Landing on Water - Microsoft Flight Simulator - Icon A5
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Flying the Icon A5 around Sydney Harbour and landing on water next to the Opera House.
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some say that black and white van are still going up and down the road
They looking for kids to traffic
They looking for kids to take*
indeed
Kidnap
They are waiting for houses to rob
For someone who actually lives in Sydney, it's funny to see exactly what the city looks like in a game. Excluding the harbour bridge and the centre point tower lol.
Yer I wish they were modelled it in. Hopefully in the fully game they are as Sydney harbour bridge is probably just as famous or important to Sydney as the opera house is.
Yeah you can’t not have the bridge.
Also the fort island is just a bunch of trees :)
I'm disappointed that there is no photogrammetry of Sydney, hopefully they'll add it soon. They need to fix the trees too, they are way too big and often in the wrong place.
The Crown is missing too
16:20 RIP to those who perished in the ship disaster
even the most realistic games have bugs :)
CAPTAIN....SHIP AHEAD!
@@10Exahertz Ahead ? No more, it's now in the middle of OUR ship I'm afraid.
@@sparkz343 It´s not bug, it´s a feature!
Disclaimer: No actual simulated humans were harmed in the making of this flight sim or Squirrels video.
This sim makes me speechless. A couple years ago I thought Microsoft had abandoned us, but they've done something truly incredible here. It seems like not only an impeccable flight sim but also the best virtual representation of Earth ever created.
I don't think any other company could do it as good as MSFS2020
i was ALWAYS dreaming about a game with a real online earth map , now its here, imagine this beeing combined with ground games, like Arma 3, or just beeing able to walk, hike, drive, boat through the world map
@@667DOOM That would be so cool. Over the years or decades they could really build off of this and do other things if they wanted to. Now I'm imagining an online game that's everything from Arma, truck simulator, flight sim, Forza, Mud Runner, train sim, walking simulator, etc. That would be so epic if they could wrap it all together in a multiplayer world where everyone could do their own thing on one realistic Earth.
@@markbtw7987 Perhaps we'll see something like this in the next main-series Forza game. All of those tracks have real-life counterparts, why not have a live weather option.
I doubt we'll see any kind of trucking sim style implementations because Microsoft's only ever worked on one type of simulator - flight sims.
@@mastermanio2 wrong! Remember MS Train Simulator?
I gotta say, it's nice to watch footage of Flight Sim 2020 being used by someone who knows what they're doing. Good content man
True .....IGN has left the chat
IGN thought drifting a plane and landing on the taxiway not the runway was the way to go.
Lmao IGN all over every comment page
Niranjan K lmao
Plaxci They literally had a butter landing and messed it by turning the rudder here and there
Let me quote a comedian Alistair Williams: "Do you like conspiracy theories? Do you know any Australian, that likes opera? You know, they always show you the outside of that building... I think it´s a bowling alley."
Lol, Sydney local here. There are legit Operas and other concerts and theatre inside. I've seen them. Shame there is no bowling alley :D
@@brendanfarthing sure you a Sydney native that likes Operas and other theater shows and you totally aren't a Sydney bowling enthusiasts that is trying to hide the world's greatest bowling alley from the rest of the world. I'm on to you "opera fan".
LOL actually we like Live Music a lot, it's just an overkill beautiful concert hall.
Also a Sydney local it's for the high class never been inside word on the street amongst the every day Aussie is it's a pedo ring it's full of kids for the rich snobs
Yeah, we didn't design the thing, just paid a fortune for it. Waste of damned money I reckon.
its easy to pick the graphics apart when your flying low and that would be a criticism for the average gamer for sure, the thing is... this isnt a map created for call of duty, its a map of the world, in full and when you consider that fine point its absolutely amazing, every journey will be unique, you will discover things like Christopher Columbus but in the air and thats awesome. its very easy to forgive slightly iffy looking textures on the ground in a flying simulator with this scope thats for sure.
Agree
~*back in the day*~ flight Sims didn't even have textures
Do you know if literally everywhere in the world will be like this?
@@nickchapman145 There's some hand crafted areas. I think like 30 airports are totally custom? And then there's an absurd number of airports (like 30k?) that have been tweaked manually. I mean, think about how big the planet is, it's already crazy good.
majorPhysics yeah ik its insane i was just wondering whether i can fly over my house 🤣. I live in a medium sized town so i was wondering how it all worked
Sydneysider here - to Microsoft's credit, when I saw the spawn point I thought "that looks an awful lot like the back of Abbotsford" with the way the roads and the hills looked. When he brought the map out my jaw nearly hit the table - he spawned near Halliday Park, exactly where I thought he had. I live about 5 minutes down the road and visit that spot frequently. Wow.
I remember Flying the A5 in Microsoft's 2012 "Flight" game. Glad it made a return.
JeffSFC I remember that so much! What good times they were
I remember that game. When it came out I was so exited then when I played it I was disappointed so I just played fsx
@@bigmanmegee yet the flight mechanics were way better in Flight than in FSX
I loved flight and I owned all the assets till they discontinued it 😢. I hope we can get out and walk around like flight.
MrDogeYT everyone was lmao
For someone who actually lives in Sydney I'm thinking the size scale of the harbour is wrong. The area around the Opera House is very vast. It looked a tad too cramped up. Maybe this is why the Harbour Bridge is MIA because it's never going to work if the scales are all over the shop.
Yeah it's not great is it...
Many things are scaled wrong in this sim. I've seen miniature cars, parking lots, baseball fields and buildings. I'm sure the same is true for some of the islands, lakes and god knows what else.. But the overall world is apparently scaled properly. The time it takes to fly from one city to another should be the same as it would be in real life.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this size scale issue. I'm from London UK and could not get my head around how St Paul's Catheral looked so small and not standing out from it's surroundings. It is a very dominant structurein it's location, even when viewed from the air.
it's your FOV that makes it look smaller
@@poiu477 No, MSFS is crap, sorry to day
The water in this sim is insane!
It does look lovely!
yes but it needs some water splashing around like at the windshield to be perfect.
@@LightWaterRecords I think that will be in the release
@@WhiteHawk77 no but that's why I said 'I think'
@@LightWaterRecords Was thinking where is the water splashing on the windscreen when Squirrel landed lol.
This has to be the biggest gaming evolution we have seen yet? This to me is just insanely mindblowing. One thing is the details alone but in a open huge world where you can fly all over the world? :o
After seeing Sydney in the sim I realise the sim is not finished. Sydney looks very little like what is portrayed. All other sims got it much closer to being correct and I am not just disappointed with the lack of effort here but I quite annoyed. They ask us to fork out a lot of cash and in return we get crap like this? I got ripped off by Dovetail Games 0and now I am getting ripped off by this mob. Come on Microsoft and Asovo - if it wasn't finished you shouldn't have released it (more to the point, you should not have begun selling it). Shame!
That looks like the perfect plane to show off the low-altitude glory of the sim.
And if you wanna try and land on mountains, explore remote places and take off in about 3 seconds - try the Savage Cub or Shock Ultra :)
I for one am in love with the CTLS
Its why they had it in Microsoft Flight, but no-one seemed to like that simulator.
@@rjc0234 because it was not a simulator. it was an arcade game
@@artyomvachyan3448 You are literally the sort of person that killed off Microsoft flight simulator for over a decade.
Seriously impressed. Little disappointed about the lack of wake and spray, but I’m sure that’ll get patched in time.
I'm actually very sceptical after seeing the cars and cruiseships crash into eachother. I hope they patch stuff out as well. This game has a ton of potential
Passwordcracks I was thinking the same thing, we’ve all gotten caught up with the ai and graphics on the ground while other flight sims just have a static image as the ground
Microsoft flight has the spray from the engine from behind and water on the windshield.
@@Drummercommander It's a flight simulator, not a driving simulator.
That is pretty much unrealistic at this point. You cannot patch the entire world and make it look perfect everywhere. The whole point is to automate and auto model structures, that makes this vastness possible. What some people are expecting is only possible through a revolutionary leap. But maybe one day.....
6 years I've lived in Sydney. So many memories. Got my cpl, had my first kiss along circular quay, graduated uni, binged on pancakes on the rocks, broke up, never missed vivid, walked home after new year's fireworks. sigh.
And now your memories are heavily distorted after seeing the mess they have made of Sydney here. Opera House seems to be the only thing they bothered to model.
@@zekmedia modders will be at it in a jiffy i hope
Marc Jones I cant even look at this version of Sydney without thinking about what it could have been. I really hope the modders can make the city look as incredible as it really is
All we need for the Icon A5 is a fishing mini-game.
I flew mine down the grand canyon, took in the sights, landed in a huge lake, sat there for 20 minutes while made a cuppa and a cheese roll, enjoying the scenery. Took off, followed the river and smooth landed on a sand runway.
The most fun aircraft in FS2020, and I'm playing on Xbox with a standard controller. Fun game,
Great video, fly safe 👍🏻
Its fun how those cars are coming and going instantly 🤣
Its the Microsoft Teams watching sqrls every move, and when hes gone they gonna be doing some dodgey dealing in the houses with Mrs SQRL lol
And folks are saying this is the most "next gen" experience they ever had. Yes the scale is impressive, but still flat textures and cheap "ai" scripts are all over the place. Let's see how it will compare in 3-4 years.
@@sagii86 ok X Plane fan, also the game is still not released yet.
@@Waddle_Dee_With_Internet I'm not a fan of any sim, just objectively pointing on what I see, and it's way overrated so far. If you think that adding ray tracing will change the base structure of this game then good luck. In any case, I suspect it will look very messy once "next gen" rendering & assets (HDRI, 8k photogrammetry, HDRP, 4096 texel density pbr, Houdini water & Chaos physics simulations) will kick into place in upcoming AAA titles. So far, the only thing that stand out in this game is the cloud weather system & power of the cloud which depends on your internet connection and won't aged very well in few years.
@@sagii86 so you despise this game already? Then get out.
One word, Yellowstone! The Icon A5 could take off from West Yellowstone airport and land on Yellowstone lake
Or you could do something similar with Glacier National Park and land on Lake McDonald.
Lake McDonald to St Mary Lake would be pretty fun to get over the mountains.
Holy crap Squirrel. This looks amazing! No words for it, a pity we have to wait another 2,5 weeks. Can you show the Netherlands to us. Perhaps with this flying car? Water enough to land on
I agreed.
Yep. I’m sure there’s enough water 😂
i want to go to ajax i love Netherland
I'm glad we have to wait because that at least gives me some time to enjoy Horizon Zero Dawn when it releases on Steam ^^
I concur, yes please :-)
4:20 The VFR code is indeed 1200 in Australia! That's cool how it set it to the right one
When you show the external view first time, i just "WOW".
This is great!
That moment at 13:42 'welcome to Sydney' and you pan slightly to the right.. that just looks real, the motion you make is like you just turn in a real aircraft. Truly amazing feeling.
I would love to see how an airfield that hasn't been handcrafted looks like.
like cartoons, like OLD FSX. There are some videos out there.
@@lt4324 Thats not true! They look awesome in my opinion! Sure there are a few bugs but it isnt even released yet!
@@rxpp_niki6367 The ones I've seen look like cartoons IMO, no detail! but then again I have been using sims and FSX since the very beginning and I know good from bad scenery. Don't know if you have been around since the beginning but I can tell you the NON hand crafted AP's and or scenery do not look like anything special. (at the airports), not hating. Just my observation.
Tom Taylor were they at?
@@thanos8039 see my previous post with link and timestamp
There's something of the "uncanny valley" effect happening with this new sim. The closer it attempts to simulate/replicate reality, the more glaring and mood-destroying its shortfalls are; i.e. the players suspension of disbelieve comes crashing down.
That water is some of the best water I've seen in a flight sim. I've yet to see any tiling even! And the rest of the scenery looks amazing too! And the clouds.. and and and.. I just hope they fix the ships.. and the lightningm, because those bolts (not in this video) look silly.. lol
woudlve liked better water physics too be honest. Splashing, spray, droplets on the window, a wake behind the craft, better water sounds. That's all nitpicky stuff that i'm sure will get added later. Honestly what they've accomplished so far is nothing short of amazing.
Isn't the water physically simulated? No tiling there!
There will be plenty of updates I'm sure. Reminder that they're playing on an early access version. What we get in 2 weeks will look different (how different, I don't know) but there will be some improvements I'm sure.
Shame this series was not released 2 months ago when everyone was hungry for something new. Paul you are a born presenter excellent commentary with a game close to your heart to make this channel great.
I remember back you-know-when they show cased Icon A5 on Microsoft Flight...
Hi Squirrel, it's clear having a high-end spec PC makes a world of difference with this sim. I've seen a number of other simmers who have posted videos on UA-cam and I have to say how disappointed I was with the end product of a lower-end machine. The water, light and sky textures are extremely impressive here.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge and some other landmarks are copyrighted. Which is why they aren't modelled here.
tf
Does anyone know who has the copyright to the bridge and didn't let them include it? I'd really like to tell them what a f-ing c**t they are.
@@edwardfurey9463 I know right, that would of been the bloody best bit!
@@LoganLA hey, thanks. Do you know what's happening with MSFS 2020? Like are they asking extortionate licensing fees to include it or something?
Didn't now you can copyright claim for a place wtf
The real ICON UA-cam channel has a tutorial how to land this thing. I watched that and I can land this perfectly every time. A lot of times I would have touched down on the water without knowing it because the VS at touch down was like -10. Perfection. Trim your nose all the way up and keep RPM around 3000 RPM full flaps, you get exactly white line AoA every time
They better fix how they've made Sydney's beautiful houses look like Trevor's neighbourhood from gta 5
These little Icons are so cool. I don't like flying much but these would be so fun to rip around in.
"Sir. You seem to have parked your ship.. through mine"
Great, informative video. As a licensed pilot, the Icon is by far the most fun (and easiest) aircraft for me to fly, in all incarnations of the MSFS. Learning to fly off the coast of Massachusetts, I have a blast flying down the beaches, and landing in the bays. Well done!
16:53 - no wonder there are so many sunken ship in the Sidney bay with they way they drive.
This game really makes me realize I don't know nothing about the geography of the world. I always heard about Sydney but I'd never thought it was set in a bay area that looks like this. It's totally different from what I expected. I really need to travel the world and open my eyes
Would love to see Southend On Sea in the Uk with a flight up the Estuary towards London. Either taking off from Southend airport or from the sea in the and landing at City Airport. Keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing more videos
Whats missing? Sydneys oldest & most historic icon, the Sydney Harbour bridge. Aircraft items: Throttle & mixture controls, carby heat, Clock (Mandatory) magnetic compass (mandatory) , VSI, Thanks for posting:-)
I was hoping to see the outside of the aircraft interacting with the water during landing and take off.
Same
Yeah same here, I saw it in another video and there was no splash or wake of any kind and it looked like it was on flat ground. Pretty disappointing. Maybe it will be fixed before release because I am looking forward to realistic float flying since it has never been good in fsx/p3d and x-plane.
It's probably a post-launch thing since they prioritize the sky more. Most people not gonna spend time in the water so they just left it for later on. We can push Microsoft to put it in soon after launch by tweeting at them consistently.
this game looks so fantastic I cannot wait. I haven't been this excited for a flight sim release since I first started playing this 30+ years ago.
“Does that sound like a car?” Then proceeds to laugh like a old car starting😂
5:13 for those who want to skip 😂
Like a Ford Anglia on a frosty morning.
Got the Rotax sound pretty good I thought.
I was really excited when I saw this aircraft in MFS 2020, I live in the town where these are manufactured!
amazing. i’m mind blown at this masterpiece of a game!
It’s a sim not a game
Terry Ding it’s still a game anyone is about to enjoy it
@@Me-sx2dm Do people go on a course to be taught to say that at every opportunity? Sim & game are not mutually exclusive concepts.
SQUIRREL!!! You have the single handed BEST Flight Sim 2020 content on ALL OF youtube. Ive searched high and lo, granted ive been subbed to you for some years now, BUT I digress, as someone that is literally frothing at the mouth for this game....thank you thank you for posting quality content. MORE PLEASE MORE!!!!!!!!
I didnt watch the whole video before posting! haha, Island Hopping in Hawaii with maybe a super cub? Cheers
Can't believe they dont have the Harbour Bridge! I hope they add it when the full game gets realesed
They dismantled it last month msfs is accurate :-D
Try calling it a simulation. If you treat it like a game you are doing yourself a disservice, and possibly further adding to the "game" mentality that Microsoft did with their failed "Flight". This "Sydney" is not "Sydney".
@@MegaPeedee yes I understand that's it's a simulator. I have flown x-plane 11, 10 and 9 and also have flight controls.
but I understand from what you're saying and that people are treating like a "game"
@@MegaPeedee sorry I just felt like it was necessary to tell you I am not starting a interest in aviation just because mfs 2020 is getting released
I am a real world Icon A5 owner. A few items to correct in this video. 1) Take-off and land with water rudder up, or you will brake it. (You took off with it down.) 2) For water take-off, full flaps (you were at half.) And full flaps for water landing. 3) The Icon is actually somewhat underpowered. On take-off, I have never gotten above 5000 rpms, you had much more power. So a flaw in the sim. 4) Price for real world one is $375K, not $300K as you suggested. 5) It is not tremendously good at gliding (at least a real world one that is.) It has a 9 to 1 glide ratio. 6) When landing (water or land) use 3000 rpms all the way to the ground. (You were lower.) Thank you for a great video, I have been eager to see a flight in Icon in the new MS Simulator. Yours was the first I found. The only thing wrong that I could see from your video is the sim Icon seems to have a lot more power than the real world Icon. If someone wants a more realistic experience, throttle back to 5000 rpms for all take offs.
Someone watching this video: “Squirrel just landed on my lake”
(Looks outside)
(Visible confusion) 😐
Hahaha
I live like 3m away from there
garbage coment
Australia's one of only two continents without squirrels!
@@hoilst wow?
I love the flat, sunken navy ships at the Garden Island base at 16:54.
21:26 I would need to see external view of take off and landing to see if there is indeed "full water physics".
I grabbed the sim. Beautiful but there is no water physics with respect to a plane's interaction with water visually. Not even a ripple when you land in the water.
Those graphics are just stunningly beautiful.
Half of Sydneys CBD is missing including the Harbour Bridge!! They gotta fix that shit damn
Yes, I agree. Absolutely shameful effort from this mob. We need to nail their feet to the floor until they fix it, and quick.
Once customers start paying maybe they will Up their game and make it the best sim ever
I love the entitled people that are like 'They are missing ____ wtf'. Like calm down they LITERALLY have the ENTIRE world to deal with. Oh no the 1 bridge, in the one country, in the one city. Yes it is a key landmark but so are literally 10s of thousands of other things. If there is no 3d model to pull from then it will not be represented in game. And because most bridges are not 3d modeled in bing maps most bridges are not going to be in the game.
@@ShannonMcCraryH Let people say what they wanna say, if someone thinks there should be a bridge let them say it. Jesus.
@@mattyoz0 What....? Take your own advice. If I want to call people out for having completely flawed/entitled opinions then let me say it. Jesus.
Finally, a flight sim done out of the box. No buying better airplanes, apps to improve the clouds, installing add ons to fix the water, weather fixes...etc, etc...ad nauseum. It needs nothing, it seems. Install it and have fun. Looks unbelievable.
They should replace that ground traffic AI with PacMan characters.
Needs to be a patch
I hear there will be an official mod store for this game.
Connor McCloy Xbox compatible?
@@allamericanwiseass I don't know. We might get that information when they announce the release on Xbox.
Wasn't that Pac Man in the right seat? :-)
For the most beautiful harbour in the world, they have a load of work to do to make Sydney look half as decent as San Francisco does!
"sydney opera house currently closed due to covid"...lol.....snapped me back to reality ack!
I think it sounds more like a boat engine personally but I love it, what a lovely little aircraft. Fixed wing is not my thing at all but since FS2020 doesnt yet offer Helis this is going to suit me fine. The scenery looks superb from the air too.
That last view with the aircraft in front of the opera house with the amazing water textures, really beautiful! Could easily have been mistaken for real footage IMO
Really amazing. It's so realistic it feels like your showing me a video of flying this thing around in real life, not a game. Imagine future of being able to play something like this in VR, then only thing you would be missing is smell and G forces. I doubt they can make this VR yet, maybe in a few more generations of graphics cards.
15:57 sydney harbour bridge has seen better days
and no centrepoint tower... seems strange given they put the effort into the opera house
@@b0son Yep talk about a let down! After the level of detail had me drooling too. That's a real blow given that flying planes under the bridge is what have often done when goofing off.
@@sammyfromsydney and how about the scale of the trees. more than a little off. still, looking forward to lying around my local area
@@b0son I can live with trees being generic, but massive landmarks that looked great in the previous sims reduced to whatever that is!?!?!?
I remember this plane from Microsoft Flight (2012). I believe there was a mission where you're late for a yacht party. So you land in the water next to the yacht.
I'd like to see some of SE Asia (Thailand (coastal), Vietnam (Ha Long Bay), Singapore, Indonesia's amazing island archipelago, the Philippines, etc). Nobody ever shows it! I'll bet the Maldives and Sri Lanka look great. Roll on Aug 18th.
they did add a handcrafted airport in Papua
Same. Hardly anybody showcases SE Asia. However, I did notice that Squirrel showcased around 20-30 seconds of parts of Hong Kong (my home) in the 1st look video. I was amazed at how detailed & accurate it was. I requested for a more complete look into Hong Kong.
@@josephpak4277 There're footage of Philipines on YT, Azure did a decent job there!
Richard Bach author of Johnathan Livingston Seagull owned one of these and wrote a whole book about it. He flew his from Florida where it was built to the San Juan Islands in WA. In the book he talks about the plane being hard to learn to fly. He ran it into a power line crashed and almost died landing on a friends private strip. The real plane bounces around a lot more on water landing. Otherwise it was quite realistic.
Gonna land this plane in the lake infront of my house as soon as I get the game
@Tom Arnold Im not telling you where my fucking house is
I love that you mention that while also mentioning covid it is with respect to flight simulation a great time to be alive. That is exactly how I felt when I flew along the statue of liberty, Manhattan and central park today. Wow what a views and fun!
Thank you for your video!
Looks nice but they are missing a few iconic parts of Sydney including the Harbour Bridge and Centrepoint Tower
razalom66 I don’t know about the tower but they couldn’t get copyright acceptions from the bridge so they weren’t legally allowed to put it in.
Consider investing in a force-feedback stick or yoke. I've used one in FSX for years now and you can feel when you've got the plane trimmed where you want it because the stick forces go neutral. Also, you should check out the Icon A5 demo videos here on YT. They drive it like a jet ski on the water. The wing tips are designed to plane on the water so you can roll it right over to put a tip down for turns, or to use S turns to slow down.
14:03 they need to do a little work on those textures on the ground down there. Beautiful graphics though
They can't do much as all the graphics are algorithms. Unless they go in manually and fix the entire world.
I have a crap laptop for work but my private computer is an iPad Pro. This sim is what will get me to buy a PC again. In the past I’ve been flying FS Sim starting with version 3.
I dont even have a hotas setup, never bought flight sims. But goddamn am I thinking about it now
Do it. You won't regret it
I just got the T-flight hotas one, is ok the stick is good the throttle kinda floppy but it's cheap 120 Canadian paceos
Get the X52 Pro. Worth it 199$
xbox controller works well for me with it.
What I like to hear😂
I live about 15 minutes East of where you took off from... I knew, from the shape of the bay where you were before you zoomed out on the map. The trees etc aren't accurate, but definitely the topography is!
Ryan Inc the location is Canada Bay between the suburbs of Concord and Five Dock. That intersection behind is a roundabout.
@@josephj6521 yeah man, I've hit enough balls into the Bay there playing the 18th at Barnwell Park to know it all too well!
Looks amazing only thing you don't see when taking off and landing is the sea spray behind the plane so the speak.
Ive noticed that flight simmers are willing to tolerate a certain number of rough edges. It definitely seems like this game has some rough edges and doesnt cope well when pushed to its limits, but I guess that was the case for all the previous flight sims.
@@SentinelxPrime That's definitely true. Before this Flight Simulator, if you wanted anything even remotely close to this level of detail at water/ground level you would need to download dozens of gigabytes of hand-crafted, sometimes user-created content. The fact that this game is able to replicate the entire planet and fill in so many of it's details using AI is unbelievably impressive, and it's only going to improve over time as the devs refine the AI and handcraft even more cities/airports.
In the future, I expect more and more of this simulator will rely on data sent from the cloud, as internet speeds/connection quality improves over the years we'll start to see even more detail added in. I still can't believe how good it already is at launch.
@@rediornaut7018 I wonder if at the end of the 10 year lifecycle, would this game look dated? I cant imagine it ever looking that way considering how good it looks now but the improvements you mention will make a difference. Maybe the law of diminishing returns will apply because after all, games from the beginning of the last console gen still look good to my eyes.
In current beta, amphibious operation is more limited than in the old Microsoft Flight 2012 Icon. You can not extend your landing gear in water and taxi up onto shore nor taxi into water from shore. Both operations were possible in Flight 2012 Icon.
I'm from syd and I'm amazed!!! They even modelled my school hahaha. But seriously what happened with the bridge :( they didn't manage to model it for the beta!
Its probably because of his settings :) he mentioned he is on High not Ultra so some things are cut out to save on FPS that's my educated guess from experience with past sims..
Bridges like this need to be modelled manually unlike most buildings. You can actually create a 3D model and upload to Bing Maps and make a pull request. I'm sure some ppl will start contribute and make Microsoft job a lot easier once this game is released, just like how ppl are building the world in Minecraft 1:1.
As an actual pilot of the A5, use on angle white in the AoA gauge. That’s your best approach speed. Pitch for on angle yellow when close to water/pavement. Keep 3000 RPM in during approach and landing.
The reason it sounds like a car is because it runs on a Diesel engine, not an AvGas engine, thus the aircraft can use fuel freely available to boats and cars.
That's untrue, the Icon A5 uses a Rotax 912 iS engine, which is a gasoline powered engine. It can accept automotive gasoline, or Avgas, but not diesel.
Grant Russell my mistake... the point I was making was it uses fuel easily available at any gas station.
seeing that cruise ship, I think they are teasing us. They could very easily create a cruise ship or a large ship simulator where it's more than just piloting a ship, but it's maintenance of a ship, inventory, security, coast pilot, passenger assistance all that. That's what I want to see next. I might actually buy that. Even a road version of the same thing would be great.
i hope u do more vids on mfs for us! keep up the work Paul!
As someone that lived in Sydney, there's way too many tall trees around the harbour. It's not actually like that. It looks incredible, but the tall trees throw off the scenery a bit.
I care. But simply log a bug request and Asobo sort it (for alpha testing at least) I had the same issue in Spain and they fixed it very quickly.
Where is the harbor bridge?
this looks more like a car than a plane on the inside
Razer457 its a jetski with wings
That’s the plan
It's a flying death trap! Many have crashed in the last few years!
RIP Roy Halladay, one of baseball's great pitchers. But he was also methed up at the time and reportedly trying to do some aerobatic maneuvers in a plane that clearly can't handle such things, so that's on him.
@@konga382 Taking drugs while flying! Seems like madness and cost him his life!
holy shhhhhhh ....that looks fricking incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .... i'm not normally blown away ... thanks
I need a tutorial how to handle the camera... actually that´s what I am struggling the most with :D
Fipspilot when you can fly the plane better than you can move the camera 😂. Hope it gets sorted soon
Yeah its crazy right now! Xd
You're so lucky to be on the preview version
TrackIR
I need autopilot on to fly on 3rd person perspective, otherwise, I can't tell if I'm accidentally rotating etc but I'm a noob so it's okay
I wish Sydney was this tropical, wouldn't be freezing my ass off in winter. It looks like the tropics here with all these palm trees!
What the heck happened to Sydney Harbour Bridge. It’s been replaced with a multi-span flat pack!
as a Civil Engineer who has lived in Sydney my whole life this pains me to no end
@Tom Arnold who cares? Sydney harbour without the bridge is like London withoyt the London bridge, or New York without the statue of liberty.
MrBJPitt "It's like London without London Bridge" - I'm betting you're referring to Tower Bridge and not actually London Bridge, like most tourists. London Bridge isn't actually that impressive.
@@Quantiad London Bridge in terms of navigation. It's very disorientating not having the harbour bridge.
Sydney tower is also conspicuously absent . That and it looks like the ferries have taken the day off.
Sydney local here.... Hope they fix the city buildings before release, it doesn't look like Sydney. Even Sydney Tower, the most prominent building is missing. And the Sydney Harbour Bridge is missing completely. That would be like missing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Other very key landmarks in the harbour are missing too. I guess this will be in the release version, no way they could leave these key things out. Water and general landscape looks great though.
Lands small aircraft near Circular Quay.
* ASIO wants to know your location *
What fun! Shame about the Harbour Bridge, but I imagine we'll be able to pay (handsomely) for that level of detail later on. Nice fun video, thanks Squirrel!
Thank you for sharing this video of Sydney, and although it needs a little fine tuning, there is one thing I've noticed with MFS2020, and that is the trees are too big in some places. The trees around the Sydney harbour foreshore are way too big.
Yeah... and apart from the Opera House this looks nothing like Circular Quay
@@Sisu2280 I wouldn't go as far to say it looks 'nothing' like circular quay but it needs some tuning with things like the Harbour Bridge, center point, trees and island placement...
@@boston8581 They will probably leave it for ORBX to bring out a third party update as a DLC scenery add on.
A little fine tuning? It needs a lot of major re-working, no fine tuning.
Everything is so beautiful, hey someone stole the Harbour bridge 😅
To be fair, a bloke in the pub did sell it to him.
0:17 I dont like the traffic, seems buggy, hope they get that fixed.
Not to mention ugly! I hope we can turn it off all together if it looks that bad
@@Drummercommander jesus christ stop complaining, it's a free open world flight sim and you are caring about the car traffic?
@@VideoAulaslo It's not free? I was just expecting a bit more detail since they've been hyping everything up. I'm not even complaining really, it's more like an observation :)
@@Drummercommander yes, I misused the word "free" there
It's a simulator, not a game, ie, there are no points to be won, no "extra lives" to gain, etc. It SIMulates real world flying. If you crash, you're done. My sim (Microsoft Flight Simulator, Steam Edition) freezes at the moment of impact, shows the 'attitude' you crashed at, then resets you all the way back to where you began your flight to do it all over again, hopefully learning from your mistake. Good training tool! I take it very seriously and apply it to my real world flying.
Actually there's a challenge landing thing which does score you, and where you have a leaderboard. So there's a game mode in it.
But overall, yeah. It's not really a game.
I wonder if there's going to be a properly modeled Sydney bridge in the final release? The Sydney bridge in this video looks awful.
Should be, Sydney is listed as manually modelled.
Level of detail is astonishing. I was JUST THERE before lockdown (nearly didn't make it back to the UK as flying through Singapore which was a high-risk country at the time). I spent a lot of time on that waterfront and it's just insanity to see it 1:1 in a flight sim. There's a very overpriced, but very lovely bar to sit in under the opera house that you can see in your beauty shots at 21:30... I can point out a bar.... In a flight sim...
Disappointed the Sydney harbour bridge is just a generic bridge
I'm sure these details will get better and better.
@@LtW00dy yeah they probably will
It's one of the copyrighted bridges.
Yes, Sydney's most famous landmark is MIA. Might as well depict Paris without the Eiffel Tower. Lots of glitches with cars and ships to remind us that this program was created by Microsoft.
Free, third-party map packs are now available that include high-resolution versions of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Great video squirrel. I went to Sydney Opera House in 2013 I'm from Australia I went there on my grade 6 camp it was a fun camp & I must say the Sydney Opera house looks so identical to the one in real life
17:00 NO Sydney Harbour Bridge!!!! The one landmark that everyone knows - AWOL. Imagine SF without the Golden Gate? (And apparently no Gladesville Bridge either, need to fix these things!)
Wont be buying it until thats fixed!!
Yes, mate. I could not believe this development team would treat Australians so badly that they would do such a lousy job with this iconic city. And to ask us to pay a premium for the sim … good grief. I feel used … my wallet has been raped, that's for sure.
It isn't amazing. It's crap. This is not Sydney.
@@MegaPeedee SO dramatic! They're likely working on getting the more notable POIs hand-created
I am really surprised they included the Opera House but not the Sydney Harbour Bridge. I hope they fix it soon. :)
"were in sydney"
>has palm trees, and rural housing
Yeah, mate - a load of crap … Sydney isn't like this.
I love that they added the Icon A5 to this new simulator, it was the best part of Microsoft Flight from 2012 after all.
That ain’t Sydney....not even close
Not even close?
Living in Sydney I have to say it's bloody accurate well for the most part , Garden Island Naval base is well modeled.
Fort Dennison not so much..