Having just completed my first (fairly short) flight in MSFS, I must say I rather like it!

Judging by posts here and elsewhere I feel like I must be one of the lucky few that actually managed to get it fully downloaded and installed with one click, and after a bit of housekeeping on my system (driver update and turning Hyperthreading ON) I was up and running. Performance on my fairly mid-range by today's standards system is actually not bad at the installer-recommended HIGH preset. I have a feeling I'll have to tweak some things down to give the airliners a fair try but I just did a great flight in the C152 along the South Coast of the UK from Shoreham to the Isle of Wight. The Solent area I believe is one of the ones with excellent coverage by Bing and it looked utterly breathtaking in the sim. I then landed at Bembridge and again was amazed by the immersion I felt - the sounds of the rattles and the shakes and the jolt as my wheels hit the runway! I'm actually blown away.

Is it perfect? No. But honestly for an out-of-the-box flight sim experience, nothing has looked this good and been this accessible - I was from the Desktop to up in the air within 3 minutes. P3D with TrueEarth would take at least 10 minutes just to load and still doesn't look as nice as this..

I hope I haven't jinxed it now but I can see I'm going to have a lot of fun with this, and I hope that support for it grows and it continues to evolve as from what I've seen so far it shows huge promise.

Just my two cents.. and give my graphics card fan a few minutes to stop screaming...

 

I like it too and am having a great time. So much to do and so much to discover.