MSFS 2020 versus reality

I tried to replicate the right pattern at my homebase (EDLZ) with the game.
The cockpit perspective (I recorded on flatscreen) is unfortunately different, but that would be significantly better within VR (pimax 8kx).
Speed and sink rate fits quite well, but the power settings are completely wrong in the game (especially with flaps).
The scenery from 2000ft looks really good in the game, but on final or on ground it's far away from the real world (buildings, gras, trees, etc.)
Maybe microsoft will integrate an lawn mover in the future.. 😂
The day was a bit "bumpy", the GoPro tried to compensate that.
The "reality" plane is a Robin HR-200, the plane in the Sim is the standard DR-400/140.
So here is my first "game vs. real" clip... 😎

[@Dreamerpic]

Great comparison! And of course great flight!

[@fauxflights77]

I’d be curious to see how much movement you get with the A2A accusim performance. It seems to me it adds a lot of that secondary motion.

[@mudbrayFC]

A static GoPro would help

[@BO-dc4xg]

Cool video! Thank you for sharing :)

[@bluemarshall6180]

Forget it

[@SuperJim44]

Much more movement in reality. FS20 ‘on rails’ flight model

[@gregabott5583]

One is a fixed camera the other a compensating go pro, so obviously you can see more movement in one. That can be resolved by something like fsrealistic which allows the camera position to move

[@IlPinnacolo]

Reality has a lousy frame rate, look at the prop

[@gelbevierzehn]

30fps Gopro has lousy framerate... 🤣

[@bladi-senpai9398]

Real life needs a graphic update and mfs2020 a new flight model

[@IlPinnacolo]

@@bladi-senpai9398 to be fair I think the movement you see has more to do with how the camera is mounted or held. I'm a private pilot that flies C172s irl. The flight model is actually decent in MSFS 2020 imo. I fly it in VR, great training tool! The rudder authority and weathervaning tendencies are off. You notice it most on takeoff. That's my biggest complaint. The game is actually harder than real life.

[@bladi-senpai9398]

@@IlPinnacolo im also fly the C172S irl, the default planes don’t behave good, but there’s a c172 in the sim that’s pretty accurate to real life, my biggest problems with fs2020 are planes feel so floating on landing, stopping distance is like a stol aircraft even without breaking , obviously weather, i love mfs but would love even more have the xplane physics in mfs

[@IlPinnacolo]

@@bladi-senpai9398 haha I noticed the stopping distance thing too. You can land with the brakes held down and stop on a dime. For me the physics are close enough to get good training. The plane I fly irl is a 172i. I put S to make 172 plural. The plane I fly also has the o-360 stc and some "stol" mods. So the 172 in the game is different enough that I chalk up the performance differences to different models. The plane in the game is absolutely gutless compared to the one I fly IRL which is kind of funny. You would expect a video game plane to feel like a rocketship and the real plane to feel sluggish. Total opposite in my experience. Worse glide in game too. When I go from simming a lot to the real plane the real plane really feels like the game on easy mode. Do you have that same sensation?