First Look at Microsoft Flight Simulator!

[@AditMahesh]

Yes!!! Saw people on Twitter playing it and kept thinking "when is Jeff going to release his video?" Great job as always!

[@Profoundtrews]

Same

[@brandonstone6962]

I was honestly hoping that he was going to do like what Zach had done and do the training modules to see what he thought of them as an experienced pilot.. But he skipped all of it and went directly into it

[@pilotahmed777]

Same dude, and he posted as promised, love this guy.

[@mrhovoxo7236]

This is like 10 steps up in gaming history

[@jpklein740]

yooo fr

[@tylormerkley5183]

@idk Keeping it classy, I like it.

[@cheddar2648]

@idk "REEEEEEEEEEEEEE" is short for "retard"

[@callmelarry6145]

idk “Jonah Peter Klein bruh “yooo fr” shut the fuck up” shut the fuck up

[@jpklein740]

@idk tf i do to u

[@marcusjohnson7441]

Woooohooooo So excited about this. I can only imagine how you feel about it.

[@Jaden_Iarusso]

Jeff: Downloaded within an hour Me: Still Downloading

[@RyanCunningham12]

Took me about 3 hours. Half of it is extracting the packages which uses a lot of CPU.

[@Jaden_Iarusso]

@@RyanCunningham12 wut ._. Am I srsly gonna have to sit here and wait for that to

[@troy9842]

Took me 6😭

[@cyrium1]

Will I have to turn off or disable my anti-virus to download it? 95.15 GiBs. I hear some say you do.

[@SceurdiaStudios]

How fast are you're speeds anyway? I probably need a whole day for 90gbs

[@indianajones6887]

"I didn't know you could fly a plane" "Fly yes. Land? No."

[@daniel-ji4ww]

The video we’ve all been waiting for.

[@listerlives1]

Thanks for the video Jeff. Been flying all day in awe of what this sim has achieved. Despite the hickups I doubt I could ever go back to Xplane. The first time you fly into a cloud and ice over, you're hooked.

[@redbeardflys805]

Great video, my friend! You probably won’t see this but if you do, I wanted to say thank you for that excellent tutorial on the new INI a300-600 (xplane) you did. I literally took 5 pages of notes and now I am able to run that thing like a top!

[@jfavignano]

anytime man!

[@ColinAverill]

Fly into a hurricane. Fly over a volcano. Fly through a forest fire. Try to hit the ground crew. (GTA has affected me, what do you want me to say?)

[@bagels377]

You can't fly through a forest fire and.nothing happens when you hit the ground crew.

[@ColinAverill]

@@bagels377 I'm Gut-ted. Ha. Haha. Yeah, sorry, bad pun.

[@thecorporatepilotdad]

Have you been flying around looking for stunt jumps and trying to find the nearest Ammu-Nation, too?

[@airwipe1639]

Obviously love it, but I loved the straight forward menu in XP.

[@truemetro181]

yeah the menus, control assignment utility, and camera need work.

[@outside7]

I have to say I absolutely love the look and feel of the menu, it it just a joy using it. But I agree, the functionality of some items need work.

[@aarontrueblood4340]

I live 45 min drive away from Polson. MSFS looks pretty accurate. I fly down there all the time, one of my favorite airports. 15 min flight from home

[@falconiner4546]

This sim is a work of art

[@Mr.SheriffGames]

That was a good 52 minutes of my life I really enjoyed that. Can't wait to see where you go next Jeff! Keep em' Coming!

[@atxgti4218]

There are other videos out, but this is the one I’ve been waiting for 👌🏼

[@ryanator109]

I am by no way a pilot at any degree and this has been my first flight sim games I've ever played and have been thoroughly enjoying it so far!! Love it that anyone can play this game and yet it has such detail and realism that pilots can play this as after all this is a simulator! One of the best games of the decade really!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Tcook96]

Great video Jeff! I’m at the airlines now, but man I tell ya, this video made me really miss GA flying. I’ve gotta get back into it.

[@JerodM]

I feel like Sid when “The Big One” finally came. So happy with this release.

[@justinboyd1231]

Jerod M underrated comment lol

[@thejaytea24]

Haven’t simmed since FS2004. That’s about to change.

[@asthalis]

neither have I ! So impatient to test it when I'm back home.

[@ledzeprulz]

I spent a ridiculous amount of hours (basically my childhood) on FS2004. What a sim!

[@bradymatlock]

Let me tell you Jeff. You have made one of the best Microsoft Flight Sim videos today. Everyone has just been giving the sim crap about how the airplanes aren't true to real life, but you made this very educational and entertaining. Keep up the good work. 🙏🏼

[@jfavignano]

I have found if you treat the airplanes with respect they will fly pretty damn close to the real thing. At least the 172 so far for me. If you treat it like a toy it will act like a toy.

[@bradymatlock]

@@jfavignano Exactly what I wish everyone would understand. People just seem to jump the gun on this sim. I mean for fuck sake, it has been on steam for less than 24 hours and it already has mixed reviews.

[@jfavignano]

Yeah if people don’t like it they can go back to flying in P3D and Xplane. It is no skin off our nose, they are missing out.

[@JerodM]

Definitely do the training! I like how you review it and provide added commentary on what you learned in real world training. Thanks Jeff!

[@MsMoon02]

Jeff hope you had a wonderful weekend. This upload is already making my night stay safe take care

[@Condensation360]

Proceeds to land better than all the other flight sim KZbinrs.

[@kon_the_bossp989]

Not really

[@MrSoLiDIcEplays]

Jeff and AFP are my two favs

[@zach071591]

I honestly love watching Jeff and AFP as they’re probably some of the most true flight simmers here and take the game seriously

[@modelrailwaynoob]

If you think that, you have a limited understanding.

[@AA-tz2bm]

Yellow

[@patches8291]

I’ve worked on my PPL in Flagstaff and given what I know now learning about density altitude right off the bat is a good thing.

[@spencerboothe2406]

I’ve been watching a lot of other videos but I honestly was waiting the most for this one. Thanks Jeff

[@jeremychatmonjr5994]

Love these videos, whether it’s GTA or a flight simulator, they’re all very well produced.

[@outside7]

He's just a joy to listen to. I bet he would be a great dad. :)

[@user-qp9pu1xi4k]

@@outside7 he would be a great pilot in real world commercial aviation

[@tsarinist9300]

Hey Jeff. love your content, and have been waiting for you to review this amazing flight sim!

[@reverenddickie8116]

Something awesome you can do with the Drone Camera is actually simulate walking around wherever you are. I saw a guy do that on a KZbin video, just walking around the airport, and walking under the Eiffel Tower. It was so cool!

[@chrisadish]

And I like you Jeff because you're a real world pilot and I'm a student pilot, having flown the skyhawk as well. You explain the procedure and the vfr concepts very well! I mostly watch msfs videos by real simmers and pilots who know what they are talking about!!

[@ocean3924]

I am so happy this came out I love this so much, can’t wait for console!!!!!

[@theorangecactus2177]

Could you do some flying around the Seattle area? Would love to see how real it looks as I live near Seattle. It would also be a good way to compare the scenery from X-Plane 10 and 11 with this simulator as I did a lot of flying around here.

[@paceyatkinson5388]

The Orange Cactus Agreed, I’m training out of Olympia right now so that’d help me decide whether to get the sim yet too

[@AA-tz2bm]

Seattle is the most accurate city in msfs 2020 lol.

[@maroofr]

I've watched all of your American trucking simulator videos. I've learned about that game by watching you. I'm now the proud owner of FS2020 (first time buying anything of this magnitude on launch day) and can't wait to see your content.

[@tsarrite]

Flight sims is what brought me to your channel years ago and am loving to have you on MSFS 2020. I'm learning much more from your content then anyone else out there. Keep up the good work.

[@saltyymannscustoms6989]

I live in polson and saw the lake from the thumbnail and man is that accurate

[@zLightAssassin7]

I can’t wait to play this game on series x when it comes out, never played a flight sim before but this looks so fun

[@tylergames5687]

It’s out now with game pass!

[@Only.B]

@@tylergames5687 Series X Is The Next Xbox With The Next Gen Graphics And Shii

[@zLightAssassin7]

Tyler Productions it’s not out on Xbox one yet guys, and even if it was it would run terribly

[@tylergames5687]

zLightAssassin7 it is gonna be soon tho

[@bradz76]

zLightAssassin7 just because it’s Xbox doesn’t mean it’s gonna run bad. They said their gonna optimize the game to run smoothly on the console and look good at the same time.

[@YeCannyDaeThat]

Finnally Jeff gets his video out! (I was chatting with you in the alpha forum Jeff). Delighted you are able to release content now.

[@JoshuaH688]

Wow! I'm a huge fan of your flight sim videos, as well as your ATS content. I live in Helena, Montana, so was really excited to see you choose Polson for your flight in this video! Looking forward to buying this soon. Got a decent gaming laptop with 32 GB of RAM, but thinking this will be my motivation to upgrade to a new system within the next year 😆 - Keep up the great productions! 👍

[@chuck176]

Joshua Howard I’m picking up my gaming laptop tommorw! Hp omen Amd Ryzen 7 1660Ti, 16gig memory, do you think I can run flight simulator 2020 on it great high settings!

[@Meltyy]

Does jeff heart if youre early?

[@mrmike1183]

He do 😉

[@melissaumbaugh3045]

maybe, who knows? lol

[@Marcomarvoc]

This is absurd, this what I'll show to someone when they ask me about next gen.

[@06L]

I TOTALLY agree with you ! I will probably adjust my heading at least 2000 times and 2000 times, a window will tell me "THIS IS THE HEADING BUTTON" and 2000 times, the menu arrow will tell me "THE MENU IS HERE" ... It's okay, I GET IT! There are also some hardcore simmers who know their planes! Suggestion for the menu strip: It only appears if the mouse is near the upper frame or (better when using the overhead panel) if it touches the frame !

[@jfavignano]

100 percent agree

[@MrSoLiDIcEplays]

even people who aren't "flight sim fans" can appreciate the beauty of this game. I'm a fan of you Jeff and aviation has always interested me, but the cool part about this game is you can go anywhere and it will be realistic. You can fly over Area 51! Fly over rainforests! Pretty sweet imo.

[@Frequency-ct4sf]

"downloading took about an hour" lol....Mine took 8 freaking hours! hehe

[@mouseaviator3672]

8 hours? Lol rookie numbers, mine took 30 hours

[@legendkiller456]

I saw the livestream last night. It looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for the content, Jeff!

[@mjh4892]

Great video. I was going to wait on MSFS until I could add a Honeycomb Yoke to my current HOTAS setup but my need to relive my days when I was a Cessna pilot are completely taking over. Add one subscriber.

[@ZackFrisbee]

You call 3,000 feet density altitude? Colorado is calling to laugh :D

[@mr.martintorres5804]

He definitely got a boost in engine performance once he leaned, so....

[@shodancat1000]

It was insanely fun flying with you and your viewers last night, Jeff. Thanks for the hours of fun

[@TheBrickonastring]

Totally agree on 3rd party and the hud elements. I for one would prefer VFR and IFR in GA content, been here since xplane-10. Your tutorials back then, were invaluable. great flying and keep them coming ;)

[@tjs8617]

Great video Jeff!!! I live in Livingston, MT, and have spent much time in the Flathead Valley Area, so it was really cool to see you fly there!!! I'm loving the sim so far and i think it will only get better as time goes on!!! Can't wait for more content from you!!! Thanks Much!!!

[@owenlyons5788]

Jeff you make my day love you love your vids stay safe and keep up the good work

[@indianboy0453]

Learned the high altitude aspect the hard way in this sim recently. But I never made the connection until this video. Thanks Jeff! Looking forward to your learn to fly msfs2020!

[@capevisser]

Really enjoyed your review Jeff. Lots of great info and good to see an honest comparison between XPlane 11 and this new sim. I was especially glad to learn that the flight model compares better than XPlane as I was at a crossroads as to which sim I should jump to. Looking forward to more content from you on this great new sim.

[@marccampbell7321]

Your Dash 8 will be available later as adware. The trick to Saba, is configure early with max flaps and fly as close to stall speed as possible. Use a bush landing technique where you fly at max angle of attack. You may get intermittent stall warnings. With the short runway you must land with at the slowest speed in order to avoid a runway excursion. Keep the blue side up.

[@66lwmorgan]

Some of those views reminded me of Backcountry182 landing on short sandbars in his 172, good stuff Jeff.

[@jacobmiller9908]

Literally just commented on your GTA Video, saying I Can’t wait for you to start dropping FS videos. Almost like you heard me then I get a notification.....And it’s you posting a Flight Sim video. Awesome!!!! Stay Healthy Brother

[@chrisadish]

And Jeff, I was a beta tester as well. I got my premium copy yesterday and they have cleaned it up a lot and lots of bugs fixed!! Lovely!!

[@Mexx1011]

Good job Jeff! I'm not an active flight simmer at all, rather a real life pilot, but was very curious about the new product. I was aware that a bunch of KZbinrs got the press release before you but deliberately didn't watch any of them until your post. I figured you'd provide the best first 'real' look at it and wasn't disappointed. Great choice on using the classic 172 for your first flight as well. Thank you!

[@jfavignano]

Glad you enjoyed it Max

[@Avanchent]

Jeff, I have been enjoying your content since 2012, I have never been a fan of aviation but after watching this video I am downloading the game as I type. I look forward to seeing your walkthrough videos and try to learn more about aviation and hopefully become a good pilot!

[@zaviationn]

(Cringe warning) Yes! I what I was taught, practice makes perfect, even if you crash you can try again and you’ll do it!

[@statingtheobvious8119]

This is pretty cool. I saw a video of someone flying over chernobyl also!

[@SpooderOfficial]

Yessssss! I can't wait to see all the video on this game from you! :D

[@EllieODaire]

I know Whitehall! I've parked in the dirt lot across from the Town Pump there many times, I'm kind of a sucker for A&W and that's one of the easier ones to get to with a semi. Always nice to have a good parking area with food at the bottom of a grade like homestake for those of us that don't like chaining. 😊

[@andrewhickinbottom1051]

Great flying, Jeff - loved that sandbar takeoff! Beautiful scenery. Jealous of your fast internet too - ive left it downloading non-stop for a day and a half now, and i'm only 30% downloaded. Had to delete everything and start again last night when one of the download packages corrupted and i was stuck on a 'please wait' message.

[@racerucki9201]

You should fly around Burlington Vermont over lake Champlain and around the green mountains, it has a good mix of rural and urban scenery with beautiful views, and as an added bonus I live there!

[@collinclary5762]

Man i didn’t have a care in the world about planes or flight sim until i saw about this game i watched ur streams in X-Plane every now and then but i saw this game and man i’m addicted now look forward to it on console so i can get into the flight sim community it is so fun looking and i look forward to more content on this from you

[@gonuts4donuts]

I'd like to see online runway spawns removed and have to start from a parking area. Last night just as I was taxiing towards the designated runway I selected for departure from KDEN, I stop at the hold short line and just as I'm about to request clearance, a group of 10 Cessna Citations spawn right in front of me and begin rolling one at a time doing some ridiculous formation flight. Kind of annoying, but it is what it is for the time being.

[@eb13doc]

Really excited to see you get in the sim! Been looking forward to this video

[@cong1281]

Been waiting all day for this!! So excited to watch. Hope your having a great week Jeff.

[@batdude2196]

Flew over Orlando tonight at dusk, found Disney world by VFR. Absolutely stunning scenery and a pure joy to fly in such an environment. Wow!!

[@johnseawind9558]

Nice first look! I suggest Bowman Field (KLOU) in Louisville, KY.. It's a WWII vintage GA field. You could even do a flyover of Churchill Downs.

[@josephhodgins3806]

Been waiting for this video, thank you for your usual informative unbiased content, history has been made with the release of this simulator, we have a long road ahead with plenty of great things to look forward to

[@Kevingamer1998]

The proper runup procedure for a high altitude airport is by setting the throttle full and leaning until peak RPM in a real world scenario. But it looks amazing dude jealous of it

[@GuatemalanGhandi]

You should fly over Antigua, Guatemala!!!! Guatemala is gorgeous when it comes to scenery with volcanoes galore and a capital city that sits up in the mountains at almost 5k above sea level! :D Great videos! Thanks

[@chrisadish]

I agree with you Jeff when you mentioned about close to the ground scenery. People ate ratting about house details, building details etc.. flight sim , for me has always been great from the air. As long as I can see landmarks from a distance eg coming in to Heathrow and you see the city when you come in via rwy 27l or r its perfect for me. Already bought the London landmarks cos I live in the UK 🇬🇧 😀

[@andrewnyberg5726]

Installing now! Havent played Flight Sim since the early 00s. Excited to jump in again!!

[@bhavdaya]

Loving the Fly around with Jeff series you have. Absolutely awesome game, it is great to see how much it evolved. Definitely a series I would enjoy to watch. Love to see Auckland, New Zealand as it is my home town.

[@dtrjones]

Jeff you're on KZbin mate, haha glad you survived the Alpha program - I loved your support! You may have missed the tooltips, it's in General - Accessibility. Safe flying out there.

[@officaljordenwtf9140]

Jeff Please respond or like, me and my dad have been watching you for a while now and you got him into trucking simulator and he plays it everyday thank you for the great content and hope you have a good future!

[@jfavignano]

That’s amazing and thank you!

[@worleyzack]

wow yall really get deep into this game with the realism, I just plugged in my ps4 controller and crashed a boeing 747 into my friends grandmas house.

[@venom_motoring]

Thank you for using the 172 with steam gauges, seems like most videos I have watched have been with the g1000. Looking forward to trying this out once I do purchase it.

[@justinbingham3886]

Really excited to see your series on the training stuff.

[@Matt-mv5tt]

After months of following development as an insider, it’s finally here and I’m so excited. It looks amazing and I can’t wait to get my hands on it when it comes to console. It looks so good

[@briancota4544]

Jeff...thanks for your work and putting a video out already! Cannot wait until I get my sim fired up!

[@N52ND]

As a private pilot, who is finishing up the instrument rating, I can say this sim blows me away with the general aviation aircraft performance (specifically the Cessna 172 and DA40). I've used flight simulators for most of my life. I grew up playing FSX and switched to X-Plane 11 when that was released. But something that EVERY sim up until now has screwed up, whether it was a default 172, or a study level "flies just like the real thing" payware 172 or DA40, is realistic climb performances with high density altitude. I fly out of Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (KBJC), in Denver Colorado, and during the summer, high density altitudes REALLY hurts our climb performance. We get around 200-400 ft/min climb outs in a 160hp 172 with about 7,000-8,000 ft density altitude. We can get a max of about 500ft per minute in 180hp 172 or DA40. And this simulator really matches up to that. Past sims, I would get like 700-1000 ft/min climb outs with an over 8,000 ft density altitude, which was painfully unrealistic.

[@jfavignano]

yeah, I about died when I saw I had full flaps on the sandbar takeoff at 3k LOL. I agree with your words man, this sim has achieved something I only dreamed about before.

[@chanman4rings]

Agreed on the 3rd party devs. Everyone is rushing out and "porting" over or half-assing new items to take advantage of the hype. This sim is spectacular for GA and bush flying right now, but I feel like the quick release is nothing more than a paid beta right now. If you're a heavy metal flyer only accustomed to the realistic systems we have in XP and P3D, may not enjoy the sim right now, until the high quality revs come online in probably early 2021. This sim will really shine once the first updates from Asobo roll out over the next 6 months or so and when 3rd party comes online

[@Matty__Matt]

I legit wanted you to step out of the plane and walk around! I don't know why that urge came to me. I know you can't do it but still! What they've done with this Sim is amazing! 26:28

[@spacep0d]

Awesome video Jeff. Thanks for the comprehensive overview, including your hardware and settings! Awesome flying.

[@DownTheRabbit-Hole]

Thanks for using Analog cockpit as opposed to G1000 (analog is only in deluxe edition BTW). For us RW pilots they are so much easier to see on KZbin as we like to follow along with speeds etc.

[@_pjd]

Been waiting for that video! Thanks Jeff.

[@donochetti2177]

Really miss the joystick force feedback days. God it was good to feel the weight of the aircraft and needing to trim. To bad it never caught on.

[@mr.martintorres5804]

I feel like MSFS2020 isn't officially released until Jeff does a video! Great job on explaining how to get started on this sim. I flew some yesterday & the small GA aircraft really feel great to fly. Great sound too. But I did struggle with the cockpit view. The Crtl + Space Bar key stroke didn't always reset my cockpit view. Also, every time I set a notch of flaps, I have a button setting bind on my Honeycomb, it would put me in the External view and I would have to hit the End key to get back inside the cockpit. If anyone knows what I'm doing wrong please comment. Not having a replay mode, not being able to save a situation or a flight for replay was a major oversight, but it was probably sacrificed for now in order to get the software released. I'm sure it's in the works. Definitely looking forward to seeing a flight training videos from you as your XP 11 series was very entertaining! We need a St. Bart's landing challenge with BIG planes video! Always a great laugh! Love your content Jeff.

[@Kaylin5171]

Hi Jeff. I would absolutely love to see a flight out of Schuylkill County Airport (KZER). The airport is atop the Broad Mountain, and the westward departure pretty much goes right off into the valley below. It's a neat departure. There are loads of options to fly into. Maybe stop by the Tidmore private field near Seltzer before heading off to the old Kutztown airfield (which is in the game despite being closed for 12 years) or head to Allentown Queen City or the big one, LVIA. Or, head north to Bloom or Hazleton Municipal or one of the airports near Wilkes-Barre. Idk. Like you said, the world is our oyster, so-to-speak, and I think any flight out of Schuylkill County Airport would be scenic. (Be sure to buzz Shenandoah on the way wherever you're going :P)

[@a351must2]

What are the odds that Jeff F. flies down the Flathead river on the first day playing MSFS2020... I flew down the Flathead river between the bridge on the gravel road to Hot Springs and Kerr damn in a Savage Cub as my 2nd flight in the game yesterday. Practiced a bunch of offroad landings and low speed flying just off the water.

[@JamesFerminVideos]

Not a big SIM guy, but this, this beautiful. Microsoft did amazing job with it.

[@Asturo]

thank god u uploaded i was trying to watch Tmartin and hes just..go look for urself

[@bradz76]

What do u expect he’s not a serious flight simmer hes just playing it for fun jeez

[@Mykandera]

One note, the analog 172 is part of the Deluxe edition, so isn't quite a default plane. The base game only gets you the 172 with G1000 panels.

[@voltnshock3259]

Yess, been waiting for this vid all day

[@roberttempler4555]

Im from Polson and thought that was great that you started there! great job by the way.

[@jackrmg]

Yes!!! So excited to see you finally playing this. I wish they would’ve given you a copy early but what can you do 🤷🏼‍♂️. Keep up the great work 😊 👍😊

[@hollywood1340]

I drive this road every weekend when I head up to my sailing grounds. This is pretty spot on. Can't wait to finish getting my PC built!

[@awesomeman116a]

YAY!! Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 video!! Please make more videos of this simulator

[@jonx76]

Amazing flying Jeff!

[@kedapofeng8993]

Absolutely amazing sim. Super enjoyable with my solid smooth 10 fps

[@yeh.80]

same