There being the great map of POIs in MSFS: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/map-of-all-points-of-interest-3d-cities-and-hand-crafted-airports-w-world-update-18-germany-austria-and-switzerland/, it is attractive for anyone to jump into the cockpit and start the engine. The sceneries in MSFS are mostly delicate and enjoyable, but just one minor problem: it costs a lot of time: loading needs time, flying needs time, even if you teleport all along, you still have to wait several minutes for sceneries to generate and show up. Is there an even quicker way?
Yes.
Importing the google map above into Google Earth, then you can browse around, just like Slew mode in MSFS. And the scenery loading is rather fast, just like when you are using an online map.
(Google Earth also provides a simplified “flight simulator”… but if you seriously want to fly a plane, why not go back to MSFS)
Then comes the second problem: the XBox controller settings in Google Earth is just weird and way different from MSFS, button A/Y is view up/down, Right stick forward/back is inverted view tilt, LT/RT/LB/RB are all for yaw… and there’s NOWHERE to customizable…
How to solve this problem?
Short answer: there’s an “old” tool https://www.x360ce.com/, which is powerful enough to change underlying controller input, thus the familiar MSFS controller style is back!
