WINDY NEW ZEALAND [RTX 4090]: Air New Zealand NZ 600: Queenstown ✈ Wellington in MSFS 2020

WINDY NEW ZEALAND [RTX 4090]: Air New Zealand NZ 600: Queenstown ✈ Wellington in MSFS 2020

Join me on an ULTRA REALISM flight in the Air New Zealand A320-200 from Queenstown to Wellington, in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

We depart from Queenstown on a windy afternoon, fly up north across New Zealand's south island, and then descend into Wellington across the stormy Cook Strait while the sun sets behind the horizon.

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:
• 'Majestic Cinematic Epic', by Zakhar Dziubenko (Pixabay)
• 'You're Beautiful', by Grand Project Music (Pixabay)

Scenery, mods and equipment used:

1) Aircraft
• Fenix A320-200
• Fenix A320-200 8K Air New Zealand livery by David Cherrie Design
• Parallel 42 Sim Effects
• Parallel 42 A320 Immersion

2) Queenstown
• inibuilds NZQN Queenstown

3) Wellington
• Flightbeam NZWN Wellington

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: 100,000kbps
• 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)
• 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

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
4:22 - Preliminary Cockpit Preparation
7:46 - Walkaround
12:03 - Cockpit preparation
23:30 - Pushback and Start Up
26:35 - Taxi
29:17 - Takeoff
33:30 - Climb
37:41 - Cruise
41:11 - Descent and Approach
48:06 - Landing and Taxi
56:47 - Outro