Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Announcement

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition: coming FREE to all existing MSFS players in November 2022, this update will include helicopters and gliders, two aircraft types that have been long-requested by the community. Additionally, several fan-favorite planes are making their return from Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight. These planes include the Douglas DC-3, the Ryan NYP ("Spirit of St. Louis), the Wright Flyer, de Havilland Canada Beaver, and Airbus A310.

Halo Pelican: in partnership with 343 Studios and available NOW as a free download from the Marketplace, Microsoft Flight Simulator pilots can now fly the iconic dropship from the Halo franchise.
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https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/06...lator-celebrates-franchises-40th-anniversary/
 
Fingers crossed Asobo does the sound packs and 3d scans for these aircraft, but I won't get my hopes up..
 
The iniBuilds A310-300 is quite a freebie, I must say. The DHC2 is very welcome too. How generous of Asobo and M'soft.
 
Wait, does that mean we now have a Halo drop ship in flight sim? I'm all over that! Update: Now that I've flown it, meh. It just uses a simple helo flight model. I would have preferred something more like the flight model for Dino's F-35B. If somebody comes out with a helo trim command I might enjoy it more, but a joystick designed to maintain center isn't great for flying a helo.
 
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Interesting thing about the Halo Infinite tie-in...my son works for 343 Studios. He never said a thing to me about the Pelican coming to MSFS. I'll have to have a discussion with him about that :biggrin-new:.
 
The Pelican thing flys poorly once you find the switch between drone mode and flight mode. Nothing much else seems to function. Totally lacking in animations, no fun at all. I could only get 2 of the 4 engines to shut down. I get that it's free. Need a Pro version of MSFS. Oh that must be XPlane. ;-)
 
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The Pelican thing flys poorly once you find the switch between drone mode and flight mode. Nothing much else seems to function. Totally lacking in animations, no fun at all. I could only get 2 of the 4 engines to shut down. I get that it's free. Need a Pro version of MSFS. Oh that must be XPlane. ;-)
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So there is a flight mode! Thanks, I didn't find it. I'll have to check for a manual later.
 
Some more information from today's Extended Showcase

Jorg visits the Smithsonian

- "millimeter perfect" 3d scan of the Spirit of St. Louis
- Smithsonian Air and Space Museum POI
- Smithsonian Director "we're hoping that if everyone has as much fun in the community with the content that we initially collaborated on.... maybe we can jump in with both feet and do more in the years to come. Maybe even, who knows, we'll go crazy, we'll get the Space Shuttle in there"
- World Update 10 coming today, United States revisited.
- a dozen new cities (I am assuming he means in photogrammetry)
- new height field
- new aerial imagery
- Famous Flyer launching alongside it, Beech 18

Sorry for the poor formatting, the WYSIWYG editor isn't working for me
 
What´s the point of this so called Pelican? how do you control/fly it? no need for a vehicle like this. No fun at all, useless. Just like advertising the maverick movie. Arcade
 
Some people question including military planes in MSFS, because it's a civilian sim.

Some people question including historic planes that aren't flying anymore, because it's a sim of the modern world.

Some people question including a Pelican, because the idea of a futuristic VTOL fantasy craft isn't to their tastes.

Some people question including Airbuses, because If It Ain't Boeing, I'm not going.

Some people question including Reno Air Races, because they don't even realize air racing is a real thing. (This one blew my mind.)

TL;DR: People are interested in different things, and have different priorities, and even some of us who do enjoy doing a real IFR flight using real procedures also enjoy jumping in a fantasy hypersonic plane and visiting the stratosphere at Mach 10. A sim that can make all of those people happy to some degree is a good thing, not a problem. Microsoft helping keep some third-party developer's doors open by tossing them some money to build a fantasy plane doesn't affect Asobo's work on core sim features at all. (And it helps open up new flight envelopes for, say, a future realistic X-15.)

If you don't like it, don't fly it. :) As a die-hard aviation fan who grew up on Star Trek, I'm absolutely delighted that I'll be able to fly a DC-3, a Beaver, an F-15D, and a Pelican, all over an incredible recreation of an entire populated planet.
 
The purpose of vehicles like this (Pelican, Dark Star) is to show what MSFS is capable of creating. I love this stuff. It's one of the reasons I like simulators so much; you can fly what isn't real. I don't need to pretend everything is super real. If I want that I'll just go actual get my pilot's license. Not everyone needs to like what I like or what anyone else likes. I don't buy the tube liner releases because it isn't what I'm into. And that's perfectly alright. I'm glad someone is making them for those who like them and that Asobo is releasing more. I hope there is a huge choice of vehicles to fly of any kind to draw in as many people to the platform as possible. The more the merrier, IMHO. I want this to be a wildly huge success, so that everything keeps getting better and better. Just enjoy what you enjoy. I do.
 
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