Chateau Malbec in MSFS2024

I’ve been working on a flight simulator scenery of my home airfield, Chateau Malbec here in south-west France, for some time and I’ve just completed an initial version.

Microsoft’s latest version (MSFS2024) has an amazing feature built into it that allows you to walk around inside the simulator anywhere in the world. So if you want to in Africa, for example, you’ll be on the savannah and will bump into elephants, giraffe and other wild animals, all alive and in motion. You can look around at the world (a very accurate rendition of) from the top of Mont Blanc if you want. I think it’s a triumph of what can be done by incredibly clever computer designers using satellite scans of the Earth and AI.

I’ve used it to do a walk round the new scenery I’ve created. It was originally for the earlier sim, MSFS2020 but works OK in MSFS2024 with a few very minor anomalies that I know are there but I doubt anyone else will notice. There are a few small design bugs to sort out but it’s fully useable and looks very close to what you see in real life. It’s also as challenging to land at in the sim as it is in reality. There’s a link below to the video I made of the walk round.