October 29, 201510 yr Anyway moving on............... Is forced really the right word to use? I would really like to move to P3Dv3 but the price of buying all the addons I use for FSX boxed is too high and to lose AES and RealityXP and others makes me second guess spending so much on a new sim. Sure I'm not forced to spend $140 buying a single PMDG product for v3 but I sure would like to have the 777 or NGX to fly in P3D but that price is too high to justify right now.
October 30, 201510 yr http://en.shop.aerosoft.com/eshop.php?action=article_detail&s_supplier_aid=10333&s_design=DEFAULT&shopfilter_category=Flight%20Simulation&s_language=english Describes it better than I could. An impressive list of supported airports but also some notable omissions - no New Zealand airports and only 2 Australian airports (both part of my backyard), no Orbx airports and very few Canadian airports. Bruceb Bruce Bartlett Frodo: "I wish none of this had happened." Gandalf: "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
October 30, 201510 yr Those of you who are considering moving to P3DV3 mainly because of improved memory management should consider FSX:SE. Those who think that memory management in this version of FSX hasn't been signiificantly improved are IMHO mistaken. Pilots, let me introduce you to Jordan King, if you haven't yet. He has his own YouTube site by that name. In several of his videos he puts FSX:SE some rigorous testiing. Below is one of them.
October 30, 201510 yr Anybody who makes this decision based on the cost of the base sim obviously doesn't understand money and budgets. It's the hardware and add-ons that cost all the money in this hobby. The cost of the sim is trivial.
October 30, 201510 yr Anybody who makes this decision based on the cost of the base sim obviously doesn't understand money and budgets. It's the hardware and add-ons that cost all the money in this hobby. The cost of the sim is trivial. If you add the price of P3D (especially, but not only, for those who chose the Professional License), and the price of some add-ons that must be repurchased and are also more expensive for P3D (for example, PMDG products), you'll end up with a sum that is not 100% trivial compared to hardware costs. For example, even considering just P3D academic license plus the PMDG 777, adds to around 200$. Moreover, most people don't use their PC only for P3D (or only for FSX), so the money spent on it has a different "value" than the money spent on flight simulator software, and the two can't be directly compared. Evidently, some people consider that, investing the budget of e.g. 200$ on a new video card or cpu or whatever hardware, gives them more value for the money than purchasing P3D and repurchasing the PMDG 777, because the latter wouldn't give them enough improvement over what they already have for FSX. "Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people".
August 23, 20169 yr P3D v3, I like the cut of the jib. My only concern is the cost of the PMDG 747 v2, likely to be $135 or more versus -$85. P3D v3, I like the cut of the jib. My only concern is the cost of the PMDG 747 v2, likely to be $135 or more versus -$85 for the SE version.
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