General question here but I’ve been looking at the topics in the wishlist and bug report and noticed that most of the issues people seem to care about centre around graphics/visual effects, inaccurate weather and sometimes ATC stuff. But flight model and physics seem to rank pretty low on most peopl…

Like I said above, one way to solve this is have a separate flight model category for wishlist and bug reports that gets its own prioritization. There could of course be other categories, but ultimately it’d be a sad state of affairs if we only get graphics/gameplay updates from here on while the gl…

That’s great to know. So I guess there’s still hope for flight model updates?

[image] Jimrh1993: What say ye? “Leans back in chair” “Lights pipe” Well now…the question was about simmers generally. I’d say, then, that users of MSFS are about a 50/50 mix of RL pilots and “wannabes”; I’ve no evidence to back that up, it’s just my intuition. The people who complain abou…

[image] SwiftTugboat430: I’d say, then, that users of MSFS are about a 50/50 mix of RL pilots and “wannabes”; I’ve no evidence to back that up, it’s just my intuition. In December 2022 there was a report that MSFS had surpassed over 10 million players. The best estimate of worldwide pilots is…

[image] KenG1175: you have to take some of these “I am a real pilot” claims with a grain of salt <a class="lightbox" href="https://flightsimulator-forums-cdn.azureedge.net/uploads/default/original/4X/f/9/4/f94b95b4342cf16ea488af89891ec83ff6d82225.jpeg" data-download-href="https://flightsimulator-forums-cdn.azureedge.net/uploads/default/f94b95b4342cf16ea488af89891ec83ff6d82225" title="antalya-turkey-19-may-2018-large-stone-in-the-mediterranean-children-bathe-and-dive-from-the-stone-antalya-turkey-P1DDER" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">[antalya-turkey-19-may-2018-large-stone-in-the-mediterranean-children-bathe-and-dive-from-the-stone-antalya-turkey-P1DDER] Here’s that “grain of salt” you were talking about. :wink: I fo…

I’d assume the number of RW pilots using MSFS is far less than 50%. Doing some back of napkin estimating: Consider first there are over 10 million MSFS users. In the US there are only around 750,000 “active” pilots (including ~280k students), so extrapolating that figure worldwide - let’s say ther…

[image] CharlieFox00: In the end, I’d wager the number is less than 10%, or about 1 million RW pilots that use MSFS. If the number of real-world pilots that mess with MSFS was as much as one million, I’d be totally amazed outta my socks - one million is a LOT of people. Using Kelsey from 74 …

I have a PPL and IR and fly fairly regularly in RL but also like to fly in the MSFS. MSFS is great for practicing IFR procedures, familiarising yourself with new places and also emergencies that you can’t easily practice in real life. Out of the pilots I know (mostly PPLs) I’d say about 5-10% have a…

Huh, that pinged me. Today I learned that’s a thing. Might as well throw my hat in the ring. Disclaimer in that I like aviation casually but am not in any sort of real world pilot training, and that I’ve seen this discourse in all the simulation games I’ve played (ETS2, iRacing, Assetto Corsa, etc) …

I would generally agree but some flight model issues are so glaring that they’re difficult to ignore.

Do simmers generally not care about the flight physics of the sim?

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Jimrh1993 June 9, 2023, 1:07pm 104

Here’s that “grain of salt” you were talking about.

I found this on another thread, and I think it hit’s the nail on the head. . .