More Microsoft Flight Simulator videos to enjoy! Can You Take Off Without Moving? (Cessna 152) th-cam.com/video/iFszHTaOs6I/w-d-xo.html Paris to Cardiff -(Airbus A320neo) LFPG-EGFF th-cam.com/video/_S6ITcdwGAk/w-d-xo.html
speaking of the trim: Do you think it would be more "realistic" if, when you get near enough to proper trim, the game just puts in perfect trim (for that instant) instead staying at fixed adjustment intervals? That way, it would mimic the "feel" of trimming the plane in real life, and the ease that comes with it when you're trained. Just a thought (and idea for a modder once the SDK comes out)
It's an "if Only" thing that MS2020 uses crap bing maps rather than proper Google Maps which all on Earth use for car nav, [ps. as a 'real world' pilot, how weird it is to see a guy who should have driven, fly via freeways. who knew? crazy as] (Aussie in covidlockdown.)
Hi can you tell me how you get that map to overlay your msfs , that's my old patch , but when I'm in msfs I can't bring that same map up ? Excellent vids , think I'll join and use you to learn
@Squirrel the funny thing is that your right trees and water are invisible at nice in Game lol I was doing a flight and crashed into a mountain lol haha lesson learnt
When I saw it in the trailer I thought it was just for the trailer and the game wouldn’t look as good but it does. They could convince people that this is an official airbus ad with how realistic it looks
Have you thought of doing a trucking diaries type series with this ? Starting with your local airport fly around the world from one airport to the next each episode, sometimes in GA aircraft, sometimes in something bigger when routes dictate. A great way to do different content and show off parts of the world others won't visit. It also has a start and end point of the series, may be 20 episodes, may be 200 depending on the flights.
So like... he flies to a location via flight sim, than switches games to trucker sim, todo a delvery from the place he flew to? Am I understanding this right? cuuuuz that would be pretty neat.
that's too boring mate!!!!!... and by the way, squirrel can't even conclude the trucking diaries series and you expect him to make 20 episodes of flight sim?!!!!.....lol!!!
@@georgewaring2893 It was interesting to me George being a Student pilot. I'm sure boring to pilot's. Everything I can get is ok with me, lol. Thanks to all.
This is kinda built into the game. I can't remember what they're called, but there are trips setup in the game that are meant to be VFR. They give you a description of what you need to look out for, which way to turn, how long to fly for. They consist of multiple such legs.
Since almost everyone has extra wishes: I'd like to see a waterfall. Whether Niagara Falls, Victoria Falls or Iguazu Falls. Do we see moving water or maybe spray?
Being a former Truck driver who used to deliver in this area a lot, I recognised all the roads before commentary. Also places like Upminster, Billericay, Grays, the A128 and many, many industrial area's and individual warehouses. Imagine if they could include all this detail in a Truck Sim.....
Same! I grew up between Southend and Basildon. I spotted the Rayleigh Weir junction and was blown away when I realised I could see Rayleigh town centre in so much detail.
I would love that so much! I hope we're not far away from a whole world driving simulator. I'm not interested in racing games but some VR headset with a wheel and pedals and being able to drive around real roads across real countries would be amazing fun!
This is unbelievable imagine seeeing local football pitches with the floodlights and all, incredible. As the updates really start rolling out this'll be a truly wonderful game.
I literally just thought that. Imagine flying close to the stuff, like buildings etc. Its really really incredible. I want to see Tokyo at night really really bad.
The night lighting is the most stunning I've ever seen in a sim, this sure blows X-Plane's night lighting out of the water. All these videos of MFS2020 is making it so much harder to wait for. Thanks for sharing these videos! I can never get enough of the truly next gen flight simulator!
As for realism, there are times when looking out the window of the plane, it almost looks like you are in a movie set of a plane with a green screen of real life showing out the window. This really hit me in your landing on water video.
This is so educational. I like the small insights, like why you do an idle check or the carb icing that's most dangerous when you back off the throttle.
26 mins in he flies over my workplace.- Ford development centre on the left, you can even see the test track loop lit up. I live near Southend and take this A127 route into work and i recognised every single second of this video, its blown my mind how close to realism this is.
As a EGMC based First Officer on the 737 I was buzzing when I saw you starting here! Love blasting off 23 over Canvey. I wish the terminal had 2 levels but the detail of the surrounds are amazing!
To be honest, the night part of this sim impresses me even more than the day part. It's crazy how accurate and detailed everything is! Nice flight Paul!
Beautiful! When I used to do these flights, back in my FSX days (left the hobby about 6 years ago), I used VORs (if available). mark where the line would cross a landmark (e.g. a road) and when the needle crosses you know where you are without resorting to the look at "V" key cheat. Can't wait till release to try these again! Keep them coming!
Thank you so much. Would you consider doing a flight where it is clear weather where you leave but will be stormy where you land so we can see how the new simulator does transitions?
I'll try. They can't be setup so would have to find a real-time route where the weather is doing that. Never guaranteed as weather changes all the time
@@squirrel Thx for the effort. I have always wanted to see a simulator show me storm clouds on the horizon that i end up flying towards and into convincingly.
@@squirrel You can use the default rain preset, just use one layer of clouds, set cloud scattering to a low amount, coverage to say 70% and winds to a high wind speed. Just leave the plane on the ground and then you can see the transitions between rain and clear weather very well. You can actually see the rain approach and the visibility getting worse. It will also show the tarmac getting wet and drying up beautifully. Also be sure to get some trees in the picture (be sure to set them to high or ultra in the settings) so you can see them sway in the wind.
@@squirrel For what it's worth, in the midwest here in the states, there's usually a cold front somewhere, and they're pretty predictable in their direction so it'd be easy to find one. Plus I think Detroit to Chicago could be a really cool route with two major cities, farms, forests, and a giant lake that looks like an ocean.
This was fun, I am from Denmark, but have family in both Brentwood, and my great grandmother used to live in North Woolwich, and id sit in her apartment and watch flights coming into City. I have also spent many summers in both Southend, and other places around the estuary, done alot of crabfishing aswell. This was great fun for soo many reasons ❤️
Just, wow... I can't even react big enough. Great job on the tips. Learned a few things and some things I never thought of that I'll take to the actual air. This sim finally gives me my numero uno passion of flight, and that's night. The lighting is ridiculously awesome! 50yrs old and am giggling like a 16rd old girl who just discovered a curling iron for the first time. So incredibly beautiful. Night time VFR is my favorite and your tips on the papi lights are great. Seeing that they were pink before red is just too impressive. I'm a pit builder but VR is the number one thing that has brought realism to the sim for me. In 20 years of simmingg it was the first time I felt the air without need to look at the panel. For instance, and since you're a real pilot, try turning on a point in VR vs without. Landing alone and finding that sweet spot in the distance is automatic with VR, making landings so authentic in feel. Steep turns can finally be done as in real life without the need to watch the VSI. Find your point on the dash and keep it there during your turn without looking at the VSI and chances will be high that you don't move more than 10 meters on a 360° turn. Having a pit allows me to reach out and touch something familiar rather than search for the mouse or lift the headset off to look at the keyboard. Now night flying like this puts the final touch to a perfect sim. All I need now is hydraulics and they're getting much better for the price, but not for the weight it will support vs footprint. In the coming years though for sure. Anywho,,, I don't talk a lot, I just type fast ;) Thanks for this video! It's the best MSFS 20 video I've seen by far!
I was watching MFS footage the other day and my girlfriend asked me why how it was possible for a camera to spin around an airplane that fast. I had to explain to her that she was not, in fact, watching real life footage but a video game. That's how convincing this looks.
Idea for future video: Walkthrough of your flight sim equipment (yoke, hotas, rudder pedals, etc.). Maybe talk about your previous equipment, and what upgrades you've made, and what you are thinking of upgrading in the future. In a separate video you can also go over your key bindings. Maybe in a tutorial style coverage. That would be awesome.
That pushback dude... was that Lewis Hamilton? :-) This nightflight looks stunning.. probably even better then flying in broad daylight. Damn. wish it was the 18th..
Thanks for the GREAT content on MFS, i'm an hardore simmer and you give me my daily source of this sim lol, keep it up even after the release maybe ? (Sorry bad english btw)
You're right about the headroom in this plane. Despite being strapped in, you would often note heavy turbulence due to hitting your head on the roof lol
"I fly out of North Weald Airfield"... I spent 3 months living with a friend in the UK.. She lived in Coopersale.. And i found a job for the time being in North Weald... Now.. all these years later, i follow sim tutorials from a man i might've walked into 20 years ago.. *chuckles* Keep up the great work, Squirrel..been following you since EuroTruck Sim. You're such a calming voice to listen to.. If you ever decide to do "live stream multiplayer tutorials", count me in :)
I used to live opposite the O2 across the Thames and right at the end of the flight I could make out the building complex where my apartment was. I used to hate the noise made from the airliners flying above my head when they were taking off from London City, but this just made me forget all about it. This was so mega cool!
21:34 is when my jaw dropped. This sim is unreal. Imagine how many people, airlines and organisations are going to use this sim for flight simulation. Definitely a big and industry defining leap.
@@daniloivensmina Really I've yet to seen any other simulator not Xplane, DCS, P3D or FSX provide such a realistic quality almost indistinguishable from real life detail especially at night. Not to mention that everything we see in MFS is out of the box not needing hundreds of dollars in addons. None.
1:58 "Had an A320 lined up waiting for me to land... no pressure!" As someone who has been in the traffic pattern alongside C-5M Super Galaxies and AT-6 Texan IIs, I know that EXACT feeling lol
Wish they can do taxi centreline lights as XP11, then it will be perfect...in FS it's too far spaced and some places don't even have any, making taxiing at night difficult
I really appreciate you taking the time to show us bites and pieces of this game ahead of the official release. I really enjoy these videos. I like the wide aspect ratio more than the usual one though. Keep up the good work & long live the Nut House
6:35 I notice the ground crew guy doesn't receive illumination from your head lamp. Does that mean he is not a physical object in the sim which you can collide, no wonder you can run through them like ghosts. :) Later in the vid tho, they got illuminated by the aircraft light.
Technically collisions and lighting have nothing to do with each other. You can have an object interacting with lights but have no collision and vice versa (depending on the engine)
Hi Squirrel, i would love to see an early morning flight between the hours of 4-6am. Loved the video ps when you went into the external camera it looked just like cities skylines.
This is great and an example of one of the first things I'd like to do in the sim: recreate the only small-craft flight I've ever taken, when my boss flew us in a 172 from West Michigan to New York, pausing near Detroit around 4am only because the alternator failed and our electrical system died so we had to emergency land at a closed municipal airfield. Until *that* holy-crap moment, though, we were REALLY enjoying the view night flying at 3000 ft--it was just beautiful and MSFS appears to capture that perfectly. Can't wait.
@Lungho They'd also make another super small city isolated on an island. The new rendition of San Andreas was a bit...daft looking. If they go Vice City we'll get a little town and a park size patch of swamp.
Thanks for this video... I often start night time flying in Prepar3d and this means sitting in a cockpit in the pitch dark trying to find the lights and switch them on. So you can imagine it when I tell you I literally fell off my chair when I saw the headlamp now available. This flight simulator is going to be a huge step up for flight simulators.
Every video you put out makes me more hyped for the full release. I am a beginner when it comes to flight sims, and I can't wait to dig my nails into MSFS and get my bearings. Thanks for the coverage as always Squirrel.
I notice that there seems to be no ambient light from the offices when you park up, with all those lit windows you would expect it to be almost like daylight outside, but the people and the other plane are still in deep shadow. This is much the same as it was in FSX, is it a hard thing to add? (for the developers I mean) or does it carry a very heavy FPS penalty or something, just curious that it seems to have been left out of what is an incredibly realistic setting.
Yeah, that would be incredibly costly from a GPU's perspective. In a sim like this, all the lighting has to be dynamic, and dynamic lighting is expensive. You can get away with it in smaller scale sims and games, doubly so when you can calculate the lighting ahead of time and bake it in, but on the scale FS2020 is at, you just can't. You *may* see it in some of the handcrafted airports where there's a lot more control over what the GPU is rendering, but not at autogen fields. Could also likely be resolved with the next generation or two of graphics cards as well, once FS2020 gets raytracing support---with the way raytracing is being implemented you've got separate cores for it that you can specifically dedicate to lighting and shadows, which takes a huge amount of load off of the rest of the card and frees up room to push more polys and run more complex shaders.
Hands down this channel has the best flight sim 2020 content so far. Very professional, doing what the sim is made for, great immersion, and I'm learning lots in the process too. Cheers!
I'm curious to know how is the collision with structures, scenery and roads, in case you have an emergency. can you make a vide showing different situations like that, if you can land on any road or field ?
I saw a video of a guy landing on a beach but ended up crashing because it was rough terrain. So it’s possible to land anywhere as long as it’s smooth enough. If you hit a building, you crash
What a great insight for the sim and for night flying. Thank you Squirrel. Some great experience and advice thrown in to a very realistic sim. Can't wait to get it.
i started as a child with pong. then the the atari 2600. c64. 1040st. mac, pc, consoles. this is the moment i waited for to buy a game, and i have already. amazing progress. amd by the way a very good channel, and some good introduction to this genre. thank you sir.
I can see why Some pilots(novice mainly) choose not to fly at night purely because the risk of getting lost goes right up and the fear sets in which in turn effects your ability to fly the plane 100% safely. I will stick to night sim flyting lol. Great Vid as always.
I know I'm late saying this but I'm so glad you're back making regular content again my friend! You have no idea how much your videos come through during all this mess!!! Thank you!
i have to say i began fs back in 98 and through the years ive got fs2002 etc but this i just blows me away the detail is beutiful i enjoyed watching this
Simulated light pollution that bounces off the clouds and the atmosphere around cities, is a real thing in FS 2020 and something never seen before in gaming/simulator history. That's simply amazing and it certainly plays a huge role in approaches from afar, like you did in this video.
100% agree with what you said about pre flying to an airfield. This will make students getting their PPL and freshly minted PPLs more comfortable going into new fields. Especially places out of state/province. For example, I plane on flying to traverse city this fall with friends, but I haven’t been there yet. This sim will help with approaching the traffic pattern and lining myself up on the downwind etc.
While you were flying along the Tesco, I opened up Google Maps to check whether I would find remarkable street constellations and... of course I would. Most notably the motorway ramps at 25:30 on the bottom left and the half-circular streets further west from it. It's just here: 51°34'49.9"N 0°25'43.6"E Incredible!
Hi Paul - hope your well. From someone that comes from that part of the world this is really good to watch. 30 years or so ago I used to go up as a passenger in a dodgy 4 seat plane (it was like an old Ford Fiesta with wings) from the old Southend airport. It was then cheaper to fly to Ostend to fill up with fuel than locally. I recall the journey back and the pilot with black visor so using controls only. He was a terrible driver of cars so stress levels were through the roof. I remember a glimmer of hope when the lights from Southend pier come into view. Crazy days. Looking at your route in this video having come from Basildon (moved away along time ago) I knew all of the areas you were referring too. Great to watch - and a bit of a departure from our old BF3 days. Phil
Stumbled on your channel recently but so glad I did! I was studying for my PPL before lockdown and so glad FS2020 is showing this much promise that I might be able to get back into the zone and practice before I get back into the real thing. P3D just hasn't been blowing my skirt up. Love that you are sharing your RL experiences with us. Look forward to more.. Stay safe and keep the blue side up.
Appreciate your real world experience comparisons and look forward to more in-depth pre-take off, take off, and landing procedures. Your tone and delivery are calm and makes for good instruction IMHO. Taketh my sub.
I don't know why, but I always loved night flying in sims, it feels so much more relaxing, and like Paul said, you can see civilization from far away. Yea, it has its cons for navigation, but the sightseeing is amazing. MSFS2020 certainly looks so cool too. I love how they made ambient lighting color tone the cockpits and nearby vehicular surfaces to the ambient light of the environment. Makes things look so realistic. Only thing I miss is the vague-opaque reflection in the glass, that'd finish it off even more I'd say. Paul, I'm up for more night flights like this! 👍🏻
I really am blown away by the team who built this sim...my god! I’ve have t been this excited for a sim in a very long time! I get this is in ultra, but still...
I have had the Bruner force feedback joystick for a while now. You’re right, trimming is really easy, you trim until the the stick stops resisting you and you’re there. Looking forward to the HP Reverb G2 arriving next month ‘cos I imaging the immersion with the stick reacting to all the forces will be truly immersive.
The lighting is looking a lot better now. The fact that shopping centers are well lit is a major improvement. The only thing that seems to still be lacking are lights from cars and trucks. Would make it a lot easier if you had the tail and headlights moving on the freeways (or as you call them motorways).
Really glad to see the head lamp. Always hated having to break sequence in putting my dome light on so early on night flights. Hope we'll see a red light option down the road / runway. Always used red light in the military as well to save your night vision.
I havent even played a flight sim in at least a decade but after seeing this footage from your videos im definitely picking this up. The detail is incredible i would have never dreamed of this as a kid playing xplane 1.0 designing my own jet with massive unrealistic thrust lol
21:27 I was shocked at this point because you flew over my local area and I could tell all of the roads and see the rayleigh wier coming of the A127. WOW THIS GAMES AMAZING
Ahh mate, I'm so glad you made this video because it covers something you might find interesting that I can't wait to try in MS2020. I have relatives that live not far from RAF Marham in Norfolk. That entire area is littered with tons of old US WW2 bases where B17s and B24s were based. They are still visible in the earth markings from the air and also some still have partial concrete runways segments left. I intend to do a full history series on each of these bases that are visible in MS2020. If you would take a quick look at an old Battle of Britain base in the Kent called RAF Tangmere, it's West of Chichester and North of Bognor Regis I'd be so excited to see if you can see the old runway field markings are visible in the SIM like in real life.
Thank you! Southend, Rochford and Basildon used to be my stomping ground until i moved away in my Thirties. I tried to look for my parents house during your flight but couldn't see it. MFS looks absolutely amazing. i just wish i had the spare time to learn it at the moment.
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More Microsoft Flight Simulator videos to enjoy!
Can You Take Off Without Moving? (Cessna 152) th-cam.com/video/iFszHTaOs6I/w-d-xo.html
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speaking of the trim: Do you think it would be more "realistic" if, when you get near enough to proper trim, the game just puts in perfect trim (for that instant) instead staying at fixed adjustment intervals? That way, it would mimic the "feel" of trimming the plane in real life, and the ease that comes with it when you're trained.
Just a thought (and idea for a modder once the SDK comes out)
So u r training to be a poilt then
It's an "if Only" thing that MS2020 uses crap bing maps rather than proper Google Maps which all on Earth use for car nav, [ps. as a 'real world' pilot, how weird it is to see a guy who should have driven, fly via freeways. who knew? crazy as] (Aussie in covidlockdown.)
Hi can you tell me how you get that map to overlay your msfs , that's my old patch , but when I'm in msfs I can't bring that same map up ? Excellent vids , think I'll join and use you to learn
@Squirrel the funny thing is that your right trees and water are invisible at nice in Game lol I was doing a flight and crashed into a mountain lol haha lesson learnt
The level of realism achieved by the developers is incredible
When I saw it in the trailer I thought it was just for the trailer and the game wouldn’t look as good but it does. They could convince people that this is an official airbus ad with how realistic it looks
Lord Piggington thought the same!
Lord Piggington Facts, I don’t know how many games have looked better then the actual trailers.
Exactly! And people are doubting it. 🙄
I hope third party support is even 1 tenth what it is for fsx. That would be EPIC!!
Have you thought of doing a trucking diaries type series with this ? Starting with your local airport fly around the world from one airport to the next each episode, sometimes in GA aircraft, sometimes in something bigger when routes dictate. A great way to do different content and show off parts of the world others won't visit. It also has a start and end point of the series, may be 20 episodes, may be 200 depending on the flights.
So like... he flies to a location via flight sim, than switches games to trucker sim, todo a delvery from the place he flew to? Am I understanding this right? cuuuuz that would be pretty neat.
@@CrosswindSurfer No, this doesn't involve trucks, he would just fly from airport to airport in a bunch of different legs
that's too boring mate!!!!!... and by the way, squirrel can't even conclude the trucking diaries series and you expect him to make 20 episodes of flight sim?!!!!.....lol!!!
@@georgewaring2893 It was interesting to me George being a Student pilot. I'm sure boring to pilot's. Everything I can get is ok with me, lol. Thanks to all.
This is kinda built into the game. I can't remember what they're called, but there are trips setup in the game that are meant to be VFR. They give you a description of what you need to look out for, which way to turn, how long to fly for. They consist of multiple such legs.
Since almost everyone has extra wishes: I'd like to see a waterfall. Whether Niagara Falls, Victoria Falls or Iguazu Falls. Do we see moving water or maybe spray?
nope
@@1littlelee Thanks anyway ... :-(
that would be interesting
I'd like to see ai traffic as I'm not a vatsimmer!
@@Giorobben Thank you
Being a former Truck driver who used to deliver in this area a lot, I recognised all the roads before commentary. Also places like Upminster, Billericay, Grays, the A128 and many, many industrial area's and individual warehouses. Imagine if they could include all this detail in a Truck Sim.....
Microsoft Truck Simulator 2021 here we come!
ay big up the shitehole of Grays 😆
@Spom word😂😂 I live in Chafford tho much better
Same! I grew up between Southend and Basildon. I spotted the Rayleigh Weir junction and was blown away when I realised I could see Rayleigh town centre in so much detail.
I would love that so much! I hope we're not far away from a whole world driving simulator. I'm not interested in racing games but some VR headset with a wheel and pedals and being able to drive around real roads across real countries would be amazing fun!
I love how everyone previewing this game, pulls up Google maps instead of bing maps lolol Microsoft marketing dept must be going crazy!
Lol
The funny part is that bing maps are actually better so its their loss.
@@NORKIE they aren't though. they are getting better, but they are still years behind google maps in most areas.
@@NORKIE Bing Maps is the reason why most cities outside America look like shit.
@@NORKIE Google maps are much better.
This is unbelievable imagine seeeing local football pitches with the floodlights and all, incredible. As the updates really start rolling out this'll be a truly wonderful game.
I literally just thought that. Imagine flying close to the stuff, like buildings etc. Its really really incredible. I want to see Tokyo at night really really bad.
And imagine graphics mods
@@zafmo9829 tokyo is amazing but really laggy
@@tomazo3207 that's a shame.
@@zafmo9829 I'd like to see Mexico City at night! Such a huge city and full of hills, IRL looks like a blanket of twinkling lights
The night lighting is the most stunning I've ever seen in a sim, this sure blows X-Plane's night lighting out of the water. All these videos of MFS2020 is making it so much harder to wait for. Thanks for sharing these videos! I can never get enough of the truly next gen flight simulator!
Raytracing imagine
@@simonsimonstrahan4177 Would be the ultimate gpu killer.
As for realism, there are times when looking out the window of the plane, it almost looks like you are in a movie set of a plane with a green screen of real life showing out the window. This really hit me in your landing on water video.
I have to stop watching these videos!!! I can't WAIT!!! lol
Same 😶
😭 same as well. I think this is my 50th video by now.
These videos are a real spoiler. By the time I install it, my excitement would have deminished
Patience!!!
This is so educational. I like the small insights, like why you do an idle check or the carb icing that's most dangerous when you back off the throttle.
26 mins in he flies over my workplace.- Ford development centre on the left, you can even see the test track loop lit up. I live near Southend and take this A127 route into work and i recognised every single second of this video, its blown my mind how close to realism this is.
If the satellite can see it- its in the game.
Squirrel's testimonial for flight sim 2020:
*"absolutely stunning!!!"*
Hey squirrel, I’d like to see you go somewhere tropical and see how the engine generates sand, palm trees, and things like that.
SE Asia? Fly around the Philippines... 7,000 islands! How about Manila (RPLL) to Boracay, Caticlan (RPVE)
St Maarten... (TNCM)
Yeah like aruba or other carribean islands
Yes, fly to The Bahamas!
Maldives
As a EGMC based First Officer on the 737 I was buzzing when I saw you starting here! Love blasting off 23 over Canvey. I wish the terminal had 2 levels but the detail of the surrounds are amazing!
It's amazing that this Sim is so detailed he was able to navigate to an airport just using the roads he knew irl.
To be honest, the night part of this sim impresses me even more than the day part. It's crazy how accurate and detailed everything is! Nice flight Paul!
Djendo I’m in the same boat as you are, I honestly can’t believe how they can do this!
VFR flying without paying massive amounts of money for orbx or payware scenery... This makes me SO incredibly happy...
Beautiful! When I used to do these flights, back in my FSX days (left the hobby about 6 years ago), I used VORs (if available). mark where the line would cross a landmark (e.g. a road) and when the needle crosses you know where you are without resorting to the look at "V" key cheat. Can't wait till release to try these again! Keep them coming!
I can't tell you how hyped I am to get my hands on this! To think this is base game graphics! I spent a fortune on True Earth scenery for X Plane 11!
I like how you can see the cars just driving around the streets as you are landing. Makes the environment look alive!
Thank you so much. Would you consider doing a flight where it is clear weather where you leave but will be stormy where you land so we can see how the new simulator does transitions?
I'll try. They can't be setup so would have to find a real-time route where the weather is doing that. Never guaranteed as weather changes all the time
Great suggestion! Also does real-time weather simulate events like tornadoes and hurricanes to a certain degree? o.O
@@squirrel Thx for the effort. I have always wanted to see a simulator show me storm clouds on the horizon that i end up flying towards and into convincingly.
@@squirrel You can use the default rain preset, just use one layer of clouds, set cloud scattering to a low amount, coverage to say 70% and winds to a high wind speed. Just leave the plane on the ground and then you can see the transitions between rain and clear weather very well. You can actually see the rain approach and the visibility getting worse. It will also show the tarmac getting wet and drying up beautifully. Also be sure to get some trees in the picture (be sure to set them to high or ultra in the settings) so you can see them sway in the wind.
@@squirrel For what it's worth, in the midwest here in the states, there's usually a cold front somewhere, and they're pretty predictable in their direction so it'd be easy to find one. Plus I think Detroit to Chicago could be a really cool route with two major cities, farms, forests, and a giant lake that looks like an ocean.
This was fun, I am from Denmark, but have family in both Brentwood, and my great grandmother used to live in North Woolwich, and id sit in her apartment and watch flights coming into City.
I have also spent many summers in both Southend, and other places around the estuary, done alot of crabfishing aswell.
This was great fun for soo many reasons ❤️
8:55 Literal horror movie outside the cockpit
Hahahahahaha true this....that guy was terrifying!
lol I thought I was the only one. I went "TF some weirdo just staring into the cockpit while standing in the prop" he was supposed to be there though
Just, wow... I can't even react big enough. Great job on the tips. Learned a few things and some things I never thought of that I'll take to the actual air. This sim finally gives me my numero uno passion of flight, and that's night. The lighting is ridiculously awesome! 50yrs old and am giggling like a 16rd old girl who just discovered a curling iron for the first time. So incredibly beautiful. Night time VFR is my favorite and your tips on the papi lights are great. Seeing that they were pink before red is just too impressive.
I'm a pit builder but VR is the number one thing that has brought realism to the sim for me. In 20 years of simmingg it was the first time I felt the air without need to look at the panel. For instance, and since you're a real pilot, try turning on a point in VR vs without. Landing alone and finding that sweet spot in the distance is automatic with VR, making landings so authentic in feel. Steep turns can finally be done as in real life without the need to watch the VSI. Find your point on the dash and keep it there during your turn without looking at the VSI and chances will be high that you don't move more than 10 meters on a 360° turn. Having a pit allows me to reach out and touch something familiar rather than search for the mouse or lift the headset off to look at the keyboard. Now night flying like this puts the final touch to a perfect sim. All I need now is hydraulics and they're getting much better for the price, but not for the weight it will support vs footprint. In the coming years though for sure.
Anywho,,, I don't talk a lot, I just type fast ;)
Thanks for this video! It's the best MSFS 20 video I've seen by far!
I was watching MFS footage the other day and my girlfriend asked me why how it was possible for a camera to spin around an airplane that fast. I had to explain to her that she was not, in fact, watching real life footage but a video game. That's how convincing this looks.
fun fact : You don't have a gf
Nah. That's how DUMB your girlfriend is. Sorry.
nah bro she was right, this shit looks too real
The nextinline kbw
Idea for future video: Walkthrough of your flight sim equipment (yoke, hotas, rudder pedals, etc.). Maybe talk about your previous equipment, and what upgrades you've made, and what you are thinking of upgrading in the future. In a separate video you can also go over your key bindings. Maybe in a tutorial style coverage. That would be awesome.
I think the fact they're actually simulating light pollution might be one of the things that impressed me the most so far with this game.
as someone who lives in south benfleet this video was incredibly entertaining to watch you fly above the area in which I live lol
I just finished watching the icing conditions video when this popped up
Yes, Squirrel is manic ... ;-) No, of course we are happy and enthusiastic. Thanks a lot!
Me too!! I was like “aw maan, now I’ll get bored”, but then this poppes up:)
A double bill!
Im just binge watching all FS2020 videos at this point
Most immersive video of the sim I’ve seen so far!
Holy shit the guy stood to your left when starting the plane scared the Jimmys off me. Proper spooked.
Yeah, and that guy on the tug was kinda creeping me out too. Going in and out of the shadows there...Now thats realism ...haha😆
@@dopebogey Didn't help you could only see his teeth
Thanks for this video. Microsoft flight simulator truly looks stunning at night. Really looking forward to getting my hands on it
It's great to see you back in flight simming. You're my favourite simming TH-camr to watch- the video are so chill and enjoyable to watch.
KEEP UP ULTRAWIDE RECORDINGS! Absolutely love your work.
That pushback dude... was that Lewis Hamilton? :-)
This nightflight looks stunning.. probably even better then flying in broad daylight.
Damn. wish it was the 18th..
Being an XP user, it's so nice to see weather and ground lighting appear to extend beyond the horizon. Beautiful video.
Thanks for the GREAT content on MFS, i'm an hardore simmer and you give me my daily source of this sim lol, keep it up even after the release maybe ? (Sorry bad english btw)
Your english is not too bad!
Why does everyone who says “sorry for my bad English” actually have great English? 😂
@@elliotwhitworth8239 trust, it's like when it's not your first language you are double guessing every sentence. at least for me that's what happen
Felipe Jara exactly haha !
2 words, DEFAULT SCENERY. so excited for this
You're right about the headroom in this plane. Despite being strapped in, you would often note heavy turbulence due to hitting your head on the roof lol
Every time I see this game I'm just amazed. This is truly the next step in games and simulators.
They should implement some random emergency vehicle lights in the sim that move slightly faster than the other cars, that would be a cool little addon
Not even seeing moving cars TBH. No rear lights anywhere.
I learned a lot from the video Squirrel, so well done! The soothing voice just puts the last nail in the coffin. Thumbs up!
Like my instructor always said: White over white, you're out of sight. Red over white, you're alright. Red over red, you're dead!
"I fly out of North Weald Airfield"... I spent 3 months living with a friend in the UK.. She lived in Coopersale.. And i found a job for the time being in North Weald... Now.. all these years later, i follow sim tutorials from a man i might've walked into 20 years ago.. *chuckles* Keep up the great work, Squirrel..been following you since EuroTruck Sim. You're such a calming voice to listen to.. If you ever decide to do "live stream multiplayer tutorials", count me in :)
haha i live in Rayleigh so was waiting for someone on TH-cam to fly over, cheers ;-)
I used to live opposite the O2 across the Thames and right at the end of the flight I could make out the building complex where my apartment was. I used to hate the noise made from the airliners flying above my head when they were taking off from London City, but this just made me forget all about it. This was so mega cool!
21:34 is when my jaw dropped. This sim is unreal. Imagine how many people, airlines and organisations are going to use this sim for flight simulation. Definitely a big and industry defining leap.
Most recent full flight simulators (AKA Level D ones) already acheive this kind of visual fidelity.
@@daniloivensmina Really I've yet to seen any other simulator not Xplane, DCS, P3D or FSX provide such a realistic quality almost indistinguishable from real life detail especially at night. Not to mention that everything we see in MFS is out of the box not needing hundreds of dollars in addons. None.
@@daniloivensmina Bullshit to be honest. None of the other sims have this sort of detail and visuals without hundrets of dollars worth of addons.
He's referring to commercial simulators costing multi millions. Not really a fair comparison 😂😂
@@TheTheoblad yea aight but comparing a 70€ sim to a professional sim is like comparing formula one cars with bycicles
the city lights are so stunning, and the light pollution above the city. Amazing video, can't wait what the devs will do in the future!
Fellow pilot here, i can tell, the most fun part of the training, on the whole, was definitively the night hours rating. Glad you enjoy them too!
1:58 "Had an A320 lined up waiting for me to land... no pressure!"
As someone who has been in the traffic pattern alongside C-5M Super Galaxies and AT-6 Texan IIs, I know that EXACT feeling lol
Wish they can do taxi centreline lights as XP11, then it will be perfect...in FS it's too far spaced and some places don't even have any, making taxiing at night difficult
I really appreciate you taking the time to show us bites and pieces of this game ahead of the official release. I really enjoy these videos. I like the wide aspect ratio more than the usual one though.
Keep up the good work & long live the Nut House
6:35 I notice the ground crew guy doesn't receive illumination from your head lamp. Does that mean he is not a physical object in the sim which you can collide, no wonder you can run through them like ghosts. :) Later in the vid tho, they got illuminated by the aircraft light.
Technically collisions and lighting have nothing to do with each other. You can have an object interacting with lights but have no collision and vice versa (depending on the engine)
From another video I saw cars and people don’t have collision. Could be a bug with the lighting engine.
I think that guy is standing right outside the headlamp range. You can see it stops illuminating the ground 20 or 30cm in front of his feet.
People don't have collision
they don't receive light because they're just outside the range of the headlight. see on the ground. it stops about 30cm in front of him
Thoroughly enjoying these series of videos, especially from a real world pilot. Thankyou so much, this sim truly is a dream come true.
Thank you!
Hi Squirrel, i would love to see an early morning flight between the hours of 4-6am. Loved the video ps when you went into the external camera it looked just like cities skylines.
This is great and an example of one of the first things I'd like to do in the sim: recreate the only small-craft flight I've ever taken, when my boss flew us in a 172 from West Michigan to New York, pausing near Detroit around 4am only because the alternator failed and our electrical system died so we had to emergency land at a closed municipal airfield.
Until *that* holy-crap moment, though, we were REALLY enjoying the view night flying at 3000 ft--it was just beautiful and MSFS appears to capture that perfectly. Can't wait.
In some parts of this video, I could easily have shown it to my girlfriend and said I was in the UK doing some good old PPL flying
my jaw dropped. this is absolutely gorgeous!
If microsoft can make a game this stunning in 2020, I’m really excited for what rockstar will do with GTA 6.
@Lungho yup rockstar is really changing
@Lungho They'd also make another super small city isolated on an island. The new rendition of San Andreas was a bit...daft looking. If they go Vice City we'll get a little town and a park size patch of swamp.
Thanks for this video... I often start night time flying in Prepar3d and this means sitting in a cockpit in the pitch dark trying to find the lights and switch them on. So you can imagine it when I tell you I literally fell off my chair when I saw the headlamp now available. This flight simulator is going to be a huge step up for flight simulators.
Would love to see the lakes, Prehaps walney to carlisle?
Every video you put out makes me more hyped for the full release. I am a beginner when it comes to flight sims, and I can't wait to dig my nails into MSFS and get my bearings. Thanks for the coverage as always Squirrel.
I notice that there seems to be no ambient light from the offices when you park up, with all those lit windows you would expect it to be almost like daylight outside, but the people and the other plane are still in deep shadow. This is much the same as it was in FSX, is it a hard thing to add? (for the developers I mean) or does it carry a very heavy FPS penalty or something, just curious that it seems to have been left out of what is an incredibly realistic setting.
Yeah, that would be incredibly costly from a GPU's perspective. In a sim like this, all the lighting has to be dynamic, and dynamic lighting is expensive. You can get away with it in smaller scale sims and games, doubly so when you can calculate the lighting ahead of time and bake it in, but on the scale FS2020 is at, you just can't. You *may* see it in some of the handcrafted airports where there's a lot more control over what the GPU is rendering, but not at autogen fields. Could also likely be resolved with the next generation or two of graphics cards as well, once FS2020 gets raytracing support---with the way raytracing is being implemented you've got separate cores for it that you can specifically dedicate to lighting and shadows, which takes a huge amount of load off of the rest of the card and frees up room to push more polys and run more complex shaders.
I cannot wait to play this. The realism is just incredible - the traffic lights seen at street level just take the biscuit!
Using a plane without GPS, so cheating is impossible. Cheats with "V" key, within a minute. :'D
Hands down this channel has the best flight sim 2020 content so far. Very professional, doing what the sim is made for, great immersion, and I'm learning lots in the process too. Cheers!
I'm curious to know how is the collision with structures, scenery and roads, in case you have an emergency. can you make a vide showing different situations like that, if you can land on any road or field ?
I saw a video of a guy landing on a beach but ended up crashing because it was rough terrain. So it’s possible to land anywhere as long as it’s smooth enough. If you hit a building, you crash
there will not have crash effect. only pop a fail warning and end the game.
The game fades to black whenever you collide with anything. There is no collision modeling.
@@konga382 disappointing but understandable that they dont want to make terrorist simulator
@@konga382 That is the collision modelling....otherwise they'd go through stuff.
What a great insight for the sim and for night flying. Thank you Squirrel. Some great experience and advice thrown in to a very realistic sim. Can't wait to get it.
Cars on the ground appear to be moving far too fast it seems to me.
Well, British people are known for stepping on it
Daniel Green true dat
How fast do you think cars usually go ?
Okay, this night lighting is incredible
i started as a child with pong. then the the atari 2600. c64. 1040st. mac, pc, consoles. this is the moment i waited for to buy a game, and i have already. amazing progress. amd by the way a very good channel, and some good introduction to this genre. thank you sir.
I can see why Some pilots(novice mainly) choose not to fly at night purely because the risk of getting lost goes right up and the fear sets in which in turn effects your ability to fly the plane 100% safely.
I will stick to night sim flyting lol. Great Vid as always.
I know I'm late saying this but I'm so glad you're back making regular content again my friend! You have no idea how much your videos come through during all this mess!!! Thank you!
i have to say i began fs back in 98 and through the years ive got fs2002 etc but this i just blows me away the detail is beutiful i enjoyed watching this
Amazing graphics, as others have mentioned it's like looking out the window of a real plane.
Awesome video, love that you go through all the checklists at the start, making me want to start lessons for real!
Simulated light pollution that bounces off the clouds and the atmosphere around cities, is a real thing in FS 2020 and something never seen before in gaming/simulator history. That's simply amazing and it certainly plays a huge role in approaches from afar, like you did in this video.
100% agree with what you said about pre flying to an airfield. This will make students getting their PPL and freshly minted PPLs more comfortable going into new fields. Especially places out of state/province.
For example, I plane on flying to traverse city this fall with friends, but I haven’t been there yet. This sim will help with approaching the traffic pattern and lining myself up on the downwind etc.
Southend is my nearest airport, I’m from hockley and glad your nearby :) great video
While you were flying along the Tesco, I opened up Google Maps to check whether I would find remarkable street constellations and... of course I would.
Most notably the motorway ramps at 25:30 on the bottom left and the half-circular streets further west from it. It's just here: 51°34'49.9"N 0°25'43.6"E
Incredible!
For some reason the headlamp really impressed me on startup? Just a really sweet immersive detail they didn’t have to include
Hi Paul - hope your well. From someone that comes from that part of the world this is really good to watch. 30 years or so ago I used to go up as a passenger in a dodgy 4 seat plane (it was like an old Ford Fiesta with wings) from the old Southend airport. It was then cheaper to fly to Ostend to fill up with fuel than locally. I recall the journey back and the pilot with black visor so using controls only. He was a terrible driver of cars so stress levels were through the roof. I remember a glimmer of hope when the lights from Southend pier come into view. Crazy days.
Looking at your route in this video having come from Basildon (moved away along time ago) I knew all of the areas you were referring too. Great to watch - and a bit of a departure from our old BF3 days. Phil
Stumbled on your channel recently but so glad I did!
I was studying for my PPL before lockdown and so glad FS2020 is showing this much promise that I might be able to get back into the zone and practice before I get back into the real thing. P3D just hasn't been blowing my skirt up.
Love that you are sharing your RL experiences with us. Look forward to more.. Stay safe and keep the blue side up.
By far the best FS2020 content I've seen on youtube.
This is incredible. I drive around the other side of the river more but seeing these areas at night is so awesome.
Appreciate your real world experience comparisons and look forward to more in-depth pre-take off, take off, and landing procedures. Your tone and delivery are calm and makes for good instruction IMHO. Taketh my sub.
FS2020 + Squirrel = TH-cam Gold
I don't know why, but I always loved night flying in sims, it feels so much more relaxing, and like Paul said, you can see civilization from far away.
Yea, it has its cons for navigation, but the sightseeing is amazing.
MSFS2020 certainly looks so cool too. I love how they made ambient lighting color tone the cockpits and nearby vehicular surfaces to the ambient light of the environment. Makes things look so realistic.
Only thing I miss is the vague-opaque reflection in the glass, that'd finish it off even more I'd say.
Paul,
I'm up for more night flights like this! 👍🏻
I really am blown away by the team who built this sim...my god! I’ve have t been this excited for a sim in a very long time! I get this is in ultra, but still...
I have had the Bruner force feedback joystick for a while now. You’re right, trimming is really easy, you trim until the the stick stops resisting you and you’re there. Looking forward to the HP Reverb G2 arriving next month ‘cos I imaging the immersion with the stick reacting to all the forces will be truly immersive.
Awesome. I flew to Southend on my QXC and did my PPL at shoreham where I currently fly out of. Finished my night rating in March. So fun.
The lighting is looking a lot better now. The fact that shopping centers are well lit is a major improvement. The only thing that seems to still be lacking are lights from cars and trucks. Would make it a lot easier if you had the tail and headlights moving on the freeways (or as you call them motorways).
Excellent flight buddy. Not only the graphics are stunning but you're also a brilliant VFR pilot. Keep up the good work!
Really glad to see the head lamp. Always hated having to break sequence in putting my dome light on so early on night flights. Hope we'll see a red light option down the road / runway. Always used red light in the military as well to save your night vision.
I havent even played a flight sim in at least a decade but after seeing this footage from your videos im definitely picking this up. The detail is incredible i would have never dreamed of this as a kid playing xplane 1.0 designing my own jet with massive unrealistic thrust lol
21:27 I was shocked at this point because you flew over my local area and I could tell all of the roads and see the rayleigh wier coming of the A127. WOW THIS GAMES AMAZING
Ahh mate, I'm so glad you made this video because it covers something you might find interesting that I can't wait to try in MS2020.
I have relatives that live not far from RAF Marham in Norfolk. That entire area is littered with tons of old US WW2 bases where B17s and B24s were based. They are still visible in the earth markings from the air and also some still have partial concrete runways segments left.
I intend to do a full history series on each of these bases that are visible in MS2020.
If you would take a quick look at an old Battle of Britain base in the Kent called RAF Tangmere, it's West of Chichester and North of Bognor Regis I'd be so excited to see if you can see the old runway field markings are visible in the SIM like in real life.
I love how you can use google maps to plan a route in a game! So impressive
Thank you! Southend, Rochford and Basildon used to be my stomping ground until i moved away in my Thirties. I tried to look for my parents house during your flight but couldn't see it. MFS looks absolutely amazing. i just wish i had the spare time to learn it at the moment.