Yup. Guess you could say that the advent of ‘games’ shows up as an earmark on the timeline of civilization? Maybe? Need more coffee 
Amen.
That’s why Air Hauler and its ilk are so great, put a game in your simulator.
For me, currently the christmas flight is game enough with my sim. Which is a game already, or at least a toy.
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I never forget an interesting article wrote by a high rank officer in pentagon responsible to investigate public commercial wargames and sims for further use in milsim for USA forces trainning.
He told that sim vs game is many times the way that you use it than the core features that it have.
And its very true, because for example in this example is much more a true sim if i use airhauler in a fs and do all the correct procedures, cargo dispatching and operations, company managing (that is also part of company simulation and logistics simulation) etc etc, than using the fs only sandbox mode and only have fun taking off from taxiways, do loops over KLAX, not use atc, ram other aircrafts, etc etc etc as many “kids” do.
So true. Witness RL fighter pilots when they ‘play’ DCS. But I don’t mind at all.
Arma allows people to play tactically, but you can also do stupid unrealistic stuff.
CoD or BF are marketed usually towards people who play silly, but if you get a group together that is serious, and refuse to bunny hop or spawn camp or that junk, it can be very realistic relatively speaking.
Sure there are things like ballistics and damage models that are outside users’ control, but HOW you play very much is in their control and that is where sim vs game is most obvious.
Exactly, thats why i think thats a kiddish BS when i see the sh*t storm received by someone that ask to have a career in a civil fs in avsim forums. IMHO a good career mode lime for example AH2 addon is as realistic using it well as the rest of fs core is.
Sad that no one did it from core to avoid external windows, limitations etc etc… big fault is community brainless fanboys.
FSW sadly was the only civil fs that had the balls to try it, sadly only in beta and unfortunatelly it died because multiple other reasons.
IMO a civilian flight sim should have careers like:
- air races
- firefighting
- police helo (find missing person, chase criminal)
- search and rescue helo
- air hauler stuff
- business jet pilot
And similar things.
Edit: like competitive soaring, stunt pilot, movie crew helo, smuggler… endless possibilities.
Hmmm… I wonder: @BeachAV8R what if your real life job was available ingame? Would you play the career?
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Well I played A LOT of euro truck simulator 2. Normally for a couple of hours after driving a real one for 10 hours. So yes. We would all play our careers lol
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Hot fix 1.11.7.0 released 8 Dec
“Fixed crashes affecting 3rd party aircraft cockpit interactions”
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Did some testing of the new snow features at a few airports I’d done as part of the Christmas flight. Yeah… I wish this had been in place earlier.
No snow at BIRK but the view was impressive regardless.
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Ok, maybe I am blind or something.
Is there literally no airplane in FS2020 that can go faster than 150 knots and doesn’t have a glass cockpit?
I am planning my next big flight and trying to decide which aircraft to fly it in.
The Mb-339 fits. About mach 0.5
Hmmm I was more aiming for a prop aircraft, but thanks, I forgot about the Mb-339!
But IIRC it doesn’t have an autopilot, does it? I prefer planes with AP, it makes taking screenshots easier. 
I haven’t logged many flights in FS2020. I just bought it this christmas.
And while I don’t have a powerful enough PC to run it in VR in high settings, this sim looks really good on medium settings too.
The flightmodelling need some touching up, but then again, that was never MSFS strong point. There will probably be other, 3rd party developers capable of raising that particular bar, just like with earlier versions.
The features of this MSFS version that I think is incredible, is the environment. The fact that we have an entire planet to fly over, and with such detail, is blows my mind. The way the atmospherics control the light, is breathtaking…! Flying under a low overcast and breaking out into clear skies, seeing the landscape and your cockpit light up, feels so real!
The detailed planet is incredible, in its own regard. The way the procedural AI determines how everything should look, based on 2D maps and presets is very cool! Even though it does make my part of the world look almost 18-19th century with all the farms and large mansions. It’s easy to imagine why AI would think it looks like that, though. I guess it’s a preset based on demographics, perhaps. Not that many inhabitants up here. Few roads. Must be farmland! Let’s put some farms there. Oh, there’s a large structure. Must be a big house! But this is farm country so that house must have a gable roof… Yes, it looks a bit strange in places. But the advantage of procedurally generated scenery is that they can change the procedures. I’m guessing there will be updates to most inhabited parts of the world, eventually.
I haven’t been able to go home to visit my hometown in Sweden, in 2020. Flying around there in MSFS actually cured some of my homesickness…
So, considering that I will update my PC and that MSFS will be updated and add-on creators are hard at work making new toys for me to download and play with, 2021 sure looks promising!
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Good news!
I figured out what the most likely reason for my VOR problems was: the person in front of the screen. My brain seems to have more holes than I am aware of.
I totally forgot that there are different types of VORs and skyvector doesn’t seem to show that in its symbology.
The localizer VORs at airfields of course have short ranges and cannot be received from all directions.
Somehow I kept ignoring that and wondered why I couldn’t receive them… 
NDBs however are still strange. I feel like they should have more range and some don’t seem to work at all.
Interesting showcase from the Nvidia event today, looks like better multi-monitor support. I didn’t think Nvidia would be doing DLSS etc for MSFS, but looking at the performance they got out of a laptop, am now not sure.
(video starting at the right bit)
https://youtu.be/oi8WpLMy3ZM?t=2360
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I set aside MSFS until the VR support came out. Now I’m back in it. I got the MB-339 just for cloud surfing. The flight physics are really disappointed to me–accross all aircraft–compared to DCS, but those clouds alone are worth flying.
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Same here. I went to DCS years ago, before VR even, for the simple fact that, more than any other sime, it made me feel like I was moving about in 3D space in something with mass (a long winded way of saying: the flight model).
And it had better ‘stuff’ on the ground to give me a sense of speed down low. Good thing the gas is free in a sim cuzz I burn way too much yankin-and-bankin about the tree tops at high speed
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Yeah the stock planes are a bit underwhelming, but there is a lot of potential. And the visuals are just stunning, and for the whole world.
I haven’t flown DCS since MSFS2020 was released, despite the flight model.
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