Nice. Imagine…they spit out the telemetry from the cars to a public server…a few bits twiddled and, viola!, you could watch the race from your virtual cockpit. Or gondola; surely they have a hot-air balloon add-on?
Go Verstappen!
I binged all the Formula 1: Drive to Survive series on Netflix and all of a sudden I’m an F1 expert LOL. It’s really been making me want to fire up a F1 sim tho. 
Oh ya, MSFS2020 is pretty cool too. 
My biggest disappointment with MSFS 2020 has been the age of the Danish Ortho photo backgrounds. Especially in the light of the fact the full country coverage from last year is available free for commercial use provided that the date of download, the set names (Comes in 10 km square blocks) and from where they have been downloaded, is displayed in a relevant place.
Last time I looked, my home area and certain parts of Copenhagen was at least back from 2017.
A bridge south of my hometown and certain buildings and areas in Copenhagen was missing. This was also the case with Bing Maps. I found areas that where back from 2014.
It may have changed with the latest update, but I am still downloading it.
I am hopeful as I have just looked at Bing Maps and they have updated the Danish Ortho photos, so I’m crossing my fingers.
Happy Simming
Arh, Nope!
Still the same old Ortho photos.
Bummer!
MSFS Nordhavn Copenhagen
Bing Nordhavn Copenhagen
MSFS Frederikssund
Bing Frederikssund
Ahh well, back on the shelf again.
Happy Simming
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Now that I have hardware that can cope and have dialed in some settings in MSFS, I’m really starting to enjoy it!
Tried my first add-on aircraft, the YSIM SubSonex personal jet.
I had a blast flying around in this little jet! I wouldn’t mind testing a real one!
Flightmodelling in MSFS is so-so. It behaves well enough within normal parameters, but once you start moving close to the edges, it falls apart. I tried pulling up in the vertical, in the SubSonex and when I ran out of speed, it dropped nose forward and did two somersaults before it stabilized in a nose down attitude. I don’t know what would happen in the real aircraft, and I doubt it has been tested, but it just doesn’t feel like something that would happen in a conventional aircraft.
The SubSonex has its jet engine on its back and adding thrust creates a pitch down moment that feels real enough.
I also have a hard time hitting the switches with the mouse pointer, in VR. Works great in other aircraft, but in this one it is as if I’m slightly cross-eyed, or something…
Care to comment, @PaulRix?
And about those switches… If I ever build a personal Jet, I won’t settle for plain toggle switches for gear and flaps. At least put a knob on them, or something!
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The cursor in VR can be a bit of an issue…I will often close my right eye if it looks like there are two cursors (which happens quite a lot in a tight cockpit). It seems the left eye’s cursor is the real one. I’m guessing it is a depth of field thing.
Hopefully Asobo can work on improving that.
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I know I had a salty response to the vid you posted earlier, but could you please reconsider posting a list of apps to visit or screenshot of your settings or similar?
I am very lazy today and understand if you say “no”. I should just watch the video and then I can summarize it
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No worries, @Freak! I also get a bit annoyed when I can’t get software to obey…
I pretty much copied this guys advice.
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Thanks! I did this and it’s been amazing. Disabled motion reprojection and set the MSFS settings as he did and it is awesome. Feels very smooth and looks almost as good as on a monitor. I increased terrain detail a bit and set the in-game render scale to 80%.
I have been catching up on a lot of discovery flights and landing challenges today. Next time I will focus on a long bush trip.
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That was my gripe also. I was hopeful that they will update it eventually, but I see that we need to wait a little more.
I finally got MSFS updated for now and got an hour of so of flight time done. I did a bunch of the landing challenges, figured that would be a good way to check out a few of the aircraft and locations.
I have to say…it’s pretty nice. Looks fantastic, runs smoothly, still need to configure a bunch of controls but the basics including TrackIR were good out of the box…it’s got fun introductory challenges that kinda made me feel welcome rather than kicked me in the teeth repeatedly…
This feels a bit dangerous, I feel like I’m cheating on XP but I had a pretty fun night… 
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Did the tour of Denmark a few weeks back and from about 1000ft and the lighting, terrain buildings and water looks stunning - really blows everything else out of the water thus far in what they have done with BlackShark.
As this is basically AI v1 will be interesting to see how much this will improve over the years.
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It’s also simple things like grass that make it much more immersive.
Ok maybe grass is simple, but having it in the right spot is probably hard to do.
I think @Bearhedge does not know how far into the divorce he already is
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How right you probably are. I actually pay for MS Gold (or whatever it calls itself now). MSFS is included in the price tag. But I refuse to download it just because I am not ready to switch sims and my old brain can barely handle the current mix that already reside on the C: drive.
X-Plane is the better cook.
All MSFS does is order from restaurants.
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I really like looking out the window and bush flying, so haven’t flown XP since MSFS was released. Just don’t have time to nurture another sim. Maybe when I retire.
I’m probably 60% the DCS Harrier, 20% MSFS, and 20% Greatest Battles atm.
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MSFS was really disruptive to my simming pattern too…
Before MSFS:
X-Plane 60%
DCS 20%
Condor 20%
Now:
MSFS 95%+
The flight modeling is better in X-Plane, but the experience overall in MSFS is simply superior. I don’t sim for the training value…I sim for enjoyment. That means, for me at least, the flight model isn’t everything.
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Heh, for me it’s the other way 'round. I just like the feel of flight and the way it interacts more in DCS.
75% DCS
20% Il-2 Great Battles
5% MSFS2020
I feel both Il2 and MSFS deserve more of my time, but for now, there’s precious little of it, and the zippy floaty planes with the big sticks of boom get it
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It’s an interesting dilemma too - I fly sims for enjoyment too but I’d like to get back to flying lessons next year and I have to say a quick flight around NZNE in MSFS reminded me a lot of what my real life flight lessons are like, even if the feel of the default 152 might not be quite as close to the real thing as the XP JustFlight C152.
Looking outside and not having to make a little mental leap to imagine where you are is pretty nice - you are where you are and that’s that. The free Auckland ortho I have in XP is great and clearly a labour of love but MSFS is a different ballgame.
I guess what I mean is…the exact GA plane handling characteristics are pretty intuitive so they don’t need that much reminding and I don’t think you can really train the smoothest flare or stall or whatever in a sim anyway.
So, having the graphics to be able to perform little reminder flights of the training areas and procedures in an immersive manner is arguably almost more useful than the last 5% of the flight model accuracy. It’s not real training obviously but does help you recall things like “that’s the hilltop behind which is the Whenuapai CTR” or whatever.
Helos might be different - the dynamic feel of inertia and the forces in DCS helos is what makes me go back to them, so if MSFS helos are too stable and not quite there yet, that’s a bit of a negative for me. I want to like the zippy DCS Gazelle but ended up not flying it as much for that reason, it just doesn’t feel believable.
Anyway, just rambling thoughts and initial impressions 
MSFS is pretty exciting!
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