Supersonic flight is now possible but further improvements to add more nuance to the transonic region of flight would be welcome. Some “hacks” using the older FSX flight model still present in the sim allowed for faster travel but with none of the nuance of the modern flight model. Until a recent update, the sim also had no support for aircraft traveling over Mach 0.9. I suspect that Asobo will be working to improve it with the side benefit that the growing number of civil aviation aircraft with HUD features will benefit too. Further development here would be a big benefit. The display isn’t collimated properly and the text is often hard to read. MSFS does have HUD support but it’s not mature. Combat aircraft avionics require custom coding and many developers would benefit from having more built in support. These aircraft face some challenges because the base level support for them really isn’t present. From a cheap Typhoon model (with the avionics of a couple of airliners) to DC Design’s sometimes controversial F-15 to JustFlight’s work in progress Hawk to the T-45 that I reviewed from IndiaFoxtEcho, its clear there are already combat aircraft in the sim and there are many more than the ones that I just listed. Adding the fighter jet archetypeĮven without explicit support for this type of aircraft, Microsoft’s new sim already has a slate of combat jet aircraft emerging in its marketplace. I say with some degree of certainty that this is not the announcement of a return of the Combat Flight Simulator brand. If they do go and do a combat flight simulator title, I’d expect a few years of development to build out the modeling for things like targeting radar, IFF, destroyable objects, ground and naval units, a damage model, SAM and AAA systems and so on. This announcement doesn’t appear to signal a shift that Asobo is changing course or taking their focus away from continuing to develop the rest of the civil aviation aspects of the simulation. It can be done anywhere in the world too and that is apealing. There are compelling non-combat reasons to fly these aircraft including performing carrier landings, navigation, and just experiencing the thrill of going to full afterburner and shooting up through the clouds or zooming low around terrain features. Aerobatics work with Blue Angels skins were commonplace in online arenas and other sims including X-Plane and P3D ship with their own mix of combat aircraft for the same reasons. It’s easy to see the number of and overall interest in combat aircraft in civil aviation sims and that isn’t going away.įSX for many years had a carrier and Hornet combination of its own. I have questioned what the utility of flying a combat aircraft without access to its full range of capabilities, however, a quick look at the market tells me that this is a popular experience. Right out of the gate I expect that Flight Simulator will not be changing its course any time soon and offering a modern combat flight simulation experience. There are aircraft with weapons hung on pylons but those are sold through other stores. Not everyone knows this but the MSFS marketplace doesn’t allow weapons on the aircraft sold there. This is (probably) not Combat Flight Simulator There have been a lot of opinions around the community on just what this is and isn’t and I thought I’d offer my own thoughts as well. Free! That’s a really cool promotion and one that all MSFS pilots will be able to take advantage of. We learned yesterday that Microsoft and Paramount are going to be doing a little cross promotion that involves Top Gun Maverick and Microsoft Flight Simulator which will bring us an F/A-18E Super Hornet to the sim.
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