I have not needed a single add-on to improve my experience. Licensing Working Title's implementation of the G1000 and G3000 was also a great decision. Whenever I want to fly my Citation Longitude, I just hop in, start it up from cold, enter the flight plan (or download from SimBrief) and go. It feels so natural, it's great. I am really looking forward to FS2024.
It is certainly the best sim engine out there and no need to mention that pro / certified sims did not reach yet this world engine immersion and tech... I can't wait for 2024 yet I hope we will get in the graphic settings 3 simple sliders to set the brightness contrasts and saturation. With these native image settings MSFS can be turned into a very life like looking experience.
No arguing the visual awesomeness of MSFS 👍 I bought an Asus 4090 and a 50” Samsung 4k Qled monitor for my flight simulators this year, and this sim looks downright glorious at times. Do you use DLSS or TSAA Emanuel?
One of the best thigs about this sim is you dont need to tweak it.. Basically you can just download it and start flying.. Of course pro users have like 5 different addons.. But thats not mandatory to have nice sim.. FS9 have to spend like 3 days installing all the software.. and an other week testing and tweaking the CFG.. Cant wait for MSFS 2024.. But even if MSFS2024 is not gonna happen MSFS2020 at this moment is almost perfect.. And wait for January and the new world update in the caribbean..
Very lovely video buddy! Thumbs up! ..... Got just a question, how Yours i9-9900k handles to feed the RTX4090? I got the same CPU and RTX 3080 but it is still limited by CPU main thread. Therefore, my GPU is not at 100% usage. I am using head tracking so FPS is quite important for me for continuous camera movements. TY :))
I’m glad what Microsof/Asobo was able to accomplish special for does on xbox, and remember Microsoft Flight Simulator can run just fine on a 300 dollar xbox series s.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Complaining is what we do best that's for sure!! For people who used Microsoft from the beginning it's different. This is something unreal to have this realism so complex in a simulator. I never thought years ago that I would have this awesome simulator at such a decent price. Great value!! Just the amount of bandwidth (internet use) to connect to their servers for free is awesome. I use 100's of gigabyte every month and they charge us nothing!!! Think about that!!!! Thanks for a realistic approach of what we really have here!!!!
Completely agree with your comments, what we have today would have been unimaginable not so long ago, and MSFS 2024 promises so much more too - it truly is a golden age in flight simming.
The same thing was said of the trash that was FSX. Stop drinking the kool-aid. FS2020 is already too dependent upon internet access; making it an entirely online game would be a disaster. Most internet connections aren't stable enough.
Hii, i know this is weird to ask here but I have a problem with the PMDG 737 and I don’t know what to do like while I’m doing the take off it Auto trims the aircraft (while hand flying) but I’m not trimming it it’s trimming by it’s own and I don’t know what the reason is for that I hope someone can help me pls🫶🏻
@TeIegram_OfficialA330Driver I mean it could be the STS but idk if that’s Modelled or not if it’s not modelled then idk what it is but if it’s modelled then it’s probably the STS
Hi, it was live weather indeed. I recorded it a few days back. The trick to get a scenario like this usually is to depart from an airport where the sim does not have direct weather data available, but has to use its own interpolation. The closest major airport, LJLJ, at the time of recording had LVP in progress with visibilities of a couple hundred meters and low overcast. I used the sims projection of how the cloud base must rise towards the nearest airport with good weather and used an airport right in the middle to get this scenario.
Problem with msfs is that its so close to perfect the handful of imperfections end up standing out superfluously. Mind you that twitchy rudder issue really needs to get fixed, freeware devs have already fixed it, so wut the heck
So now imagine how buzzed console users are that they can run this thing to a relatively high level, with add ons such as PMDG and Just Flight etc. Amazing! 👍🏻
Great video ! Putting things into perspective 👍 we are very lucky to have FS2020 ! When I think of sims of days gone past ! Yes it’s not perfect but it really is amazing ! I love the clouds ⛅️ especially and to be able to go anywhere in the world is just wonderful! I appreciate what MS and Asobo have done for us to enjoy the world of flight simulation! It still amazes me how it all works too ! We are indeed Lucky in my opinion and it’s only going to get better and better ! Let’s all appreciate what we have 🙏🏻👨✈️✈️ Amen and Happy Landings ! Seasons Greetings Everyone 🎄❤️
SU14 is a CF of an update. It's way slower than SU13, and many people are reporting weird crashes with it. The flight model still sucks, too. FS2024 will be nothing but a nightmare due to its reliance upon having an internet connection. Most connections aren't stable enough. FS2020 is bad enough now.
It's funny to see how people complains about everything in this sim. Which simulator has been updated and improved almost 40 times in four years? Payware quality free content is provided constantly, I didn't buy anything since almost a year. How many times would we have paid the simulator before MSFS?
Glad it is a whole lot better than it was a year ago, but fully working instruments and accurate flight is what expected a year ago when I paid over a hundred USD. Now the sim will be retired and further development for it will cease and little things that make a big difference won't be improved upon except for in another hundred dollar bill and probably another computer purchase to even be able to run it acceptably.
Sure enough there’s many things they could work on to make it even better, but it becomes easy to forget all the things that are already really good when constantly looking at the bad stuff.
We're excited about all YOU have to show us in 2024! Keep up the great videos, Emi :)
Back in the days when I start using flight simming software like FSX and XP 10, the default planes and scenery was less than mediocrity.
What we have now for defaults was unimaginable ten years ago.
New flight simmers can and will never appreciate that, which is understandable.
Agreed
Try back further for us older folks that started with fS98
Absolutely amazing leaps and bounds now
@@CanadianPonchman And further back still, for those of us who started with FS4 and earlier. A great dose of imagination was required just to take what was shown on screen as an "instrument panel" and as "outside scenery". For those of us who used that generation of MSFS, the current product is nothing short of science fiction.
@@coriscotupi 🤣🤣🤣 yes sir. I sense three different generations here 😆
@@CanadianPonchman Yep! 🙂
Well, how about playing for hours on end in the original Bruce Artwick’s flight simulator with it’s lovely 10x10 grid, rendered at a sub 10 fps speed? 😅 I was in heaven even back then.
I made similar comments on your channel before about how we all bitch about msfs2020 but I couldn’t imagine it not existing now. There are many times when it’s truly breathtaking the tech for the scenery still amazes me how they get it to work so well. As someone who never had a chance to be a pilot due to medical condition I can honestly say without such products as this DCS and Xplane I would never have the chance to at least do as much as I can with my aviation interests. Would say that su14 apart from the download issues has been pretty good especially the SR22 which Im really enjoying its a great little plane. You cannot deny that Asobo and partners have updated the sim beyond all recognition although still plenty to improve on. I agree with everything you say plus creators and professionals such as yourself and talented devs add so much to the experience too. Thx to all who have contributed for what has become a golden age of Fsim experience. Thx for flight was a nice change from concentrating all day on flying in sim 😊
I fully agree, if you take the first release version of MSFS and compare it with what we have now it's like the difference between night and day. A whole new universe!
They indeed did an amazing job and all the issues aside, it is a great simulator - probably the best we ever had.
I can't wait for FS24 and what it will hopefully offer!
I started flying MSFS before Microsoft owned it. SubLogic back then. I started my own scenery company back in '95 as Safari Fliteware. The goal was to give us sim pilots better VFR views. We were the first outfit to utilize aerial photography (not satellite) in flight simulator. Back then, those images had to be reduced in colors to fit into a 256 color palette of which only some 120 colors could be used.
Needless to say, we are long since gone from those days but I did fulfill my dreams of creating the first photoreal depiction of the Grand Canyon and many other great sites so they could be enjoyed by other sim pilots.
Having worked on many sceneries in my time, I have an incredible respect for the developers at Asobo for the amazing accomplishments they've achieved and glad that I had a chance to contribute my own work to that end. It still amazes me to this day!
So true...
I have never talked crap about fs2020. When it was gone for more than a decade, I am still appreciative they brought it back to life at all. I have only been impressed and grateful for any and all updates.
As someone who has had every version of Flight Simulator since the first, I have been rapturously delighted with MSFS 2020 since day 1.
Hi Emi! I am sure that you reflect the attitudes of most simmers. Indeed, we are so lucky to have such a rich simming environment.
Hey Emanuel ...great video ...beautifully done...thanks for taking us along!...had a great time..
The ozone layer fix really improved the visuals, got rid of that fake pink during dusk/dawn and green tint on everything.
Can't wait for 2024!
I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments about Microsoft Flight Simulator. It's truly a remarkable platform that has opened up new possibilities for us. However, I would like to add one thing. Without your dedicated time and effort to teach us, we wouldn't be the pilots we are today. Your guidance has not only made us better sim pilots but also great content creators. We've learned to love Microsoft Flight Simulator beyond its normal usage because we've grown and improved through your teachings. For me, You and Microsoft Flight Simulator represent the pinnacle of this journey. I'm incredibly grateful for the chance to learn from you and to immerse myself in the beautiful world of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Thank you for everything!
Can't be too complacent, gotta keep the devs on their toes, otherwise they'll start giving us less.
Absolutely Spot On. Thank you so much. I'm glad someone is appreciating MSFS. I'm stuck on a long GA light, but can't wait to take up the SR22T.
Hahaha the “default camera”😂
Great video mate!!
Really like your content. I seriously hope you keep doing this for the time to come.
Cheers Mark
I’ll keep it running for as long as I got the time and energy, that’s for sure! 👍
I think it’s a very common phenomenon where people are never happy with something and never take a moment to step back and realize what we already have. Humans constantly want more and when we get that “more”, the dopamine wears off and we are going back to wanting more and never step back to be thankful for what we already have. And I feel it’s easier to see something bad and complaining about it rather than seeing something good and appreciating it. I struggle with doing this as well so I sometimes need to stop and realize everything I do have and be thankful for it.
This simulator is still amazing. I come from the times that one of the first versions ran on C64. Massive green was ground and massive blue was air LOL! We should all appreciate it so much how far Asobo and Microsoft have come. Great positive video Emanual.
wonderful to see such a positive video about the sim for a change. Despite numerous hardships especially early on, I'm really appreciative of what Asobo and Microsoft did and continue to do with this platform, I think it's wonderful. Thank you for the beautiful video!
Awesome video Emi, as usual. Thank you and Happy Holidays!
Thank you, same to you my friend 👍
Love you decision to remind us of how lucky we are to have this product all for a few tens of dollars. Towards the end of the video I started to thing of the idea to make two more videos showcasing in one some of the excellent freeware (perhaps a FBW or Headwind) with freeware airports etc and the second one showing the best of pay ware addons (Fenix or that other company you keep mentioning).
That’s an idea I’m also playing with for a while. Partially I did something the likes recently when I flew the Horizon Sim 789 to Dubai, both of which have excellent freeware mods.
Your best video ever! I share your enthusiasm for MSFS and the future of MS2024. Superb job showcasing the best sim on the market.
What a GREAT video! I'm glad you made it. This weekend I flew IFR in IMC from KRYY (Cobb County, Ga.) to 24A (Silva, North Carolina). Visibility was 1.43 NM on takeoff, and the ceiling was just above the airport. AWESOME. I could see a few buildings moving below, in and out of thin spots in the clouds, and then even those disappeared. (I was in the A2A Comanche 250.) I leveled off at 9,000.
As I approached my destination, the clouds really cleared away, just as I was beginning my approach. I admit, I was a little disappointed. But don't worry! As I approached the airport through the little valley between mountain ridges, the clouds loomed up ahead! Before I got there, the weather moved in. Heavy rain and low clouds and VERY little visibility.
Like you . . . I was skeptical about what this sim would deliver, but NO MORE. I LOVE this sim. It feels and flies and now LOOKS realistic! Thanks again for this video!
Edit: I flew in the U.S. Navy a long time ago. I was in VT-3 at North Whiting. The simulators we used had ZERO graphics, as they were only designed for instrument flight. They were on a platform that would move up and down, tilt left and right and yaw. Even so, we always wanted time on them, but since there were only a few simulator seats, they had to be checked out ahead of time like library books. They were so booked up, I never got a single chance to practice in them. If we had had MSFS 2020, we would have LIVED on it! No, you can't feel the feedback nor can you feel it moving, but the overall experience is AMAZINGLY accurate.
What a refreshing review with well deserved comments for the FS2020 crew. FS2020 is a phenomenal achievement. As an ex programmer myself I wouldn't know where to start to write something as great as FS2020. So thanks for doing the video and for having something good to say about FS2020.
Thanks
Thank you so much for your support 🙏
Thanks!
Wow, thank you very much for your support again 🤞
I always appreciate MSFS whenever I start it up and especially its evolution within the 3 official years + the alpha/beta phase.
It's always amazing to see what Asobo, a developer studio which had 0 experience with flight simulators and a pretty vague direction (it was not decided if the sim should become more arcade or more simulation from start) pulled off on the long run.
I guess the best idea and greatest win was to make community members from Working Title part of the journey to work on avionics and also partnering with 3rd party developers like iniBuilds. This somewhat pushed to simulator into the "right" direction and more and more away from the arcade side of things.
I also appreciate that Microsoft (so Jörg Neumann) pitched for the sim to get new and free aircraft - some may say most of them are just there to be uninstalled as they are "not realistically flying" but honestly I'll never be able to judge if the "Spruce Goose" is flying correctly or not BUT I love to be able to just see aircraft like this in action without spending tons of Euros.
I'm really looking forward to see what's coming next year and if there maybe will something amazing for MSFS 2020s farewell when MSFS 2024 is going to be released (and also I'm looking forward to the 2024 iteration ofc).
Flying on MSFS 2020 helped me breeze through my first orientation flight last summer. The instructor could not believe it was my first flight ever until I told her I fly a lot on MSFS. She said she's met a lot of people that have used MSFS and had a very easy first flight. Also, this simulator is amazing when flying using VR. I flew the activity in Rio the other day and was so amazed when I approached the Cristo Redentor statue and when over the mountain and saw the drop. I was not expecting that.
1000%. These are the vibes I needed on a Monday.
MSFS is taking chair flying to another level - wish I had a tool when I was doing my training. Now I fly flights in MSFS before I do them IRL to help pick out landmarks (in combination with Google maps). It is such an incredible tool.
I’m probably gonna put myself under fire from a vocal part of the community but I really started appreciating MSFS2020 way more after I bought X-Plane 12. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a sim with some amazing physics and features but I didn’t realize how much I took for granted in MSFS - live weather working 99% of the times, default graphics looking realistic without any 3rd party magic AND running smoother on the same hardware, fantastic default avionics (infinite kudos to Working Title), constant stream of payware-quality world updates and the lowest entry bar ever considering it’s on Game Pass. I’ve become a dedicated airliner simmer in the past 3 years and I would have NEVER picked up the hobby in the first place - never mind spending hundreds of $ on it - if not for that MSFS “wow” factor out of the box.
I cannot wait for 2024, especially in such a thriving community of devs and simmers.
I'm still quite amazed how beautiful this sim looks and performs. Even with my old Dell Precision T3600 with Xeon processor, MSFS performs well above what I was getting in P3D. Great video! We all need to stop and appreciate how far we have come in regards to flight simulation.
Indeed!
FS2020 truly is phenomenal. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we'd get a simulator that looks like this. Just one piece of constructive criticism - my flight instructor always told me you don't rotate a small aircraft, you simply apply light backward pressure. Rotating would likely cause a stall. Great landing BTW!
Awesome appreciation video, thanks! Go MSFS!!
Just yesterday I was flying a Transavia B738SSW AMS-SZG. A beautiful sunrise inflight, followed by a challenging RNAV Approach to RWY33 in gusting wind conditions. Afterwards I really felt so happy with our MSFS.
Thx a lot for this vid! You being german and myself being austrian (viennese to be exactly), we both know how easy it is to get into this arguing state of mind. Yes, there are a few things like the 2d wx radar and some other shortcomings, but hey...isn't it still by far the best flightsim in history? I'd say yes without thinking about it!!
ever since I started sim flying,over 20 years ago I have been constantly flying around the world. When I saw msfs 2020 I fell in love with the sim. There is a real reverence for the earth and its atmosphere and weather. It is inspirational for me. When i get a plane that is half finished i see it as a black mark on a beautiful sim. Those developers that do that do not understand. It is about flying but also about the incredible complex nature of our planet and the amazing work done to bring it to life in the sim. A crappy plane is just a dirty smear on such awesome work. They have no business in being in it and they do not even understand that they have no place in such magnificent work. Thank you for taking the time to praise all the people that have given us such a beautiful sim. I love your videos
Nice video. 👍👍Yes FS is good and beautiful. I am more like fast jets, GA aircraft and landing challenges, not real pilot, but I did several flights at the commands of small aircraft with a pilot of course. With my limited experience I can say FS is brilliant. At an airshow in Sion, Switzerland in 2017, I was lucky to try the German Luftwaffe Typhoon simulator and it was brilliant. The German Luftwaffe Typhoon simulator personnel were surprised I could do loops, rolls, etc. And I can say the CJ Simulations Typhoon is very good. And when a real pilot like you says what you say about FS, we know FS is not just a "game". Most people I tell about FS think it is just beautiful BS...
Thank you very much for this video. I have been using versions of MSFS for 40 years. Your video reminds us to appreciate and ENJOY what we have with MSFS 2020, rather than focusing so much on what we don’t have. 😊Above all else MSFS should be fun. 😎
This was a massive undertaking by asobo. I was positive right from the start compared to other sims .
as a complete platform end to end, this is the top of the simming mountain
and like other platforms it is evolving. so we have a lot to look forward to
a honest video that gives you a passion for aviation, not just flight simulation
your channel is part of this platform for me. Thank you.
Thank you so much!
I couldn’t agree any more 👍
My dad and I used to always wonder when the simulators were going to "look like real pictures." That was back in the FS95-FS98 days. :) Oh how far we've come!
I don't know why people are complaining all the time. The team is delivering updates at regular interval and trying to improve the sim with each update. Take FSX for example, no updates after it was released. Live with whatever you got including bugs and functionalities. MSFS team on the other hand is putting a lot of effort to cover all the areas as we know people have different taste, some like airliners while some like GA. It's not easy to satisfy all sim players. Appreciate the work!
5:10 As a poor man I can only say that a little Mary Jane and this BEAUTY is closest I will ever get to the wonders of flight
I completely agree, MSFS is a beautiful game. We shouldn't expect study-level simulation in a software that is ultimately a game.
The realism in terms of scenery however is what makes this so enjoyable. It allows me to visit loved places like my home, girlfriend's house, favourite parks etc etc
If you buy the Boris Audio pack for the SR22, it brings the real feeling of the airplane itself. Beautiful soundpack I had just found out
I’ll check the pack out, thanks!
Good stuff mate ! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year ! 🎄 🎅
I'm on a RTW trip. Incredible if you fly 3000 AGL.
I'm sure I'll probably do a dozen more after this one.
It’s one of the best games that has evened been created.
I’d probably say for an aviation fan and pilot myself this is the best game that’s even been made. To be able to fly anywhere on the planet is insane
MSFS is simply the best civilian flight simulator now. The competition is just so much behind MSFS, it's not even funny.
I flew my first cessna 152 in the year 2000 with no glass cockpit of course , only basic nav radios. Prior to that I had played the old flight sim 98.. Definitely made me quick to understand how the analog gauges worked. That way I could focus on vfr and actually flying the plane.
Very well deserved praise for MS, Asobo and every single person involved in building this little miracle. I sometimes wonder where they get the energy to continue when I see the incessant and unjustified whinning. Might I add this video further places you, our dear Emanuel, as one of the top content creators for our beloved hobby. 😊
You are totally right. When it started it was a bit disappointing with all the bugs and the lack of high fidelity planes. But nowadays it can't be denied it has become one of the best, if not the best sim and it's only getting better. It's a joy to fly like this.
Thanks for this, nice to see someone being positive for a change. Is MSFS 2020 perfect? Obviously not. But as someone who has been simming since the days of the original SubLogic Flight Simulator on Apple II & TRS-80 it is truly amazing to me how far things have come. It can be breathtakingly beautiful, who would have thought not that long ago that you might just go for a sim flight to sightsee? A wonderful sim, and I am excited to see how it improves with MSFS 2024.
Asobo has got way too much flak from UA-camrs, influencers and forum users over the years. Asobo and anything "default" has somehow been connected to "bad", "unrealistic" and "limited". Some people tend to make it look as if the simulator was completely useless without modding absolutely every aspect of it. It's nice to see someone actually appreciate MSFS basically redefining what "default" means in flight simming. Very good video, thank you!
Thank you! I can definitely see where those connections came from though, if we think back to the avionics and default aircraft in the first release of MSFS and compare those with what they are now, then there’s a huge difference. The aircraft and avionics updates, as well as the world updates, are what imo turned the sim into what it is now.
At the same time though it’s still worth noting how excellent the standard sat scenery is and how good the weather has always been.
Congratulations on being selected for the final featured Community Video of 2023 by the MSFS2020 team! They definitely saved the best for last😊
I'm glad to see you receiving the recognition you deserve. I always look forward to the next video that you create, and I'm sure many others do as well. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into your content. Greatly appreciated!
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It really is a beautiful sim. I love it.
Good video.
I share your enthusiasm. It's all too easy to be hung up on bugs and as-yet unfulfilled wishlists, but as you quite correctly point out, we could all take a while to appreciate what a great product the sim is, right here and now. For those of us who like me came from MSFS in the 80s, it is sometimes hard to to believe this is not science fiction. The future has arrived.
I think ppl forget just 1 year before MSFS2020 was surprisingly announced.....we thought our little hobby's support from Microsoft was done! Little did we know what they had in store for us! What a time to be a flight simmer!!!
Absolute agree, the sim is wonderful, in special for GA. I flew most time airliner in FSX,but now i often take the props out.
Single Engine Piston aircraft are surely where this sim does best at.
I still remember flying looking at dots… green dots in the mid 80s
I agree with all your comments in this video. What an amazing time we live in to have this level of technology in our living rooms at such an affordable cost. The ability to travel anywhere in the world, to own and fly hundreds of million dollar aircraft, to learn how to operate them in such a realistic way, to be able to experience flight in such a realistic way. How greatly we have been blessed and how thankful we should be!
Thanks so much for this video and your perspectives about MSFS 2020. I really hate when people just bitch about it. Yes, if there are issues, sure make your complaint and seek a solution, but just bitching about it is not productive. I belong to several MSFS groups, and I am slowly leaving them because of people's negativity. I have been doing this since the first edition of MSFS in 1983, and I really appreciate the progress.
I absolutely love MSFS and consider it my main sim. But ever since getting the Felis 747-200 in the Black Friday sale, I haven't booted up MSFS once.
I can't wait for the day when MSFS 20 (or 24 probably) has options like the A340-600 or 747-200.
I might be mistaken but those airport workers were the same guys I saw in Montreal today at the airport. Maybe their brother ....
Agreed, this sim is amazing. Coming from the SubLogic era, I cannot believe how far we have come and I cannot wait for 2024.
Even with all the addons you could purchase in the past. I don't recall any that could do photogrammetry, which in my opinion is one of best technologies introduced in MSFS 2020.
Enjoying 2020 and can’t wait for 2024.
I am curious to know how you look around in the cockpit? I can't live without my trackir 3 but for cockpit clicking , I might need to use your technique. Thanks!
I use the mouse and the default MSFS view system 😅
Thanks ! I think I will get inspired to go back to the source with the mouse 😎
I have a few different addons for MSFS. Where you can't seperate the vector graphics from the host SIM PC. Contrararly, still turn to P3D v6 for thsi feature. Don't get me wrong I love MSFS but am holding out (saving for a new video card) for 2024.
Are all of the default/Asobo aircraft considered study level / full fidelity now? I tend to ignore default aircraft in MSFS iterations as payware always brings the correct "fly by the numbers" experiences. But have things changed?
I surely wouldn’t consider any of them study level, but many of them are now on a good medium’ish system level which is certainly worth trying. I tend to say they can now do what a good part of summers would want them to do.
Emanuel, thank you for all the work you do to entertain us. I want you to know that that I for one REALLY appreciate it. I am a content creator in the field of music podcasts and syndicated radio shows so I have an idea how much of a commitment it is. A question for you : how do you control your viewpoint. In the cockpit? Do you use eye tracking gadgets like trackIR.? Or do you rely more on fixed camera views?
guys this is his apology video from the snow one
I wholeheartedly agree. FS2020 is an awesome piece of software and it's still getting better with every update! I remember spending hundreds of Euros on add-ons for FS2004, just to get decent-looking terrain and airports in Germany alone. Then I had to spend more hundreds of Euros to get decent airplanes as well.
Now I have awesome terrain and airports (almost) all over the world, and some great default aircraft. I have not needed a single add-on to improve my experience. Licensing Working Title's implementation of the G1000 and G3000 was also a great decision. Whenever I want to fly my Citation Longitude, I just hop in, start it up from cold, enter the flight plan (or download from SimBrief) and go. It feels so natural, it's great. I am really looking forward to FS2024.
It is certainly the best sim engine out there and no need to mention that pro / certified sims did not reach yet this world engine immersion and tech... I can't wait for 2024 yet I hope we will get in the graphic settings 3 simple sliders to set the brightness contrasts and saturation. With these native image settings MSFS can be turned into a very life like looking experience.
No arguing the visual awesomeness of MSFS 👍 I bought an Asus 4090 and a 50” Samsung 4k Qled monitor for my flight simulators this year, and this sim looks downright glorious at times. Do you use DLSS or TSAA Emanuel?
One of the best thigs about this sim is you dont need to tweak it.. Basically you can just download it and start flying.. Of course pro users have like 5 different addons.. But thats not mandatory to have nice sim.. FS9 have to spend like 3 days installing all the software.. and an other week testing and tweaking the CFG.. Cant wait for MSFS 2024.. But even if MSFS2024 is not gonna happen MSFS2020 at this moment is almost perfect.. And wait for January and the new world update in the caribbean..
Very lovely video buddy! Thumbs up! ..... Got just a question, how Yours i9-9900k handles to feed the RTX4090? I got the same CPU and RTX 3080 but it is still limited by CPU main thread. Therefore, my GPU is not at 100% usage. I am using head tracking so FPS is quite important for me for continuous camera movements. TY :))
I’m glad what Microsof/Asobo was able to accomplish special for does on xbox, and remember Microsoft Flight Simulator can run just fine on a 300 dollar xbox series s.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
where do u get this updated cirrus from is it from the market place
Excellent video! Would not the relative terrain mode on the map of the MFD be very helpful in this mountainous area? Especially during climbout?
Great video Emi! Out of curiosity, what turbulence settings do you have set for your sim?
realistic...
Pure eyecandy after SU14!!❤
Complaining is what we do best that's for sure!! For people who used Microsoft from the beginning it's different. This is something unreal to have this realism so complex in a simulator. I never thought years ago that I would have this awesome simulator at such a decent price. Great value!! Just the amount of bandwidth (internet use) to connect to their servers for free is awesome. I use 100's of gigabyte every month and they charge us nothing!!! Think about that!!!! Thanks for a realistic approach of what we really have here!!!!
Completely agree with your comments, what we have today would have been unimaginable not so long ago, and MSFS 2024 promises so much more too - it truly is a golden age in flight simming.
The same thing was said of the trash that was FSX. Stop drinking the kool-aid. FS2020 is already too dependent upon internet access; making it an entirely online game would be a disaster. Most internet connections aren't stable enough.
Hii, i know this is weird to ask here but I have a problem with the PMDG 737 and I don’t know what to do like while I’m doing the take off it Auto trims the aircraft (while hand flying) but I’m not trimming it it’s trimming by it’s own and I don’t know what the reason is for that I hope someone can help me pls🫶🏻
@TeIegram_OfficialA330Driver I mean it could be the STS but idk if that’s Modelled or not if it’s not modelled then idk what it is but if it’s modelled then it’s probably the STS
is pmdg going to make a 737 max?
Hey Emi, this wasnt live weather was it? If so, ive never seen dense low clouds like that in live weather.
Hi, it was live weather indeed. I recorded it a few days back. The trick to get a scenario like this usually is to depart from an airport where the sim does not have direct weather data available, but has to use its own interpolation. The closest major airport, LJLJ, at the time of recording had LVP in progress with visibilities of a couple hundred meters and low overcast. I used the sims projection of how the cloud base must rise towards the nearest airport with good weather and used an airport right in the middle to get this scenario.
Nice video, but be carefull with that close to overspeed moment next time.
I notice you opted not to use the default ATC 😂
SR22T very very good !
Indeed it is!
Problem with msfs is that its so close to perfect the handful of imperfections end up standing out superfluously. Mind you that twitchy rudder issue really needs to get fixed, freeware devs have already fixed it, so wut the heck
OOOMMMMGGGGGGGG thats my home airporttttttt zagorje ob savi airfield
So now imagine how buzzed console users are that they can run this thing to a relatively high level, with add ons such as PMDG and Just Flight etc. Amazing! 👍🏻
Bravo!
Great video ! Putting things into perspective 👍 we are very lucky to have FS2020 ! When I think of sims of days gone past ! Yes it’s not perfect but it really is amazing ! I love the clouds ⛅️ especially and to be able to go anywhere in the world is just wonderful! I appreciate what MS and Asobo have done for us to enjoy the world of flight simulation! It still amazes me how it all works too ! We are indeed Lucky in my opinion and it’s only going to get better and better ! Let’s all appreciate what we have 🙏🏻👨✈️✈️ Amen and Happy Landings ! Seasons Greetings Everyone 🎄❤️
Yea but you could open aircraft doors in FS2004.
SU14 is a CF of an update. It's way slower than SU13, and many people are reporting weird crashes with it. The flight model still sucks, too. FS2024 will be nothing but a nightmare due to its reliance upon having an internet connection. Most connections aren't stable enough. FS2020 is bad enough now.
Because in my fs2920 this mod is not visible? I have the last update
And you also have Premium Deluxe?
Yes but i'm stupid! Thinking to find Two mod but it is the same ... ahahah@@A330Driver
It's funny to see how people complains about everything in this sim. Which simulator has been updated and improved almost 40 times in four years? Payware quality free content is provided constantly, I didn't buy anything since almost a year. How many times would we have paid the simulator before MSFS?
Yes very beautiful but performance decreased a lot and now if you dont have a nasa PC you can not use MSFS anymore :(
And auto generated captions says "I am Manel, I am an AI pilot" 😅
🤣🤣🤣
..and try this in VR. :)
Glad it is a whole lot better than it was a year ago, but fully working instruments and accurate flight is what expected a year ago when I paid over a hundred USD. Now the sim will be retired and further development for it will cease and little things that make a big difference won't be improved upon except for in another hundred dollar bill and probably another computer purchase to even be able to run it acceptably.
And we have had 3 years of constant development, and it only cost £60.........
@TeIegram_OfficialA330Driver
It'll look even better when they fix the overly transparent clouds. Hopefully they will do it in SU15
Sure enough there’s many things they could work on to make it even better, but it becomes easy to forget all the things that are already really good when constantly looking at the bad stuff.
It’s not AWESOME yet ! Still needs a lot of work on flying physics !