Search and Rescure in the Icon A5 (beautiful graphics)

One of the first missions you will do is a search and rescue operation in the Icon A5. The detail of this aircraft is incredible (click on the image above for a close up view). Now, you have to be aware that you do not have to do these missions if you don't want to. But it's there if you want to experience something a little different. 

It's also cool because when compared to FSX and Flight Simulator, you have people talking to you (in this mission, the search and rescue team are talking to each other and you to help locate a missing Kayak-er) as if you were really in Hawaii and you get the sense of a community of people around you and working with you. In my opinion, this adds a bit of realism to it.

But what I really wanted to depict in this post, is the amazing graphics and detail you get in MS Flight, without the need for a powerful system or even the need for a gaming graphics card.

In fact, the graphics card I use is the Nvidia Quadro K2000D (which is not even meant for gaming. It's used for CAD work and the benchmark for games on my card is rubbish - yet I am able to get amazing graphics in MS Flight!)

To me, I think that is one of the many great reasons Flight is worth a try. I mean, let's compare this with FSX, where to get really amazing graphics, you will need a very very powerful graphics card and you will also have to overclock your CPU. For those of you who don't know what that means, or how to do that, then FSX on an average PC looks horrid (you can verify this on youtube videos showing you how to tweak your GPU for FSX graphics improvements etc).

And so that's what I like about flight, you don't need to spend hundreds on hardware just to make it look great. It's great straight from the get go!