Tutorial #5 - Find ANY House - Microsoft Flight Simulator

[@Guillaume201fr]

I don't know if you are aware of it but you can also enter GPS coordinates into your flight plan directly, you just have to paste the coordinates in the world map search bar.

[@rotgertesla]

this should be pinned

[@Elternbrief007]

Wow that was easy, works perfectly, thanks mate!

[@azzy2001]

I was thinking "why make it this difficult to do?"... Thanks

[@riquardbeks]

Is it possible to add multiple custom gps coordinates in a single flight? :o

[@4aLse]

PIN THIS !!

[@emiltruija767]

Everybody gangsta until squirrel shows you your exact address

[@mickmccarthy8219]

Facts

[@ovwarrior]

Doxed

[@zutrue]

LoL...it all depends. There are a lot of houses you can step to, if you think you got it like that. But you better be ready.

[@stevezpj]

If Tom Scott did this video, he'd have code embedded which would find the address of whoever is watching the video and then show them their exact house in the video, just to mess with people.

[@timothyharris6927]

Or go into developer mode and enter the coordinates and teleport there....

[@coriscotupi]

03:23 - Not to be excessively technical, but for the sake of accuracy it's worth mentioning that 29 30' 24" is *_not_* the same thing as 29 30.24'. The former is 29 degrees 30 minutes, 24 seconds which equals *29 degrees 30.4 minutes* while the latter is, well, *29 degrees 30.24 minutes.* Not that it will make a whole lot of difference (just a few hundred meters), but still.

[@kill-nine]

What I came here to say. Seconds are not 100ths of a Minute. You can't just convert like that. You're going to be close-ish but you're not going to be on the mark.

[@NickScalan]

@@kill-nine Yeah, in a warzone that could be the difference between bombing a terrorist target and bombing a school

[@RCmies]

@@NickScalan I thought you were talking about CoD Warzone and I was confused for a bit..

[@IIIllllIIIIlllll]

Typo in your comparison

[@coriscotupi]

@@IIIllllIIIIlllll Thanks. Somehow "0" got in there instead of "9". Fixed. Cheers.

[@tyrekewilson8468]

MSFS: Uses bing maps Squirrel: Let's go on Google maps...

[@Aleksandar6ix]

Resolution and colors would have been better with Google maps had it been used instead

[@jantracz2734]

tasev1 if Microsoft used google maps, they would most likely have to pay them a lot of money.

[@markomclane475]

@Cole Render google maps has much better 3d than bing maps

[@hawx1212]

Cole Render A lot of areas in bing are outdated hence some airports missing altogether and some airport upgrades not included. My local airport in MSFS is based on a 2013 satellite image

[@markomclane475]

@Cole Render you mean google maps was computer generated?

[@urgedpanda]

there's gonna be that one guy that shit his pants when squirrel showed his house

[@darugdawg2453]

Meh they use generic house designs not the real house. I memba a caatle replaced by apartment building model lul. Go to google street if you want to see your real house

[@Formula1st]

@@darugdawg2453 he meant the location of their house, not an actual 3D model of their house

[@urgedpanda]

it's not generic, the ai uses atellite imagery to determine the approximate shape of the house, with limitations of course

[@Episode_13]

@@darugdawg2453 not really you can see it's pretty decent.

[@starstencahl8985]

@@darugdawg2453 I don't know why, but my house looks exactly like my house, even with the balcony etc. It's definitely not generic

[@GraveUypo]

before watching: i get the geo coordinates in google earth and just set it as the departure point. see the little seach box? just paste the coordinates there straight from google earth. you'll spawn directly above the house. or you could set it as the destination and spawn elsewhere. works the same.

[@Drower]

If you want to be exact, you can't just convert seconds to minutes by moving a comma. Probably doesn't make huge changes, but I think the first line should read. N29° 30.41', W98° 19.76'

[@michaelhartmann564]

In naval navigation you can either use minutes with decimals, or minutes ' and seconds ''

[@Drower]

@@michaelhartmann564 Yes, but you can't convert between the two formats like he does here by moving a comma.

[@gdwnet]

@@Drower Yup, you are correct. The actual difference is very minor but you are correct.

[@Matti0503]

I was also a bit shocked when he did that 😂 Damn, that would've saved me a lot of time in DCS in the A-10

[@Pulsarstunes]

Thanks! this bugged me to no end XD

[@dvilardi]

4:00 You should divide 24.8 by 60 before converting the minutes to a decimal format. So instead of 30.24 it would result in 30.41 (the same as 30 + 24.8/60)

[@adrenaline4life233]

Holy crap. This is insanely accurate for what it is even the windows are the same in the game. Thank you for this video and making something that we have all been asking.

[@unleashedfx7220]

WOW!!! Looks almost identical. Imagine after they update Bing Maps and improve the procedural generation, it will look better than real life. I can’t wait! 🤩

[@fulltimespy]

Damn that's so cool that you can pause your plane, then setup your drone for a shot. This is gonna help me a ton in making cinematic videos :))) Really cool! Atleast until we get the replay mode!

[@chapstickwarrior9277]

This is incredibly cool. I've always wanted a game like this but it never seemed possible.

[@vincentbrown8489]

😝

[@rahulacb11]

Imagine the reaction of the person living in that house..

[@ccarson]

Hey, that's my house.

[@deweyparker1367]

Sai Rahul take a good look at that house. Do you think the owner us really going to recognize it?

[@MrRonzy123]

Squirrel: **makes tutorial for Microsoft Flight Simulator** Squirrel: **Uses Google Maps** Microsoft (Bing maps): Am i joke to you?

[@jpht1964]

Bing uses too much outdated satellite pictures for many countries...

[@TheSound0fLegends]

Yup. I was gutted when they declared use of bing maps 🥺

[@pwcorgi2000]

@Cole Render We know that, however Google Maps is still better than Bing maps.

[@TheSound0fLegends]

@@pwcorgi2000 agreed it's obvious

[@TheSound0fLegends]

@Cole Render well hopefully this simulator coming out will push ms to update them with newer maps

[@ungabunga246]

I'm so exited for 00:00 am this night

[@zdoomcentral]

If you got gamepass you can easily download it now.

[@numafc]

@@zdoomcentral how?

[@ccg4713]

set your region to Kiribati if you have gamepass and you can do it now

[@elliotwhitworth8239]

@Cole Render No. It unlocks at 0000 each region.

[@kendal4376]

@@elliotwhitworth8239 thats for steam

[@epochphilosophy]

Would be really cool if they had an integration in-game where you don't have to go through the process of deep coordinates in Notepad, etc. They should definitely work on this.

[@clamum]

I wouldn't doubt if it's added in the future. Adding waypoints by latitude/longitude seems like a pretty basic thing and IMO they'll add it. Hopefully

[@lwaves]

According to a comment here by imaner76, you can already do it by copy/pasting the lat/long directly onto the world map and adding a custom waypoint. Might be worth checking it out when you can.

[@ErrorUsingFunction]

when you zoomed into San Antonio, you said "somewhere where there's nice houses", definitely should have done Alamo Heights then!

[@tylerodonnell-paccione7523]

Or the Quarry lol

[@jamesgarza4412]

i was thinking the same thing lol

[@hazmatt3250]

OH MY GOSH!!! THAT HOUSE!!! It’s in the exact same country that I live in!! 😱😱😱

[@Graybear78]

Your tutorials are the best I have found for Flt Sim, bar none. I thank you. I used to fly Flt Sim 8 many years ago (my first was Flt Sim 4) and have forgotten most of what I had learned.

[@patrickvollebregt855]

Much easier: Just search for GPS coordinates (for example: 52°57'47.3"N 5°06'11.8"E). And then click add on the custom icon that appears on the map.

[@wasgehtsiedasan4230]

that works but i dont see the waypoint ingame

[@patrickvollebregt855]

I did see the waypoint in game on a G1000.

[@TyvanTV]

omg this..it takes like 3 seconds.

[@JonJonJonJonJon]

@@patrickvollebregt855 What did you do to make it work? I set the long/lat for a custom Destination, set my departure, go into the game but there is no point on the map to follow and my navigation map has no flight plan. Are there options I need to turn on to make the custom destination show up on the map as something I can see in world so I can know which way to fly?

[@patrickvollebregt855]

@@JonJonJonJonJon When you enter the long lat you will see an icon 'custom' on the map. You can click on it and select add to add it to your flight plan.

[@Legion12Centurion]

You dont have start from an airport unless you specifically want to for say immersion or takeoff stuff, you can just right click anywhere and set depart from and you will start in the air. I use this a ton to fly over very remote areas or to spawn directly on top of an area where I wanna fly around saves a bit of time. :)

[@storerocket]

@Squirrel yours are the BEST tutorial ever. I watched countless of other tutorials and yours are just the easiest to grasp. Please continue with the beginners series on how to use the flaps (since you did not cover them in the first flight) etc. Please!

[@EugeneSorokacorp]

This is awesome! Very useful. I was trying to find Yosemite National Park last night, and was just using various lakes and rivers as a guide, and a general compass direction. Eventually found it. It was fun to look for it without knowing exactly where it is, but this would have made things much easier. Btw Yosemite looks Incredible in the game!

[@norwegianwiking]

Anyone else get their mind blown when they even put the pool in the yard across the street?

[@Rilex037]

its called photogrammetry , they did not put anything.

[@pantoffelslippers]

Saw that too!

[@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24]

@@Rilex037 they the model for every single building and tree using 3d software a man make them they making this since 2006

[@Concodroid]

@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 not every house, quite a bit isn't photogammetry, and only since 2014.

[@theoriginalop]

Ya, and the palm tree also even if it is just a block

[@chuddledollops]

You can just paste that first co-ordinate you copied from google straight into the search and it adds it as a custom way point. So easy!!! Good video though, thanks for taking the time to make it. Kia ora from NZ!

[@Pulsarstunes]

14:18 "we are definitely in the vicinity". It's right there, disappearing between your window style and dashboard!! xD

[@ThatHippyDuck]

Found my house. Although it was not recognizable. Just the layout. But my town looks just like the IRL aerial view which is surreal and fun to explore and find your fav. Places

[@jonath0n]

2:00 lol, imagine if he just zoomed in on a viewers house

[@nhoover]

Nice - I use vfrmap which lets you run google maps with telemetry on an extra screen - I use a tablet. Makes this stuff easy. I like your way too.

[@fox_the_apprentice]

5:54 I've heard it pronounced "ai-kow" and I've heard it spelled i-c-a-o, but this is the first time I've heard someone spell it i-k-a-o (while typing i-c-a-o).

[@mraus6609]

ikr

[@DaveGrennan]

Thanks for a great video series Squirrel. Not to be too pedantic but 24' is not .24. 24' is 24/60=.4 deg so that first N coordinate should be N29[deg] 30.4'. I know it makes very little difference and it will work as you describe. Thanks again.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

"that's all there is to it"? I think I speak for most people when I say... What a palaver.

[@ninjatrader7785]

Not sure if it is a new thing since this post is about a year old, but if you ate in MSFS, just use the world map to find your desired waypoint and left click on it. It will give you the "Add" option and you can set as many waypoints as you like.

[@senselessbabble1996]

This is the most useful MSFS video on KZbin yet. Thanks!

[@dannickpotvinFX]

immagine seing him zoom in straight on your house a picking it.... how spooked wwould you be? lul

[@thegreathadoken6808]

This was an extremely helpful video. Not just for finding people's houses, but for many things. Thanks for that.

[@Steamyy_]

Everyone with gamepass that paid like 1 euro: we have it early Everyone that bought the game for 59.99+: we have to wait 12 hours So sad (Edit) this is only a joke

[@harleypriest6657]

what?

[@cikame]

Well it's going to take me 3+ days to download so i'm really not in any hurry.

[@LoadingRetroGames]

Why would anybody pay full price.. Boggles my mind tbh when yiu can have game pass with loads of other games and it will still take until next year to pay the equivalent

[@bradenwoods1111]

It's only a 1 hour difference. I just checked and it says available August 17 at 11pm central and on steam its midnight so...

[@LoadingRetroGames]

@@bradenwoods1111 I've got to wait until next year either way, sold my pc last month :( getting the new xbox at Christmas.. Never regretted a sale more

[@Friends18181]

16:11 the house that he was looking for

[@matthewwood3000]

I live right next to a grass airfield in Scotland so I’m hoping I can land there and see my house

[@TheM6]

Opera browser... reminds me of the good ol days before moving to chrome. Lovely video BTW :)

[@AdamGbl95]

As long as you have online data turned and photogrammetry turned on, with an active connection, you should be able to see satellite view on the world map, which should give an exact view. You can left click over the place you wish to see in flight and route to it. (setting a custom waypoint) To access satellite view on the world map, you can click "more" at the bottom of the map and then open "filters"...it will have an option for satellite view (and IFR map/blended map)

[@dihedral977]

Good video. Another and probably easier way is to use Little Nav Map (freeware/shareware) which you should have anyway as it's an excellent moving map display with everything you'd need to fly VFR or IFR. It is navigraph able. Once you have it installed you can create a "custom" or "user" waypoint with lat / long. It will appear on the map and you can fly to it. Additionally, you could create a flightplan in LNM using that waypoint and convert/save it to a MFS flightplan that you can load into the sim and its GPS.

[@swimskim5874]

I just took off at an airport close to me and visually followed highways and used other landmarks to find my town. Amazing I could even do that. Impressive game

[@gblawrence034]

I wonder how many “OMG that’s my house!” comments there are

[@ScepticFrog]

Amazing help thank you so much! I'm new to this but getting to grips. At 9:42 I found if you leave in the ICAO and rename to Home or House then it also shows up on the map as a proper coordinate, whereas if you delete it will only show as a random coordinate.

[@tehlaser]

There's a less fiddly way, if you don't mind getting a little bit cheaty. At the bottom of the Options screen there's a Developers tab and a Developer Mode. Turn that on and load into the sim. Doesn't really matter where, but if you don't want to spawn on the ground, try to make it somewhere the elevation is similar to or above your target. Then you can choose Windows, Teleport Window, then type the lat/lon directly from google maps into the boxes, no conversion required, and hit the Go to LatLon button.

[@Mr.M1STER]

That's really cool. I don't know why you didn't chose the house just south of the one you did pick as it had a pool and would have been way easier to spot but this method clearly works. Really interesting.

[@deaustin4018]

probably noted already, but - when converting the minutes and seconds digits to decimal format, it's not just a matter of dropping the decimal and the following number. You have to calculate the difference. For instance, 30 minutes 30 seconds would convert to 30 point 5 minutes, not 30 point 3 minutes. It's something like the difference between dropping a bomb through the guy's bathroom window vrs. dropping it on the neighbor's house. So the guy who owns the house next door is the one who should be irritated.

[@MrSoundwave]

Even the swimming pools from the neighbours were in there. Cool. I already found my house in the sim 2 weeks ago but it wasn't modeled as it is but no matter still fun.

[@MortalMaster98]

ATTENTION to all the people who got the game through GamePass. Change your region on your account to Kiribati on the website and theres a CHANCE you'll get early access. Your welcome

[@anchorjam5590]

I wouldn't recommend it. I've heard Microsoft have started to crack down on the region changing and it can screw things up in the download. Just wait a few more hours guys, you can do it

[@tristans48]

Don't do that.. Microsoft will catch it...

[@bryanjblake]

You're the Bob Ross of flight simming. I'm a novice and I'm really enjoying learning from your videos. Thank you

[@andreasklempin]

Really appreciate all your work and sharing your knowledge through these MSFS videos and tutorials! They've been so helpful in getting prepared and excited for the game and flight sims in general. Can't wait, today's the day!

[@reivaxs5885]

Early for a Squirrel vid? Let me take this opportunity to say i love your vid Paul, been following you quite late since the "My summer car" actually, the quality, content and choice of game are always perfect. Cheers from France

[@Planehazza]

Assuming Eshott (Northumberland) GA airfield is modelled at all, the very first thing I'm going to do is fly down the coast to Tynemouth, fly over the Tyne, see the bridges then fly over my house in Wallsend before returning. Doing it all via my real life 1:250'000 charts.

[@travis2861]

You can also paste the coordinates direct into the search in the sim aswell and do it as a custom location

[@octogames6823]

I just downloaded the deluxe version last night. Cant wait to try it out when I get home from work.

[@JustAlb1n]

The quickest way is to copy and paste the coordinates in the search menu in the flight simulator, it does allow you to search with longitude and latitude.

[@aleshon9563]

You can set waypoints via coordinates. In the screen where you select departure and arrival airport just unter the upper selection screen. (The little search field).

[@allyouneedislove3660]

You know you can go into the map on home screen. Where you search for fauna flora etc and just add GPS there. And it’ll make a waypoint there where you can start flight from

[@raf444]

You changed the actual coordinate on the seconds/decimal format, it shouldn't be 30.24, if it's decimal should be something around 30.42, because the decimal format goes up to 99 and the seconds only goes up to 60, the coordinate on decimal format will be slightly off

[@SewerShark]

I was watching Obsidian Ant's channel and it seems you can add custom interest points by typing the coordinates into the search box.

[@nsw72]

Involves a bit of hoop jumping but...neat!

[@coltonbucholz6278]

I think half the fun will be exploring and finding places on my own. I also live in the middle of the woods with very few houses around me so my place will be easy to find.

[@pantoffelslippers]

This photogrammetry is amazing. Was this area just a really good example or is the whole world modeled this well? I mean, that pool across the street was a mindf..k for me... Thanks for the video

[@nuothe11th]

Fact: If the G1000 is properly simulated, you can create a waypoint in the G1000 itself and type in the coordinates, name it HOUSE, and fly to it, without even using the FSX Flight Planner.

[@coltonbucholz6278]

That’s a pretty cool work around for custom waypoints. Hopefully they add custom gps coordinates soon so finding a specific address doesn’t involve a 20 min tutorial vid to do lol.

[@Gary_Howe]

Looks great. Can't wait to actually fly to places I know and recognise them in game.

[@JohnFSmitheugene]

Awesome tip for using MSFS! Many thanks. And thanks for a great presentation, too.

[@freggo6604]

Next version allows you to land on the street, exit the plane, walk over to the house, open the door, enter and check what's in the fridge! Unless they have a fridge with camera and wifi, then you just fly over it and load its picture onto your NAV screen. Ah, low on milk.. :-) Microsoft and Google should join their map data for the sim. Imagine having street view imagery as part of this.

[@skylinepower8186]

This is a right around the houses way of doing it,just copy and paste the coordinates into the search bar on the world map and it takes you there.you don’t have to fath about editing anything

[@CMDRRustyDog]

Very cool. Hopefully they'll build in custom waypoints very soon ! Thanks SQ

[@jspesh]

Thanks for this it's a great tip. I am going to write a program to easily do this from Google Maps and create a flight plan from/to an airport + your custom coords

[@fontana101]

An in depth G1000 tutorial would be really helpful on this series.

[@RajeevsVlogs]

Bro actually you can enter coordinated in search box in world map and it works!

[@jembawls]

16:16 "if this is your house... dont step out because there is a minecraft creeper on your front lawn"

[@bs_blackscout]

Sneaky way of teaching people how to use the GPS you are a genius hahah

[@tassodemo2316]

Me: *crashes into my home* *hears a jet engine* Me: “oh f-“

[@sarathab]

Very impressive and useful Squirrel....

[@ZL8103]

I found the how-to super helpful. Definitely will try to fly by my house soon. :)

[@jonathan130]

16:17 uhh... Well good thing is that the quality gets better over time I guess.

[@jonathan130]

Chiel Vooijs I didn’t. It looks bad. And it will improve over time.

[@JohanStendal]

Holy snot! Im actually the guy! the very same guy who lives in a house, a house where im on the sofa watching this video on youtube, and you picked that exact house out on google maps! the house where someone lives who i have no idea who is and i havent even been to america.

[@Quazo54]

Super helpful. Thank you so much!

[@GeneralLee131]

Should fly over Paradise California. Curious how the developers modeled it after the fire.

[@EVERYDAYGames00]

Yea this as hurt my brain a little today just wanted a nice fly video lol didn’t think I was coding maps 🤣

[@frufrufrufru1999]

Can you do a vid on how to use auto pilot on the 787 and stuff

[@Iam_Machines]

That was pretty cool. I would love a tutorial on some more advanced avionics on G1000. 🤙

[@donaldtrup6610]

personally used google maps and the closest airport and used the compass heading and found it quickly

[@kevinhendon]

No hiding from Squirrel now !!!

[@The1PatSmith]

Thank you, SQRL, - most enlightening!

[@japhethjohnson841]

Sick vid squirrel loving the flight sim content 👍👍

[@HomelessTechnology]

Squirrel could you do a video on how to fly with keyboard and mouse because man has a lot changed since FSX

[@brotatochip7001]

I no joke got half of Hampton roads memorized, I got this. All I have to do is backtrack from ORF.

[@anttisalminen1916]

If you would require pinpoint accuracy, which I agree that this situation really doesn't. But on first example you should convert those seconds to decimals of the minute. Not just swap the minute marker behind. So first lat-long grid would be: N29deg 30.41' W98deg 19.75' But error is not big.

[@madgaming9988]

I love your video 📹 and your KZbin channel ❤

[@ozsimflyer]

Squirrel any chance you can do a tutorial on how to get our Saitek switch panels going in the sim. That would be really appreciated

[@tedroberts4540]

I live in San Antonio Texas ! This blew my mind ! :D

[@Fuziontv]

Wauuuu a lot of work .. Microsoft could have made it simpler. Good video.

[@Goodall10]

Not only is the pool in the yard across the street, the color of the car in the driveway is the same.

[@DavidDewis]

Do you have access to the in game flight charts? If so you could use VOR nav to find a location.

[@skruffy79]

I think you can just paste coordinates straight into the search bar and gets added as a custom point?