1) I wanted to hate it like everyone else but now dag nabbit, MS has sucked me in! Good graphics, fun and realism!2) I am eagerly anticipating someone is going to "crack the code" and allow something great to be added in etc... I check daily now for this.....we've already seen some great new config edits for viewing angle, zoom etc.3) the rumors the Flight team was seen at Boeing field photographing the 787 is almost too much for me to handle4) my 10 year old loves flying flightsims and is getting into this with a sectional chart in hand5) I'm almost ready to get the entire island DLC ... can't help but want to...You can ignore the gamey aspect, we had that in Flight Unlimited III that I was Lead Desiger of way back when, yet, underneath it was a serious sim.... I think this may still happen here.... but even now, it's a great compliment to FSX! yay.

buy the dlc, flying around the whole area is much more fun than flying around a small section. I bought the dlc to support Flight and also my 9yr old nephew loves flying or watching Flight in action. You and your son will love the dlc with all it's fun missions and graphics.

You can ignore the gamey aspect, we had that in Flight Unlimited III that I was Lead Desiger of way back when, yet, underneath it was a serious sim.... I think this may still happen here.... but even now, it's a great compliment to FSX! yay.

Cool, you were the lead designer for Flight Unlimited III. I enjoyed the whole series.

Peter, we see you so rarely here, and yet so many of us were huge fans. It is a pleasure to read your comments.Best regards.Luis

I was a great fan of the Flight Unlimited series. Maybe that's why I like Flight so much.

I commented a long time ago on a flight forum/BBS about how it was just too much of a task to model the entire world in one package, and that the Looking Glass guys had the right idea. Now things have come full circle and MS is know using that model. The plans for Flight Unlimited were very interesting and I was all in. To this day, no one has modeled a foggy, rainy day to do touch an go's in! Actual raindrops on the windshield and canopy!!! Flight Unlimited is the reason flight simming is my hobby today.

Edited March 5, 201214 yr by Bubba04

Hello, Peter,Am I right in assuming you are the same Peter James who used to write reviews for FlightSim.com? If you, are let me say that I really enjoyed them and now miss them greatly. You and Andrew Herd wrote the best reviews. It's sad to see how the quality of reviews have declined so much on that site. They are all way too brief and seem aimed at merely selling products on the Pilot Shop. There that felt better; I've been wanting to say that to someone for a long time!Anyway, glad to see you commenting again!Tom Murphy

You know what makes me really like flight?The fact that I can just get in and fly. Honestly, the first few times I flew, I had this weird sensation afterwards, and it took while for me to realize that what I was missing was the tweaking before during or after an average flight in fsx.I could get quite accustomed to that, but its actually a bit disconcerting at first!Plus its just fun.

It's definitely a great sim for when you just want to fly without spending 40 minutes setting everything up. It's very similar to AeroFly FS (which I also own) in that regard.Multiplayer is another area that has potential. Everyone can actually be flying their own missions or just be in free flight mode. Unfortunately players are scattered in different sessions with no more than 2-3 players in each and a maximum of 16. Proper multiplayer servers with hundreds of players and certain rules to follow wou be much better. With no AI traffic or ATC, the world feels very lifeless and empty.The islands DLC is essential IMO. It doesn't add a whole lot of scenery, but being able to hop between islands really adds to the experience. The islands are quite varied and different from each other, too.

Edited March 5, 201214 yr by JimmiG

Things like this I didn't expect and definitely made me excited. Different wind layers. I hadn't noticed it to such a degree until this flight.While having coffee this morning decided to do a leisurely $100 Hamburger job. Ya know. Something mild and carefree to wake up to.. Take off, climb out and 1/2 of my journey I had these god forsaken 68+ knot winds and I'm in a god darn Stearnman. Climbed out of it. *Whew* Then I got really nervous making my approach.. Dipping down through the apparent hurricane that descended upon me; my plane was a bucking bronco but I managed to not make my passenger sick or complain! I was sure I was going to crash and burn on this landing though if the wind didn't break. But thankfully as dipped down below 3,000ft the winds died down and by the time I was on final I was only dealing with a 8kt head wind. *whew*. .

Edited March 5, 201214 yr by styckx

Things like this I didn't expect and definitely made me excited. Different wind layers. I hadn't noticed it to such a degree until this flight.While having coffee this morning decided to do a leisurely $100 Hamburger job. Ya know. Something mild and carefree to wake up to.. Take off, climb out and 1/2 of my journey I had these god forsaken 68+ knot winds and I'm in a god darn Stearnman. Climbed out of it. *Whew* Then I got really nervous making my approach.. Dipping down through the apparent hurricane that descended upon me; my plane was a bucking bronco but I managed to not make my passenger sick or complain! I was sure I was going to crash and burn on this landing though if the wind didn't break. But thankfully as dipped down below 3,000ft the winds died down and by the time I was on final I was only dealing with a 8kt head wind. *whew*. .

And you know what that sounds like? Fun. B)

You know what makes me really like flight?The fact that I can just get in and fly. Honestly, the first few times I flew, I had this weird sensation afterwards, and it took while for me to realize that what I was missing was the tweaking before during or after an average flight in fsx.I could get quite accustomed to that, but its actually a bit disconcerting at first!Plus its just fun.

I am getting accustomed to that as well. Still love planning, loading, and executing a flight in my default 737 in FSX, and plan to continue to do so.Now though I also have this icon on my desktop, called Flight, I can be just working away on something else - have couple of IE windows open, etc, and quickly double click that icon and off I go for some quick, challenging, and very fun flying with Flight - and the performance is still awesome - no worries about shutting everything down first, loading my joystick file in the stick, just grab it and go.

With that sort of head wind, you can get most anything in flight to HOVER!!! I was able to get the Maule to hover and land in a 54kn headwind. TAKES A LOT OF STUCK AND RUDDER, but it works.

With that sort of head wind, you can get most anything in flight to HOVER!!! I was able to get the Maule to hover and land in a 54kn headwind. TAKES A LOT OF STUCK AND RUDDER, but it works.

I once saw a Fieseler Storch replica hover at an airshow. There was a good strong headwind and the Storch has an incredibly low stall speed.

I am getting accustomed to that as well. Still love planning, loading, and executing a flight in my default 737 in FSX, and plan to continue to do so.Now though I also have this icon on my desktop, called Flight, I can be just working away on something else - have couple of IE windows open, etc, and quickly double click that icon and off I go for some quick, challenging, and very fun flying with Flight - and the performance is still awesome - no worries about shutting everything down first, loading my joystick file in the stick, just grab it and go.

Bizarre thing just occurred to me..... could flight, as compact as it is now, be run from a usb stick?