I am thinking about trying it, is it worth buying? Looking forward to hearing from you, thanks.

There certainly is now. I haven't tried it but I am hearing good things about it. They started with the Default 737 and I think they plan to move to other payware aircraft soon. I reckon this is the future. Imagine using Voice Command whilst on Vatsim! What a mind trip.

While the airplane itself isn't much to write home about, default 737-800, this app definitely adds a whole new dimension to it! Voice recognition works very well for me with my Swedish accent and on the whole it's a very rewarding experience! Since you have to speak certain exptected phrases in order to advance through the checklists, it's a totally different experience compared to the other FS2Crew apps. In the beginning you also end up sitting with the manual all the time in order to know what you are supposed to do and wait for!Bryan was looking for an active BAE J41 pilot to help him in making a FS2 Crew app for the PMDG J41 and it seems he has found one chap. This is the one I am definitelyl looking out for and will purchase instantly when it's released. In the meantime the one for the 737-800 is good for getting used to the concept and how one interacts with the app.Bryan also has a forum here at avsim and his support and swiftness in answering questions is second to none!

Careful now, the old FS2Crew products do NOT have voice recognition (although they are still good).They are moving in that direction and their FIRST voice recognition product is FS2Crew 2010 (Voice Commander) product for the default FSX Boeing 737.

Sorry - the older products work by a series of FSCrew sub-panels which are added to the aircraft panel and operated by FS2Crew clickspots. These handle things like entry of take-off and landing briefing data.There are also Main & Secondary buttons which can be configured as keystokes or joystick buttons. The FSCrew sub-panels and Main & Secondary buttons control context sensitive sound files which cover the Captain & Co-pilots' responses to the various checklists & so on and communications with ground engineering, ground crew, cabin crew etc. Depending how you brief the FO, he will operate most of the panel flows leaving you with just the captain's functions. However, you will start for cold & dark and realism is added, so don't imagine you will be left with nothing to do. Quite the reverse.I originally had the FS9 FS2Crew for the PMDG 737 and could use that pretty well. It was FS2Crew's first attempt and worked mainly off sub-panels.I think then FSCrew moved towards heavier use of the Main & Secondary buttons and away from Sub-panels because that was a little less visually disruptive to flying the plane. Quite a lot of functionality was added: you may have to order more pillows or meals from ground services, you may get people smoking in the toilets or air-rage incidents to deal with etc. I found it easy to get lost as to where you were in the flight process and I never quite got to grips with the LDS 767 or Flight1 ATR versions. That may be just me and for sure the ATR is complicated enough at the best of times being a turboprop! I'm currently using FS2Crew for the PMDG MD-11 (yes I have nearly all of the FS2Crew products). Because the MD-11 is a very complicated panel in the first place with lots of sub-panels of its own, the MD-11 FS2Crew seems to have gone back more into the style of the original PMDG 737. The functionality has been cut-back a bit - no need to order pillows but you do still need to conduct an emergency lights test with the cabin crew before starting to board passengers, for example. I'm finding it really easy to use and if you do get lost, you can move forward or back through the process without the First Officer being quite so eager to go into a sulky silence as he was in the 767 for example! Descent & approach is still pretty intensive as you both fly the plane and work through the various flows and checklists with the FO at the appropriate time. That's the beauty of it, that it does make you work hard & fast during take-off & particularly approach - just like the real thing (well almost).As an eample of what can go wrong, yesterday I briefed the FO that we would NOT need autobrake on landing. I realised I'd done it and set the autobrake myself. However, when "he" got to "his" approach checklist, the FO switched it off as I'd instructed him to do so we ran off the end of the runway.The MD-11 FS2Crew is a good place to start if you have the aeroplane. It adds a lot to the basic aircraft but isn't so hard as to be unmanageable. But it doesn't have voice recognition - yet.

Indeed, I read more into the text than actually was there and thought he poster was referring to the latest FS2 crew product! I also have the MD11 version (and the LevelD) and find it to be very useful although it makes you feeling a bit lazy! :D

To answer the Original Poster's question:The latest version of FS2Crew uses voice control (speech recognition).The previous versions do *not* use voice control; instead you control things via your joystick or keyboard.If you want to know what the *older* versions of FS2Crew are like, your best bet is to read the many Avsim reviews or do a YouTube search for FS2Crew so you can watch the many user created videos.There are currently no videos yet showing the new "voice control" version of FS2Crew.However, I'm currently in the process of trying to put one together. Unfortunately FRAPS can't record my voice input, so I have to use a regular hand-held video camera to record the videos, so in spite of the fact that it's starting to look like something out of the Blair Witch Project as a result, it's not a bad.I'll release the videos soon once they're ready for prime time.Voice control is something totally new for FS2Crew, and I believe it may be the future for us. But it's too early to definitively say as some people don't like talking to their computers.At first I didn't like the idea of talking to my computer, but once you try it and see it in action, it's much, much more realistic than using joystick or keyboard input.If you have any more questions, feel free to ask them.

Good point, why didn't I remember that?http://www.avsim.com/pages/0709/FS2Crew/MD11.htm

Thanks to all of you for your great answers. I am beginning to think that I have been missing something. I am looking forward to ordering a version and trying it out ASAP.

I am thinking about trying it, is it worth buying? Looking forward to hearing from you, thanks.

This is how it works. A video is worth 10,000 words...Demo video starting with the User (Capt) calling for the Before Start Procedure, and ending with the After Takeoff Checklist.

Tutorial Video showing how the Main Panel works:

Tutorial Video showing how the Config Panel works: