It launches at 8 AM PST, which is Seattle’s time zone.
The psychology around feeling like you have to pre-order a product that has a zero day delivery time is quite interesting. Only if you feel you absolutely had to have the CL-415 early for some reason I guess.
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PST is specifically defined as GMT-9, Seattle is currently operating on Daylight Savings along with most of the United States and Canada, which means they’re operating on PDT which is GMT-8.
DST ended 10 days ago in the US. We have definitely “fallen back.” 
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Fair play, it’s been a loooooooong few months here
It still launches at 8 AM in Seattle, which for me is 9 AM since I live in southern Utah.
Hello @Raynen,
Seattle (along with most of North America) switched from Daylight Saving to Standard Time a little over a week ago. The launch time for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is 8:00am PST which corresponds to 1600 UTC.
Thanks,
MSFS Team
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Agreed. I don’t see the point
Seems to me there is a false assumption on how streaming works obviously this still relies on the “double downloads” more than ever. The only difference is that the download of data just happens without you being able to notice in best case.
On the technical alpha, while it was not clearly an update screen, on the first start mandatory data was preloaded, namely the three base aircraft which were in place, navigation data, generic ai aircraft, generic ships and other things which are essential for the sim to run even if the connection was cut during flight.
So, in short you’ll always have the “double download” but it will be on the fly for most packages. Some mandatory packages however will remain on disk after they were downloaded initially. At least that is what I noticed during the technical alpha (things may however change).
In a word.
No.
All what you see on the trails is carefully picked and finessed.
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No I’m well aware of the streaming part of the sim, but the barrier to actually starting the sim is in effect reduced. I vastly prefer this because it means I can get non-sim people to at least try it without them having to dedicate several hours to downloading the base sim
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I can’t imagine my potential to experience FS2024 being jeopardized by a few gigs of hard drive space, but I guess people have different priorities 
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Since you’re in here, can you comment on the topic of the thread? As far as I know this info that there will be no advance reviews or streams came from a single German language gaming site and wasn’t an official proclamation.
@SharpWave Other journalists got that as well, not just the German one. PureXbox is another one:
Multiple people have gotten it. It’s launching for all of us at the same time, hence why no reviews will be up before launch. That and the day one patch that’s coming with it.
So you’re telling us that they improved the trail effects 
clever hint
Nonetheless 1week from launch and no new trailer or hype or anything beyond some colorful release timestamp graphic. Disappointing
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The week isn’t even over yet though 
Patience must really be a hard virtue. There’s still the rest of the week for them to release a trailer.
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I played the tech alpha, and the parts that I did see were fine. I wouldn’t worry too much.
I’m not the one getting worked up. I’m just going based off the last 4 years. I also didn’t say it would be half baked, I said if it wasn’t fully prepared and bugs aren’t squashed, they shouldn’t release it until it is. Since when did that become a conspiracy?
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