Over the top comment, but...

Looking at how things worked out for MS FS, I wonder what might have been if the FLY! franchise had been the "chosen" one. I know that the passing of Richard Harvey placed a big stop to any hopes of a future for FLY!, but seeing what is happening right now in the hobby, maybe the FLY! series be not out of the question (Big maybe of course). I have read that one of the big commercial developers-distributors is looking into developing a purpose made airliner simulation and is looking for platforms to build this on. If I remember right, PMDG's first forays into add-ons were for the FLY! series with their excellent and groundbreaking 767. I remeber also Robert mentioning that the FLY! platform was specially well suited for realistic 3rd. party complex aircraft developements, I wonder in restropective how the PMDG team feels a platform like FLY! would have worked out as far easyness and potential for realistic and complex add-onn development, and the flight model itself. Just curious,regards,Macs :)