I also really liked that it displays the range of the plane you picked.
Don’t forget making videos puts additional strain on the PC. In some games it’s not going to be enough to make a noticeable difference in performance, but in others it will.
So while a certain PC might be able to play MSFS just fine at decent settings, or make videos of a game, it may not be able to make videos of MSFS with those same settings and performance.
Apparently X-Plane developer not concerned about FS2020?
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Yeah, some of the YouTubers even mentioned several times that everything was maxed out and running really smooth on mediocre hardware, and that it was just the video that caused the stuttering.
But in the end everybody has to see for themselves I guess.
I guess I didn’t notice that, but that will be useful for the long treks we do here 
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You can see it in Quill’s video IIRC.
But I think it disregards wind so you should not rely on it.
…the IT guy said to the real world pilot. I know you know of course. 
Interesting interview. At first glance I thought surely they would be considering MSFS2020 as a direct competitor, but Austin said something I hadn’t really thought about. His professional sim business is about as threatened as VBS would be by Call of Duty. When he mentioned the scenario about a company wanting a sim to test fly a plane before its even built, they aren’t going to call up Microsoft.
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Listening to this now. Starting at minute 26.
Austin is right when he says his mission is unchanged as certain requirements are still there. Testing a flight model in an offline environment, etc…
However he is wrong about satellite images. Most problems he mentions are going away now.
He needs John Doe consumer. The pricing gives it away.
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I do not really think X-Plane is in trouble. It will continue to do some things better than competitors. There is something to be said for having a smaller team too…
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Let me rephrase: I think they will sell less copies. XP still has it‘s own niche, and some hobbyists will appreciate it. The masses of entertainment users (which just hit XP recently) will divert.
I don’t think he’ll see a defection necessarily, but I could imagine that 5 years from now he would notice fewer new customers than if FS2020 did not come out.
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Assuming MFS is still out at that point. I know they have committed to 10 years of support, but I am never surprised when financial decisions trump good intentions. I’m hopeful though. I hope they set up a DLC network that will make @PaulRix have to find a secondary job… 
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Why are you throwing Paul under the bus? Aren’t you just about as bad (or good) as him? 
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I think Paul is a bigger aircraft aficionado and I tend to be a bigger airport collector maybe. It is a really close one to call though…
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I guess we can pretend to be DPRK pilots in fs2020 too.
I guess they had to get the satellite photos and not aircraft ground photos for North Korea.
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PMDG, Anyone?
I would love to fly the 737 in fs2020, but I’m not a study level button pusher guy. Hopefully a freeware or lower cost one by somebody else comes along.
I’m quite geeked that business jets are in. They’re jets, but not heavies that are harder to handle.
I am also a fan of business jets.
Not too big, not too small, not too complex, they come with some range, and they are fast enough to not take ages for flights, so I can visit more places in less time.
As for the terrain again:
I just watched a video by a German who flew over some cities, and I definitely see that there is still room for nice addon scenery and so on. And yeah there are funny errors (Hannover has some buildings on the autobahn and Bremen has a gigantic tree) but wow, pretty nice in most aspects.
I also saw some Norwegian fjords and the colors looked a bit weird (like too… colorful? Like IL2 sonetimes looked, you know?) But holy carp, flying through those fjords will be fun!
I hope so too…but I have no kids to put through college so a second job will hopefully not be necessary . Oh, and yes, the aircraft are my main weakness. I have invested in quite a bit of scenery for X-Plane, but a lot more on airplanes… I can’t help myself. It won’t be a big surprise if I end up buying some of them again for MSFS when they are inevitably ported to the new sim.
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I really hope orbx offers a discount on p3d airports. I havent really used them that much in p3d and would be hesitant to rebuild them. I guess there is that 50% off sale a year after release.