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I was the same as I've completely migrated to P3D however they offer an upgrade where you just pay the difference in price and I couldn't resist that :D

Here is a dev interview, can see why it took 6 years to make! Even has stuff like steam coming off the wings when you run an anti ice test!

I love PMDG stuff, it's the best of the best. But this is a whole new level

 
Vatsim's Midsummer Madness X event has been fun today.

A conference room in a hotel with a pilots and controllers, drink and food. All day.. Bliss.

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traveyb said:
I was the same as I've completely migrated to P3D however they offer an upgrade where you just pay the difference in price and I couldn't resist that :D

Here is a dev interview, can see why it took 6 years to make! Even has stuff like steam coming off the wings when you run an anti ice test!

I love PMDG stuff, it's the best of the best. But this is a whole new level
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Sounds interesting, are there any decent reviews out there on youtube yet? I've always been a boeing fan boy but if this really is PMDG level simulation it would be very tempting indeed. Hopefully they don't follow the trend of charging a ton extra for P3D.
 
Can anyone suggest some new aircraft for me to try? (Prepar3d 2.5+)

I normally just bumble around doing short GA flights but keen to start going more exotic places with a little more speed.

So can anyone suggest a powerful GA plane or a smaller twin prop commercial and maybe a light jet?

Hope to keep an eye out for any good black Friday deals.
 
Two of my favourites are:

Lancair Legacy (Made by a guy called Lance, so Lanc(e)air)

or Britten Normal Islander - you won't get anywhere fast, but you can land wherever.

If you are feeling a little exotic, the Majestic Dash-8 is sublime.
 
I've just managed to buy an external hdd, so I've free'd up enough space to get FSX installed again. I've got REX somewhere...I'm sure I'll find the download link somewhere in my email history!

What I'd like to know, is FSX good enough these days? I see things about Prepar3d, and X-Plane. Should I look into either of these?

Thanks
 
Personally I'd sit on the fence for now and enjoy my FSX.

Rumours abound that P3D will move to 64 bit, Dovetail have their 64 bit follow on (based on FSX/Flight) sometime in 2017 and XP11 is still officially a beta. Many of these updates have many unknowns and if investing in to a new platform I'd want to see what the 3rd party developers are doing, supporting and charging for updates.
 
I'm an avid FSX user, but I've now got lots of XP10 hours under my belt.

FSX is great, but it can still take more money to get it as good as you see on these screenshots. (Active Sky Next, REX Textures, ORBX scenery, UK2000/et al 3rd party airports and of course the payware planes). You don't want to invest in that and then find that you'll have to buy those licences again for 64 bit P3D.

The XP11 news is exciting and I'm waiting for the official release of the product before downloading my purchased copy. And the great thing is that you'll get free updates for the life of the '11' product; which for £60 is amazing. I cite the P3D 2.5 users that were charged again for the 3.x upgrade (which could have been 2.6,2.7 etc).

ORBX have now released news of their support for XP10/11. PMDG are on board with their DC-6 and rumours of bringing their 737NG to the platform. The IXEG 737 Classic is awesome, but has so far lacked updates included an FMS 'Hold' functionality.

However, when FSX is under a tenner on Steam (DoveTail's bugfixes apparently make the product run better than the DVD version), then you can't go wrong.

As for the 64 bit issue. XP10 is 64 bit (and 32 bit). FSX is 32 bit which means it has a smidgen less than 4 GB of memory to play with. Which sounds loads, but with all the addons mentioned above, you'll quickly be 'flying' on the edge of out of memory exceptions.

And unfortunately, all the above works best of an SSD, so that would be another purchase. :p

This hobby does't come cheap.
 
You know he's working on an Xplane version as well don't you?

I assume you've not be able to compare the Vive implementation with the Rift one? I use the Rift one quite a bit on P3D and it blows away Lockheed's attempt to support it. Shame he insists you pay for each sim, surprised you don't have to pay for each headset too!
 
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