Good to know Aerosoft are as on board as they are. They've consistently made some great add-ons for FS. Their PBY, Bronco, AN-2, and their gliders, are some of the best sim aeroplanes ever made, and they've often pushed things scenery and utility-wise with stuff like African Airstrip Adventures, so I'm sure Asobo will be able to learn a lot from the 'can do' approach Aerosoft takes with matters.

I've been buying Aerosoft products - not just flight sim related ones - for close to 20 years. Some are good. Some not so much. I found their "Mega Airports" always a drag on my system, and their CRJ and Airbus versions also left much to be desired, especially this "18 fps" requirement they implemented with the P3D version of their Airbus series.

Edited October 9, 20205 yr by Ricardo41

10 hours ago, Mace said:

@ChaoticBeauty or someone else can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the boxed version is not sold in North America, and I don't think they ship to the U.S. (?)  Or at least they weren't.  Maybe that will change.

Indeed, it is only sold in Europe as part of their agreement with Microsoft. Only way to buy it if you live in the US is to find a retailer that are willing to ship there, though the shipping costs would likely be very high and take very long nowadays. Also the Premium Deluxe edition will probably become extremely hard to get at some point as the first production run was sold out very quickly, and they started selling a limited amount of them again around 2 weeks ago.

If anyone's interested, Mathijs Kok has stated in the Aerosoft forums that their sales of Prepar3D add-ons have totally crashed, but they haven't seen such interest in Microsoft Flight Simulator add-ons since 2002. For all its issues, it's so amazing how this simulator resurged people's interest in aviation so rapidly. It makes me feel a lot more optimistic for the future.

8 hours ago, Slides said:

You don't get it. They signed off the video by calling it MSF and not MSFS

I noticed that also. Asobo, when advertising jobs to work on the sim, call it MFS, so for me that's the "official" version (after all Microsoft is one word so only needs one letter to abbreviate it). I suspect that Aerosoft, not being native English speakers, habitually may have inverted the words. e.g., English says, "the brown door" but most other languages use the structure "the door brown" which actually makes more sense; get the thing stated first and then its attributes. So maybe they think of it as Microsoft Simulator Flight. Or maybe it was just a slip of the tongue....