So I guess Hawaii and Alaska will be connected for Long Commercial Flights

[FlashMayia]

Microsoft also mentioned new planes with Alaska, probably something that can handle a nice long Flight to Hawaii and back to Alaska

[stufer]

What? Where did you here they where going to Alaska next?

That would be a great place to fly with the new detailed scenery. I hope they include wildlife and traffic. Thats one thing I don't like about flight, no traffic no ambiance. Somebody said it's like a zombie appocolypse, and I would agree, minus the zombies. But the details are much better than FSX's tiled scenery. I also like the airports runway and taxi way's, if only fsx had that. Maybe some grass too. Perhaps MS could learn something from flight zones Portland scenery. Grass and 3d runway lights add allot to the effect.

For a free game I like MS flight, I even paid the $20 for the RV-6 and the rest of hawaii. I think the intention of flight is to grab more people and get them interested in simulation. The comunity should embrace this. Microsoft is looking for more interest and a wider market. If people keep bashing the game and dismissing it for not being a more advanced version of FSX then they will write off the franchise. If we embrace this free simulator and it gets other people interested, I am willing to bet FS11 wont be far behind.

This is a buisness ploy, to increase the market for flight simulators. I'm sorry to say this but the market is no-where near the size of combat simulators or RPG's. So if more people get interested there will be more money behind the creation of a new accurate simulator for the die hard fans and newbies wanting to try their hand at accurate simulation. If not, I can bet the comunity will be to blame for the flight sim franchise's death.

Not to drone on and on, but I feel I should also add this.

The flight model in flight has been another point of complaint by some people. I saw one review claim they didn't have to crab into the wind to land, this is not true. I must crab the RV-6, Icon and Stearmen in anything over 10knts. This is accurate. I must also add that I have been able to enter a flat spin in the RV-6 which was diffucult to recover from. Allot of people claim X-plane is a great simulator. But I am a real pilot and I think X-plane is way too squirley for accurate simulation. Pull back hard on the stick and most planes will jump into the sky like a slingshot. I have never been able to enter accurate spins in x-plane and most stalls are very easy to recover from. So in my professional oppinion MS flight has a better flight model than previous versions of flight sim and x-plane.

[stufer]

I did reply, but my reply hasn't posted. It apparently needed moderation first.

[ReggieF5421]

I would not bet on, or against, long range aircraft to fly between Hawaii and Alaska.

But I think it will be highly unlikely.

While the frequent release of new areas is something I expect, I think they will be stand alone geographic areas with no direct flying connection between them. Also, I don't think Flight will use a time acceleration mode - so the value of long range flights for most 'realistic' simmers will be gone, if they cannot time accelerate their flights.

[Paxx]

Flight already has a time acceleration mode of sorts, it is called N - Skip to Waypoint. I believe long range flight plans between released "zones" is possible. Whether it is implemented or not remains to be seen.

[ReggieF5421]

I tend to not use that, but it should avoid the weather shifts problem which accelerated flight makes much worse in FS2004 and FSX.

[benEggleston16]

COuld be something small with the range like a Beech Bonanza (one used to fly from the continental US to Hawaii regularly: just look on the Beech Bonanza wikipedia page. This would mean from somewhere like the Aleutian islands to HI would be easy)

I think we're still some way off jets though

[seanys]

What? Where did you here they where going to Alaska next?

From MS: https://news.microsoftflight.com/blo...s/default.aspx

[gungfo]

don't think Flight will use a time acceleration mode - so the value of long range flights for most 'realistic' simmers will be gone, if they cannot time accelerate their flights.

Realistic simmers use time acceleration? how can they be realistic simmers if they use something that is highly unrealistic? Surely they are lite simmers?

[Paxx]

Realistic simmers use time acceleration? how can they be realistic simmers if they use something that is highly unrealistic? Surely they are lite simmers?

Please come back when you understand the argument. Ditto your other post.