I respect what Geof said. However, as many times as I tried Xplane, I have never been able to get used to it. Scenery is very, very important to me, as is the flight model. ORBX has brought new life to my hobby with their wonderful eye candy that is not only accurate, but quite frame rate friendly. Planes like the Legacy and others keep me really interested. REX gives me the environment I look for, and ASE is the first thing I fire up before going into FSX.

 

I'm still in love with this hobby, and after flying FLIGHT for about 2 weeks, I went back to FSX and began to enjoy it even more. Sometimes you need to try the other sims to realize what a superb platform FSX is (for me) at this point. I'm sure something else will come along....and it may make me permanently navigate to it. I tried Aerofly and flew it for about a week until I got bored with the scenery limitation of Switzerlnand.

 

Without sounding like an employee of JETLINE SYSTEMS (because I'm not), I believe this company has built the perfect computer for my precious hobby. When I found JETLINE, I became a real believer in what the right computer system could really do for this demanding simulation. I've had many systems over the years including hand-built, but nothing even comes close.

 

FSX is alive and well, and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't click on the FSX icon on my desktop.

 

Stan

I respect what Geof said. However, as many times as I tried Xplane, I have never been able to get used to it. Scenery is very, very important to me, as is the flight model. ORBX has brought new life to my hobby with their wonderful eye candy that is not only accurate, but quite frame rate friendly. Planes like the Legacy and others keep me really interested. REX gives me the environment I look for, and ASE is the first thing I fire up before going into FSX.

 

That's where I'm at..............at least until X-Plane has a larger variety of addon aircraft, and lots more scenery of the ORBX type. I like to feel as though there is a purpose of going somewhere. And when I get there, I want more than just topography.

 

L.Adamson

Perhaps my thoughts were unclear. Basically right now if I fly FSX I find myself dissatisfied and wishing that the planes flew, especially in the landing/takeoff phases like some of the great Xplane add ins. When I fly Xplane I quickly lose interest because of the lack of cities, missing roads, land lass and deserted airports.

 

The end result is I just am not simming much anymore....

I have to say that I never got excited over Flight. Not from the day that I first heard about it and watched the introductory trailers. Mainly because I knew that Microsoft trashed its Aces Studio and its involvement with FSX only because of pure, hard-core greed, without any concern for the flight simulation community that it had created.

I have said, since MS bailed out, that it would be the best thing that ever happened to FSX. I believe it has been, for the most part.

Now developers know what they have to work with in FSX, and it won't change drastically any time soon. Now they can learn all of its strengths and short-comings. They can build on its strengths while adapting to and over-coming its weaknesses.

Now, with Lockheed Martin taking over the software, we still have hope for future upgrades. That's even better than I hoped for.

 

As far as what Jeroen is saying here, I can identify with his situation.

I wanted to have a certain addon for FSX so badly that I strongly supported a bad production of it that even messed up my FSX install. As bad as it was, I could see no wrong with it, even when others kept saying it was not good. I just wanted it to be good so bad.

Finally, a real good version was released by another developer and now I can see where I was way out in left field with my opinion of the product.

We see what we want to see through rose-colored glasses. B)

Mainly because I knew that Microsoft trashed its Aces Studio and its involvement with FSX only because of pure, hard-core greed, without any concern for the flight simulation community that it had created.

 

 

What's greedy about Microsoft deciding not to continue with a commercially unviable development?

I just hope that the, as yet, unreleased DLC which has been alluded to involves a helicopter.

 

I'll see that hope and raise you a "strong desire"!

 

Oddly enough, I downloaded FSX the day BEFORE they announced Flight was through...because I wanted to fly helicopters, and Flight had ruined me for FS9!

 

So yes, JVE, I believe we see what we want to - however I still see a great sim in Flight (Hawaii), just wish it had more. Also like you, I wanted Flight to succeed...which I feel, if it brought more people into "our" hobby, it was partially successful. At least they tried...