INTO THE STORM [RTX 4090]: British Airways BA 178: New York ✈ London in MSFS 2020

INTO THE STORM [RTX 4090]: British Airways BA 178: New York ✈ London in MSFS 2020

Join me on a ULTRA REALISM flight in the British Airways Boeing 777-300ER from New York to London, in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

We depart from New York on a stormy early spring day, head eastwards crossing the stormy Atlantic Ocean, and land in London during a beautiful sunset.

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.

-- This is my last MSFS 2020 video. --

Music used:
• 'Tense Cinematic 1', by Musictown (Pixabay)
• 'Epic Adventure (Supersonic)', by AlexGrohl (Pixabay)
• 'Countdown Clock Trailer', by Music_For_Videos (Pixabay)
• 'Relaxing Lounge', by WaveMaster (Pixabay)
• 'Thoughtful Contemplative Documentary Piano', by Ashot-Danielyan-Composer (Pixabay)

Scenery, mods and equipment used:

1) Aircraft
• PMDG B777-300ER
• PMDG B777-300ER British Airways livery
• FTSim+ B777 soundpack
• Parallel 42 Sim Effects

2) New York
• inibuilds KJFK New York John F. Kennedy Airport

3) London
• inibuilds EGLL London Heathrow Airport

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 (sound files only)

5.3 Navigation
• Simbrief
• Navigraph Charts

6) Recording settings
• MSFS Settings: All ULTRA (except Terrain LOD at 200).
• Recording resolution: 3840x1440 (24:9 Widescreen)
• Bitrate: 80,000kbps
• Colour depth: 10-bit
• Colour format: P010
• Colour space: Rec. 709
• Video Encoder: NVIDIA NVENC H.264

7) Recording and video editing equipment used
• NVIDIA Game Filter (for more vibrant and natural colours, more sharpness, and other screen improvements). I have used the following settings for the NVIDIA Game Filter (but please note they may look different depending on your monitor colour and refresh settings - please try out yourself to find what works for you):
----- Color, with: Tint Color = 0, Tint Intensity = 20, Temperature = -12, Vibrance = 50;
----- Details, with: Sharpen = 0, Clarity = 60, HDR Toning = 50, Bloom = 12;
----- Sharpen, with: Intensity = 50, Ignore Film Grain = 100.
• 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
• NCH Wavepad (for external audio editing)

8) Hardware
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
• CPU: Intel Core i7-12700
• 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

How to boost your FPS and avoid screen tearing:
Reboot your PC before opening MSFS.
Keep CPU intensive apps closed while playing MSFS.
Set terrain LOD never above 200, rather around 100-150.
Avoid moving aircraft traffic. Moving aircraft traffic always ruins FPS, even with RTX 4090. Even ship traffic and airport vehicles cost FPS.
Use native monitor refresh rate.
Try lower resolution. My videos are all recorded at 3840x1440, which is lower than 4K, but still the same horizontal pixel number as 4K. This frees up system resources.
Turn on adaptive sync in your monitor menu.
Turn on 'HAGS' (Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling) in windows settings
Turn on G-Sync in the Nvidia Control Panel
Set max FPS to 60FPS in the Nvidia Control Panel
Check tutorials in Youtube to set up optimal Nvidia Control Panel settings for you, e.g., set Power management Mode to 'Prefer maximum performance'.
If you want to record videos, replay them at 50% speed in your Replay tool and speed them up to 100% in your video editing software, that doubles your FPS.

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
3:21 - Arrival at the airport
6:41 - Flight briefing
7:37 - Walkaround
10:09 - Cockpit preparation
23:15 - Pushback and Start Up
27:36 - Taxi
32:25 - Takeoff
37:08 - Climb
42:12 - Cruise
53:25 - Descent and Approach
58:28 - Landing and Taxi
1:01:39 - Outro