VFR Flyer

Hey Sumer, I use 2 SSD's in my setup. A 60GB for Win7 & a 240GB for FSX, Add-ons and PC games. Win7 uses about 20-25GB, itself. FSX needs less than that, however add-ons fill up disk space quickly when you start collecting Scenery, Airports and Aircraft. So, a 120GB will work with both Win7 and FSX + add-ons, but space will get used up. Performance will be very good, fast startups and texture loading. Hopefully, other forum members can share their experiences to help you with your questions. Your specs are great and FSX should run smooth with fast FPS. Put REX and GEX on your other hard drive, they won't benefit from the SSD performance and will take up alot of space. BTW, the video doesn't show up for me.

All I can say Howard is that I have cockpit envy, now. What a great hobby we all have.

My take on MS Flight is that Microsoft was experimenting with a new strategy to introduce flight simming/gaming to a younger audience, while providing a better flight engine/scenery platform that could be expanded and enhanced for veteran flight sim hobbyists. Flight received such negative feedback from older FSX/FS9 users, was not put out for XBox AFAIK (for the younger crowd), along with the 3rd-Party developers not willing to partner with Microsoft giving them a commission on the add-ons they produced. Let's face it, Microsoft is a corporation driven by profit for their investors. To put money into R&D for a new simulator in this present economy isn't very smart, considering the market and customer base. Flight to me had great potential, but it's marketing and with a instant gratification society ranting for their own desires/disappoinments, Microsoft had to stop developement and move on, erasing any hopes for a better simulator being produced by them. PC Gaming is on the wane, many people cannot spend money on a high performance spec PC to even run FSX, adequately. Let alone, Xbox, Wii and Playstation taking a big piece of the gaming market. And, with Tablets and Smartphones taking over what the PC had been doing for many years. I consider flight simming a niche market for PC enthusiasts who love their hobby and enjoy tinkering with their machines and software. X-plane doesn't appeal to me, but I still fly FSX almost everyday. For us, we need to support OrbX, A2A, REX, RealAir, Carenado along with too many to mention 3rd party developers to help our hobby continue... MVGibbage had some interesting things to say about Flight's potential and it's managerial challenges in this thread: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/380841-flight-post-mortem/