Just now, PilotPete99 said:

I also thought I heard that the Aerosoft CRJ, which I happen to enjoy, is quite a ways along and may be available in the near term. I could be wrong though, but I would be eager to see that in MSFS.

Cheer, Pete

Oh yea, im really looking forward to this one too, althougt, the Aerosoft products have always put my PC on its knees 😊

Methinks the word 'study-level aircraft' is a bit of an anachronism, really. Nobody really 'studies' it. 

I suppose it is a thing to call an aircraft that, but, in reality, it's actually learning a 'complex' aircraft. 

Granted, I'm being a bit pedantic.

Just now, Wobbie said:

Methinks the word 'study-level aircraft' is a bit of an anachronism, really. Nobody really 'studies' it. 

I suppose it is a thing to call an aircraft that, but, in reality, it's actually learning a 'complex' aircraft. 

Granted, I'm being a bit pedantic.

Spending hours in pdf docs certainly feels like studying at times 😅

Just now, leprechaunlive said:

Spending hours in pdf docs certainly feels like studying at times 😅

 

 

Just now, leprechaunlive said:

Spending hours in pdf docs certainly feels like studying at times 😅

 

I so agree, but the quanity of pdf's do not a so-called 'study aircraft' make. 

2 minutes ago, Wobbie said:

Methinks the word 'study-level aircraft' is a bit of an anachronism, really. Nobody really 'studies' it. 

I suppose it is a thing to call an aircraft that, but, in reality, it's actually learning a 'complex' aircraft. 

Granted, I'm being a bit pedantic.

And is Anachronism the right word for that? 

8 minutes ago, leprechaunlive said:

Dunno, wasn't born 😄 im kidding, but i got into it round about FS98 (did that existed?) the one prior to FS9, cant remember the name. 

Nice little History Course here.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Flight_Simulator

When FS98 came out, it was the first one to use DirectX and hardware acceleration.  But Sierra put out Pro Pilot 99 which supported 3DFX Glide cards and there was no comparison visually.  Mountains were generated with DEM for the first time and Clouds, while simple were "puffy".  FS98 was still using simple polygon mountains and Minecraft 3d Clouds.

FS 2000 was a big step from FS 98, and it had the Concorde and the first one to have a "professional" edition, and the concorde, but it was a pig.  I mean a real performance nightmare.  FS2002, (FS8) is where I think MS really started hitting their stride.  

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Just now, Wobbie said:

 

I so agree, but the quanity of pdf's do not a so-called 'study aircraft' make. 

Yea, most of the times pdfs are a smoke screen, making think you need all that to be able to fly the thing. When actually, you probablyjust need the checklist,  and some Normal Opererations. 

1 minute ago, leprechaunlive said:

And is Anachronism the right word for that? 

Anachronism Definition

In other words, anything that is out of time and out of place is an anachronism.

In any case, it sounds good.

1 minute ago, wthomas33065 said:

Nice little History Course here.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Flight_Simulator

When FS98 came out, it was the first one to use DirectX and hardware acceleration.  But Sierra put out Pro Pilot 99 which supported 3DFX Glide cards and there was no comparison.  FS98 was still using simple polygon mountains and Minecraft 3d Clouds.

FS 2000 was a big step from FS 98, and it had the Concorde and the first one to have a "professional" edition, and the concorde, but it was a pig.  I mean a real performance nightmare.  FS2002, (FS8) is where I think MS really started hitting their stride.  

Thanks i feel old now 😊

1 minute ago, leprechaunlive said:

Thanks i feel old now 😊

You and me both.  I had a 100 MB zip drive and I told my wife I would never need to buy another hard drive because I could just add another zip disk.  Then MS released FS95 with it's >100MB footprint.   Thanks....

1 hour ago, wthomas33065 said:

100 MB zip drive

Just threw my last one away...disks/player/cables/bulky pwr supply.  Still remember the thrill of plugging it in, seeing all that free space...and how incredibly fast it was....even ran a lot of programs from it.   Those were the days!

Oh....swear I said the EXACT same thing to my wife back then too!!!!  Didn't they also make a 250 model?   Can't remember.  And we have to remember this was MBs!  The last 4k screenshot I snapped, in raw form, would have filled up 1/3rd of that 100 zip drive disk! 🤣

20 hours ago, SmokeDiddy said:

This sim is like playing golf...you go out one day and can't hit that white little pill for anything and throw your clubs in the creek or wrap a wedge around a tree, then you go out the next day and have a fine round which feeds the need to fire it up again the next day and the circle of life continues.

You just described flight simulation magnificently...successes followed by abject failures. Bravo 🤣 👍👍👍