airdisaster.info

I know it should be in the FS Forum, but I think more people read here than over there.

The future of Microsoft's long running Flight Simulator series has been cast into doubt, after the software maker US laid-off the entire development team.

Microsoft says it is "committed" to the series, despite shutting the Aces studio when it cut 5000 jobs.


more here...

FS will stay alive for at least six or seven more years.
Dozens of software companies live off of FS add-ons.

Dozens of software companies live off of FS add-ons.

...concerns FS2004 and FSX.
And that's why these firms wouldn't feel sorry about a break in new FS releases. So they could concentrate on one (or two) releases already some time established.

I used to see MSFS adds in aviation magazines, and now it seems that X-plane is there.

I have yet to get FSX (computer's a bit old).

I have repeatedly read how X-plane's flight models are a two notches better, but given that neither model can send sensations to my rear end, nor inner ear, nor my CH yoke and pedals, I wonder har far X-planes flight models go on providing "realism".

And, hearing Dummy, RCL, Flyboy and ITS mention that even thier multi-million-dollar simulators have shortcomings, I've struggled to wonder how X-plane could be "remarkably less fake" than MSFS.

I used to think MSFS had the edge on having the world's airports, terrain, navaids, and numbers of aircraft, and maybe emulation of weather/visibility. Then again the 8 to 9 upgrade has a glitch where rabbit strobes bust through two miles of pea-soup fog- making the runway edge visibile well before minimums after you've painstakingly entered 200-ft and 1/2 mile into the weather box.

I am wondering if X-plane may now have the edge on cockpit renditions and the view out the windshield. (an ongoing frustration with MSFS).

I still await a simulator that might utilize genuine sattelite photos, and an extra-snazzy 3-D rendition of stuff.

All that being said- flight simulators are actually awfully boring compared to typical computer games- so I'm not surprised if demand for them and upgrades is limited.

Flight sims were one of the few things about Microsoft people actually liked.

Reminds me of this joke.

"Hey, Microsoft finally developed a product that doesn't suck".....[pause and scroll down for punch line]




















....about 1/2 way there, keep scrolling......



































"A vacum cleaner!"