[Klazu]

The highly anticipated Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 has now been out for a month and I have been really enjoying flying above our beautiful city.

Taking off from YVR is always a treat.



Heading toward Downtown.





Downtown looks always awesome from the air.





Beautiful Stanley Park.



North Shore Mountains looks fantastic and backmountains are exciting to explore.



I guess the Coal Harbour airport cannot facilitate A320 landing.



Downtown looks great in the game but the map data used is around 5 years old, meaning there are many buildings missing.





Unfortunately only the Vancouver proper is modeled using photogrammetry data. Areas more to the east such as Burnaby and Metrotown are created by the AI algorithm which doesn't yield quite as good or correct results. It still looks fine from high above.





The game engine doesn't even support DX12 or ray tracing, yet, but dusk and dawn look absolutely amazing.











Game's weather engine can generate some really realistic clouds and real-world weather makes flying exciting.





Above nighttime Shaughnessy.