OwenHewitt

Great!!!

I'd like to see an airport with other aircraft present perhaps. Not the big stuff, GA will do. We'll see what they have up their sleeves!

Looks pretty good to me Brandon!

No sir, I honestly do not know more than what has been released to the public. I'm sure we'll all learn more very soon.Regards,Owen

Wow ... Thank you for taking the time to show these nearly identical snapshots from each. I already see a less cartoonish appearance of MS Flight compared to that of FSX, namely looking at the aircraft itself. It is great how they've reduced the texture stretch on the coastlines too.Regards,Owen

Read this thread: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/323466-a-new-lease-on-performance/

No sir, everyone is on the same playing field with this project ... I know just as much as everyone else or has been posted on the internet.It is a complete 180 compared to the development of FSX where team members were encouraged to blog about the project prior to release.Regards,Owen

There's always been some humor involved in calling this program for what it really is...a simulation. I guess MS is trying to really drive home that this is not just a sim anymore, so I thought that I'd have a bit of fun. I totally believe that this is a sim ... take a look at this other post I did.Best,Owen

Since I am commenting on an almost 2 year old blog post, this may have been referenced long ago ... but since I have seen some recent comments regarding concern on performance, I thought that it was a worthy post. Please give it a read and give comments. Why FSX has Rough Performance.Regards,Owen

Some reflection on the initial post and on the comments left here. Thanks again for leaving your comments!Owen

Very interesting news! Thanks for sharing.Regards,Owen

Thanks for the mention Rhydian!Regards,Owen

Perhaps I am comparing apples to oranges in the broad scheme of things, but as a developer, I am very interested in the idea of security being tightened with such a Marketplace. Either you get it from there or don't get it at all. I agree that it would probably not be in the best interest to make this portal the exclusive place to obtain expansions, especially those that are freely offered. But again, this is all pure speculation and I'm sure we'll learn the specifics soon enough. I appreciate the civil and well supported arguments on this discussion.Regards,Owen

No sir, I'm no longer a MS MVP but I have maintained contact with a few of the folks who remained to work on Flight from the former ACES team. I have not been given any specific information regarding this topic and it is pure speculation at this moment, but my gut tells me this is indeed the direction that MS is going with their software, especially firmed up with the press release mentioned in a previous thread.Regards,Owen There will still be a place for "grassroots" developers I believe. Much like the situation with the Apple app store ... there are tons of apps there that are first time endeavors and tons of free ones as well. We'll have to see what the plan is when things become more concrete in the future.Regards,Owen The mention of reduction in piracy is a pretty valuable one for developers such as myself. I cringe when I do a search for a colleague's project on google to find that it has appeared in some pirate warez site or something of the like.Regards,Owen

I posted a new blog entry giving my prediction of how MS Flight will impact the 3rd party developers. Care to give it a read and comment? MS Flight Add-On Store?Regards,Owen