Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 First Thoughts!

The new Microsoft Flight Simulator is finally here! The latest entry in the long-running series and original PC killer app serves up ultra-realistic scenery based on Bing Maps data, along with every airport in the world and a slew of default aircraft. I'm planning a full review of this sim, but for now join me for a quick play-through so you can see some of the game's glory and a few of its relatively minor shortcomings. (Since I know I'll get comments on this, when I use the word "quick" here and in the video, I mean for me. A day to film, edit and publish is pretty quick by my standards!) In case you're wondering, my system is a Ryzen 7 3700X with an RTX 2060, 16GB of RAM and I'm running the sim off a Sabrent Rocket NVMe SSD. I have all the flight model options set to realistic/hard, and all the data streaming turned on; I know I didn't show those sections of the options. Watch for the full review in a couple of weeks! btw, after watching my footage back I became a little concerned that someone's going to consider what I'm doing in this game to be suitable for actual flying. Please realize that this is a game and I was playing it as such - do not mistake anything I say or do in this video as having more than a passing similarity to how anyone flies in the real world (especially me!).