A THUNDERY DEPARTURE [RTX 4090]: Cathay Pacific Cargo CX 2074: Singapore ✈ Hong Kong in MSFS 2020

Join me on an ULTRA REALISM flight in the Cathay Pacific Boeing 7478F from Singapore to Hong Kong, in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

We depart from Singapore during a thunderstorm, cross the South China Sea, and descend into Hong Kong 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.

Scenery, mods and equipment used:

1) Aircraft
• Asobo Boeing 7478
• Asobo Boeing 7478 Cathay Pacific Cargo livery (Flightsim.to)
• Asobo Boeing 7478 MoreRightRudder Cockpit Textures
• Asobo Boeing 7478 FTSim+ Soundpack
• Asobo Boeing 7478 Southoakco effects
• Parallel 42 effects

2) Singapore Changi Airport (WSSS) from Cloudsurf Asia Simulations

3) Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok Airport (VHHH) from WF SCENERY STUDIO

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: 10bit
• Colour format: P010
• Colour space: Rec. 709
• Video Encoder: NVIDIA NVENC HEVC

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

8) Hardware
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
• CPU: Intel Core i712700 Processor
• 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
1:09 Cargo Terminal and Walkaround
4:53 Cockpit preparation
18:24 Pushback and Start Up
22:24 Taxi
23:36 Takeoff
31:53 Cruise
35:55 Descent and Approach
45:02 Landing and Taxi
52:28 Outro