Should I switch from FSX? I love my FSX and only plane spot and fly AI planes. I am most interested in detailed scenery and lots of variety of airlines and colors. I have numerous payware airport and city scenery and use world of ai and traffic X to generate lots of traffic. I also use super traffic board to watch ai planes arrive, depart, and fly realistic routes. Can Xplane measure up to this? or should I stay with FSX?

No, you should stay with FSX. X-Plane does not meet your specific eye-candy (nothing wrong in that of course, but I think everyone will agree that plane spotting in detailed scenery qualifies as eye-candy. Again, nothing wrong in that) related needs.Marco

I second Murmur's opinion. With at most 20 aircraft, the AI system is still rather clunky in XP10 versus FSX. If you want realistic traffic with realistic callsigns and timetables, you'll stay with FSX. I presume this current state of XP10 is just a stepping stone to something better, but to get the feature rolling and the product out the door, it is rather limited, but can be expanded upon in a later update.

Ok, thanks, I'm glad to get realistic answers. Sometimes you can get confused when you read sales information because it makes it sound like they offer what you want. But when you read the fine print it doesn't. I was reading a lot about Xplane on the FSX forums lately, so I thought about switching but I will stay with FSX for now, thanks again.

you can always try the demo for free and keep an eye on x-plane. no need to purchse right away the initial version. x-plane gets constantly improved with new features even during the run through major versions like from 9.0 to 9.7 and now starting fresh with XP10.

Yep, that's exactly what I was thinking. thanks

Should I switch from FSX? I love my FSX and only plane spot and fly AI planes. I am most interested in detailed scenery and lots of variety of airlines and colors. I have numerous payware airport and city scenery and use world of ai and traffic X to generate lots of traffic. I also use super traffic board to watch ai planes arrive, depart, and fly realistic routes. Can Xplane measure up to this? or should I stay with FSX?

Why do you have to switch? I'm using FSX, and will still be using it after my copy of XP10 arrives.

Why do you have to switch? I'm using FSX, and will still be using it after my copy of XP10 arrives.

I flew two flights in FSX and I'm on my second XP9.7 flight of the day (with a 90kt headwind in my face in a PC-12 on VATSIM lol).Have both kinds of cake!

There are differences in the sims that make each one a pleasure to fly. FSX has the offline ATC with traffic timetables and loads of 3rd party aircraft of amazing quality that really put you there in the seat. XP9 has such a bad ATC system and drone AI that fly in straight lines that I turn them off as it is better than having them around. But the fluidity of the framerates, the weather, fog, water all make XP9 a visual contender. First time I fired up XP9, I paused it to get a drink and when my wife saw it paused, she asked if that is a picture of when I last went flying. Then I hit the P key and started flying and she gasped when it started moving. XP9 visually is better than FSX due to the fact that to get great FPS, you have to turn down some settings or steal from peter to pay paul. Nowadays, systems can run FSX fine (my new 4.8gHz i5 makes that simple) without much sacrificing, but that is just a recent development for most.I will still find reasons to fly both sims, I know. But I like what I see in XP10 as the next step and hope to move forward. When Flight comes out, I will most certainly give it a go, and as I have previously, support it with a purchase of a copy. After all, if we don't show interest, MS may can the whole shebang and Flight will be a last iteration of the franchise.