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Feature Discovery Series Episode 3: Aerodynamics

Microsoft Flight Simulator

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  • Presented by Sebastian Wloch, CEO
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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

196K views6 years ago1 recommendation

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Sebastian Wloch explains the advanced aerodynamics and physics simulation model developed for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Watch as CEO Sebastian Wloch talks about the Aerodynamics in the next evolution of Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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What people say. Recommended as an impressive demonstration of modern real-time aerodynamic simulation in game engines.

eternalny1on Hacker News • Recommends

On “Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage”

Not this time around, they have an entire video on the aerodynamics work, it's beyond impressive and beyond X-Plane's "blade element theory". link to this video

MayeulCon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage”

Thank you, this is honestly really impressive! However, I must note that the aerodynamic simulation shown at link to this video seems quite close to Xplane's :)

Hawxyon Hacker News • Mentions

On “MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life”

> If you're looking for a more accurate, 'real' simulator it has a lot to offer. What do you mean by this? The MSFS 2020 flight simulation is on par if not better than X-Plane: link to this video > but if you're interested in contributing to a product you can improve and have fun modelling/texturing additional planes, cities etc this is a project to get involved with. Again, MSFS 2020's SDK is already with all of the major third-party developers and will be publically available upon its release. A couple have even swapped to almost purely working on MSFS products instead of X-Plane or P3D.

mopsion Hacker News • Mentions

On “How did Microsoft make Flight Simulator seem so real?”

The article was written by someone who didn't even bother to read/watch Microsoft's promo material. Lookup tables are a thing of the past. Microsoft has published two videos showcasing their new aerodynamics simulation12. There seems to be a lot of pushback from old-timers who have sunken thousands of $$$ into X-Plane and its expansions (from terrain packages to cloud visuals), many of which now look inferior to what Microsoft's new simulator offers out of the box. 1 link to this video 2 link