Just wanted to put my two (2) cents worth in. Personally I don't believe FSX has done anything for the flightsim community.While it may have put a few more coffers in the MS bank account, I have seen it create more frustration and confusion than anything. Having conducted a number of public demo over the past few year I can comment without hesitation that FSX has resulted in many potential new members to this great hobby simply 'giving up' due to misleading advertising and extremely poor performance on mid level systems.With a local organization approaching 100 members I know of no one who has stuck with FSX. Bought it..tried it..shelved it! ALL are currently running FS9.The future of FlightSim will and should be driven by consumers and not corporations like Microsoft.I feel developers should respond to the needs and requirements of the market not the perks and arm twisting of corporations with clearly vested monetary interests.