While we were all sleeping comfortably in our beds, or maybe lying awake staring at the ceiling, Rami Ismail was out testing Asobo Studio’sMicrosoft Flight SimulatorÂwhile onboard an actual flight. The results of this fun experiment are surprisingly impressive!As we already know,ÂMicrosoft Flight SimulatorÂlaunched earlier this year and allows players to fly across the entire planet in a variety of different planes. The game uses real-world map data and weather to provide players with an almost true-to-life experience. It’s also seen videos surface online of players replicating real-life flight paths and comparing the two in terms of realism, but there’s something wacky about controlling a video game plane whilst being physically on board the very same thing.
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Rami uploaded a video later in the thread of the takeoff due to issues with uploading. The video shows the planes taking off at similar heights of which Rami states that he enabled the AI to control the plane for him the moment he felt the real plane accelerating.
Apparently during takeoff though, the in-game planeturned the other way to get onto the same course, but “beyond that it’s pretty much the same. Clouds entry was seconds apart, climbing out of them was maybe 30-ish seconds difference.” He notedat one pointthat the planes both entered the “oceanic track at pretty similar entry points,” the main difference being that the in-game flight seemed to be 5-minutes ahead of reality.
Rami shared more details, noting that the real plane at the time of tweeting was 02:25 hours out from Amsterdam, while the in-game plane was on the same route, but 02:29 hours out from Amsterdam. He also started to notice how similar the clouds were and possibly the stars.
As the flight progressed, Rami said that theflight in-game reached Ireland roughly 6-minutes beforethe real-life flight reached Ireland. Then came the moment to start thinking about the descent,both versions of the flight being at 40kft.The two startedthe descent at the same time, something that seems to have been coincidental going by the tone of the tweet. Then a pretty video showing off the sunrises both in-game and in reality.
Eventually, it seems as if Rami beat the real-life version of the flight, noting thatMicrosoft Flight SimulatorÂseemed to be roughly 4-minutes ahead of reality but the weather and lighting all matched.
It’s certainly a very interesting thing to witness and honestly blows my mind the more I think about it.ÂMicrosoft Flight SimulatorÂbecame thebiggest Xbox Game Pass for PC launchearlier this year, andVR support is due to be arriving this month.The game is currently available on PC.
