Edit:Just saw this:http://flyawaysimulation.com/news/4317/microsoft-flight-behind-scenes-at-microsoft-studios/Never mind about the whole PMDG, ORBX,FSDT thing...

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Thanks !!I did not know.FinnJ

Thanks !!I did not know.FinnJ

That's alright.

You are correct that I'm a developer for Aerosoft, but thats does not mean that I can´t comment !!

Finn, I have to apologize. I did not mean to express that devs shouldn't comment. So I'm sorry if it could be read that way. I was aiming for the point that they should be marked as devs, therefore enabling a clear view on possible motivations and backgrounds.Since your tag is updated now any since you've also showed an open and friendly behaviour on that process, I actually have to applaud to you as you've showed how it's done.Now, on the touchy 'Flight vs. XP' case running in all flight sim forums, we may agree that the Aerosoft viewpoint is biased towards XP and comes with a economical background. That's the point where I, personally, would hold back with comments on certain threads if I was a dev over there. It looks motivated where it might not have been intended to do so.However, facts and knowledge are always appreciated and I think that your work shows that you have quite some of those skills.

Just saw this:http://flyawaysimula...rosoft-studios/

Nice read! thanks for the link.

Edited January 4, 201214 yr by CoolP

Finn, I have to apologize. I did not mean to express that devs shouldn't comment. So I'm sorry if it could be read that way. I was aiming for the point that they should be marked as devs, therefore enabling a clear view on possible motivations and backgrounds.Since your tag is updated now any since you've also showed an open and friendly behaviour on that process, I actually have to applaud to you as you've showed how it's done.Now, on the touchy 'Flight vs. XP' case running in all flight sim forums, we may agree that the Aerosoft viewpoint is biased towards XP and comes with a economical background. That's the point where I, personally, would hold back with comments on certain threads if I was a dev over there. It looks motivated where it might not have been intended to do so.However, facts and knowledge are always appreciated and I think that your work shows that you have quite some of those skills.Nice read! thanks for the link.

I now got Your point and hope others see my inputs in the right context, though I´m honestly not biased towards X-Plane ;)FinnJ

I now got Your point and hope others see my inputs in the right context, though I´m honestly not biased towards X-Plane ;)

Even if you would be, not a problem.I think Aerosoft took the right and also brave step on supporting X-Plane.Same as for some other folks, I like FSX, I did not see any improvement with prepar3d so far and I'm looking for the next thing on a mid- or long-term basis.With MS rolling up the marketing of 'Flight' now, I expect some advertising and teasing to arrive, but I'm not tempted by design, not at all. I could think of some devs supporting 'Flight' because the MS bandwagon develops a huge inertia and therefore market success by design, but I could also image some others not being too happy about seeing future addons getting sold in the marketplace way, dictated by MS.However, the good addons made my days in FSX and quite some of them e. g. came from Aerosoft. So I think we've just entered the regime where not only the best player wins, but also the one with the best supporters. I can't recall seeing a fight on that level staying fair for long, so my sympathy is with XP, while I'm excited to see the MS weapons, so to speak.

*Sigh*...looks like P3D will be the way to go in the future....I'll probably still check out Flight, if for nothing else but the novelty, but with the limitations stated, FSX will remain the sim of choice fo a while, which is fine. Too bad, though.....

Finn Jacobsen(Flightsim hobbyist and developer for Aerosoft in my sparetime)

Don't worry Finn just say and state your point of view of things despited what others think or say ;-)Ps.: We should have more user colors here, since not every visitor is unbiased here and has contributed to a product lol

Hi,Guess we could start with a beta tester color. :(

Don't worry Finn just say and state your point of view of things despited what others think or say ;-)Ps.: We should have more user colors here, since not every visitor is unbiased here and has contributed to a product lol

Hi,Guess we could start with a beta tester color. :(

Lol :( Mike I hate those color tags :( but the point is a lot of visitors here aren't unbiased...

Hi Andre,I hear ya, everyone has an opinion and I'm sure many of these opinionated individuals are biased in some way, even if a monetary interest in a product is not the reason . Guess everyone should have a color. :(

Edited January 4, 201214 yr by Mike_CFII_MEL

Lol...There where a thread in the PMDG 737 NGX forum for a couple of month ago..http://forum.avsim.n...ost__p__2164753I was warning about the hype around MS Flight, but some simply want MS Flight to become the successor of FSX so much that they can´t see the forrest for trees.Maybe they now start to understand why "MS Flight Simulator" has become "MS Flight".Sorry for this post, but I could not resist...There seems to be no future in MS Flight for 3rd party addons.FinnJ

Have you ever thought of doing palm reading :Shocked:How did you know that?Bob

How do you interpret the announcement about Flight, that FSX is Dead in the water? As long as dvelopers continue to develop for it, and I see no sign of that happening anytime soon, FSX will be alive and well. The high cost of Prepar3D is going to keep many simmers away, no matter how much better it is. We are still in a recession, so it's less likely your going to see that many addons for it that won't/can't be ported back to FSX. It is likely you'll see FSX addons that will be ported to Prepar3D, since it does have FSX at it's base. As more and more people move on to faster systems, that run FSX better, I think we are however going to see a steeper decline for FS2004 addons and use.

Sorry to be naive, but what is Prepar3D?

Have you ever thought of doing palm reading :Shocked:How did you know that?Bob

Well I rather stop posting more in this thread...All what I have told has been public available in various forums and sites at various times ever since MS Flight was announced.Better wait and see what it becomes - I hope too to be positive surpriced.FinnJ

Hi,Prepar3D is basically FSX on steroids. There are two options, a $500.00 one time fee to own or a $10.00 month subscription, I've enclosed a link to L/M and P3D. I just hope L/M sees this tremendous opportunity that's before them (now that MS Flight has dropped the ball) and offers the serious home sim pilot a better one time fee for P3D.http://www.prepar3d.com/

Sorry to be naive, but what is Prepar3D?

Edited January 4, 201214 yr by Mike_CFII_MEL