Well after not touching fsx in months, I thought I would try it out again, and go fly somewhere other than hawaii. Well, I loaded up a free flight in a cessna, and wow!!! I immediatly noticed how unrefined everything looked.(no addons) the scenery and autogen-yikes! And the cockpit lighting-wow! I doubt I will ever use fsx again since I would need lots of addons to bring it anywhere near flight. Also, the performance....yuk. Anyway, I know lots of people hate flight. ( haters gonna hate) ,but I say it's a 100% improvement over fsx in so many ways...just be patient and positive and more will come to flight in time...all in good time.

Welcome back. :)

 

I'm getting a little anxious for expansion and improvement myself. Hopefully, what's coming will do more than just add more scenery.

Fs9, Fsx, Xplane and Flight are all good but you are right about needing addons. I had to spend alot of money to get fsx and fs9 to look good.

Because with Flight we don't have to spend in addons?

Because with Flight we don't have to spend in addons?

 

 

Cute.

 

Months ago, Flight was criticized because you would have to pay for add-ons. Now, it's pointed out that you have to pay for add-ons just like in FSX.

 

Progress of sorts, I guess.

Yes, right...

 

Still "flying" twins up to NG 737 in FSX, with tons of add ons. Works nice. Do what you need to do from "cold and dark" to the gate. Thats one thing.

But FSX with all screwed up in FSX, is nothing about the feeling at low level as in Flight, This is flying!

 

Well, I am a retired helicoper pilot (CHPL), lots of low flying, aerial work, powerline inspections, photo, filming etc. But never been to the Big Island area IRL so I can´t say so much about what I see compared to the real stuff there. Waiting for Alaska...with hope...

 

(pse, don´t write an estimation here with a guess what I had to pay for getting FSX work with extras, computer power and so on, because if my wife reads it, I have to sleep in the cellar for the rest of the summer) :-)

 

Well after not touching fsx in months, I thought I would try it out again, and go fly somewhere other than hawaii. Well, I loaded up a free flight in a cessna, and wow!!! I immediatly noticed how unrefined everything looked.(no addons) the scenery and autogen-yikes! And the cockpit lighting-wow! I doubt I will ever use fsx again since I would need lots of addons to bring it anywhere near flight. Also, the performance....yuk. Anyway, I know lots of people hate flight. ( haters gonna hate) ,but I say it's a 100% improvement over fsx in so many ways...just be patient and positive and more will come to flight in time...all in good time.

 

My experience is quite opposite. After a week with Flight I can't face it anymore. I can fly Hawaii with my upgrades and still fly the rest of the world. And look your sitting waiting, waiting and waiting just to get another DLC of Alaska, which you will have to pay for (so don't go knocking the addons required for FSX....I have been to Alaska many times since Flight came onto the market and I did not have to pay for it.

Hey, if you gave it a week, then you certainly gave it a fair shot. I don't think anyone will criticize that.

 

Nobody is saying "Flight is for everyone." There's a lot of people it's clearly "not for." But it does do a pretty impressive job with what it does offer.

Welcome back.

 

Holy guacamole, I am pretty damned addicted to MD Flight, and the improved graphics and performance is nothing but immersive. Some have tried begrudging Flight for looking too good, which somehow makes it shallow or something...

ridiculous. If anything, begrudge what is may LACK, (for the time being), but begrudging it for the qualities is HAS is downright silly. Just my opinion, of course.

 

Plus, the amount I have learned about navigation via flight is totally insane. Major shout-out to RoboRay, J van E, and my wife's enduring patience for what appears to her to be the dullest looking thing in the universe, a Maule cockpit. I gotta get her flying!!!!

I gotta get her flying!!!!

 

Get her up in a real airplane some time, like a Cessna 172 at a local airport. She may appreciate the Maule cockpit a bit more after experiencing the real thing. :)

 

jp1018: I kinda like the FSX default autogen at max settings. I'll give it up for the advantages of Flight, though.

 

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FSX ATC interaction is good.

Machado's interactive lessons can help.

Interactive interaction.

For me I gave up on FSX the last time I tried it because it wouldn't run properly on my system ( at the time June 2011) and I would have to invest a fortune on additional Mesh/Landscape/Scenery to really get what I was looking for - a very detailled scenery for Portugal and Spain (Iberian Peninsula) - for glider flying. Then there were problems with the weather, the flightmodels, etc... I eventualy gave up.

 

Later when Prepar3D was offered in an issue of Computer Pilot, I tried it, but soon arrived at the very same conclusion...

 

FLIGHT is indeed my preferred VFR flightsim, as well as ELITE is still (even if old...) my preferred IFR and even ATC flightsim. In ELITE with it's ATC scenarios (unfortunately only available for some regions of the USA) I have the most realistic ATC environment for trainning IFR procedures/approaches under the most adverse conditions that we can find in any PC-based simulator. Using Genview visual databases we have additional 3D landscape not up to present day standards, but enough for IFR trainning. I am also yet to find a simulator that does such a good integration of RW METAR data, and I have used the best weather generators for fs9 and fsx....

 

I don't want to spend much money with flight simulation, I can't!!! FLIGHT is soft, and yet offers me the detaill level that I couldn't buy, although I might certainly achieve with good add-ons for either FSX, FS9 or Xplane... and adds to that those particular features in terms of immersion (and a hell of a lot of FUN!!!), flight models, weather that I find absolutely unique.

Because with Flight we don't have to spend in addons?

 

LOL, exactly. I like Flight and I love some of the things in Flight that you will not get in FSX with any addon, but I also love high def photoscenery with autogen/3d objects and a living world, cars, boats, birds, etc. With the recent release of the nemeth AS355, I have been spending quite a bit of time in FSX which keeps my mind off the fact that I am really, really, really tired of Hawaii in Flight. Luckily it doesn't have to be one or the other, so I can enjoy both for what they each offer.

really looking forward to what Aalska will have to offer,

More things work on the instrument panel in FSX, though I prefer MSF overall.

FSX has more air traffic, which I like, plus ATC comms.

I understand the original poster's position. Happened to me too when FSX came out couldn't go back to FS2004 despite my having invested in addons for it. It's happening again with this MSF, the sloped runways and having to struggle to find the strips is an immersion factor that isn't there in FSX.