MSFS 2020 vs X-Plane 12 vs Real Life! Landing in Paris 

Have you ever been to CDG?

You go through a lot of trouble making these. MSFS is just great, Im trying to like XPlane 12, the airplanes feel excellent but the problem is MSFS has spoilt us with its visuals. But XP12 is getting better all the time, specially its rain and puddle effects! Thanks for a great vid!

- Both simulators require some color adjustments. - The haze you mentioned is caused by weather conditions and the flight simulator engine. MSFS2020 has various issues related to the weather engine. - The forests, roads, and houses in Xplane do not look very realistic; they appear cartoonish. - When you mentioned that MSFS seems too green, it might not be the same time of day. Also, I don't see the fuselage shadow on the engine in MSFS as I do in comparison to the other simulator. - Yes, MSFS has a problem with tree sizes and airport surroundings. - If I had to choose, I would have issues related to what you mentioned, as well as aircraft dynamics and platform stability. Very nice job.

i personally think Real Life took that W!!! It has ∞Rendering Distance where you can even get ∞FPS which is crazy for a low low price of 200$ per flight!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I respect the effort and the amount of work you put in this comparison. But tbh, you can't really compare three different sources with completely different conditions. But you can gauge the main differences: - RL is not so colorful, shiny bright and friendly as it should be 🤗 - MSFS (out of the box) is a candy shop with exaggerated colors and saturation 🥳 - and XPlane... yeah... like the last 30 years it's the sim for those who rather like data, numbers and scripts than looking outside the cockpit window. 🤓 There is one for everyone, but RL is - by far - the most expensive way of flying (actively or as a passenger)... 😂

Great comparison! My ego prefers msfs but my heart prefers xp12

Thansk for making this comparaison. I still love how XP renders compared to MSFS

Always been an msfs guy ever since version 3 but i must congratulate XPlane here on the most realistic scenery view with haze: visibility and color wise. Also: real life has the dirtiest airplane window of the three.

X plane looks more close to real life in the atmosphere and plane physics, is closer to the real life vídeo movements, if you put Ortho and simheaven to x plane 12 it will look better

1:05 that's probably because it's winter irl and summer/spring in the simulators

This looks like msfs and xp12 are on ultra low settings 😂

Wow without Ortho? Not bad. Both great. Here it is clear that msfs has too bright colors, i like the atmosphere in xplane. But in the end, two very enjoyable sims with their own strenghts and weaknesses

This person is a Xplane fan! And MSFS still look and is better. 🤣🤣

Not only the forest is odd but the shadow too 🤣🤣

One is oversaturated another undersaturated and the winner will be first one who reach normal fps some day..

This real life engine has some pretty impressive graphics, shame it's clouds look so fake.

msfs and xp12 look more realistic than real life

There is some pretty bad tree aliasing in the X-plane section of the video. Hopefully it can be overcome with an appropriate setting.

How did you record the landings in the sims? I mean did you use the autoland feature of the aircraft or handfly and record using some external mod/addon?

After 30 years Xplane is and will always be ridiculous

Great Comparison! Did you use any add-on for x-plane? would be nice to see the same with x-europe,global forests and ortho.

XP-12 looks absolutely disgusting 🤮 not even gonna try to purchase it. Msfs is way better with visuals.. and with msfs 24 coming around the corner with better physical and visuals.. on game pass for free, there’s no comparison

Well, if you use the MSFS 2020 map enhancement add-on it makes the experience way better!

Would've been a better comparison if you weren't on minimal graphics settings

If you like instrument flying and want it as realistic as possible, then x-plane is absolutely superior. If you are into sightseeing, then FS2020 is better.

MSFS needs to do something about colors, that's WAY off.

If you turn up the humidity in MSFS it would be a lot closer to rl.

There is no lag in real life mode.. What's your gpu ??

One thing About msfs satellite textures is that the bing maps is years old and msfs 2024 will have newer maps which will look way less green and also they are changing some of that in msfs 2024

Why does Paris look so grey and dull in FS2020? Everyting is just same grey colour: buildings, roofs etc...=/ (might not be visible in your clip, but its sure there...)

Just speaking of graphics. XPlane looks more realistic in terms of lighting and depth cueing. MSFS looks too cartoony. Even the clouds are looking more realistic in last version of XP. MSFS look too Simpsons. As per the ground out of the box MSFS will be better than XP. XP does not have default satellite imagery as MSFS does. Really hard to mimic earth ground textures and the complexity. However with a good ortho XPlane looks now more the real deal.

Thanks for the comparision. You are right the colors of MSFS are to much saturated. But one remark, also you camera in real life is a interpretation of the world and might not be correct. in higher altitues it looks very dull. Most propaly of the UV radiation wich influents the sensors. If you compare your footange with the final approch - were the altitude is very low, the camera footage is more satuated too. But this is a real life effect I see myself each time while taking picture in high altitude. due to the UV radiation also everything gets a blueish tint and if you want to correct that in photoshop it`s quite difficult because than green is a version of blue. I think I would be intresting to introduce this effect into the flighsims. But I will reduce my saturation in MSFS now,

And the shadows on X-Plane still look like stairs, very bad.

I've installed the following simulators in my PC: MSFS 2020 and X-Plane 12. Now I feel it is much cooler of the one called "Real Life", where can I download it and install to my PC please?😄😄😄🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

Let’s not forget real life was recorded with a camera or phone through thick glass so is this even accurate?

XP12 is the best

lower the X plane texture quality is bad cuz of youre setings plz make a part 2 with x plane on max graphics to keep it fair

i disagree.,.. XP has CLEARLY the Better Sky, haze, contrast and colors and SO Is tò be preffered ro Msfs for VFR flights

Why does the X-plane have such poor graphics resolution?

your comparing both games colors to real life.. when the real life vid is taken through clouds and haze.. not a sunny.

Microsoft Flight Simulator is a great game for nearly all ages, Laminar X-Plane is the best Flight Simulator for student pilots to airliner Captains who can train and enjoy a professional flight simulator as well as customers who chose X-Plane and can enjoy it too.

Where are the advantages for IFR with Xplane in your opinion?

also cdg is one of the worse default airports in MSFS

in xplane the trees are boiling.

What STAR and approach was this on?

xplane looks like crap lol. glad I fly msfs. can't wait for msfs 2024

para mi x plane murió hace mucho tiempo. no ocupare espacio en el disco en esto .tuvieron mucho tiempo de mejorar y nunca lo hicieron

X-12 looks god-awful.

Both sims are WAY OFF!

XP12 is very ugly...

xplane 12 looks a lil blurry on the engine even though theres ray tracing (if you actually installed) btw xplane 12 + msfs 2020 = irl