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No way. Really?

Nice upgrade.

And I can name just as many, if not more people who have a lot of praise for X-Plane. One of them is the very person you mentioned. FD2S. Why are you so insecure about your choices, that you have to make comparison posts like that in here? If you like namedropping that much, I can definitely indulge you. Or is your whole aim to have another X-Plane thread locked? @tonywob

Here we go again. More MSFS vs X-Plane drama. It never ends.

Ah, the “are you an expert in the field you have an opinion on” argument. I don’t need to be a chef to know the food tastes bad in a restaurant I’m eating in. But if that’s your argument, Austin has been a pilot for 30 years, and he wrote X-Plane, and is convinced it’s the best flight model in the commercial market. He also has several staff working for him who are also pilots. One of them being a Lufthansa Captain rated on Boeings and Airbuses. So your argument is moot.

One of the perks of being a multi millionaire, is you can send an employee to the Bahamas on a work trip, and then write it off as a tax deduction.

Then I guess it's lower on their priority list. Further to that, I have no idea what you mean with alignment, and if it's a networking thing, see my comment about priorities. Would you like a list from the XP12 ones? I assure you, they are plentiful. I picked one of the ridiculous ones I remember. I stopped worrying about them for XP12. Cool. Then if you find problems, report them. They're fixed when they get fixed. If you can't wait for the fixes, read some books or go for walks. Constantly ranting and complaining about networking issues on here do nothing to get them fixed. This isn't a support channel for LR. Fair enough? Good. 👍

I'm not in a position to speak for LR, but IIRC, your issue has been addressed already, hasn't it? A few months ago, there was some networking fix. Again, the networking problem was not a priority among the other items that needed to be looked at. A large cloud update was just released a few months ago. There's a new shadow quality slider added. They know about this, and it's going to get looked at. I won't go on with your other issues. Bottom line, what you find problematic, LR find it either acceptable or it's going to get looked at. Dusk and dawn lighting is getting overhauled because they have Faruk working on that, based on his work in enhanced skyscapes. But it's not a quick and easy fix. This one I have to address, because you are completely wrong. Example. Here is a sample bug report from X-Plane 10, taken almost verbatim. "I'm a real world C172 pilot. The default C172 flies wrong on take off and landing. Please fix." That's it. No details. No numbers. No flight model output. One line. I do hold you in high regard, Mike, but If you're going to justify that kind of bug report, I'll be the first in line to tell you that those kinds of reports will get a head shake, face palm, and almost always get deleted with no reply.

Every bug that gets reported gets put into a repository and prioritized according to importance. So if your reports were legitimate, as opposed to "the color is wrong on the Airbus panel", (not saying that's what you said, just mentioning that they get those kinds of reports), then they were all placed in the repo and will be addressed.

Just curious...you claim to have reported "many" bugs that were "never fixed". How many bugs have you reported? LR almost always reply to bug reports asking for details and steps to reproduce the problem. How many times have they responded to you? And what kind of bugs were they? If they were the type, such as "The Airbus doesn't fly right.", then you can expect no reply.

I can kind of get where P3D are coming from. The commercial market is not at the top of their list. AFAIK. They had operating expenses of $60 billion up to March of this year. A flight sim that brings them some pocket change isn't going to make them set other priorities aside to please a bunch of avgeeks. 😛

Every version of X-Plane and MSFS I've ever bought, I have bought without paying attention to the aircraft used on the cover or for their marketing. I look at the performance, graphics and flight model. My expectations for default aircraft, in ANY sim, are very low. Primarily because I hardly, if ever, fly default aircraft. You're more than entitled to have a different view, but if you expect payware quality default aircraft, you're expecting way too much. And I'm not even going to blast the default aircraft in the other sim. Particularly the TBM, which I have a great deal of knowledge about, in the flight model and visuals.

Shoddy is a subjective term. What you think is shoddy, someone else might think is good enough to be included in a flight sim for free.

Thought that was a real photo for a second.

Just to throw my 2c in. I have to say the X-Plane flight model is the best in a commercial flight sim, by far. And the flexibility it allows with changing variables is outstanding.