… model railroads… I can connect… you know… I guess that’s the root of all these simulations we’re doing now… MSFS is actually a planetary model railroad. When you’re prepared to learn SDK, you can even glue little houses and put them in 
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Will the landing anywhere feature be available for PC as well?
All xbox new features will be available in the PC version. Both versions will be identical in features and functionality except freeware mods i guess
For sure, yes
Real question is… will XBox be open ? will it have the developer features PC version has ? what about SDK ? You can make an identical program, XBox runs Windows, but when the \Community is not accessible to users, they’ll have to do with default scenery and default aircraft. Controllers same thing, only stuff that is in the Market place will work, other things will be difficult to install. ref Scenery Gateway.
I wanted to post a few thoughts on the Top Gun DLC portion of the E3 Announcement video.
[For sake of disclosure, I’m a Naval Flight Officer but did not fly in the F/A-18 (I was in the S-3B Viking way back), though I have a decent amount of experience operating with them. (For those who aren’t familiar, in first movie “Maverick” was a pilot, who was flying the aircraft, while “Goose” was a naval flight officer, who was doing navigation and communications and operating various sensors and weapons systems.) I had two deployments flying off aircraft carriers before S-3s were phased out of service, and I went to various engineering and staff duties afterwards.]
First, the main suggestions:
Collimated/Parallax-Free HUD. I’m hoping this DLC will be a push for the development team to get proper head-up displays implemented natively in the sim. [Please support the Wishlist thread: Make HUD collimated please(the HUD in the aircraft, not the HUD of UI) - Self-Service / Wishlist - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums.] That other thread goes into a lot more detail with videos, but the basic idea is that the HUD symbology seen through the combiner glass should be focused at infinity and look like, say, a giant billboard projected on the “sky dome”, and not like text written on the HUD combiner glass or a small poster a few feet past the HUD glass (the way it is in the 787-10 currently). There are already two other Asobo aircraft from launch day that would benefit from this, the aforementioned 787-10 and the Citation Longitude (with the currently inop HUD), as well as a multitude of potential future addons of many airliners, smaller business jets, and military aircraft that use head-up displays.
External Fuel Tanks. I more or less get the whole no weapons thing that they are currently doing with the base simulation, but please let us have at least the centerline drop tank. In real life, Hornets and Super Hornets (“Rhinos”) basically never fly without external tanks except for air shows/demonstrations, and the plane looks sort of “naked” without tanks to anyone who has flown with/around them. [Even in the movie trailer every plane has drop tanks: Top Gun: Maverick (2021) – New Trailer - Paramount Pictures - YouTube] In any fast military jets, you’re very frequently checking your fuel state, and those planes can generally use all the fuel they can get (especially the A through D model Hornets). I might also suggest allowing non-live ordnance loads, like ACMI pods, NAVFLIR pod, and inert weapons like CATMs, laser guided training rounds, etc. to make the aircraft look more interesting/realistic.
Other video commentary/thoughts:
1:49 No ship wake, but based on the dev updates that should be added at some point. Also, some of those radar antennas on the island should be rotating but don’t appear to be animated currently.
1:52 Deck elevators aren’t actually moving in this shot (the way they are in the equivalent movie trailer shot). It would be nice if they had working elevators, though it would be a lower priority thing. (Most planes in the hangar are down there because they need maintenance or are having parts borrowed from them and aren’t going to be flying immediately; pretty much anything that’s going to fly is on the flight deck or being moved from the hangar up to the flight deck.)
1:53 Flight deck personnel look good; wonder if they have accurate hand signals when you’re taxiing around the flight deck. I’m pretty sure we don’t normally use that type of tow tractor or tow bar on the ship. It would be nice if they implemented wing folding.
1:55 Not sure why that helicopter is parked there. The other Rhinos look like they are sort of embedded in the deck for some reason. The wings and rotors of the aircraft should be folded to look realistic. (There’s not a lot of room when the whole air wing is aboard, so you unfold the wings right before going on the catapult and fold them as you taxi out of the landing area or after getting the Sidewinders safed and pinned depending on the aircraft.) Hopefully they try to accurize the 3-D model of the ship somewhat, as there are some details that seem off to me.
2:02 Probably a pre-alpha build thing, but it looks like the cockpit displays aren’t animated yet. (Notice how the attitude indicator in the left DDI and the backup attitude indicator near the pilot’s right knee don’t move.) This is also an example of the HUD collimation thing; the HUD symbology (which in this clip also doesn’t move) shouldn’t be rendered as drawn on the glass of the HUD but should be seen through the HUD far in the distance conformal to the sky at infinity (and should not actually be visible by the camera in this position).
2:05 The flag patch on the pilot’s left shoulder (right side of the screen) is backwards; the blue canton of the flag should be forward, so the “normal” flag would be worn on that side. (The default patch configuration from flight school is to have the flag patch on the left shoulder, service patch on the right shoulder, name tag on the left chest, and unit patch on the right chest, though people will often customize what they wear on the shoulder patch locations once they’re in the fleet.) The circular patch below the flag is somewhat unusual, though I’ve seen some people remove the flap on the pen pocket there and put a small patch on the Velcro that would normally secure the flap.
2:10 Looks good overall, though I’m going to keep my expectations realistic on avionics and flight model depth for now. I hope they also implement the two-seater F/A-18F as well as the single-seat E model; the difference in the 3D model is just the section of the fuselage just aft of the single-seat canopy, the canopy itself, and the aft cockpit, and the rest of the aircraft is otherwise identical. (If you look at the plastic scale model kits of Super Hornets that are out there, many have parts where you can build either a E or F version just by using about 3-4 different parts.) IIRC, the fleet is approximately half single-seaters and half two-seaters, maybe with a few more single-seater squadrons.
Thank you for your time.
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great thanks!
Excellent information! I know the dev team reads the forums… this would be a good and informative read for them to get things as accurate as possible. Although I would suspect they have the right people in place helping to develop this.
I dunno about TopGun - how about some OldGun instead…
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ACMI pods, and some form of a good instrumented range with a post-action review capability would be brilliant!
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I read that there will be a free update - top gun maverick, when the xbox version launch…does anyone know if this free update will also be available for PC version? If so, does anyone know what is included in this update? Free fighter jet? Anyone has any details?
Motorcycle to ride on runways and Kelly McGillis copilot avatar but AI photo-geometry makes it Kelly today not then.
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Sound good the motorbike, but for copilot avatar either Jennifer Connelly or Val kilmer " Iceman" would be better.
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There is a topic already on this, don’t have the link handy. In short, yes this update will be available to all users of PC/Xbox. It is timed to be released in November
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It will also add functional aircraft carriers and it will be released at fall
Thks…will try searching for that thread. Greatt…hopefully it comes with at least one free fighter plane…
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As is to promote the new movie I will expect it for free…. Otherwise it should come at least with a cinema ticket 
Here is a link on what Jayne said regarding this:
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Ahh sorry mate- I didn’t check the translation of the word correctly! Forget my previous post! Yeah you are totally right
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They will never understand friend.