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I\u2019m not a pilot. I\u2019ve played flight sims periodically over the years, but it\u2019s a genre that I\u2019ve never fully latched onto. I loved flying under the Golden Gate Bridge in F\/A-18 Interceptor back in my Amiga days, but my interest probably peaked right around Pilotwings 64. When Microsoft announced Flight Simulator 2020 at last year\u2019s E3, I thought to myself that maybe this could be the one. And I was elated that it was coming to Game Pass on PC \u2013 I could check it out without plunking down any additional money. Perfect! And then I played it.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t begrudge anyone who has been having a great time with Flight Simulator; I\u2019m actually closer to being jealous. I\u2019ve tried to get into it, and finally came to the realization that it\u2019s simply not for me. I\u2019ve had fun watching YouTubers playing, whether they\u2019re hardcore simmers or actual pilots<\/a> comparing the simulator to their real-life experience. It\u2019s interesting stuff. I just find those videos way more engaging than the act of actually trying to fly these virtual planes.<\/p>\n Seriously, FS2020 looks incredible.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n For me, the appeal of Flight Simulator is seeing places I\u2019m familiar with represented on the screen. I know it\u2019s kind of a dumb-guy way to look at it, but I am what I am. I took off from Minneapolis International and flew over the city, with the idea of eventually flying over to Duluth. The game\u2019s world is built using elevation and satellite data, which is then ran through an A.I. Up high, it looks pretty great. Closer to the ground, things kind of fall apart. Cars drive around in places they shouldn\u2019t be driving (such as rivers). And buildings have a smeared look to them. I tried to see my house, but as it turns out by the time I got close to it I\u2019d already blown past it. Oh well. I guess I see it every day in real life, anyway.<\/p>\n I stuffed a parking meter in Canal Park for this?!<\/p>\n<\/article>\n After spending about 40 minutes wobbling around in a mostly straight line (accompanied by lots of beeps and pop-up notifications about landing gear), I saw Lake Superior on the horizon. This was my chance to buzz the Aerial Lift Bridge, which, if you aren\u2019t from the Midwest, is a cool bridge<\/a>. Unfortunately, Flight Simulator 2020\u2019s rendition of this landmark is a little lacking. If we\u2019re being completely honest here, I think scrolling around Google Earth is probably a better way to get what I want from this thing.<\/p>\n I know that I\u2019ll never find the act of flying these planes interesting \u2013 even after dumbing down the flight models and adding all the assists \u2013 but I have found a way to justify the 100 GB+ download. I\u2019ve been entering flight plans and then having the A.I. pilot take over. After turning off all the U.I., I can then get a startlingly close approximation of what those flights actually look like \u2013 at altitudes where the weird traffic and buildings aren\u2019t completely jarring. And then I just have it run on in the background.\u00a0<\/p>\n I\u2019ll be the first person to admit that this is a Very Dumb Thing. But, at the same time, I find it extremely relaxing to glance over at the screen and see a virtual flight in progress. I haven\u2019t been able to travel in real life for a long time, so maybe this is the next best thing? Or maybe self-isolation is just driving me completely insane. Either way, it\u2019s why I haven\u2019t uninstalled it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n \t I\u2019m about halfway through my flight from Minneapolis to San Francisco, a trip I\u2019ve taken countless times over the y…<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Flight Simulator 2020 Is My New Favorite Screen Saver - ITTeacherITFreelance.hk","description":"I\u2019m about halfway through my flight from Minneapolis to San Francisco, a trip I\u2019ve taken countless times over the y..."},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78630,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64248\/revisions\/78630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/prod-media.gameinformer.com\/styles\/body_default\/s3\/2020\/08\/28\/d0a61d31\/beautiful.jpg\")
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