27-05-2005, 12:19 AM
As a [private] pilot and software developer myself I have a few things to add:
1. Saying "it sucks", yeah, that's not really a nice thing to say, even if it's not 100% where you'd like it to be.
2. FSP and, I suppose, Airliner Pilot remind me a lot of a flight sim that I had back on my old 386 back in high school in 1989-1990 or so... "Flight
Assignment: ATP" .. was made by the same people that Microsoft bought the flight sim franchise from (SubLogic) and it had the career mode, etc, that
these products do.
I'm excited by the fact that FSP claims to work with any plane, even those with only a few seats - I'm actually more interested in the regional hops
in ERJ/CRJ/prop-driven planes than in flying the heavies (most of my hours are in Piper Arrows... not likely i will get a chance to fly anything
significantly bigger in RL, but I like to keep my IFR skills sharp in the sim, etc, so thats my main goal for the sim) .. having "stuff to do" which
FSP seems to provide, seems like an excellent idea.
Looking forward to the release.
-Scott
1. Saying "it sucks", yeah, that's not really a nice thing to say, even if it's not 100% where you'd like it to be.
2. FSP and, I suppose, Airliner Pilot remind me a lot of a flight sim that I had back on my old 386 back in high school in 1989-1990 or so... "Flight
Assignment: ATP" .. was made by the same people that Microsoft bought the flight sim franchise from (SubLogic) and it had the career mode, etc, that
these products do.
I'm excited by the fact that FSP claims to work with any plane, even those with only a few seats - I'm actually more interested in the regional hops
in ERJ/CRJ/prop-driven planes than in flying the heavies (most of my hours are in Piper Arrows... not likely i will get a chance to fly anything
significantly bigger in RL, but I like to keep my IFR skills sharp in the sim, etc, so thats my main goal for the sim) .. having "stuff to do" which
FSP seems to provide, seems like an excellent idea.
Looking forward to the release.
-Scott