Airliners often bear the logos of real companies. And across simulators, the planes themselves are finely detailed.
For example, Microsoft Flight Simulator X uses real satellite imagery from Microsoft’s Bing Maps to generate a virtual world. Realistic imageryįlight simulator programs can look very realistic. “FSX” is shorthand for Microsoft Flight Simulator X and “AFS2” stands for Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator. It shows the crash of a flight bearing the logo PIA, for Pakistan International Airlines.īut if you click to expand the video’s description, you’ll see there is a disclaimer at the end: “All crashes created with: FSX & AFS2 & X-Plane 11”. The images are in fact taken from the flight simulator X-Plane 11 – known to fans as XP11, which was noted in brackets at the end of the video’s title.Īnother example: a video on YouTube, titled “Plane Crash Karachi ++ PIA A320”, was viewed more than 1.8 million times since 2020. Screengrab showing just a few of the 1,200 comments on the video shared on Facebook
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