How could they survive over the long haul without some kind of regular output of new product. This is what Dreamfleet, PMDG, PSS and other rather successful publishers do. You can't stay static.Randy Jura, KPDX

Good points, I am sure it is extremely fun if you have the free time to play the RFP beautiful jumbo. Unfortunately, I don't have the time.But yes, it is just like how they do it in real life, but if I wanted to go through the exact steps to start and fly an airplane, I'd be a real pilot. Instead I'd rather taxi to the runway and takeoff, fly around, and land somewhere I please.Unfortunately RFP makes this next to impossible. I will purchase it very soon when the new liveries come out and some bugs are fixed. But I hope people understand that the sim community is already limited in the choices it has for quality add-ons. Making add-ons like the RFP so advanced it turns away many potential buyers means you are disappointing a large portion of your sales base.But they can do whatever they want, it's their add-on. I'm just speaking my mind for all the hard working individuals who enjoy the thrills of flight without all the stress and time wasting of checklists, autopilot flying, time speed up, et al

I would like to repeat what I said in our forum. Nowadays glas cockpit add-on rules only......people do not wanna fly the plane they wanna be flown by the FMC. That's why we probably have the best product for a very small audiance. If four years ago we decided to do a 747-400, today we probably had a PS1.3 for MSFS and had 10,000 customers. :-lol___________________________Best Regards,Bodo M

>If four years ago we decided to do a 747-400, today we>probably had a PS1.3 for MSFS and had 10,000 customers. :-lolAnd a lot more grey hairs from the strain of supporting them all and answering all the "my 747 turns too steeply, it's a large airplane so it should be slow and yours isn't so yours is wrong I want my money back" type of posts as well :-erks :-fume :-violin

That's right Jeroen. I hope that PMDG won't get too many grey hairs with their upcoming whale :-)___________________________Best Regards,Bodo M

I personally love the detail and do not regret buying RFP at all. I went through all of the freeware 747's and couldn't really find one that I liked.. The aircraft are all great, but the freeware panels leave a lot of the detail out and RFP offered what I wanted, a real 747 experience.

that's exactly the reason I started buying aircraft, I got sick of wading through hundreds of freeware panels that all weren't "it", many of them looking nothing like the real thing and never offering the realism and functionality I seek.Nothing against them, but many panel authors just don't have the resources and expertise to create something of the quality like RFP.