How Did Microsoft Make Flight Simulator Seem So Real?

• Openstreetmap

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  The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap

  

  One thing that was not mentioned in article (searched for "OSM" and "OpenStreetMap"): building data and maybe also some other info is from OpenStreetMap.

  BTW, OpenStreetMap data is available for anyone as long they credit it (there are some additional rules about merging it with other databases) - see https://www.openstreetmap.org/ for place where you may see just part of dataset and contribute.

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• littlenavmap

  48 1,317 5.9 C++

  Little Navmap is a free flight planner, navigation tool, moving map, airport search and airport information system for Flight Simulator X, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Prepar3D and X-Plane.

  MSFS2020 is the most fun I’ve had with software in a very long time, even with the bugs. It is basically Google Earth with a built-in flight and weather simulator. Bravo, Asobo Studios!

  I finished a 20-hour flight from Perth to Sydney in a C172 yesterday as part of a race to benefit Australia’s Royal Flying Doctor Service (https://www.flyingdoctor.org.au/) and it was a blast: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/976237681

  The main thing I miss is a physical damage model for the airplanes.

  My favorite MSFS utility is Little Navmap: https://albar965.github.io/littlenavmap.html

  My favorite MSFS mod is Neofly: https://www.neofly.net/

• aircraft

  140 5,156 9.8 TypeScript

  The A32NX & A380X Project are community driven open source projects to create free Airbus aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator that are as close to reality as possible.

  

  > It would be amazing if they could turn Flight Simulator into a "game engine", so that other developers can build specific scenarios/games on top of it!

  That's already the case. There's a huge ecosystem of hand-crafted airports, airplanes that are true to every little switch, etc.

  Microsoft's flight simulators are an open platform like Windows and are meant to be extended. Hundreds of products have been already released for the new Flight Simulator, and there's a thriving freeware scene[1][2]. You can of course only use Calc and Paint, but then you'd be missing out.

  [1] https://github.com/flybywiresim/a32nx

  [2] https://flightsim.to/

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