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How Does a Flight Simulator Work?

Have you ever wondered: “Just how does a Flight Simulator work?” How do they create the entire planet from pole to pole with such realistic terrain, real-time weather and true-to-life aircraft characteristics and instrumentation? This video explains it all from creating the planet to adding the human world, to simulating the weather to designing the planes. So how does a flight simulator work? Buckle up and let’s find out.

How Microsoft Flight Simulator Recreated Our Entire Planet | Noclip Documentary

By Noclip – Video Game Documentaries, November 27, 2020

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We talk to Jorg Neumann (Microsoft) and Sebastian Wloch (Asobo) about the bleeding-edge technology that enabled them to recreate the digital twin of planet earth in the latest iteration of Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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Edited & Hosted by Danny O’Dwyer
Filmed & Colored by Jeremy Jayne
Captions by Megan Carnes

0:00 – Introducing Microsoft Flight Simulator
3:26 – Building the Team
7:19 – Creating The Planet
15:54 – Adding the Human World
22:26 – Simulating Weather
25:51 – Designing Planes
30:09 – Where People Fly
32:34 – Credits

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