INTO THE ARCTIC [RTX 3090]: Nippon Cargo KZ 11: Milan (Italy) ✈ Anchorage in MSFS 2020

INTO THE ARCTIC: Nippon Cargo KZ 11: Milan (Italy) ✈ Anchorage in Microsoft Flight Simulator

Join me on an ULTRA REALISM flight in the Nippon Cargo Boeing 747-8F from Milan, Italy, to Anchorage, in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

The route leads us across the picturesque Alpes Mountains, France, the UK, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, northern Canada, and Alaska, into snowy Anchorage.

I have made this video as realistic as possible, using ULTRA settings in Microsoft Flight Simulator. I use numerous addons to make the experience more realistic.

Music used:
• 'A Slow Motion', by Oleg Kirilkov (Pixabay)
• 'Jason Garner - Atmospheric Sensitive Cinema', by runfirestop (Pixabay)
• 'Sadness Piano', by Oleg Kirilkov (Pixabay)

Scenery, mods and equipment used:

1) Aircraft
• Asobo Boeing 747-8
• Asobo Boeing 747-8 All Nippon Cargo (Flightsim.to)
• Asobo Boeing 747-8 MoreRightRudder Cockpit Textures
• Asobo Boeing 747-8 FTSim+ Soundpack
• Asobo Boeing 747-8 Southoakco effects

2) Milan Malpensa scenery from 'prairielet' (Flightsim.to)

3) Anchorage scenery from OrbX

4) Global scenery
• Bijan Seasons: Adds realistic tree foliage and ground colours
• Mamudesign Powerlines and Solar Farms (Flightsim.to)
• We Love VFR – Region 1 (Flightsim.to)
• We Love VFR – Region 2 (Flightsim.to)
• REX Real Global Airport Textures

5) MSFS Mods

5.1 Traffic
• GSX Pro: Adds realistic ground vehicles, such as pushback truck
• FSLTL: Adds realistic aircraft traffic based on real time traffic
• Seafront Vessels Global: Adds global ship traffic

5.2 Sound
• FSRealistic: Adds realistic sound and movements to aircraft cockpit
• ATC Chatter: Pilot2ATC

5.3 Navigation
• Simbrief
• Navigraph Charts

6) Recording settings
• MSFS Settings: All ULTRA (Note: To achieve acceptable FPS for recording purposes with the RTX 3090 and the i7-12700, at 'all ultra' settings you need to apply some tricks, contact me if you are interested)
• Recording resolution: 3840x1440 (24:9 Widescreen)
• Bitrate: 80,000kbps
• Colour depth: 10-bit
• Colour format: P010
• Colour space: Rec. 709
• Video Encoder: NVIDIA NVENC HEVC

7) Recording and video editing equipment used
• Reshade: Creates an overlay with more realistic colours in MSFS (e.g. through adjusting saturation and colour balance)
• Sky Dolly (Flightsim.to): Enables the replay of plane movements in MSFS
• OBS: Enables screen capture of MSFS in high resolution into a video file (e.g. MP4)
• Davinci Resolve: Enables video editing, cutting and sound modification

8) Hardware
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
• CPU: Intel Core i7-12700 Processor
• Internal Memory: 32 GB

9) Controls
• Flight Stick: Thrustmaster TCA Sidestick Airbus Edition
• Throttle Quadrant: Honeycomb Bravo
• Rudder Pedals: Logitech G Pro Flight Rudder Pedals
• Head Tracker: Tobii Eye Tracker 5

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:54 - Cargo Terminal and Walkaround
6:36 - Cockpit preparation
11:06 - Pushback and Start Up
13:43 - Taxi
16:35 - Takeoff
22:54 - Crossing the Alps
26:48 - France, UK and Scotland
31:41 - Faroe Islands and Iceland
33:12 - Greenland and Canada
37:05 - Alaska
39:34 - Descent and Approach
45:52 - Landing and Taxi
52:06 - Outro