phillipw

And the view from inside.

I live in Portland Or. Although I'm lucky enough to have access to more that vacuum tubed based sims, I feel your pain. Shoot, the only thing I see vacuum tubes in anymore are electric guitar heads and old CB radios. I'm 59 (almost), I don't miss them. :(

I had to register so I could correct your "error". :( The difference between X-plane (9 and I'll assume 10) from the other two is that x-plane IS a real flight sim. Neither FSX nor MS Flight has "the blessing" from the FAA... whereas you can buy an FAA approved version of X-Plane.Thus...X-Plane = PC based flight simulatorFSX= PC gameFlight= PC game. Something that gives me a similar result as flying a real aircraft...without the fear of death?? :) I can get close enough (for me ) with FSX. I can "IFR myself all I want" in FSX and it's a fairly decent represention of real IFR, IMO. With X-Plane, I can even log some of the time (I have the "approved" version).I'm really wanting to see how Flight turns out. My flight sim days go back to the old Sublogic stuff on the C-64 and the Amiga. I wish MS would have let me give "Flight" a whirl. I'm a "real pilot" with more than a few hours (PPL since 71) under my "wings." They blew me off. :(