BillD22

Thanks Steve!

Thanks David - back in the day when I did a lot of business travel flying I often had this exact view from my seat and to my eye FS has pretty much nailed what it looks and feels like climbing thru solid and mixed overcast and clouds - especially bouncing around in the tops.

Thanks Av8tor - I'm struggling with my 4 year old laptop but couldn't resist checking out what FS2020 can do pending my new system

Hey guys: Not sure what happened but my previous posting on this topic seems to have disappeared - so here it is again. This is a short 3.5 minute video clip that illustrates some of the FS2020 realistic airframe, turbulence, and icing effects. It shows a wing view of these effects on a United Airlines A320 enroute from Juneau (PAJN) to Anchorage (PANC) Alaska. The airplane is climbing thru solid real world IMC weather up to FL360. The clip is mid altitude in the climb - around 17,000 ft. Some light wing flex turbulence progresses to more moderate bouncing passing over some cloud tops and then the airplane enters a freezing layer with ice first starting to accumulate in patches on the underwing pylons and then starting and steadily increasing on top of the leading edge of the wing continuing until the end of the clip (which is when I decided it would be a good idea to turn on wing anti ice!). One thing I noticed on this was that turbulence seems to have been improved after the second patch. To previously test turbulence I flew directly thru Hurricane Sally before the patch came out without encountering a single bump. See what you think:

Hey guys: Here's a short little three and a half minute video clip that shows some of the realistic airframe, turbulence, and icing effects in FS2020. It's a wing view of an United Airlines A320 climbing up to FL360 in solid real world IMC weather enroute from Juneau (PAJN) to Anchorage (PANC) Alaska. The clip is at mid altitude in the climb where the airplane encounters some light wing flex turbulence, then more moderate passing thru some cloud tops, and then climbs into an icing layer with ice formation starting as patches on the underwing pylons and then with increasing accumulation on the top of the wing leading edge to the end of the clip (which is where I decided it would be a good idea to shift to the cockpit and turn on wing anti ice!). My take is turbulence has been improved since the second patch. I flew directly through Hurricane Sally last week without a single bump! See what you think

Well don't believe the advertised 15.69 GB size - currently at 21.5 GB and still downloading.......

Here's a short clip of a TAP Portuguese Airlines A320Neo landing at Lisbon airport (LPPT) today. This was the real Lisbon weather imported by FS2020 and there must have been some wind and turbulence around Lisbon today because the airplane is rocking and rolling on the approach. This is a TAP repaint of the stock FS2020 A320Neo. Graphic settings in this video on my low end HP laptop were all set on "Medium" - some stutters but overall acceptable to play around with and get familiar with the sim until my upgrade gets approved :D

Here's the same approach flown with all "Medium" settings. The AI landing here would have broken the airplane in the real world!

Hey Guys: With all the great videos out there showing off the gorgeous MSFS2020 graphics with everything maxed out on "Ultra" I thought it might be informative to show something at the other end of the scale. This would be for all of us who are still trying to figure out a way to convince our significant others to sign off on the $$ for the absolutely essential life or death need to spring for an upgrade - or - who are sitting on the fence asking "Should I or shouldn't I?"if running on an old legacy machine. Here's MSFS2020 on my 5 year old HP Core i7 16GB RAM Nvidia GTX950 laptop with most graphics settings on "Low" - obviously struggling with framerate but not looking too outrageously bad. This is a sim AI controlled approach and landing in the stock C172 at Jekyll Island airport (09J) on one of the Georgia vacation beach coast "Golden Isles." It's a short 3715 foot runway. MSFS2020 AI approaches often come in high, level off, and then dive for the runway at the last minute - like here. Bill

Very cool video John showing the MSFS weather graphics but I'm wondering where the MSFS sim turbulence is? Flying thru a hurricane you'd be bouncing all over the sky and all the MSFS fly thru video's I've seen here and on Youtube all look smooth as silk. Same for videos I've seen showing flying thru thunderstorms. I wonder if there's a bug in the real weather import feature or turbulence isn't modelled yet?

Thanks Michael - an upgrade is in my future

Here's a another short video clip to showcase some of the MSFS2020 aircraft and scenery. This is the Cessna Citation Longitude landing at Aspen Colorado's Pitkin County Sardi Field. This is a challenging and difficult approach with high terrain in all directions. Weather was current real Aspen weather as imported by FS2020. Note the slight turbulence wing rock on the approach. I know - the frame rates are painfully slow on my 5 year old mid level laptop but hopefully sufficiently smooth enough to give you an idea of the sim look and feel. This is another sim AI landing with a float and then drop/bounce on the runway - but hey - any one you can walk away from right?......:D Bill

Thanks David - I see videos aren't supposed to be in the screenshot forum but the framerates on this are so low it could be considered a series of screenshots!! :D:D:D

Thanks Johnny - a truly order of magnitude advance. Without question it's the new benchmark.

Hey Guys: Here's a short video of the MSFS2020 Citation CJ4 landing in foggy weather at Juneau Alaska (PAJN). The weather was the current real world weather imported by FS2020. Pretty nifty. You can almost feel the damp, misty cold on an dark overcast foggy day - and check out the snow capped mist shrouded mountain peaks in the background. This gives you a good idea of the graphics to expect if you have an old mid level to low end machine like I do. As you can see framerates were quite low but still relatively smooth. Say what you will about all the many bugs and other rough edges on the initial release of FS2020 (and there are a lot!) for my money this blows away anything else out there right now in the sim world for immersion. Tough to go back to XP11, P3D, or FSX. BTW - the approach and landing was flow by the sim AI - barely cleared a ridge line, floated, and made a hard touchdown - probably would have resulted in blown tires in the real world! Don't blame me :-) Bill

Oops - my bad. Haven't been here in a while. Looks like I need to "RTF" forum topic headings :-) Bill

Hey Guys: Here's a short video of the MSFS2020 Citation CJ4 landing in foggy weather at Juneau Alaska (PAJN). The weather was the current real world weather imported by FS2020. Pretty nifty. You can almost feel the damp, misty cold on an overcast foggy day. This gives you a good idea of the graphics to expect if you have an old mid to low level machine like I do. As you can see framerates were quite low but still relatively smooth. Say what you will about all the many bugs and other rough edges on the initial release of FS2020 (and there are a lot!) for my money this blows away anything else out there right now in the sim world for immersion. Tough to go back to XP11, P3D, or FSX. BTW - the approach and landing was flow by the sim AI - barely cleared a ridge line, floated, and made a hard touchdown - probably would have resulted in blown tires in the real world! Don't blame me :D Bill

Very nice video - brings back memories of a real life landing at KAI TAK

One of - if not the last - operators of the Electra is Buffalo Airways based out of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada (CYZF).

Here are a couple of shots of the XP11 Lockheed L-188 Electra. This is the DSAir/Sean McLeod model with photo realistic liveries. This is a pretty good representation of the airplane but in my opinion the best currently available flight sim version is the Team KBT model for FSX. If someone could figure out how to convert that model to XP11 it would be awesome! Click on the pics for a full screen view Eastern Airlines was one of the launch customers for the Electra. In this shot from around 1959 an Eastern L-188 in the "Golden Falcon" livery climbs out from National Airport (now Reagan National Airport) (KDCA) over the Potomac river and traffic on the 14th Street Bridge going into DC from Virginia Once Eastern replaced their Electras in mainline service with jets they put the planes to work as an hourly back and forth shuttle between DC, New York LaGuardia, and Boston in the late 1960's and thru the 70's. In this shot an Eastern shuttle in the famous "Hockey Stick" livery climbs out of KDCA past the monuments on the National Mall. Here's another 70's Electra paint scheme with a Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Electra departing San Diego on a shuttle run to KLAX. This airplane is in the pink "Catch Our Smile" PSA livery. It's a rare hazy day in Southern Cal but you can see the runways of North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado and the outline of the Northern shore of Point Loma below the plane After passenger service most Electra's were converted to freighters. In this shot an airplane from Zantop cargo airlines climbs to cruise altitude. At one time Zantop operated the largest fleet of Electras in the world with something like 23 airplanes.