I don't see much talk here about the new sim, am I missing posts? What if any are CS's plans for the new sim? It is launching next month Aug 18th.... we need news!

First we need to see the FS2020 offically out with all features implemented.

I've already pre-ordered the MSFS Premium Deluxe Edition. ;D :D

Tks for the replies. As excited as I was about the new sim, it looks like I will be waiting a while after it's release since it appears it will only run on Win10 machines, and all three of mine are Win 7  :-(

Will the current Captain Sim work on the new Microsoft Flight sim being released in August of 2020?

PATRICK39 wrote on Aug 13^th, 2020 at 1:26pm:

Will the current Captain Sim work on the new Microsoft Flight sim

No, unfortunately.

+1 for at least 757/767 brought to MSFS2020 after it's out and all features implemented.

Will there discount for customer who owned CaptSim aircraft for MSFS2020?

Really hoping to see the 707 make it into MSFS2020. :)

I have downloaded/installed MSFS 2020 (95+ GB), after initially having some trouble with it, and it wasn't until about 5am that I was able to make my first flight. But boy do I love it!

I really love VFR flying in light GA aircraft around the world, like to Rio de Janeiro (Christ the Redeemer), the Pyramids of Giza, New York (the Statue of Liberty), Uluru/Ayers Rock, Niagra Falls, The Great BVarrier Reef, and I even looked for The Great Wall of China (north of Beijing, but without success). I honestly can't remember all the places I have flown to around the world, to see the awesome scenery in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Don't worry, I look forward to longer flights in airliners too, and I'm looking forward to whatever Captain Sim will be bringing to MSFS.

Found SDK, Go to general>Developers then help>SDK installer

Good luck CapSim  ;D

MSFS is great, only the default planes are terrible, feels like a flight sim on a ipad :/ CS / another company need to save the day with some quality planes :)

Captain Sim
MSFS2020 is the new standard
But its sarurated with Glass Cokpits
Everybody is pleading for analogue and classics
Please hurry to convert tour wonderful addons
I bought 2 of them for fsx and p3d
But i will buy 4 if for msfs2020

check the feedback

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/581704-for-some-time-no-more-glass-cockpits-please/

FS4 quality? They must be using low quality settings, or something if they think that:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator_4_screenshot.png

maybe you didnt understand

the fs4 irony comparison is that because the Garmins are so big in a simulator Glass Cockpit panel (not the real life cockpit) you end up staring at the graphics inside the Garmin which resemble fs4 graphics

please captain sim please do the 707 for the new sim or V4 of P3d. Ill settle for the -300 but if an expansion of the other models came as well that would be a "Shut up and take my money" situation. Would also love an INS like in the L-1011.  :D ;D :D

+1. MSFS is a modernized platform with a modernized engine. I think this is a way forward CS should look into more.

But then again I'm just a lowly customer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

CptKiddAPI wrote on Aug 31^st, 2020 at 10:07pm:

please captain sim please do the 707 for the new sim or V4 of P3d. Ill settle for the -300 but if an expansion of the other models came as well that would be a "Shut up and take my money" situation. Would also love an INS like in the L-1011.  :D ;D :D

Oh yes!
The Classics (especially the B707) for MSFS, that would be great!  :D

Hewi wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2020 at 9:19pm:

Oh yes! The Classics (especially the B707) for MSFS, that would be great!  :D

I 2nd, Jeff

I own the CS 757 and 777 for FSX (and still fly them from time-to-time), and I'll happily buy them again for MSFS when/if released!

For now, in terms of complex aircraft add-on developent, we do not see any MSFS2020.
All we see is MS Flight 2.
We'll reconsider as soon as we get all proper development tools.

Bit the bullet and bought a new PC just for 2020.....now that I have the new sim.... I need a 757!!!!  The SDK is out, get to work guys!  :-)

JayG wrote on Sep 26^th, 2020 at 7:21am:

The SDK is out

We do not do Cessnas, sorry  8-)

Capt Sim. I concur. Most folk have no idea of how complex a sim model is just to get the gauges operative now we supposedly have a new type of coded ESP engine that will need to be considered and understood and if possible worked with. My intial assessment is that there will need to be a enormous rework of a lot of guages to make them work in MSFS2020 - just like the issue of from FSX to P3DV5.

I also agree with your assessment that the initial release is a worked of Microsoft Flight. Look it has a lot of potential but not just yet. I am buying a new high level PC and will then think about it maybe when they get to MSFS 2.0 perhaps.

This is disappointing but not unexpected. I don’t mean I’m disappointed in Captain Sim. I’ve found other things to do with my time, but the latest release got me thinking. I won’t be diving in to fly a Cessna 172 over my house. I can go to the local airport and do that a lot cheaper! What I am semi-motivated to do is to use this as an excuse to buy a monster gaming laptop that might run FSX better and look for the treasure map to the location of the buried chest containing all my Captain Sim download codes.

Tim - precisely my approach new rig for FSX and maybe look at P3D but wait I reckon with a high level gaming style PC FSX will be pretty amazing anyway, it is darn good now and I am severely restricted by my old GPU.

Please CS, do not forget the wonderful B727100F
It deserves the best of FS2020 and its airports nice lookings ;-)

https://i.postimg.cc/yxDspXVK/2021-3-1-22-32-43-17.jpg

Hello, when can you expect the Captain Sim B757 for the MSFS 2020?
Greetings Ludwig

Hi Captainsim
I am acrivating this post since searched and didnt find any similar topic. I remember there were many topics asking this in late 2020 but reckon they were deleted

What is CS position regarding the new sim platform MSFS2020 ?

Or put it another way: What is CS regarding future?
Is CS just a management of current stock releases with no further plans?

I havent heard anymore of new works in mind, it looks (to me) that original developers have moved on, retired, died, a silence that sads me.

All CS intervention is about support for existing addons (which are given by user themselves) or of site purchase issues

Is there manpower to program the great Boeing classic jets from scratch for the new sim or are there any releases in the table for existing platforms.

In short: is CS alive?

Captain Sim are still working on the 767 Captain III (and Expansion Model(s)) for P3D4/5, so they're still there.
They are/were waiting for the MSFS 2020 SDK to be improved a lot, before announcing anything, let alone making anything, for MSFS 2020, so you'll just have to wait and see.

thanks Markoz, I imagine that too
but you know "waiting for the SDK to improve a lot" is a bit not much interested.

CS has a strong name, like PM DG, Im sure if they send an email to Asobo/MS saying..look would like to develop addons they would give support as they are with the other

I know someone is working for bugs and expansion maintenance., the fact is very little is known about CS

Are the great dev that created the 727 and 737 still active? do you know him? is he of russian nationality, very little we know


Markoz wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2021 at 10:11am:

Captain Sim are still working on the 767 Captain III (and Expansion Model(s)) for P3D4/5, so they're still there. They are/were waiting for the MSFS 2020 SDK to be improved a lot, before announcing anything, let alone making anything, for MSFS 2020, so you'll just have to wait and see.

Kapitan wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2021 at 12:12pm:

the fact is very little is known about CS

Captain Sim are a very small team of only a handful of people.

I am convinced P3D is the future of airliner simulation. I hope Captain Sim stays far, far away from MSFS. I have it, and once you get through 100 “ifs” yeah, it would be amazing. It’s very cool for GA flying.

If CS stole a march on everyone and came out with a MSFS 727 or 737 well, yeah! Sign me up for five of each! But that’s not happening.

But, I have thought Captain Sim is beautifully positioned to carve out a niche in the P3D market. Sure, most people want glass. I do understand that. So does every other dev, though, which is why the competition will always be against the darlings of the hobby. (Even the darlings are taking some flack now I see  8-) ) My fond hope remains that we’ll see the old classics brought up to L1011 “port” standards (which are at least as good as most of what’s out there). Of course, Captain Sim knows their business, but I still hope they see enough demand for steam gauge classics, starting with the shorter legged ones. (Sorry, but I don’t like many super long flights.)

In the P3D forum, I see people saying they’re flying classic airliners that I KNOW do not include P3Dv5.1 in their requirements. A DC-9 here, the CS 737 there... People say they work. I dunno. I do know they want them. Can’t say what the L1011 sales are like. It is a fantastic product but a mostly forgotten airplane these days, and was never produced in number. A shame. But I think an updated 727 or early 737 would find a bigger market than the L1011, only because they’re better known.

But, what I want and what makes sense to the fine Captain Sim folks are two different things. Sometimes niche is the way to go, but that’s their business. Meanwhile, I haven’t even kicked the tires on a certain Maddog or Airbus I’ve had for months. Is there a single good classic airliner for P3Dv5.1 besides the L1011? Even one? (Just yes-or-no.)

Well, it’s a dream, but, wouldn’t be great to hear, “Yeah, Captain Sim. They didn’t follow the lemmings off the MSFS cliff and now look: they OWN P3D!” Nothing touches the L1011 in P3Dv5.1, not as a classic. Oh well, guess I’ll keep flying it until there’s something else. And a little 757 ;-)

i agree
Better a classic jet like Captainsim's than all the fancy scenery graphics of MSFS 2020

But why?
Because CS is not in MSFS
If it were with th L1011 and others your argument dissolves

And why they are not in MS?
Because it would require doing every pixel again from scratch, and I suspect the manpower is not there anymore

My arguments never dissolve  ;D Nope, P3D is where it’s at for me. Honestly, a well-outfitted P3D looks really good. And I get irritated every time I set up my controls TO MAKE SOME SORT OF SENSE and then I’m back to bizarro-land when I start MSFS again.

My control settings never change from how I set them in MSFS. In fact they are identical on my PC and laptop, but I only set them on my PC. It's the settings I did for joystick on my PC, as I don't normally swap the joystick from the PC to the laptop, so it really surprised me to see them  copied over to the laptop.

"Honestly, a well-outfitted P3D looks really good."

No, it doesn't. Never. I have had a very well outfitted P3D and it never reached the level of immersion like MSFS does.
Hopefully CS will be starting in MSFS not too late. Other wise they will remain in the small P3D-niche, I'm afraid. Earning the big money will happen in MSFS, especially after releasing the X-box-suite; not in P3D anymore.

hello, wondering if Alpha is looking to move up to investing time to fabricate some service heavies suitable for 2020. Hercs, C17s m400 etc etc i see airfield addons now appearing but service aircraft for enthusiasts are , at present, impossible to find.

No question MSFS looks better graphically. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, though, and I think P3D looks fine. Even during a GA flight from Palermo to Sigonella I’m impressed. And for airliners, unless something is just ugly, I am not going to notice it. But, I will admit that it takes much more investment to get P3D looking the way I want it to look. So that means Orbx has gotten more of my money to get P3D there. So, yes: MSFS looks better, and P3D requires add-ons to get it looking good enough for me, which is still not as good as MSFS.

But the flip side is I think MSFS sometimes lets down the experience in its own ways. For a map-based terrain system, it would be nice to fly from my home airport and recognize my local area (Southern Illinois). You know, plug in your zip code and get a download of local details, maybe? I suppose my expectations were raised too high by the hype. And flying into Manama, the “flat” satellite images of ships at the pier are a real eyesore I’d rather do without altogether. Anyway, until the equipment I want to fly is available in MSFS, the issue is moot for me. LM may (help) put the first woman on the moon before that happens or fix EA. Who knows?

Mark, I admit I just haven’t put enough time into MSFS to learn how to get the controls I carefully set up to “stick.” I think I get them saved; either I don’t or don’t find them. So, I’ll concede that objection is invalid. I have health issues that limit my flying time so fooling around with two different sims is more challenging for me.

I’m not anti-MSFS at all, and can’t predict the future any better than anyone else. The huge big difference is that Captain Sim is developing jetliners for P3D, not MSFS. If that changes, great. I confess to being a CS-onlyist, and not because I don’t own “study level” sims, a phrase that always cracks me up. This is the highest-quality “survey sim” company in my view. They have a house style I like so I know what to expect, and I can now fly a 737-300, 757, 767 and an L1011 (don’t think I have the 777 yet and I hope there will be more true classics). One is a true classic, one is I guess I’d call “transitional,” and heck, the others are not exactly fresh off the assembly line. In other words, they not only tick my personal boxes, but I like the CS aesthetic and just enjoy having a fleet that is from the same developer. Maybe that’s just me.

There’s also the intangible “loyalty” factor, I suppose. I’ve taken my share of guff for liking CS, think the community is great, and have a weak spot for the underdog.CS had always treated me more than decently as a customer and my

Unfortunately it's not a case of porting 20 year old FSX textures into MSFS, never mind recoding all the gauges, recreating the models and redoing the animations.  MSFS started slowly without a lot of the abilities needed in the SDK to create a complex airliner.  I don't believe that's the case now. If CS are a small team, they will surely struggle to create great looking content for MSFS - it will be a huge investment in time and money and time is against them, if they want to leverage the following of their current customers.  P3D will eventually be side-lined as more and more investment from all the big companies goes where they can make money, MSFS and CS will see their revenue stream getting less and less.  Like it or not, unless CS can also make that move into MSFS, I'm resigning myself to never seeing my beloved 707, 727 & 737's shine as they might in the 21st century.  MSFS will solve all the problems they have.  Arguments over which is best will always be subjective, but one thing will always be true - Follow the money and that's behind MSFS, not P3D.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/150x100q90/923/uYU4Iw.jpg
;D ;D ;D

@CS:
After having the P3D addon production close to its end,
what MSFS addon is coming next?