«Краткое» руководство по использованию FS2020

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What's up with flight simulation ? Flight sims are a niche that is in a way similar to Train simulator but not quite like racing sims. While racing is competitive and high intensity, flight simming, like train simming or something like Truck Simulator is not competitive. It is also not particularly intense. Though this depends on what you do. There is a lot to do in a flight sim, or not, this depends on you, and what you make of the sim. I recommend greatly if you haven't bought the game, to try it out. Firstly simulators can be hard to run without powerful computers. Framerates are not a top priority like in a FPS, but you might not be comfortable playing the sim on low graphics, or with 30fps, moreover, it can take a lot of storage space, and some decent internet connection. The Xbox Game pass for PC can allow you to try the standard edition for a whole month for about 5$. The refund policy on steam is in my opinion, too short of a time to judge a game like this. A month is more appropriate than 2 hours. Also, because of the way the launcher works, you will be downloading the game after launching it from Steam. I'm sure Valve will grant refunds for that reason even if you go past the 2 hours. But nonetheless, it takes a day or two of playing before you can get a good idea of the thing. FS2020 obviously allows you to fly anywhere you want, in real time, real places, real distances. There is no scaling down of the world like Truck simulator, or invisible walls. So where do you go ? You're lucky to come at this time, where the entire world is now essentially in the game, and accurately. Newcomers take it for granted because we have things like google maps today. But in sims up until now, true, photographic maps, were a luxury. The standard map that came with FSX or XPlane was made of very low fidelity tiles, that weren't really anything real at all. It did the job but it wasn't particularly nice. You had to pay good money for high quality maps, that replaced small parts of the world, and with enough time and hundreds of dollars, you'd find your hard drive to be entirely full and your wallet empty, for a few airports and high quality maps. To give you an idea, i have almost the entire USA as satellite imagery and street maps for XPlanes 11, It's about 1600 Gigabytes and it's not quite FS2020 levels of detail. But it made a whole difference to me. Now, we can go anywhere, and expect to see great nature, great cities. Even the ones that are not "photogrametric", are still way above what we've experienced for the past 20 years. Anywhere you go, you can look down and see what it really looks like. There's something special about that to me, and hopefully, to you too. You can explore nature, land on hills and beaches in mountain ranges, find airstrips or just patches of land clear of trees and put your Cub down, take a picture and a coffee, and go somewhere else. That's what you'd call bush flying, for leisure. Or like "professional" bush pilots, you can take your plane to remote villages of Papua New Guinea or South America, on precarious grass strips to deliver people and things to places that don't have roads to the cities. FS2020 doesn't have a built in system of delivering things like Truck Simulator, but there is an alternative to this. It takes a bit of imagination. FSEconomy is also a website/client that essentially allows you to make a career for yourself, and it is already compatible with FS2020. It has money and contracts and you can make a goal for yourself and even join airlines. Or you can ignore that and fly jets just for the sake of it. Large jets are an experience of their own and quite different. It's less hands on, more about planning and patience. Learning the procedural parts of flying with instruments and restrictions. And for many, it's where the enjoyment comes from. Nikol'skoye, on the volga near the Caspian - Russia 8/20 Added Autopilots - Basic Terminology 8/21 Added G1000 basics 8/21 Added Gamemodes and Multiplayer 8/21 Added VFR, Bush Flying and GA Aircrafts 8/21 Added Autopilot - A320 and A320 Throttle usage. 8/22 Added Autopilot - 787 WIP 8/22 Added Notices 8/24 Update G1000 with NEXRAD use ---- Added FSEconomy Tutorial 6/24/21 Added SimBrief and Flight Plan introduction 6/24 Added CJ4X FMS basics This sections is for brief information that you might find useful currently. General recommendations. Your Windows OS should be up to date. SSD or M2 installs can make loading times and map streaming smoother. Unless you are limited by hardware. Pressing Windows G will enable the Xbox Game overlay. This is useful to see your friends list or take screenshots but is also especially useful as you can enable a performance monitor and pin it on your screen. This small panel can show you CPU, GPU, RAM usage in % and FPS. Multiplayer can be unreliable at times and inconsistent between clients. Meaning sometimes you might be visible to other but you're not seeing anyone, or two people can't see each other but they both see other traffic. This can be due to two things. Either a quirk with how the game picks who is visible or not when there is very high volume of traffic. Or one of the two players is not actually connected. In both cases, check that you are using ALL PLAYERS and not Live Players or both players must be in Live to see each others. If the glitch keeps happening, press escape and go to another server, let it load traffic for a few seconds and go back to the server you wanted to be in. This usually works to refresh your traffic. If it still doesn't work, it's probably a global issue. Live Weather is also unreliable. From experience, it looks like you need to reboot the game before a new flight to obtain live weather correctly. If you go back to the menu and fly again live weather will break. If you want to use live weather, restart the game entirely. This is usually a good thing to do anyway but it might take time if you have a slow hard drive or CPU. Switching weather presets will not fix it, but might not break it. This has been fixed since but can still be an issue on rare occasions and seems dependant on location. Some regions in the world might suffer outtages, or general bad service and therefore would return blank weather settings. KNOWN ISSUES ( 11/24 ) - Asobo Official MSFS Zendesk Support [flightsimulator.zendesk.com] A lot of people ask "can i play this with a keyboard and mouse". I don't like being that guy who sounds elitist but it's like asking if it's worth it playing a racing sim without a wheel. Yes it's possible, there isn't a wall that just prevents you from playing without it. Is it enjoyable though ? I don't know. A Logitech 3D Extreme Pro is maybe 50 to 60$ and has all the basic functionalities to fly anything including yaw/rudder control. If you don't want to buy a joystick, do you have a Xbox gamepad ? That can work fine too. If you don't have any gamepad at all. Just buy one. You'll find plenty of uses for it in the future. I agree that a joystick, like a wheel, is a luxury, and you should definitely consider it, but if you're unsure about it, a gamepad will suit you just fine and gives you pretty decent control and essential keys given a bit of tuning on the axis sensitivities. It even supports key combinations so you can have extra functions accessible. What specs do i need ? It's the question everyone asks and nobody can reliably give you an answer because every system is different, and everyone has different budgets and expectations. Check the official requirements. Try the game pass if you're not sure. Resources : There are a number of websites that can help with different things. The two that you might use the most are Skyvector and Simbrief. Skyvector is an online aviation map. It has several uses, it can be used for VFR as it features terrain, some landmarks and roads and points of interest you can use to know where you are if you were to fly around those places wi