Spanish POI

[Nels_Anderson]

POI:

noun

noun: poi

1. a Hawaiian dish made from the fermented root of the taro which has been baked and pounded to a paste.

    

    

Oh wait, wrong POI...

 

POI:

noun: 1. acronym for Point Of Interest

 

So, I was just in Barcelona, Spain, and like many big cities in areas included in World Updates, the map showed many POI. Too many, really, so I decided to just fly around the city and see what I could find on my own...

 

Well, here goes:

 

Torre de Collserola

 

A church

 

Olympics site and communications tower

 

National Museum of Art

 

Temple of the Sacred Heart...and adjacent amusement park!

 

Barcelona's version of Star Wars Canyon: Av. Diagonal

 

After my flight I went back to the MSFS 2020 planning map to try and identify which POI I had photographed, only to find that most of these very cool sites were not POI according to the MSFS list... I ended up using Google Maps to identify them.

 

So it makes me wonder, how does this POI thing really work? Here are a bunch of highly detailed objects and areas that the sim does not consider POI, while those that were on the POI list I don't seem to have discovered during my flight.

 

Maybe that first definition was right after all

 

[tiger1962]

I think they ruin the realism of the scenery, which is why all of mine are switched off, but if you're looking for specific POI's these options need to be ON:

 

[Nels_Anderson]

I agree that the POI labels ruin the realism, and I have them switched off too.

 

Put the actual POI objects are still there, waiting to be found.

 

I'm still curious why some objects are labeled as POI, while other highly detailed and equally interesting objects are not.

 

In any event, Barcelona turned out to be a very interesting city to explore!

[Rupert]

Nice Barcelona shots Nels!  It appears you're really enjoying the low and slow chopper flights!  Having said that, the pop-up in the Museum of Art which appears to show where the airport is, really looks out of place.  I hope you can turn those things off as well.

 

Michael

 

 

[Nels_Anderson]

There are no pop-ups in any of my pictures, as I have all of those turned off. While I can understand their usefulness they take the realism out of flying.

 

I am enjoying my low and slow tour. I don't think I've mentioned this, but I started at the eastern end of the Frisian Islands (Germany) and headed west and just kept going, following the coast. So I've now gone from Germany past Belgium, Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, back to Spain and now back to France. Since I'm told the World Update for Italy is worth seeing I'm going to just continue....

 

Here's an interesting thought about pop-ups: remember Microsoft's long time claim about Flight Simulator being "as real as it gets" or something like that? A few years ago, I wrote an article about how that had finally actually come true...but not because the sim had gotten more realistic, but because with all the screens in modern aircraft real world flying had come to look like the sim.

 

Expanding on that concept, it's not hard to imagine future planes with synthetic vision where POI, airports, etc. would be displayed right on the aircraft windshield as a sort of super HUD...

[Rupert]

Okay?  I guess that is a POI in the 4th shot.  IMO It still takes away from what would have been an excellent shot..

 

BTW: I should have mentioned how great that "Star Wars Canyon" shot looks.

[Nels_Anderson]

2 hours ago, Rupert said:

Okay?  I guess that is a POI in the 4th shot.  IMO It still takes away from what would have been an excellent shot..

 

Are you referring to the red object above the compass? That's the yaw string; it's part of the helicopter.

 

2 hours ago, Rupert said:

BTW: I should have mentioned how great that "Star Wars Canyon" shot looks.

 

Agreed, a very neat urban feature! It goes on for a long ways too.