Tutorial #1 - Getting Started - Microsoft Flight Simulator

Episode #1 of my tutorial series for Microsoft Flight Simulator. In this episode we discuss settings, including how to tune your graphic options for your system.

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:34 General Settings
01:52 Camera
02:16 Sound
04:39 Traffic
06:37 Data
09:42 Flight Model
10:06 Miscellaneous
11:02 Assistance
17:09 Graphics
20:53 Graphics Tuning

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[lukewhaley]

Imagine if they had a campaign mode where you start of with a starter plane of your choice and you hade to fly cargo and passengers to get money to buy planes fuel repairs etc. All the planes had real prices.

[u]

This man has earned my respect, he made a tutorial for a game that hasn’t even been released yet.

[thesmellofbacon]

You know its an incredibly complex game when the entire first 38 minute episode is not about learning to fly lmao. Great vid, cleared a lot of stuff up for me

[kevin_sull]

Finally a top drawer tutorial for us newbies which are new to the sim world. Thank you!

[DeltaTristar]

Thank you so much for taking the time to go thru the settings and playing around with the graphic settings and looking at their results, not to many reviewers do that.

[bobtyler]

I have work the next 4 days in a row, then tuesday game is released, ill get home, put the game on to download on my new pc, then wake up to a new generation. Im excited.

[stronglifter]

Hey Squirrel - I've spent many hours watching and re-watching these MSFS tutorial videos while practicing - they have been invaluable. The quality of instruction is superb. Subbed and liked! I hope you keep this channel going!

[Formulast]

I was hoping you’d do a series like this. Will be a massive help. I would like to see an animal spotting video, the animals look surprisingly good

[leegraves]

These tutorials are EXTREMELY helpful (for me, at least) and I look forward to having you continue producing them, even after MSFS 2020 is well circulated and understood. Thank you for the time and patience it takes to make them...
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[chrismueller]

I've watched a ton of videos on FS2020, but your tutorials are by far the best one can find. Your deep knowledge and your way to convey even complex matter is outstanding. Subscribed!

[pilotofthecaribbean]

Running a gpu at 100% when gaming is totally normal and won't degrade it. Still keep an eye on temperatures.

[SenorDroolcup]

Thank you for these tutorials, Squirrel. I'm looking forward to learning this new sim with you!

[weepingeye]

Hi Squirrel! Thanks for the videos. Have watched pretty much all your pre-release for this sim so far. Needless to say I'm super excited. Three days to go, WOOHOO! And yes, please keep up the tutorial vids. Really appreciate it.

[akdavis]

I have watched a lot of MSFS 2020 videos but this by far is the very best setup overview video that have seen. Very logical and direct approach. Outstanding! Thank you for taking the time to do this.

[dhblan]

Thank you Squirrel. This was such a well-done and detailed video showing all kinds of options to make this sim work. I have been debating whether to jump into the world of flight sims and having no experience and a mid-range system, it is looking more and more like I might be able to make this work. Your videos helped me tremendously to get into sim gaming in general starting around the first of the year in ATS/ETS in particular.

[ondrameciar]

Disabling AI traffic to get 2 times more fps, was best and most usefull tip i have ever seen from MFS! Thank you very much!

[reedi]

Fauna is animals not forests matey, it’s the markers for where to see the elephants, giraffes and flamingos etc 😁👍🦒🐘🦩

[tarman]

Thanks so much mate. I’ve owned pretty much every version the 80’s and can’t wait for this to start downloading on the 18th as I’ve pre-ordered on Steam. This will be an epic tutorial series

[dhblan]

Hi Squirrel. As a total newbie to flight sims, I find myself revisiting these videos as they are extremely detailed and informative. As I proceed to attempt to climb my extremely mountainous learning curve in flying this sim, I find some of the things you discuss mean more to me than when I first saw the video. I am so grateful that you have created this tutorial series. Thank you and stay well.

[MrFreeroamer]

Fantastic so excited for this I’ll take my first steps into flight sim with this series. Thankyou