For anyone giving it a go today on console, do download as much as you can ahead of time, and prep for the usual pre-flight delays. The cockpit size and structure is dimensionally similar to the Bell 206 and comes standard with flight models for the MD 500, Bell 206, Bell 407, Schweizer 300, Enstrom 280 FX, Robinson R22, R44, R66, and AS350 B2. And while Microsoft Flight Simulator's console controls are pretty easy to pick up, I probably should have consigned myself to the game's flight school training a little longer, before taking off on grand sightseeing tours.īut I also expect I won't have been the only one downloading over 100GB of data just to try and zoom over my house in the closest I'll get to an actual plane this year. The FLYIT Professional Helicopter Simulator is FAA approved as a generic instrument trainer. I imagine countless thousands of people, like me, were all trying to dip their toes into the game since it comes as part of Xbox Game Pass. The first day of release was always going to be choppy. Brighton's impressive Pavillion, for instance, looked like a standard American retail box store. The game's algorithmic building generation seems patchy - again, likely impacted by server capacity. London looked brilliant, but other cities were less impressive. I wish there had been a way of pre-loading these too.Īfter nabbing the UK pack and waiting another hour for that to download - it seemed like the game's servers were being hammered, which was understandable - I was finally in the air. I couldn't see a way of getting these content packs downloaded via the standard Xbox marketplace. These are accessible from Flight Sim's already bulging in-game store (alongside dozens of paid-for planes and airports). If I want to go see London or New York or various other global attractions in detail, you need their corresponding region's additional free content packs. Well, flights do get delayed.Īfter sitting through all that, surely, everything was sorted. Then along came a surprise 27GB day one update. I had the game's base installation and additional offline pack all pre-loaded (102GB, ouch, but still about half a Call of Duty: Warzone). I'm sure it will still stick the landing.īut last night's launch was a little turbulent - even with all pre-flight checks complete. I've followed its slow taxi up the runway to yesterday's big Xbox Series X/S take-off. Changes included the ability to download the game from Steam versus installing from DVD, updated multiplayer functionality, and added support for Windows 8.1. I'm in Microsoft Flight Simulator for the long haul.
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