Here’s my shortlist:
Africa is a vast and beautiful continent.
The importance of airstrips in supplying villages in Papua New Guinea.
The Egyptian pyramids are located on the edge of a freaking city and not in open desert.
What are some things you have learned about our world?
Agree with you about Africa, just spent several hours in the CJ4 flying North across the Namib desert in VR enroute from Cape Town back to Morocco. Absolutely entrancing.
Had a stopover in a place called Walvis Bay … thanks to Google and Wikipedia, I now almost feel like I have visited a place I’d never heard of 2 days ago…
Not just the current version I started MSFS way back in about 1990.
I git my PPL in 1994 and MSFS certainly helped me to gain my licence very quickly.
There are loads of golf courses. apparently everywhere.
Like Elite Dangerous, you don’t realise the vast scale of what you’re flying about in until you’re flying about in it!
…at around 100kts 
I’ve been whacked in this forum for answering a direct question. If you don’t like my opinions, tough luck, skip to the next post.
I’m on a RTW in an XCub, attempting to touch wheels to every country realistically reachable. 50 countries thus far, 130 or so more to go.
Crossing water sucks.
The Sahara sucks.
There’s nothing interesting between Finland and the Ukraine, and you can’t actually buy chicken in Kiev in game.
There are airports everywhere, except where you want one, some of them even have fuel.
I started this sim flying only the big boys. I was wrong. VFR down in the weeds is better than anything and anywhere at 35.000 feet. Flying that high is a pointless waste of my time, electricity, and hardware.
Not sure if this is the road you are referring to, but it might be Skyline Drive.
I have travelled to every country in the world on MSFS and I now want to do it in real life.
The world is beautiful. Every country, every airport that I have landed at.
I think that the team at ASOBO and MSFS deserve a noble prize is Physics for simulating the entire world.
The world is more vast in my mind now than before.
I hope you don’t get wacked for posting this one though.
You just put the biggest smile of my day on my face!!!
Scale matters. And it can often be quite scary.
As a former Platinum KLM Flyer, I thought I had seen something of our planet.
But with MSFS, and certainly while flying lower (although not necessarily slower, I love the Eurofighter…), the world really opens up in terms of distances, landscapes, density or scarcity of population as seen through truly huge cities or large deserted areas like in central Africa, Latin America, Siberia or even the plains of the USA. It shows how people tend to prefer living on top of each other or at least very close, when such huge areas remain uninhabited. Or in crazy places like next to active volcanoes or floodplains or very high up in the mountains in Peru.
But the main impression is how beautiful earth is and how much better to explore in this program than actually flying and polluting with bad particles and noise, thus destroying the beauty.
And I am sure, that in due time, the imaging in MSFS will become better and more detailed as will the technicalities and variety of planes.
Superb will get even better, thank you Asobo!
Absolutely agree there
Agreed 100 percent, but will add that they should win a noble peace prize also, simply because they have brought peace to the hearts and soul of so many of us during these turbulent times.
The Sahara sucks so hard. My cubs have been stuck there the past week or two for some reason.
Nothing to see there obv. Would just skip the entire northern half of the continent.
But seriously, some of the go to pretty areas in my mind leave a lot to be desired in the simulator as the imagery there is missing or the sim’s feature set is incomplete. I wish the Maldives were rendered better. Gorgeous little ring atolls. But the reefs are missing and what should be white sand often shows as cracked green clay. Touching the surf triggers a crash, so landing on my own personal atoll to watch the sunset becomes a frustrating exercise.
However, this has led me to explore far flung places of the world that I might have otherwise overlooked. Like the Sahara. I’m so entranced by some of this scenery that I wish I could actually go there and hike or explore it in person somehow. So many of these places are just so inaccessible and unsafe even that it’ll probably always be something I can only do in Flight Simulator, and for that reason I’m glad I have it.
I mainly wanted this program to explore the world from the air and typically fly below 10,000ft in order to take in the awesome scenery. It’s amazing how remote and beautiful this planet is and the team has done an amazing job and know it will just get better with time.
After spending most of my career flying commercial around the SE US (~3000 flights) as a passenger I have no big desire to fly at high altitude or revisit all the places I’ve seen as an accidental tourist over the years, especially dealing with Hartsfield!
I pick places at random to explore and pleasantly surprised at what I find sometimes, like this weekend checking out the mountainous areas of Yemen where there are spots that mimic the Grand Canyon and then taking a meandering trip from Cape Town to Johannesburg with a scattered cloud setup which also was lots of eye candy.
Where to go next???
I am building up a bucket list of places I had never heard of before MSFS to visit post Covid.
Milton Sound in New Zealand is one example (freeware Milton Sound addon) I had no idea how spectacular it was until MSFS:
Here’s my list off the top of my head:
If the human race screws up something this beautiful any more than we have already, it will be a tragedy
