I am using XPX pretty happily right now, it has the stuff I want, namely stability and a decent GA plane that I can practice navigating on. I love the night flying and thanks to FS2XPL and G2XPL I have whacked up a nice rendition of the state of Florida.

 

I had to rebuild my system after adding a hard drive and I have not even put FSX back on for fear of the time it will take to do so.

I have them both and like them both for different reasons. I prefer the XPX GA experience as it feels closer to my RL training, but Iike FSX for the Airline Ambience and the candies.

Am I thick? I can't find a link to the vid??

 

I do not know where the link to the video is located but please read the PM I sent you a couple of weeks ago. Thanks.

 

Best regards,

Jim Young

AVSIM FSX Forum Moderator

No seasons

 

This does seems odd given a full install takes up 60 gigs

 

No landmarks

 

definitely sucks for VFR flights

 

No airport buildings

 

This is my biggest complaint about XPlane, some say "just buy the airport payware, you do that anyway with FS9/FSX." Thing is I don't fly to Bangor Maine very often, but when I do I don't want to get the feeling that the Langoliers are about to attack. Ditto goes for one off flights, it's not worth it to buy an airport if I very rarely go near it but want the occasional novelty.

Thing is I don't fly to Bangor Maine very often, but when I do I don't want to get the feeling that the Langoliers are about to attack.

 

Wow, very well done. You win the obscure and funny quote of the day. That made me laught, and it is true.

I've had the sense folks who have tried X-Plane on the whole end up not liking it over FSX/P3D. This video looks amazing from the advertisement on avsim home page now:

 

X-Plane 10 official video by Lupine Productions - August 2012

 

 

For those who have taken the plunge and went back to FSX as your default sim, what are the main issues behind that decision?

 

try it..you will understand why.

For many of us, I think the issue is simply that we grew up with FS. We are connected and there is nothing that will separate us from it.

For many of us, I think the issue is simply that we grew up with FS. We are connected and there is nothing that will separate us from it.

Many of have also invested big bucks to addons, so new platform really should offer huge improvement over souped up FSX. I've tested many versions of XP10 demo's and I think it is great sim platform, but my biggest gripes about it are lack of AI (max 20 planes or so) and that most airports lack buildings. Scenery is probably something that can be improved with addons: city sceneries just don't look right. Of course addons require another investment, a start from scratch again after FSX. I'm not even sure that XP has addons comparable to GEX/UTX or ORBX series which improve large areas. FSX has also huge advantage over available addons, whether they'd be sceneries, planes or utilities.

 

But X-plane's multiplatform game engine seems still terrific and it is evolving all the time, which may of course be a bad thing for devs. 64-bit version should be out pretty soon and I'll keep my eye on where it is going.

Howdy Folks!

 

I've been an X-Plane X user since the day it came out. Definitely a huge contender with tremendous future possibilities but I am transitioning back to FSX for the following reasons:

 

1. No decent AI traffic addon possibility at the moment. Your only option is to utilize the two or three airplanes that come with the program (plus some other freewares available), and not only are they a huge FPS killer but it is very unrealistic to land at an airport with a 2000 ft runway and see a 747 landing or holding short.

 

2. The ATC engine is non-existent.

 

3. Got tired of waiting for decent airport addons. Most of the good stuff that is available is for Europe and other areas of the world the vast majority of simmers are not interested in.

 

4. The couple of really decent commercial aircraft addons available require massive amounts of HW power to run decently - for that, I can come back to FSX and deal with better quality stuff.

 

5. Aircraft sounds in X-Plane are horrible and unrealistic.

 

If you're interested in:

 

Very accurate flight dynamics, great night flying, and a simplified sim experience then XPX is your sim. Again, I truly believe XPX could become our sim platfrom of the future but Austin has his priorities set and he does not seem to listen too much to what simmers also want. XPX does not offer a balanced approach between true inmersion and core dynamics. It is a purely flight dynamics platform (a good one), but the eye candy that makes inmersion true is not there yet.

 

My 2 centts.

 

Dennis

Like the fella above said "Try it, you'll understand why"

Thing is I don't fly to Bangor Maine very often, but when I do I don't want to get the feeling that the Langoliers are about to attack.

 

:LMAO:

*******, 60GB install is mad for what it is so far...

My FSX install, with 737NGX, GEX and FSFlying Shcool Pro and lots of Aerosoft airports only comes to 24GB..

 

I tried X-Plane 10 hoping it would be something amazing, something 64bit and something DX10 or DX11, but the visuals were a big let-down for me..

 

I'd be happy to pay a LOT more for it, if it was equal to FSX with its addons, or had plenty of support from developers like Aerosoft and PMDG, but it was a big put off that almost nothing was available to add to it at the time I tried it a few months ago.