Microsoft posted a mini challenge on the Flight website: Land on Lake Waiau without touching any land.

Here was my successful attempt at it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPo1IAgA9no&hd=1

The news item regarding the challenge can be found here: https://news.microsoftflight.com/blogs/news/archive/2012/03/07/weekly-challenge.aspx

Watched the Video.

I am surprised that default "Flight" hasn't corrected the FS 2004, etc, mesh problem, of water appearing up the side of the beach cliffs, lumps on the water, etc... :o...!

Paul... ;)...!

Watching that video is the first time I have paid all that much attention to "Flight "..... and is it NOT impressive, other than the water surface and the sound of lapping water on the hull.  And as Fozzer so corrctly mentions....... why the heck does the fancy new water go up the hillside banks?

best,

...................john

JBaymore wrote on Mar 8^th, 2012 at 8:50pm:

Watching that video is the first time I have paid all that much attention to "Flight "..... and is it NOT impressive, other than the water surface and the sound of lapping water on the hull.  And as Fozzer so corrctly mentions....... why the heck does the fancy new water go up the hillside banks? best, ...................john

You do realize that my display settings are NOT on high, right?

The water going up the side of the hill was a bug from the FSX/ESP code. Somewhat hard to correct unless you had "super-mega-high resolution" terrain mesh...and that would probably take up quite a bit of space.

Flight is a lot more impressive than many realize, even if it is only a GA sim currently. Those that don't realize this likely didn't complete the first two missions. There's a lot more to discover that really adds to the immersion than is shown in those first two missions.

BrandonF wrote on Mar 8^th, 2012 at 10:48pm:

You do realize that my display settings are NOT on high, right? The water going up the side of the hill was a bug from the FSX/ESP code. Somewhat hard to correct unless you had "super-mega-high resolution" terrain mesh...and that would probably take up quite a bit of space. Flight is a lot more impressive than many realize, even if it is only a GA sim currently. Those that don't realize this likely didn't complete the first two missions. There's a lot more to discover that really adds to the immersion than is shown in those first two missions.

Brandon, I did complete the first two missions & I still don't think it's a sim. :P

BTW How much did MS pay you to do all this?

As a general rule people notice impressive things. If they don't notice it's ussually because its not really all that impressive.  ;D

I did just about everything allowed in the beta version, including a full circuit of the island, and I've flown a bit in the final release, and I see nothing to impress me. The physics are poor and unrealistic, and the game lacks many - and I mean many - of the features of FS9 and FSX... and FS2k2, and does not offer many major improvements to make up for the losses.

BrandonF wrote on Mar 8^th, 2012 at 10:48pm:

You do realize that my display settings are NOT on high, right?

Why did you choose to not run them on high for posting this video?

best,

................john

Cessnaporsche01 wrote on Mar 9^th, 2012 at 9:26am:

The physics are poor and unrealistic, and the game lacks many - and I mean many - of the features of FS9 and FSX... and FS2k2, and does not offer many major improvements to make up for the losses.

Turn off the stability controls. Bam! More realistic than any default FSX aircraft.


JBaymore wrote on Mar 9^th, 2012 at 10:02am:

Why did you choose to not run them on high for posting this video?

This was not a video to show the beauty of the sim, but to show an achievement. I cannot get great FPS while recording video with very high display settings on this older computer, so I turned the settings down.

I only watched the first 8 seconds of it. I might have been willing to watch more, if I hadn't been forced to sit through the non-immersive stuff at the begining just to see if the next parts were going to be more immersive. Even though it's a free video, I'm not going to watch it if I don't find it entertaining or worth my time. Lost me at the beginning, sorry. ::)