When I was growing up, my father always said, "garages aren't for cars, they are for building airplanes". I helped my father build many airplanes through the years. Just after graduating high school, I obtained my pilot's license and was dead set on eventually becoming an airline pilot. While in college I worked at a company who designed audio systems/software for simulators, be it car, aircraft, you name it. Being that I was the resident pilot, it was up to me to fly said sims while the other engineer "tuned" the sounds. We were tuning a DC-9 (Level D) when the fleet captain strolled in to see what we were up to. Long story short, he showed me what a typical flight would be like, etc... It came down to being a glorifed button masher with bouts of actually flying the aircraft, i.e.. systems management. I wanted to fly, not mash buttons!Granted I did get a few hours of dual in a DC-9... :Thinking:Anyhow, what I am getting at is that some simmers are the by the numbers, button smashers, knob turners, etc... These are the guys that love the airline aspect and want the flight deck realism. Others like me enjoy "looking out the window". I would much rather practice landings on an angled runway less than 1000' with tress on both sides in the middle of nowhere. For now, the systems guys should just stay with FSX until Flight becomes a more viable solution for what they want in the future. I myself do like all the options/addons FSX has to offer but I am a VFR pilot and abhor the framerate I get in FSX with addons. Whereas this does not matter much when flying an IFR approach into Heathrow, etc. IMO, less than 60 FPS on average is not enough. For me, flight offers everything I need/want at this moment. Yes, there are a few things that I want immediately like autopilot, ATC, and AI but I am sure those will come eventually. I am confused why they went with DX9 instead of DX11 as well...But I do have to say, the flight dynamics are light years ahead of FSX IMO. I can now do a proper snap roll, hammerhead, tailslide, you name it. I have many hours in an RV-6 (conventional gear) and I can tell you, they got the model almost exact! How they got it to feel very light on the controls like IRL, I do not know.

A nice encapsulation of concepts that I have been kicking around in my brain a long (long) time to help explain how this community seems to work.