Feature Discovery Series Episode 3: Aerodynamics
Microsoft Flight Simulator1 HN recommenders · 2020–2021
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A Microsoft Flight Simulator Feature Discovery episode in which CEO Sebastian Wloch explains the new aerodynamics simulation for the 2020 release.
HN commenters link it as official evidence that the new simulator's flight model is serious and comparable to dedicated sims.
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4 comments from Hacker News
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". [VIDEO]
Thank you, this is honestly really impressive! However, I must note that the aerodynamic simulation shown at [VIDEO] seems quite close to Xplane's :)
> 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: [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.
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 simulation[1][2]. 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] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]