Serious flight simmers are not Microsoft's most important customers because there are too few of them. (The most self-important maybe but that's a different matter.) Microsoft's most important customers are the casual players who will buy far more copies than serious players. Many esoteric wish list items will never see the light of day simply because they are of no importance to Microsoft's most important customers.

You are most certainly right about Microsoft's take on Flight Simulation.How are they adjusting the title to appeal to their most important customers?How about dropping the "Simulator" part off the title and promoting the "just add throttle and the aircraft will takeoff by itself" aspect.Regards, Mike Mann

Actually, Microsoft's most important Flight Sim customer was Lockheed Martin, who are anything but casual simmers LOLAl

Actually, Microsoft's most important Flight Sim customer was Lockheed Martin, who are anything but casual simmers LOLAl

With emphasis on the word was.This was a one shot transaction, after that what Lockheed Martin does with the old ESP code is their concern only, just as what Microsoft does with Flight has nothing to do with Lockheed Martin.Regards, Mike Mann

Actually, Microsoft's most important Flight Sim customer was Lockheed Martin, who are anything but casual simmers LOLAl

Microsoft sold ESP to Lockheed Martin only after it had shut down ACES and realised ESP was a dead end from its point of view. It decided to salvage what it could. Until we know what Lockheed Martin actually paid, we can't compare that with what simmers (of all types) paid.

Maybe in the short term that's the situation but I imagine in the long run there will be other stable releases suited for LM's consumption.

Just to add my thoughts to a lot of the wish list items here not seeing the light of day for various reasons, I think that as long as MS make an efficient engine and a solid core open to third party development then that's all that is really needed. The developers that will cater to most of the wishes here will be third party devs whose business models rely on satisfying the most passionate flight sim users. Just looking at how far the add-on market have carried FSX, it truly never gets old, rather the FSX engine limits and at times cripples development.

The best we can hope for is that MS Flight becomes a stable flight simulator platform (read sim operating system), open to third party development. Hopefully Microsoft will release a "Gold" edition with user friendly development tools so the freeware addon community can grow and bloom.The advanced and realistic simulator we all dream of will never happen. The market is too small to make such a development profitable.

Just to add my thoughts to a lot of the wish list items here not seeing the light of day for various reasons, I think that as long as MS make an efficient engine and a solid core open to third party development then that's all that is really needed. The developers that will cater to most of the wishes here will be third party devs whose business models rely on satisfying the most passionate flight sim users. Just looking at how far the add-on market have carried FSX, it truly never gets old, rather the FSX engine limits and at times cripples development.

agree 100% ;)

BTW, we asked for more realistic engine handling and that the sound follow the RPM and not the throttle for FSX as well. Did we get it then? Will we get it now?

Please, none of this 1995 single threaded BS, get in the 21st century. MULTI THREADED!!!

Life !People all around the airport : Like the Battlefield Series, you choose a man and then you can walk in the whole environment, get in or out of any vehicles and work as :- a air traffic controller,- another one would be a technician working around the airplanes, managing parking, loading or discharging suitcases, doing maintenance or so...- another one could be the stewart and your job is to manage inflight annonces, meals, entertainment, emergencies (like FSPASSENGERS)...- and the last one would be the pilot, but you all know his job !RegardsEric

Life !People all around the airport : Like the Battlefield Series, you choose a man and then you can walk in the whole environment, get in or out of any vehicles and work as :- a air traffic controller,- another one would be a technician working around the airplanes, managing parking, loading or discharging suitcases, doing maintenance or so...- another one could be the stewart and your job is to manage inflight annonces, meals, entertainment, emergencies (like FSPASSENGERS)...- and the last one would be the pilot, but you all know his job !RegardsEric

You are in luck . this game is already made, its called simcity!

You are in luck . this game is already made, its called simcity!

Hello,You missed the point ! :( Battlefield is much more closer than simcity to FSX in the sence that you can pilot and drive any vehicles (including helicopters, planes and boats).BREric

Please, none of this 1995 single threaded BS, get in the 21st century. MULTI THREADED!!!

Ahhh.. all Windows applications are multithreaded.. it's a requirement of a GUI.Where did you read otherwise?

Ahhh.. all Windows applications are multithreaded.. it's a requirement of a GUI.Where did you read otherwise?

Not so - it isn't a requirement. All the Windows applications I've written have only a single thread.