Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Tech Alpha! | Real Pilot Discusses Career Mode

[@Gulf76]

Another great video! I always enjoy your real life pilot perspective and how it translates to MSFS. And I am really LF to your new Moza FF insight!

[@Belatu42]

Thanks! So many great products for flight sim!

[@casstephens3124]

Glad someone else out there is familiar with KARB. I almost started training there but ended with 1D2.

[@Belatu42]

The shop my school uses for maintenance is at Mettetal/Canton! I had to special VFR in once just ducking out of a storm dropping an R22 off for work shortly after I got my license…

[@JDVVV378]

Its good that you mentioned this in the begin of the video 👌 subsbribed

[@Belatu42]

@@JDVVV378 thanks for the sub !

[@CosmicComet547]

It would be cool if creators would be able to make their own missions so we could really get realistic ppl flight lessons that go deep in to detail.

[@Belatu42]

@@CosmicComet547 I have a feeling it will be opened up to creators to make missions :)

[@skyhawk263]

After watching a ppl and commercial check ride msfs 2024 videos, I must say I'm a bit disappointed with the simplistic approach. It looks like all you do is take off and land at a airport, with no kind of maneuvers. While I'm not expecting a full checkride ( most ppl I don't think would have the patience for it) I thought they might add a steep turn or do a stall or two for the private, and a couple of maneuvers from the commercial ride. I must say that I'm really looking forward to actually being able to do a pre-flight!

[@mammid9622]

How do you know that is the case though, we’ve only seen snippets

[@Belatu42]

The pre-flight walk around feature is very cool. We’ll have to see what they have built into the persistence system

[@skyhawk263]

@@mammid9622 I don't know, only going on what I've seen in the previews. I realize that this a really stripped down version, so hopefully I'm wrong. I think it would be cool to be able do slow flight, stalls, steep turns, etc. Then have a chance to blow the ride if you would miss a clearing turn.

[@Belatu42]

Hopefully it will meet everyone’s expectations, but it probably won’t. The 3rd party community will work on it ;)

[@mammid9622]

@skyhawk263 it's not about stripped down or not, it's about the content creates only ever playing the first couple missions/lessons. How do you know we won't see any more maneuvers the more advanced the lessons get

[@baomao7243]

I must confess that I’m not exactly relishing the ideas of re-studying the FAR/AIM or taking a virtual checkride…

[@Belatu42]

Yeah, I agree. You can tell that they are already re-thinking the decision to keep activities only in the career mode based on the public reaction. We need to be able to set up our own activities in Free Flight as well, but the career mode looks well thought out.

[@baomao7243]

@@Belatu42 I love flying and am motivated to dedicate time to staying current incl. flight rules. However, I am pretty sure that the “average” MSFS user does not feel the same level of dedication to realism, esp. if it involves spending real money to acquire peripherals, sub. to Navigraph/ForeFlight, etc. So I believe a “license bypass” mode will be ESSENTIAL for enduring commercial success.

[@gstrdms]

It's so short that you'll spend more time on the ground than in the air. In the alpha, you could reach level 10-15 with PPL and CPL within 30 mins of flying. The barrier to entry is negligible and basically works as a kind of tutorial. I'm hoping for the more in-depth approach of mods like FS Academy and Neofly in the later stages of the game.

[@Belatu42]

@@baomao7243 agreed. All of the tools needed, included abbreviated info for the criteria needed to pass are all included. You don’t need anything additional though. The new tablet is pretty cool. There are other videos out there showing it’s functionality

[@Andromedon777]

I have my comm multi check ride tomorrow...so yeah, not relishing that either

[@jameslee-pevenhull5087]

"Not at all representative of the final product." Microsoft would launch a car with no wheels and say the same.

[@Belatu42]

@@jameslee-pevenhull5087 maybe… But I’ve been impressed with what they have done with MSFS2020. It’s come a long way since release. If they support the new sim the same, I’ll be happy

[@Verbal_DEU]

No shared cockpit? No career mode with heli possoble?

[@Belatu42]

We don’t know. It releases Nov. 19. There definitely is a heli path in career mode. Shared cockpit will probably not be available on launch, but it’s not in any other sim so that’s not a deterrent.

[@burn3rphon3]

So we can't start off the career mode with the choice of either a fixed wing or rotary wing of choice? That's disappointing if that's how they intend to release it. I also saw that they aren't shipping it with native shared cockpit functionality. It's still on their "to-do" list dating back to the 2020 version. That's a big seller for me, personally as I prefer to share the experience in the same aircraft as my friends. I'm aware of the 3rd party software that does it but it's unreliable and doesn't cover every new or present 3rdparty aircraft. I'll stick to DCS World for now, with a dedicated rotary community.

[@Belatu42]

@@burn3rphon3 we still don’t know how it’s going to ship and none of the sims I have, DCS & XP12 included, have shared cockpit. I don’t prescribe to the negative position before something has even been released

[@burn3rphon3]

@@Belatu42 I haven't played XP since 11 so I can't speak on that one. DCS, however, has had multi-crew (shared cockpit) for pilot/co-pilot interactivity for a long time now. I have the UH-1H, OH-58, AH-64, and the CH-47. All of them I have flown with a co-pilot (another player), except for the CH-47 because it's the newest early access release and will get multi-crew functionality later. I do agree with the latter end of your statement. For myself and others who are looking for certain features or changes, let's wait and see on release. I'm personally not going to preorder it, I'll read up on it and peep the reviews before I make a decision.

[@burn3rphon3]

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[@Belatu42]

@@burn3rphon3 that’s great! I was unaware that DCS had functioning shared cockpit with aircraft control handoff. I knew about shared gunners… To each their own. I love to have all 3, I know I’m spoiled, but I use them all for different reasons

[@jameslee-pevenhull5087]

You should have tuned to 121.600 to request Ground for your taxi. They will instruct you to the runway, hold and contact Tower on 120.300. Why is KARB Silent? This is because the game is crap. I too fly at a field with an active Tower, which is silent in this game.

[@Belatu42]

@@jameslee-pevenhull5087 yeah, I had to make calls like it was an uncontrolled field, but it’s an alpha so I’m not worried about those details yet. Besides, I use SayIntentions.AI for a way more realistic ATC experience

[@Scott-f7q6r]

It gave you a PPL after that awful approach? Jeeze 😂

[@Belatu42]

@@Scott-f7q6r ha! Truth…

[@HDEFMAN1]

I was expecting the career mode to be some really simplistic, dumbed down version of things but this looks really encouraging.

[@casstephens3124]

@HDEFMAN1 encouraging yes. But so much was removed from this alpha for this server test it was kind of discouraging lol. There was just enough activated to test traffic,weather, and loads on their end. Which is fine. But it was amazing what they accomplished in this simulator. There are lessons available, but gone for this test. What is nice is being able to tell the wind direction from trees now. I'm sure all the alpha testers were a little disappointed it was only for a weekend as there is just so much to go through in the SIM.

[@Belatu42]

@@HDEFMAN1 it was really stripped down, but very promising

[@Belatu42]

@@casstephens3124 yeah, more time to dig into it would be great! Release day is less than a month away!

[@HDEFMAN1]

@@casstephens3124 That did not even occur to me. Wind direction from trees. Of course. If you had asked me a few months ago, I would have said how much more can they improve MSFS 2020, it already looks and feels great to be able to have this level of flight simulation, but now I am just starting to realise how much the developers have achieved with is new iteration of the sim. Majorly impressed.

[@Belatu42]

Yep. It would be great to rely on some of the real world cues for helicopter flying. Like trees, grass and waves for wind direction. Hopefully all of the wind socks and flags are moving correctly in the new sim