Real Life or Flight Simulator? | Boeing 737-800 Landing Comparison at KPHX

[@m_swizzy22]

Most of the roads and stuff in MSFS are actually in relatively accurate places, that’s quite epic, but I realized it myself the other day when I was flying into Wrocław in Poland, I fly that a lot during a year(family visits and stuff) and I was flying in at night the other day and I was able to literally pick out certain buildings and be like, ohh yeah that’s that and that… and I really enjoy the visual experience in MSFS and I’m on medium settings.

[@gregson99]

the biggest thing i see is sometimes the colors are really crappy looking and consistency between texture areas sometimes is pretty bad.

[@robertcampbell1540]

You folks nit picking about little stuff is ridiculous, that was absolutely Amazing. I have been simming for over twenty five years ,and I remember when it was just a blank screen with just a simple drawn plane. I have watched it grow from nothing to absolutely amazing things. Sir, that was to me as real as it gets, short of flying for real. Which I will never do. I could care less about traffic or the color being off. As far as im concerned I was floored as to where flight simming has gone. I have kepted up with it and I have been simming for years. You folks at MSFS, X PLANE and all the other third party developers have given me what I will never do in real life, and that is flying in the clouds. I thank you, and I thank you sir. RobertC

[@samitechcookie9758]

Very realistic indeed! Thanks for the amazing footage, Chewwy! :D

[@the2belo]

Everything is so spot on until maybe the last 100 feet when the height map issues reveal themselves, but it certainly doesn't take anything away from the experience. The only thing that kind of broke the immersion was the runways looking like they came out of Flight Simulator 2004.

[@UPBlow14]

Agreed! I have a runway texture addon that actually adds the wear and tear of the runway and also updates it, but it’s cool to see the IRL & Sim be pretty spot on

[@simulacrae]

That's why you buy add on airports. Very rarely should you use anything default in flight sims.

[@felipeturbayr]

Ridiculously similar! Wow, I an impressed how good it looks

[@mrpotet72]

ok this was pretty awsome!!! keep doing the great work and i look forward to your next stream!!!

[@Dokatrall]

Wow😮 that a level of realism is incredible and State of the art

[@kevc6666]

*literally perfect landing* "I think you can do better than that"

[@lululenox]

FO in SLC is always like that lol

[@lucasd3658]

Flabbergasting! Great video Chewwy🐐

[@_sierra_kilo]

The cameraman on the sim during touchdown was lot sturdier than you. That's all I can say

[@davidfrank5227]

If you're using the default Bing based imagery I'm sure it works. But there's also the maps mod you can use that can download imagery for an updated Bing or even Google maps. Using those would give you probably an even more accurate comparison.

[@alimsh2680]

great video. I would increase your vehicle traffic up a bit more so there are more cars on the highways, it was too less compared to the actual real footage

[@ThomasAngelos]

I often wonder how often Microsoft flight simulator will update the world map I don't think it's so much the colors I think it's pretty much that terrain changes over time and what season it is

[@philipg6463]

apart from the obvious with seasons colours that was pretty darn close..and you did a much smoother landing then that real pilot :)

[@caribbaviator7058]

Someone needs to a proper rendition of KPHX. Waiting on FlightBeam!

[@bradymatlock]

Honestly!

[@CJbrinkman602]

pllleeeaaasssee

[@jman-oz6rr]

AWESOME VIDEO!! Settings?

[@davidh7280]

Landing illustrates perfectly what's wrong with MSFS. Runways are cartoon clean, no rubber tyre marks or imperfections!

[@pranavranganath7192]

I hope they add these features! It's something I felt was missing as well. However, MSFS is absolutely gorgeous in so many other ways.

[@davidh7280]

@@pranavranganath7192 agree but the lack of runway marks is unrealistic. P3,d did an add on that coated all runways with marks. I think aerosoft did it? Much needed!

[@kennykanada]

Zinertek Enhanced Airport Graphics! Available in Marketplace and SimMarket for years 👍

[@strangegoat7382]

Your game is amazingly smooth with the graphics you're running do you use and fps mods or tricks to help?

[@804titan]

man I really want to do this.. does it have an ATC component

[@LeDerpLegend]

Sad to see KPHX getting hardly any love in MSFS2020. No payware announced, freeware fixes some things but still feels lacking, nothing added for WU10, despite it being one of the largest hubs.

[@Chewwy94]

Flightbeam announced all the way back in May of this year that they’re making KPHX for MSFS. www.flightbeam.net/post/what-s-next-for-flightbeam-1

[@incarnateTheGreat]

I can't tell which one is whiiiiich!

[@brunogt1982]

Very similar 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

[@g_pazzini]

how is it compared to XPlane 12? 😂😂😂 *sarcasm*

[@FreightFox]

It's was fairly real until MSFS came then it became a kids Xbox game

[@CJbrinkman602]

As someone who lives in Phoenix and works at Sky Harbor Airport, i can say that the area around the airport is beautiful. the airport does not look anything like real life. I cringe everytime i do a flight out of it in sim. they use the same crappy sterile modern terminal building texture for everything. FSX's texture looked better.

[@Owlventure_Aviation]

I dislike the msfs scenery because bing maps rarely updates the maps of countries outside of the US or EU

[@Sim737Pilot]

That runway💩 Is that FSX? Looks like it was colored using MS Paint. Guess its ok for Xbox flying.

[@Chewwy94]

It’s a freeware scenery dude, calm down

[@nathanielcosta81]

@@Chewwy94 What's that freeware scenery? Could you please give the link?

[@RN_SX]

You can clearly see which one is a sim and which one is real life with how crappy the engine animations look on the pmdg 😂 now if it was zibo animations then it be hard to to say but just from the start of the video i instantly new which 1 was a sim. Either way great video dude gotta say tho other than the horrible animations the actual sim and smoothness is amazing and that part gets really really close to real life and i love this type's of videos tho really nice to see how far flight sims has come over the years

[@samisthebest6138]

Wow on a video between a flight sim and real life Im soooooooo suprised you can tell which one is which. Get over urself.