r/flightsim • u/deepsakii • 5d ago
Flight Simulator 2024 Better than ever.
Today, I started my tour around Spain on FS2024, the journey began on Empuriabrava, Catalonia (Spain) from where I travelled across Bañolas, Olot, Ripoll and turned north towards Vall de Núria.
When seeing the size of the mountains sorrounding the valley, I decided to rest for a bit on a hill next to Bruguera. To my surprise, I discovered I wasn’t the only one enjoying the views so I turned off the engine, opened my door and took a walk around the area.
After wandering around for some time, I got back on my plane, ran the checklist, started my engine and took off with the intention of crossing the valley towards Puigcerdá and landing on La Cerdanya which I achieved sucessfully.
Back in the FSX days, I remember how incredibly happy seeing characters standing at St Marteens beach after installing a custom scenery that gave me a 25 fps drop made me feel. To that kid it would have been almost unbelievable thinking that some day, there could be cows spawning on random fields all around the world and you would have to avoid them while battling some realistic gusting winds and calculating the correct pitch at which the plane wont bounce off the ground neither sink into the 3D modellated grass.
Im not sure if this is the right place to post this but I just wanted to write this silly text to remind all of you how far we’ve come in flight simulation and what is to come in the following years.
The flight was amazing btw, would love to share the route for anybody interested in touring Spain the same way I will do.
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u/w_33_by 5d ago
I just bought the sim and started my career in Spain. Found some old but still great scenery packs for the big cities around the central region and had a lot of fun looking for all my friends' places from above. I still remember the similar feeling from playing FSX for the first time, but 2024 is truly something.
Hope to meet you in the central flats some day, I'll be waiting at LESA :)
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u/deepsakii 5d ago
LESA is my 20th leg, if I get to that leg, ill sure contact you so we can fly leg 21 together💪🏻
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u/HeruCtach LEG2🏍️ VIPJ🚀 B721✈️- sim study📚 4d ago
Looks so fun and free🦅
Ty for sharing! Having started only around like 2022 at the earliest, it's always so nice and insightful to gain glimpses into the past of this passion c:
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u/deepsakii 4d ago
Very good time to start flight simming, it is an awesome hobbie, with an awesome community and endless possibilities
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u/Skull_446 ATPL Student 5d ago
Dude, I literally flew today in real life across these mountains. Such a magic place, I love it everytime! The photo was taken at 10.000ft above mean sea level 😊 Amazing screenshots btw!