jwenting...Just go back a very few years... I remember when they redefined the definition of a mainframe to... "The largest peripheral you can hang on a PC".Tell your story to Computervision and Intergraph with their 100,000 to $200,000 per seat drafting stations that got totally "whacked" by some programmers that were involved with the creating of Autocad as an improved replacement at $2000.00 a pop.The hardware for the capabilities of a single top-end PC today, could not be housed in a large foorprint 10 story building of just 15 years ago. And these were the machines that ran those wonderful "multimillion dollar" commercial simulators of the day.In the current MSFS simulation, just output reliable digital information about what's going on to three independent stepping motors, and the game is over for these companies as well for a large part of their market.But bureaucracies spend millions of dollars for things for a variety of reasons that go way beyond the needed and obvious. So these software companies will most likely continue.But the ability of a PC to replicate actual flight in a quality manner at this point in time is there. I heard directly in an recent interview with the actual flight crew of the last space shot, that they spent endless hours on their laptops making simulated landings before the flight.Those were not "multimillion dollar machines".Bob (Lecanto, Fl)

Donny AKA ShalomarFly 2 ROCKS!!!The military too. There's the story of a cadet at Pensacola who graduated so far at the top of his class, investigation revealed an MSFS connection.Squadrons usually deactivate the motion anyway, it can't give you G's. And PCs can be transported easily/set up quickly during overseas deployments.I agree about why big companies do things the way they do, there will prolly be multimillion dollar sims with us for a while yet.Best Regards, Donny:-wave

I understand Boeing was showing off a few of their products at the latest Paris Airshow using FS9. I have no idea if they were showing cockpits, or just the extrenals. I have no idea if it was add-ons we use or something Boeing developed in-house.Tony=http://www.flightsim-bevs.com]