Wow …amazing pics !
All you guys posting pictures and enjoying the game while I’m just sitting here away from my Series X for another 10 days. 
I use the Thrustmaster Hotas flightstick for Xbox (was 99€ or something). Its get the job done and works and feels way better than the controller for sure but the plastic build quality is not spectacular and the throttle coud be more stiff. Getting A scores on all challenges will still be not easy 
I have already linked some articles about peripherals in the FAQ in the first post if you want to read more about the other more expensive options.
I just had a new update for the game and now for some reason it isn’t 60fps anymore but VRR on Xbox IS enabled.
Anyone else noticing this as well? Yesterday when I was flying around Bora Bora it was smooth as hell, feels locked to 30fps now.
I started an 8-hours flight yesterday (from Asobo HQ to Microsoft HQ).
Two hours in I went to sleep and left the game on Quick Resume. Played a bit more today when I woke up, then left the game on Quick Resume again since I had to leave the house.
I came back, turned my Xbox on and the game was updating. I lost my progress 
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Might be worth reporting on the Flight Sim forums.
I’m fully immersed with it damn hope they add some missions. I want also the heli ASAP.
Finally started to get a handle on the mechanics and did my first completed flight from the West Coast of Scotland to the Isle of Man, although the landing could still use some work lol.
It is super relaxing and satisfying when you start to figure out what all the buttons are for 
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FYI
Flight Sims UI is a Web Browser
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Loads of fun facts in that interview. For instance, Direct Storage API and Hardware decompression is used in Xbox Series consoles to stream data from airports among other things.
And of course, there’s the web browser used in cockpit! 
Sounds like there’s more potential to increase performance on consoles (?). Right now, Mesh shaders and other features of DX12 aren’t fully used. Either way its a great port and a great interview.
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After completing most tutorials (some of them I can’t get an A at, let alone complete ), I will know start my first flight on my own, from Lisbon to Porto going through the beautiful Atlantic coast of my country Portugal on a Cessna 152 
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Autopilot could use some work. The AI crashed my plane on a hill when I was only 400km away from my destination in a 9000km flight. Lost 13 hours of progress
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The auto-pilot is awful and always puts my plane into weird steep angles, I hate it! I’m afraid to even bring the cursor because I know the auto-pilot will screw up my current heading, attitude and vertical speed 
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I see that there some people in community that are really not happy with latest Sim Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator on PC. They say many things are now much worse. Only performance side is better. That’s the summary from Polish website, so it shouldn’t be problematic to translate.
There’s even a petition to make PC and Xbox versions separate. They also want back to previous version of the game.
Completely off-topic, but it’s incredible how far translation tools have come. This polish website translated to Brazilian Portuguese reads much better than many Brazilian websites out there lol
Staying on topic, I’ve noticed that many third-party DLCs are available only on the PC marketplace, so it seems it already is a different game. It is also listed differently on the Microsoft Store when compared to other Play Anywhere titles
Meh, maybe there is something legit this time, but the Flight Sim community is very hardcore. Almost every big update makes certain people unhappy, but especially at first because any big update causes things to break because of how massive the sim is. And sometimes they can’t catch everything because of that as well. I have a feeling in this case it might be worse because they probably weren’t able to get through all the known issues since they needed the update to make the console release.
As a recap we have so far:
World Updates
Out now:
- World Update 1: Japan (September 9, 2020)
- World Update 2: United States (November 24, 2020)
- World Update 3: United Kingdom & Ireland (February 16, 2021)
- World Update 4: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg & France (April 13, 2021)
- World Update 5: Nordics (June 17, 2021)
Confirmed:
- World Update 6: Germany, Austria & Switzerland (August 24, 2021)
Future plans:
Jorg Neumann confirmed during E3 there is one more World Update coming this year (besides the August one), and another six updates scheduled for 2022. If we use the last World Updates as a parameter, we will probably have World Update 7 by the end of October / beginning of November. It could be released alongside the Top Gun expansion or maybe a couple of weeks earlier.
Handcrafted Airports
** Airports in red will be released via World Update VI in August. There is at least one more German airport in the works for the update.
| ICAO | Airport name | Country | Edition / Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| YSSY | Sydney Airport | Australia | Standard |
| LOWI | Innsbruck Airport | Austria | Standard |
| LOWK | Klagenfurt Airport | Austria | World Update 6 |
| VQPR | Paro International Airport | Bhutan | Standard |
| SBGL | Rio de Janeiro-Antonio Carlos Jobim/Galeao Int’l Airport | Brazil | Standard |
| CZST | Stewart Airport | Canada | Standard |
| CYTZ | Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport | Canada | Standard |
| MRSN | Sirena Aerodrome | Costa Rica | Standard |
| EKRN | Bornholm Airport | Denmark | World Update 5 |
| TNCS | Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport | Dutch Saba | Standard |
| SEQM | Mariscal Sucre International Airport | Ecuador | Standard |
| HECA | Cairo International Airport | Egypt | Deluxe |
| EFVA | Vaasa Airport | Finland | World Update 5 |
| LFLJ | Courchevel Altiport | France | Standard |
| LFPG | Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport | France | Standard |
| LFHM | Megève Airport | France | World Update 4 |
| LFMN | Nice Côte d’Azur Airport | France | World Update 4 |
| EDDF | Frankfurt Airport | Germany | Premium |
| EDHL | Lübeck Airport | Germany | World Update 6 |
| LXGB | Gibraltar International Airport | Gibraltar | Standard |
| MHTG | Toncontin International Airport | Honduras | Standard |
| BIIS | Ísafjörður Airport | Iceland | World Update 5 |
| WX53 | Bugalaga Airstrip (CAMA) | Indonesia | Standard |
| EIDL | Donegal Airport | Ireland | Standard |
| RJTT | Haneda Airport | Japan | Standard |
| RJTH | Hachijojima Airport | Japan | World Update 1 |
| ROKR | Kerama Airport | Japan | World Update 1 |
| RJCK | Kushiro Airport | Japan | World Update 1 |
| RJFU | Nagasaki Airport | Japan | World Update 1 |
| RORS | Shimojishima Airport | Japan | World Update 1 |
| RJX8 | Suwanosejima Airport | Japan | World Update 1 |
| VNLK | Tenzing-Hillary Airport | Nepal | Standard |
| EHAM | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | Netherlands | Deluxe |
| EHRD | Rotterdam The Hague Airport | Netherlands | World Update 4 |
| NZQN | Queenstown Airport | New Zealand | Standard |
| ENSB | Svalbard Airport | Norway | World Update 5 |
| SPGL | Chagual Airport | Peru | Standard |
| LPMA | Cristiano Ronaldo Madeira International Airport | Portugal | Standard |
| TFFJ | Gustaf III Airport | Saint Barthélemy | Standard |
| FACT | Cape Town International Airport | South Africa | Deluxe |
| LEMD | Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport | Spain | Deluxe |
| ESSA | Stockholm Arlanda Airport | Sweden | World Update 5 |
| LSZR | St. Gallen–Altenrhein Airport | Switzerland | World Update 6 |
| HUEN | Entebbe International Airport | Uganda | Standard |
| OMDB | Dubai International Airport | United Arab Emirates | Premium |
| EGLL | Heathrow Airport | United Kingdom | Premium |
| EGPR | Barra Airport | United Kingdom | World Update 3 |
| EGGP | Liverpool John Lennon Airport | United Kingdom | World Update 3 |
| EGHC | Land’s End Airport | United Kingdom | World Update 3 |
| EGCB | Manchester-Barton City Airport | United Kingdom | World Update 3 |
| EG78 | Out Skerries Airport | United Kingdom | World Update 3 |
| KASE | Aspen/Pitkin County Airport | USA | Standard |
| KLAX | Los Angeles International Airport | USA | Standard |
| KEB | Nanwalek Airport | USA | Standard |
| KJFK | John F. Kennedy International Airport | USA | Standard |
| KMCO | Orlando International Airport | USA | Standard |
| KSEA | Seattle-Tacoma International Airport | USA | Standard |
| KSEZ | Sedona Airport | USA | Standard |
| KTEX | Telluride Regional Airport | USA | Standard |
| KORD | O’Hare International Airport | USA | Deluxe |
| KDEN | Denver International Airport | USA | Premium |
| KSFO | San Francisco International Airport | USA | Premium |
| KATL | Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport | USA | World Update 2 |
| KDFW | Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport | USA | World Update 2 |
| KFHR | Friday Harbor Airport | USA | World Update 2 |
| KSWF | New York Stewart International Airport | USA | World Update 2 |
Excluding Chinese and Russian airports (which can be a pain), the game has the majority of 2020’s busiest airports handcrafted (although many of them are locked behind a Deluxe/Premium paywall).
The most notable absences are Indira Gandhi International Airport (India), Istanbul Airport (Turkey), Mexico City International Airport (Mexico), Jeju International Airport (South Korea), São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport (Brazil).
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One of these World Updates for 2022 will be for Italy.