[OFFICIAL] Weekly Dev Update Screenshot Challenge: Movie Magic II

It’s time for another screenshot challenge! The idea is to collectively explore different parts of the world together - areas that may be very familiar to you or perhaps a new place you have never flown before. Feel free to find others to fly with to capture the challenge, or go solo!

Last week’s winner from Ecosystems - Desert: MihamaBlend (Twitter)

This Week’s Challenge

Movie Magic II: This week we’re revisiting the Movie Magic challenge. There are so many new aircraft options in the sim since last time, some of which have featured in some big titles!

For the challenge, we’re looking for screenshots that pay homage to movies or television. Recreate or reference a scene, or just take a visit to your favourite filming locale. Let us know what piece of media you chose, and please feel free to include visual references or context to your images - we love to see the comparisons!

If you have any screenshot challenge ideas for the future, send @Jummivana a DM!

Rules

  1. Any time of day
  2. Any type of weather
  3. Code of Conduct appropriate liveries
  4. Default aircraft and scenery, or aircraft and scenery from the MSFS Marketplace
  5. Up to 10 entries (screenshots) allowed

The rest is fair game! Use your creativity! We will pick the top 11 shots. 1 will be featured as the main photo of the next dev update and the other 10 will be featured in the community section.

You may also add a watermark or username to your image if you wish.

How To Submit Your Screenshot

Just post them below here in this thread, or if you’re on Twitter you can tweet your photo with the #MSFSchallenge hashtag!

Note: This thread is for screenshot submissions only. Unless you have a particular question about the challenge, please do not engage in casual conversation here. Thank you!

“A twin-engine beauty, she seems to be going 250 miles per hour just sitting there.”

( Reference: Tom Cruise in American Made)

Trafficking drugs from Central America’s clandestine airstrips in the wee hours of the day.

(Reference: American Made)

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Maverick: It’s time to buzz the tower! “Control, requesting for a fly-by.”

ATC: “Negative, Ghost Rider, the deck is full.”

Movie reference: Top Gun

A Beechcraft King Air stuffed with drugs and full fuel tanks laboriously taking off from a clandestine airstrip in Central America in the wee hours of the morning, as shown in the movie American Made.

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Sully: Miracle on the Hudson (2016 Sully Movie)

US Airways Flight 1549 departing from NY’s LaGuardia:


Landing on the Hudson River:

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On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 on a flight from New York City’s LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, North Carolina, struck a flock of birds shortly after take-off, losing all engine power. Unable to reach any airport for an emergency landing due to their low altitude, pilots Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles glided the plane to a ditching in the Hudson River off Midtown Manhattan. All 155 people on board were rescued by nearby boats, with only a few serious injuries.

Below is a map of the flight (credits: ChrisnHouston)

Below is a representation of the actual weather that day and how the plane looked like sitting in the river:

Movie reference: Sully

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FBI team arriving in Miami for a crime scene investigation in a Beechcraft Bonanza in the wee hours of the morning.

(Reference: CSI: Miami)

The Avengers @ Grand central terminal in New York

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A Pilatus PC-6 Porter flying over the Contra Dam - depicted as the Soviet Arkhangelsk facility - with James Bond bungee jumping off the bridge in the subsequent scene.

(Movie Reference: Golden Eye)


North by northwest (not filmed on location but at Tierra de Campos, Spain)

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North by Northwest, obviously.

I made this close to the actual filming location north of Bakersfield, CA. Flew a Model 75 and took my time setting up the shot.

Here’s the full, unedited screenshot:

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Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, USA – Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Baseball field, Dyersville, Iowa, USA – Field of Dreams

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RIO

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Top Gun -

Battle of Britain -

Endurance: Rediscovered -

Dunkirk -

Indiana Jones -

Spiderman -

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Park Hyatt Tokyo - "Lost in Translation "



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