They really are the kings of vagueness. Apparently it works for them. :(

Bought it! Downloading as we speak. I am officially a 62 year old student teacher helping teach my 7 year old grand daughter to fly.

I agree with that 100%, but Aces was a drop in the bucket too, compared to MS total dollars.Bob

Yup, but the difference is that Lockheed Martin make aeroplanes which excel, as opposed to making Excel. So LM have a bit more of a reason to stay in flight sims, whereas even some MS products are geared toward pleasing accountants. :LMAO:Al

http://www.prepar3d....par3d-academic/ :Peace:Actually, it may appear that for non-academic use it is $199

Interesting :(

"Academic licensing can be purchased for educational efforts at or below the undergraduate level."What do they have against grad students? I have 4 months left and I plan to cash in on as much software I can during that period.

Yup, but the difference is that Lockheed Martin make aeroplanes which excel, as opposed to making Excel. So LM have a bit more of a reason to stay in flight sims, whereas even some MS products are geared toward pleasing accountants. :LMAO:Al

Good point, but they make a lot more than aeroplanes now. There are also deep into UAV's and will be working closely with the Oil Barons. They have an office opening in Houston soon just for the purpose. I guess regardless of where P3D goes, $49 bucks is a drop in the bucket + whatever addons that might be required if not convertible enough for your liking.Bob

What fsx addons work with p3d?

Pretty much all of them, although not all of them are licensed for it.Al

Yup, but the difference is that Lockheed Martin make aeroplanes which excel, as opposed to making Excel. So LM have a bit more of a reason to stay in flight sims, whereas even some MS products are geared toward pleasing accountants. :LMAO:Al

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Roll on P3D!

I seem to have just bought a copy... :(

So... What exactly would be the advantage of getting p3d right now? Are all future upgrades free?Frame rate improvement?

Nope, minor upgrades are free (i.e. 1.2, 1.3 etc), major ones not (i.e. when we end up with version P3D 2.0, or FS11 if you like to call it that), unless on a subscription, but that is kind of similar to buying FS2002, FS2004, FSX, etc, so no different from what we all used to do anyway. The main advantage is that it actually is being upgraded and patched, unlike FSX, which is SP2/Acceleration and nothing else, so it runs better and looks better than FSX, although the other advantage is that you are showing support for it, which means they'll probably keep going.And of course if you point out something which you'd like to see, or a glitch that needs sorting out on the support forum, then unlike FSX which never had a support forum and certainly won't get one now, then P3D will probably get fixed or your suggestion may be added.In other words, if you bemoaned the demise of the Flight Simulator series, then this is your opportunity to keep it going, because the chances are that a good many FSX developers will end up doing stuff for this rather than MS Flight, at least the foreseeable future.Al

When is the DX 11 patch comming out ??

The speculation is that v2.0 will be the DX11 version. Release time? In a couple of weeks...