Rebel_Without_a_Clue

OK txs..I'll look into it a little further.

According to the web site , it's not for entertainment and you're supposed to be either a licenced pilot or student. Is there any truth to this (ie do pthers just buy it for pleasure?). I have X-Plane 10 and am wondering if there's any major improvements in P3D over X-Plane , enough to warant buying yet another flight sim. Txs

txs for the feed back. I'll check into what you suggested. Txs again

Not being a RW pilot I have a question about the Cessna 172 in X-Plane vs the one in MSFX. The 172 is supposed to be considered a STABLE trainer. I'm just trying to learn to fly a flight sim seriously (want to get into online VATSIM eventually) but what I've found is that the MSFX 172 is stable. A wee bit of trim to maintain level flight and away you go. You can then concentrate on navigation. In X-Plane the 172 seems to behave more like a Pitts. Take you're eyes of the controls for a second and you're into a bank/dive /climb etc. It seems overly sensitive to control movements. My question are : is the X-Plane 172 more representative of how a real 172 flies , or does MSFX win hands down with this one. If the X-Plane version is more accurate , how can I stabilize it? Right now I'm simply using a joystick and mouse but would like to eventaully move up to a yoke and pedals. Will this make a difference? Txs

NM-found the solution on some WiKi site..copy from nav.dat

Have the latest WED and would like to try my hand at scenery , but thought I'd start with something "simple" -_- like modifying my local airport. Questions are: 1) Can I simply make a copy of the X-Plane 10 data and work with it? If so , how do I find the airport I want? 2) I know the mesh signatures are lat/long. How can I find these numbers using Google Earth? 3) How relevant are the instructions etc. found in the various forums? ie : one set I have outlining file structures/layouts etc are for X-Plane 8 and doesn't seem to have been updated. Txs for any help..

I play other sims (ie: Armed Assault 2 ; Silent Hunter 4 etc.).Armed Assault has nowhere near the number of players (or sales for that matter) that the fast action FPS's such as Call of Duty and Modern Warfare garner.This is MS's target market. Fast action , low learning curve , immediate gratification.That's where the money is.That's where they'll potentially sell hundreds of thousands of games and after market products as well.And after all , for MS and other gaming companies , the $$'s are what they're after.I put my money into X-Plane 10 for a number of reasons but primarily because X-Plane 10 (and Armed Assault 2 for that matter) are more a labour of love and are constantly being patched and improved.And the developers are approachable.As a simmer , I'm slightly disappointed but for MS I see it as a wise business decision.

Bloody AWESOME!!Are you sure that's X-Plane 10??? Looks so real!!Can't wait for mine...

Stick with what I have and not part with any of my hard earned $$'s

Yep-instead of rushing out and buying just sit back and wait until the USER reviews start coming in. ( I don't pay any attention to magazine reviews as they're bought and paid for by the advertisers).The phrase "integrated content marketplace" does make one wonder though whether the speculation that MS will ship a limited (few aircraft and Hawaiian scenery) and happily sell you other aircraft and regions isn't correct.

Think there is some truth here. How else would you explain the animosity between MW3/BF3 , NWN1 / NWN2 , ArmA2 / Operation Flashpoint 2 etc. gamers? All are excellent but for some reason or other , players will argue to the death that the one they have is better.That aside , Sounds like the OP discovers some very interesting X-Plane things and now I'm REALLY looking forward to getting my copy.And NO , I will not delete FSX. It has it's place for now at least.

Been back packing up in the Rockies (around Banf and Jasper) , did the Chilkoot Trail , flown over the range on the way to Vancouver and trust me , when you get up in the mountains , there are no trees. Snow fields , barren rock , some shrubs but that's about all.Suppose some of the lower "mountains" down across the border might have trees but up here we refer to those as "hills"

Good lord..mountains DON'T have trees. Their peaks are ABOVE the tree line. Hills do. Mountains DON'T.

Though in all honesty , X-Plane models the entire planet to some extent while so far , it looks like Flight is Hawaii only. Sure is easier to model a small island in great detail rather then the entire planet.To boot , it sounds as if X-Plane 10 is going to make it MUCH easier to modify your local scenery.So far all I've seen/heard about Flight are the pretty pictures and the MS rhetoric about an entirely different approach to flight simulation. Does this mean X-Box and controllers ported over to a PC??So far my money lies with X-Plane 10 rather than all those shinny thingies MS is showing.

And what does all this have to do with XPlane 10??? Talking about "realism" , "747" , "flight Sims".. so where's your engineer? What about your "navigator"?? You won't get off the ground IRL without a co-pilot! Face it.. it takes longer to learn to simply start a 747 IRL than it does to learn to fly one in XPlane then take it around the world. Guys are having "fun" with a game that kinda simulates RL aircraft so let them play it as they see fit.