FlightSim Community Survey 2020 by Navigraph

[OSM 683]

This is the largest and most comprehensive Flight Simulation Survey in the world! By participating you are influencing the future of the community.

Participate in the survey

Last year's results HERE.

"13-23 November 2020 Navigraph is conducting a FlightSim Community Survey together with several major addon developers and organizations within the flight simulation community. The survey, the largest of its kind, aims to gauge the prevailing flight simulation trends and users' requests for future development.

Like previous years, this survey has an emphasis on the major flight simulators such as Microsoft Flight Simulator, Lockeed Martin Prepar3D and Laminar Research X-Plane, but now also includes questions about simulators on mobile devices, combat simulators, and helicopter simulation."

On the 10th of December (tentatively) results will be presented on https://blog.navigraph.com.

Edited November 15, 2020 by OSM

[RaptyrOne 1,411]

It is a long survey. You are asked in one question if your flight sim hardware kit includes polarized sunglasses or a leather flying helmet. Nothing wrong with that of course..... 🙂

Edited November 16, 2020 by RaptyrOne

[Krakin 5,766]

1 hour ago, RaptyrOne said:

It is a long survey. You are asked in one question if your flight sim hardware kit includes polarized sunglasses or a leather flying helmet. Nothing wrong with that of course..... 🙂

Sounds like they want to know EVERYTHING

[PWJT8D 446]

One of the questions I like the most is the one right to the point, which simulator do you use most often. Last year the survey additionally asked if you plan to use the upcoming MSFS. Which don't quote me on this but I think was somewhere in the 40 percent-ish range.

It will be interesting to see how that result compares to this year's survey and just how much market share MSFS has pulled from other simulators. 

[jpe828 624]

Be advised, this is NOT a short survey lol

[Republic3D 1,232]

I took the survey as well. Quite a long one. 

[Paul_Yorks 97]

2 hours ago, Krakin said:

Sounds like they want to know EVERYTHING

So true.  I drew the line when they asked me to get the mirror and ruler out.

[vbazillio 2,234]

Frankly speaking, I've never seen a consumer survey like this one. If you want to discourage the most to reply, you won't do it another way. Not to mention you get only good english respondents. It looks like a sum of different surveys, not to mention long and very long questions.

Don't misunderstood, I promote it to all my network as the result are valuable only if we are numerous to share our sim attitude.

[pmb 5,137]

21 minutes ago, vbazillio said:

Frankly speaking, I've never seen a consumer survey like this one. If you want to discourage the most to reply, you won't do it another way.

I completed it but it is time-consuming and tedious. Thus, I would take the results with a grain of salt. Occasional simmers, including newcomers, which may make a considerable part notably of MSFS users will sure be underrepresented.

I may well end up being the only one who replied considering himself mostly as a gamer.

Kind regards, Michael

[sanh 823]

Yeh way too long and sometimes repetitive. Too many options on some of them - the number of times I hit Strongly Agree was a lot.

[jpe828 624]

1 hour ago, vbazillio said:

Frankly speaking, I've never seen a consumer survey like this one. If you want to discourage the most to reply, you won't do it another way. Not to mention you get only good english respondents. It looks like a sum of different surveys, not to mention long and very long questions.

Don't misunderstood, I promote it to all my network as the result are valuable only if we are numerous to share our sim attitude.

My thoughts exactly... i found myself just drifting off in thought going through it. Way too complicated. Most people won't get through it. I think it took me less time to file my income tax. 

[omarsmak30 4,068]

This is very long survey and some questions are just being repeated. 

And what is point asking me how much I earn yearly? It has nothing to do with simming (of course I didn't answer) 

Edited November 16, 2020 by omarsmak30

[pmb 5,137]

6 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said:

This is very long survey and some questions are just being repeated. 

And what is point asking me how much I earn yearly? It has nothing to do with simming (of course I didn't answer) 

As far as I know, repeating questions in surveys is a means to check consistency and believability of the replier. It's done regularly.

The income may be of interest to get an idea of the potential money simmers would be able to spend for flightsim software and hardware. E.g., if the income rises/sinks over previousy years, present user population would have more/less money available for buying stuff than before.

Kind regards, Michael

[Alvega 2,124]

I took the survey also, and I liked it. It's long but I even enjoyed answering all those questions. I think they made the important ones.

Looking forward to the results. 

[edpatino 1,964]

Completed, as every year. Hope the results will be published before Christmas.

Thanks to Navigraph and mainly the partners.

Cheers, Ed