stevefromio

I was reading the manual. It doesn't say very much, but it does have a good history of the bird. It does mention, "Partly simulated pneumatic system." What is a pneumatic system, and does partly simulated mean this isn't very realistic?

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How do you buy scenery from around 10k?

Older commercial aircraft, and a little bush flying in Alaska. I have been to Alaska, and I don't think any software could remotely represent it's beauty.

You really cleared that up. What a great response. I love how you gave pro/cons for both. I am thinking of a product called REX textures. What additional packages would work well with it?

Sadly, you can't download it anymore. Why wouldn't this be more popular? Why doesn't anyone want photorealistic scenery? Why would anyone put so much money in FSX? For that price, I would expect a much more realistic simulator.

Just got it, but there are some problems -- I think. First, the panel labels are in English. Only a few are in Russian. I doubt this exists on the real plane. Second, There is a GPS button on the panel, but there is no GPS in the cockpit. You just get a pop-window GPS. What is up with that? Third, there is this darn annoying beeping from the minute you get into the cockpit.

Maybe Orbx global by itself is the way to go.

I thought the scenery was fake (auto-generated) in X-Plane, not photo scenery? I must say before I make another purchase, that I am thinking about X-Plane, but it lacks so much. That seems awfully expensive and inconvenient.

There must be other options?

Thanks for you help mad dog, Um, $3k is a lot too. There are so many options. You have meshes like FSGenesis, texture replacements, individual cities, airports, etc., etc. I don't know where to begin. As for what I am looking for? The World, as accurate as possible. Thanks, but I don't wan't something downloading from a service. It would be OK if TileProxy simply downloaded everything, but I don't think it does that.

Come on guys, I want realistic global scenery. It is the one things that separates FSX from X-Plane and others. I am starting to look at scenery packages, and they cover very little for a lot of money. What are the best options for someone who is using FSX mainly for geography, and doesn't want to spend $10k+ for all these scenery packages?

Flight simulator is looking more disappointing every day ;-(

Really? I didn't know that. In what way?

I was wondering how many FSX users play DCS-World, or another combat simulator like IL-2? The flight models are realistic (as realistic as FSX I think), and you get to blow-up things :-)

On my list.

Where do you download it?

Obviously, I am not expecting anything better than the Comet, but what do you think for $8?

I was eyeing Just Flights DC-3. Is there anything better?

Why doesn't anyone talk about the PMDG 747? This is so interesting. I thought the default aircrafts in FSX where the worst of the worst in every category. How are you able to mod the default craft so they are better?

Simply the #1 best aircraft that FSX ever had :-)

Then they turn into personal attacks. I think it is a combination of extra sensitivity and extra confident that is normally controlled in the real-world.

How amazing is this! Wow! To think that with $200, you could even have a 1/100 chance in perfect condition to take off and land a real 737. Would anyone have though this possible 10 years ago? It shows how good flight simulator is, and how stable and reliable a real 737 is. One last question. How does the flight computer compare to the real thing? I am assuming this would also be hard to get right perfectly.

This is just gold. Now I have to ask you something that is probably going to get some people on this forum mad. If I became a master of PMDG's 737 and knew everything I could using the simulator, do you think I could really take off, get to my destination and land. Specifically, if the weather was perfect, the plane was setup to go, and I had you to talk to remotely. I remember a recent episode of "Myth Busters". They wanted to know if someone could land a plane with help from an expert on the ground like they have sometimes done in movies. They got into a REAL simulator, and basically were able to land the plane.

Thank you so much. That was the most interesting post I read in a long time. It is a shame that $80 can't get you more :-) Good to know what your getting though. Thank again.