Feedback - Feature Requests

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I would love to see the following and believe they are both low hanging fruit, and very compelling adds for a wide range of people:

  • Custom waypoints via both address and/or coordinates

  • Standard maps integration (Bing, not just VFR). Bing maps standard search field to create a custom waypoint for landmarks, address, etc. Allow these to highlight in game world as a point of interest, and also on VFR/Bing map overlay. Ability to switch between VFR flight map and a standard road map (like you’d see using bing online) to allow more casual players to navigate and explore with ease.

  • Ability on world map to skip take off and have a hot start mid air at any point on the world map. Set altitude and coordinates and just load in right there.

  • Ability to set altitude + location via a map and teleport instantly. Helpful if you crash and just want to get back to 2000ft, or if you want to just jump forward to a specific place

  • Control stick highlight on button press like xplane, can be very hard to tell what button is what on a complex flight stick setup. As well, option for in game hud to show a graphic of which device with the button highlighted next to instructions (rather than just “joystick button 9”)

  • Bind sim rate up/down to a single key (not just a modifier)

  • Button to reset sim rate to real-time. On screen display with 1x/2x/4x etc to show current simrate speed.

  • Ability to change not just weather, but date (including year), during flying (ie shift from August to December and watch sun rotate position, and different sunrise/sunset times).

Thanks for the consideration. Besides being such a great flight sim, the program is unsurpassed as a way to scout and explore the world, so better map/waypoint support, plane positioning, and sim rate speed tools would be very welcome.

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I agree totally - would help a lot.

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Me too-hoping all these come in a update.

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Nice list. Someone should move this to the Wishlist forum where it can get voted on.

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There is actually a hidden feature regarding Bing map..
You can go on bing map search for a location, then you right click the wanted location and click on copy on the bottom, it will copy the GPS coordinates, then you switch to the game and paste these coordinates in the search field of the world map and it will create a custom waypoint for that location.

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Almost. In the control settings you can bind keys to increase sim rate and decrease sim rate. I use [ and ].

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I would love to see an in-game benchmarking tool. This would be helpful with tweaking graphic settings.

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Very cool feature to prepare vfr flight

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SweepGB, I can’t seem to find in my options how you bound increase sim rate and decrease sim rate to a single key?

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Place these suggestions on the Wishlist forum: Wishlist - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

People can go in there and vote. Devs will most likely pick up the more popular ones.

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