Nope.
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I laughed out loud when I saw the reviewer start a barrel roll in a 747.
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Anyone want to help me with what this is? Google was not too helpful.
Basically it is a minimum controllable airspeed with one engine operating at max power and the other failed. As you slow the airplaneā¦at some speed there will be so much asymmetric thrust that the rudder and/or aieleron can no longer overcome the tendency for the aircraft to want to flip over.
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No, I donāt think so. But still, if Steams servers are slammed, Iām betting Microsofts are too.
Academic follow up question: Are there multi-engine aircraft for which this speed effectively does not exist? ie Vmca is lower than stall speed.
Hmmā¦I never pondered that one. But I suppose it is possible if you had a pair of really weak enginesā¦ 
Or a really big rudder 
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So you got me curiousā¦and yesā¦and noā¦for instance the Seminole (which instantly sprung to mind when I though of underpowered aircraftā¦has a Vmca of 56ā¦which is a Vmca that is IN the stalled condition.
Just fired it up for a quick first impression.
#1 Its a choppy mess on ultra with a 2080 super.
#2 Lighting and weather is awesome
#3 The TBM 900 from x-aviation gave an extremely high bar for the stock TBM850 to reach. Iām spoiled. Itās worlds apart, but to be fair its a āstockā airplane.
Going to tweak settings later, but overall it looks good.
EDIT:
Should clarify this is from literally 10 minutes of starting up the TBM 850 at KDAL and zipping around. I have the base version, which ever one comes with the xbox game pass. As far as the chugging performance, its was sitting around the 35 FPS mark @ 4k over Dallas which is a pretty densely populated city. Panning the view was like a slideshow. YMMV because of systems and settings, but I definitely need to dial back the settings. I really just wanted to see what it would do.
If I recall from my notes from Simuflight a long time ago, one of the Citation Jets has a lower VMC than stall speed, at least in a given configuration. I canāt remember which one. I thought it was the straight 525 (CJ/CJ1) but canāt find my copy of the AFM to look, and havenāt been to school on that one in a couple years.
Question:
Is it better to buy MSFS 2020 on Steam, or from the MS Store (Xbox store I guess)?
Iām thinking about workshop and future compatibility with Steam VRā¦ canāt find any definitive answers.
I donāt care about Xbox compatibility as Iām not a console owner.
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I think you answered your own question WarPig. Iām personally going with Steam because ā¦
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Steam refund policy
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Using VR through Steam is quite easy and painless
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Ability to most likely be able to invite Steam friends into your game session easily
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Steam servers are more reliable
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Potential for Steam Workshop support
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Potential for some pretty big Steam sales once DLCās inevitably come out
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Gunny, donāt forget the Render Scaling option if youāre running in 4K. Set it to like 80% and itāll still probably be really good looking. I had to do this for Red Dead Redemption 2 to get my fps up to around 60.
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Interestingā¦I never played the release build, but the Alpha was quite smooth on my 2080tiā¦ I have to wait until midnight to see how the release is.
I tried Steam this afternoon, but the web site was blown all to hell, LOL. Iām away from gaming rig until tomorrow night. You know itās big when it takes down the Steam store.
PhD style discussion on the topic.
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For performance at 4K, turn off AI Traffic (the LOD on other aircraft is bugged) if not using it and turn down render scale < 100%. Also, turn off AF and use Texture Sampling 4x4 for better Ansiotropic Filtering settings, otherwise itās fugly. The release day driver helps with 1080 cards and up.
Shouldnāt there be a new forum category for this sim or something? 
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Steam it is! Thanks gentlemen.