[OFFICIAL] Real vs. Sim Screenshots

Downsview airport:

MSFS 2020 of same airport:

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Basel-Mulhouse Airport:



Climbing out of LFSB, Switzerland:






Interlaken:

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Mount Eiger:

Aletsch Glacier:

Valais:

Above Domodossola with the Valais Alps in the background:

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First glimpse of Corsica (Scandola Natural Reserve):

Descending into LFKJ:

What an amazing approach! Unfortunally, due to the annyoing texture bug, some of the following screenshots of Corsica don’t look as good as they should.


L’Ospedale with Porto Vecchio in the backgound:

Col de Bavella:

To be continued…

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Water colour in the real life is much nicer !

This afternoon in Sion, Switzerland, in real life :

And in the sim, quite the same view angle :

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nice. If you get the Sion airport by Redwing, it’ll look even more real :slight_smile: :+1:

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Whitehaven Beach, Australia :slight_smile:

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Yep. It’s that time of the year again..

2023 edition. Featuring 5 countries across 4 regions. Check previous posts for even more comparisons.

1440p MAX graphics.

As usual: date/weather/time synced as best as possible when possible. Post process editing may be done to match colour/lighting.

Toronto, Canada
Emirates A380 departing CYYZ
Goodbye Toronto


Dubai, UAE
Mashallah…


Dubai, UAE
Museum of the Future


Dubai, UAE
Forced Perspective


Dubai, UAE
Burj Khalifa


Dubai, UAE
At the Top
Floating Platform


Dubai, UAE
At the Top
Lights on


Singapore
Marina Bay Day
Hello Singapore

Singapore
Boat Quay


Singapore
Marina Bay Night


Singapore
CapitaSpring


Kuantan, Malaysia
Hyatt Regency
Malaysian Sunrise


BONUS from friend
Jungfraujoch, Switzerland
Train to the Heavens


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Some shots from my visit to Sedona recently.


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:slight_smile:

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from the window of the Hilton hotel in Quebec

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I wonder if the mesh scenery from Taburet, would have improved that or not? it’s pretty close to real life ground textures, these pictures you shared with us. Even the refuge on top is represented, which is quite amazing

Kempten-Durach, Germany



Livery available on Flightsim.to.
The airport is part of the Bavarian Airport Pack 1 by Clear Prop Studios (available from Aerosoft)

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Flew over Cape Girardeau, Missouri on the Mississippi in a Long-EZ yesterday. Tried to match it in the sim. Not too bad:

I’ll get some prettier and more dramatic sim vs real shots hopefully soon.

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Here’s a prettier real vs. sim shot. I just need some more dramatic shots from the air now.

Disclaimers: I had to cheat to try to get the sim to match the real shot by editing the white balance and exposure of the sim shot. Mainly the sim was way too purple and the ground was way too dark. I’m really looking forward to the new atmospheric model in FS24 with the more realistic scattering parameters.

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Short final 20 KCHA - Chattanooga, TN
This was taken about 2 hours before that FedEx plane landed gear-up on the same runway! I went back today (more night shots to come) and the runway was in use! No damage, that I could tell…


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There’s a great recap of this recent belly-landing event in real-time here:
FedEX Boeing 757 GEAR UP LANDING After Hydraulic failure. REAL ATC - YouTube

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That sure gets real when they announce “3 souls onboard”. :folded_hands: