The most important thing to note since the review is that the poor documentation has been corrected. Angelique has produced what may be the best manual ever. It is well-written, comprehensive, entertaining, and uses plenty of relevant pictures. It not only has a first-rate tutorial (that sneaks in a lot detail beyond what you normally expect without detracting from the tutorial) but a wonderful navigation appendix.Frame rates were not bad on my screaming MacBook Pro ;-) I wonder if the "lite" label is good marketing. As a RFP veteran, I still found that most of what a pilot has to deal with is well represented. (I am more than happy to let the flight engineer fiddle with fuel levels in various tanks. That's why they had more than one person in the flight crew.) I don't think experienced simmers should shy away, unless you're just not going to be happy without detailed failures and managing the packs. Please note I am not suggesting a similar level of detail, only that I liked both.As a former user of the excellent (and free) CIVA INS I really appreciated the fact that you can import a whole flight plan, not just nine waypoints at a time. You can still program them manually if you're a purist. And if you like aligning them on the fly using radio navigation (which I'm not sure you can do with the supplied INS) I have no doubt someone will soon be posting a panel config to add the wonderful, beautiful (and did I say free?) CIVA. I think I'll stick to the stock model and imagine that my co-pilot is doing all that tedious stuff.There are rough spots, to be sure. I cringed every time I had to change a NAV frequency on the radio panel. You would think it would be easy to program logical methods for something so essential and easy as turning knobs. Nope. You can adjust the frequency in one window with a click spot under another, numbers go one way using the mousewheel but not the other, and, in, general, tuning a frequency is about as certain and quick as using a Ouija board. I can only imagine that whoever it was that was developing this and testing it got used to the idisyncracities and just didn't bother to fix it. Tuning your NAV radios should not be such a problem, but, oddly, this is not the first product I've seen that makes it something of an adventure.Please fix this.The INS works, sorta. I cannot get all three aligned, although two are basically very fancy dummies, as FSX has only one autopilot. So you are flying for a company that knows two out of three essential navigation units are broken and blithely clears your to head off across the Pacific with alerts on and alignment lights flashing futiley. The one that works, however, works beautifully.Here's my comment about non-native FSX add-ons. If I removed all the ports from my library, I would be flying... what? Is even the PMDG MD-11 completely FSX native (since they've been working on it a long time, and you can get it in either flavor. Pure or not, it is a great airplane.) All my ports work fine. This could not be more of a non-issue for me.

Is even the PMDG MD-11 completely FSX native (since they've been working on it a long time, and you can get it in either flavor. Pure or not, it is a great airplane.)

Yes, it is. That is why I can get 36 FPS in the VC at any city at nearly maxed FSX settings. No way I could get that with a portover.

Might I just add that the Ready for Pushback B747-200 is completely FS9 compatible and FREE in the avsim library. It will beat anything that CLS does and all this I know just bij reading the review.Unfortunately It doesn't go well with FSX so I'm hoping that some inspired developer does a proper job.jasper

The panel may be good, but I think the rest of the plane is just plain ugly. If you can somehow combine the RFP panel and the CLS model, then it should be a great experience.

RFP was one airplane I loved, and what I miss most about FS9. On the other hand, I don't know that I would want to go back to so much fiddling around with the INS and fuel tanks. It was great then, but some experiences have their time and it is a mistake to try to repeat them.When I really want to manage an airplane, I'll start re-acquainting myself with the A2A B377.I haven't reinstalled the CLS 747 on my new computer yet, but I am sure I will get around to it. I want to do some classic Virgin routes, and also some flights into my Kai Tak scenery. I don't think the CLS 747 is a bad airplane. And the service equipment feature really sets it apart. And if you want a tape 747, that's about your only choice for FSX.