If you need some VR equipment like a computer that can handle VR, take a look at this post, Top 5 Things You Need for VR Flight. Trains, birds, cars, planes and much more is cruising around as you fly. The real big benefit to X-Plane 11, is that everything is moving. I would recommend at least my computer or better. It is worth it to run it on a very high end computer when using VR. One of X-Plane’s downfalls, is that it requires a big CPU and GPU. It almost makes it hard to distinguish between the sim and real life. As I don’t have mine cranked up to the max it is hard to do a 100% comparison, however I can tell you that I have cranked them up on my monitor, without VR and can tell you that they are amazing. The Cockpit looks great, as well as the plane itself. It gives it a bit of a zombie apocalypse feel. The cars have been halted and all is still. The one thing you will notice, is that nothing moves in the scenery. If you are flying at a good height, then the scenery is amazing. Around the airports is high resolution, making for a better experience. As long as you aren’t landing on random fields or on a city street, you won’t notice this. It’s definitely not a deal breaker, as it is not often you are doing a landing in a field (unless you are practising emergency landings). The scenery becomes distorted, like when you zoom too close to a digital photograph. The only big downside to this, is that if you fly lower than a couple hundred feet from the ground, away from an airport, you will really notice that it is an actual photograph of scenery. The scenery appears incredible, and photo realistic. I find that Aeroplane has great overall scenery.
Take a look at my settings and my computer. X-Plane 11 does have higher settings, however my computer can’t handle the top settings in VR. Aerofly FS 2 is set to Ultra, which is the highest setting and X-Plane 11 is adjusted to a high setting. Please don’t judge my flying, as I am just experimenting with the two, to get a feel for the flight model. I do a quick loop and land on the runway. I have both sims start on the runway at the San Francisco International Airport. In the first part of the video, you will see me flying X-Plane and the latter part will have me flying Aerofly FS 2. I really wanted to try Aerofly FS 2, as I have read that it is a great choice for flying with VR. I just got Aerofly FS 2 and wanted to do a comparison video for you. For the comparison information keep reading. It is merely a video showing the two sims running in VR. *** Please note that the video does not have talking.