I am still trying to decide if I want to buy this sim. The two complaints that I see most often are the ground textures and the flight models. I see a few add-ons and tweaks for the ground textures but is there anything that can be done about the flight models? Are they open architecture? I am hoping for the 'feeling' of flight similare to IL-2. Will this be possible by tweaking?

I like the ground textures, nicer than the Fs2002 ones IMHO. They seemed to be layed out more realistically and have the autogen fllow certain paths as opposed to just there. Flight models the jury is still out, I like the way they handle and you can notice a bit of a difference, but some "feel" better than before and others....I think the 2 things complained about most are graphics issues with Vid cards and the cloud performance (which is a killer) once you get past these, it should run pretty well.I am upgrading my 1 gig athlon, radeon 7200 system which runs it ok with most sliders maxed (NO CLOUDS!), to an ASUS NForce 2 MOBO, Athlon 3200,and 1 gig Geil high performance PC3700 mem, and my old G4 128 mb 4600 on Wed, so hopefully I will be able to get a significant performance boost. I was going to go the Intel route, but it seems everyone that has had problems is running an Intel, so I opted for the Athlon, saved some $$$ as well.Regards, Michaelhttp://mysite.verizon.net/res052cd/mybannercva1.jpgCalVirAir International VAwww.calvirair.comCougar Mountain Helicopters & Aviationwww.cgrmtnhelos.com

buy a 21" monitor you will really feel flight.