What game is this New Flight Simulator 2017 - P3D 3.4 [Spectacular Realism]?

[Sid1701d]

I been trying to figure out what game this is because the videos look so real. Everytime I try to look for it I can't really figure it out and there is no connection to which game it is.
Here is the video. Also even more I do not even know what P3D 3.4 is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDpY_cpve-A

[gspectre]

P3D stands for PREPAR3D. That is a title from Lockheed Martin. They acquired the rights from Microsoft to use the FSX Core (like Dovetail Games), to developer a training Simulator for real educational purposes. Technically, it is really only to be used by real pilots, trainers or students learning to fly and the cost reflects that. It is not cheap.

P3D 3.4 was the 3rd version while still 32bit. The newest is Ver 4 and it is 64bit. So basically, there's nothing new about that video. You can have the same look in FSX.

That video is clearly not "stock" P3D as Lockheed only has their own aircraft in their version. What someone did is what many do with FSX and what some try to do with FSW, they imported additional aircraft to fly and my looking at the other aircraft, I'll guess they also added World of AI aircraft as well to populate the airport with real aircraft and skins.

[Sid1701d]

I am just wondering why I see so many videos with it lately. I don't really get it. Does microsoft flight simulator X have all the same stuff in it that the commercial one has. I could see why pilots would want to use a flight simulator game as a training too to practice flying routes before flying the actual route. Also simulators are big and bulky and coast alot to maintain, plus theres some stuff that can't be simulated.

[gspectre]

Just think of it as Click-Bate. They just want to post a youtube video and try to get as many people as possible to watch it.

[MightyCaco]

Prepar3d is supposed to be for training purposes, but the majority of the users are gamers and fsx enthusiests anyways lol.

Alas, P3D isn't much of a milestone above FSX (and I am stating this as a user of P3D myself). I run P3D Version 4 on my machine, and while it does has some perks (uses my video card efficiently, and has excellent lighting effects), it still uses a 2006 navigation database, and uses the same scenery as 2006 FSX out of the box. While it is 64-bit, it is unfortunately incompatible with a lot of my old FSX addons. The addons for P3D also cost more due to licensing mumbojumbo (for example, $134.99 USD for a PMDG 777, vs $89.99 for the FSX version, with mostly the same features). I think I dropped about $300 just for bare essential addons alone.

You will see a lot more P3D videos these days because P3D is newer and updated more frequently (a lot of FSX users tend to switch to P3D due to novelty, or the perceived feeling that they are flying a more commercial simulator). Outside of that though, FSX does have pretty much the same stuff, and flies exactly the same.

If I were to do it again, I'd probably not spend money on P3D (based on how dated it's scenery and nav database is, and addon incompatability). I'd instead update FSX using Steve's DX10 fixer to get some better shadows and lighting, and slap on Orbx Global Base as a starting point. I can then update cloud textures with the freeware HD environment, and the water using the freeware FSWC. It will be very comparable to P3D after that, and saves a lot of hard earned cash.

As a note to the video, it looks like it uses these following addons: Aerosoft Milan, FlyTampa Dubai, PMDG 777, Orbx Global, and some kind of ground-handling addon like FS Dream Team GSX. If you have these addons for FSX, your sim will look very similar to the video.

[ImplicitLoki 69]

It's just fsx with a ton of mods