I would love to purchase their great airliner collection, I understand the visuals are great with simple VCs.. that would work smooth and great in FSX without the frame rate hit of other addons right? Anyone out there have these running in FSX and if so, how is the performance compared to default?Peter

Peter,I have the Simmer's Sky airbus collection. The transfer over to FSX was fairly simple. Also there is a write up in the file library on how to transfer most of the Airbus and other Overlands aircraft. At least on my computer there is no hit in fps compared to the FSX defaults. In fact they may be just a tad better. As you already know these are fairly simple aircraft but are IMO they are pleasure to fly in FSX as well as FS9.Hope this will help,Carl

I agree the Overland package, may just be the saving grace for FSX, at least for Heavy Metal! I'm getting better performance with these, then I do with the default aircraft. Still not stellar, but at least, it makes FSX flyable with traffic, and autogen. I get mid teens to 20FPS on the ground (Depending on detail, sometimes lower at really dense airports, like KATL, or KJFK. That's not any worse then FS9 at these airports with heavy traffic!!), with default it was closer to 10FPS without stripping FSX of more detail. and much greater at altitude, this is with my P4 3.8Ghz 2GB GeForce 7800GT system. My settings are 2xQ for AA 8X for AF, FSX settings are max scenery, Autogen set to dense, 19m mesh, 1m textures, traffic set to 100% airline 0% GA, road, airport, boats. I can add some (about 20% each) with these, with minimal hit but choose not to at this time. Weather is set to 70Mile cloud draw at maximum density. There is some manual editing of the panel.cfg and aircraft.cfg files (All covered in the writeup in the lib) but all in all this looks like the best option for those that like flying with heavy traffic, and ATC. Of course, my system is a powerful single core processor, so your miledge will vary here. Right now I don't see how the more complex aircraft, that eat more resources, like PMDG, LDS, and CS (We pretty much know this one!) will fair with FSX, if their performance in FS9 (Relative to other non complex models) is any indication.