<story><title>Microsoft Flight Simulator – E3 2019 – Announce Trailer</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReDDgFfWlS4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>That looks &lt;i&gt;incredible&lt;/i&gt;, and makes me upset I&amp;#x27;m not a pilot and don&amp;#x27;t have the time to learn!&lt;p&gt;Genuine question: is there any way to explore the world with visualizations as beautiful as those, but without the plane mechanics?&lt;p&gt;I have so much fun with Google Earth, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t have anything like the level of &amp;quot;realism&amp;quot; shown here -- the water, the clouds, the sunset, the shadows. While a game like GTA V can be gorgeous visually and you can fly a helicopter in it intuitively... but it&amp;#x27;s not a real place.&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to enjoy that realism without learning to fly a plane realistically?</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft Flight Simulator – E3 2019 – Announce Trailer</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReDDgFfWlS4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lwansbrough</author><text>Absolutely stunning scenery. I’ll speculate that they’ll offer some sort of subscription service which allows you to stream high quality textures beyond what the standard install provides. It would also be incredible to see AI powered ATC. Something that is a little more adaptive and real would be amazing. For instance I’d love to be able to declare an emergency and have the ATC actually understand that. ATC seems very plausible for AI as there’s a somewhat limited set of instructions that need to be understood, and basically anything beyond that would be icing on the cake compared to what’s available in FSX&amp;#x2F;X-Plane (aside from the real ATC plugins.)</text></comment>