Hi,
I have been able to appreciate both the FS2004, FSX and X-plane 8,9 and now 10. I bought all PMDG's products for FS2004 which included the 737ng 600/700 800/900, the B1900D and C models, the Queen of the Skies B747, MD11 and the B777.
I had tremendous fun with these fantastic models from the PMDG team. I had a catastrophic failure of my motherboard and lost some good hardware but after building a new faster desktop with 64bit operating system and having had a pleasurable experience with X Plane 9 ( X-Plane 7 was a bit iffy compared to FS2004) I decided to run with X-plane 9 and later expanded to X-plane 10 in glorious 64bit. What a jaw dropping sim it is. There are plenty of freeware utilities, scenery airplanes and some of the best payware models available include JARDESIGN A320 Neo, FlightFactor's B777 Worldliner and B757 Professional. Not forgetting SSG B7478 Intercontinental, Heinz B787 Peter Hager A380 and EADT x737 project. Sorry if I missed out the others. There are some great regional models SSG Emb190, Ramzees SSJ100. But I must agree that my experience with FS2004 and FSX will put PMDG at the top of the list in my own opinion and will welcome anything that the PMDG team have to offer the X-plane community.
X-plane is a developing project and Laminar Research are getting better and better at producing such a polished sim. MS have given up , I believe with MSFS. I would encourage any FS2004/FSX user to download the X-Plane 10 demo and have a play. Its great with a 64bit operating system running the 64bt version and mac and linux users are not left behind all 3 versions are on the boxed set of X-Plane 10.
Not forgetting those who like Virtual Airlines, Worldwide Virtual is number 1 this month in the list of VA's and supports MSFS and X-plane.
PMDG...cant wait.
Mike Douglas
EGGP