Midlander

Just to confirm - it is NOT a demo. It is a full app, previously charged for but due to patent trolling on the licencing system the basic app is now free with some areas and planes, with more of each avaialble for (paid) download. A bit like MS Flight, if you will. Cheers

It's X-Plane 9, and is free due to "patent trolling" over the means of licencing. Have it installed on a cheap 7" unbranded tablet, and is acceptable for short-term use. From the Play store : Regards Midlander

I don't dispute MS' right to make money. However, I think that gave them an excellent reason to lie a year ago. By intimating that it would be a sort of FS11, it ensured that no third party would look at developing a competing "proper" simulation to launch in competition with their new product. Having achieved that, they would gamble that a significant part of the sim community would try Flight - possibly more would have done had there not been leaks from beta testers - especially by getting certain board operators "on side" (mentioning no names, but A***m springs to mind) buying content in

This says it all. Translation into English : "We had a new idea, we put it to our existing customers, they didn't like it, so they can go away*" (*= cleaned up version.) How dare simmers object when they found the product would not meet their desires? It is clear from this quote, and the general tenor of the interview, that it was never intended to, so they cannot have been genuinely surprised by the response - can they? Or do they really think end users are in thrall to whatever they produce, just because they are MS? In short, they've gone for selling a quick fix to large numbers of p

I think the simple fact is that MS Flight is simply not aimed at users of the FS series. I am not a fan of this centrally controlled distribution model. If you buy a software package on disc or as a download, you retain the ability to use it even if the supplier goes bust, or ceases to support the software. Under this type of distribution model, if either of these scenarios happens you lose everything. When I fed these concerns back to MS via the Flight website, I recieved no responce, whch didn't surprise me. To me, this causes huge issues with the future of the "serious" flight sim mark