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Virtual Pilot 3D - review blog shows as best FS-scam.

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Hello All,

I was searching for reviews of P3D v.5, just to see how it compared with X-Plane 11 with respect to airliners and scenery etc... when I found a review on a blog. I wanted to post it here so people are aware that "Virtualpilot3d.com" is a scam (apparently, since I've seen tons of scam reports on this forum referring to known FS sites reviewing it.  Here is the link to this "best Flight sim" site:

https://bestnewflightsimulatorgames.blogspot.com/

Just an FYI and a warning to our amazing Flight Sim community.  🙂

 

John

Montreal, Canada

John

I love my iddy biddy Jumbo!

*system specs: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, ASUS ROG Strix B550F m.b., AMD Radeon X5700 8GB VRAM, 32GB RAM, ASUS 28" VG289Q 4K monitor @2560x1440p, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, Honeycomb Bravo throttle quadrant, Samsung Evo 970 500GB, Samsung Evo 970 Pro 1TB.

Thanks for reminding us John. This scam has been around for at least 9-10 years now. The thing called "Virtualpilot3d" is actually a pirated version of the of the free open-source program called FlightGear (https://www.flightgear.org/) ..........Doug

Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.

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On 2/17/2021 at 5:01 AM, W2DR said:

Thanks for reminding us John. This scam has been around for at least 9-10 years now. The thing called "Virtualpilot3d" is actually a pirated version of the of the free open-source program called FlightGear (https://www.flightgear.org/) ..........Doug

Oh, it's my pleasure. 🙂  Except I had NO idea there was such a scam and almost bought it myself! Kinda embarrassed and since I always used either MSFS (2004 and FSX) or now, I use X-Plane, one of the major flightsims, I didn't even look at scams on flightsims. Oh well. I am glad I checked at the last minute before buying and saw the scam news.

John

I love my iddy biddy Jumbo!

*system specs: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, ASUS ROG Strix B550F m.b., AMD Radeon X5700 8GB VRAM, 32GB RAM, ASUS 28" VG289Q 4K monitor @2560x1440p, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, Honeycomb Bravo throttle quadrant, Samsung Evo 970 500GB, Samsung Evo 970 Pro 1TB.

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