Okay.. I am sold

pilotguy44 · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:48 pm

i've read enough.. i'm sold on FSX, even if I need to go across the country to get it Laughing

here's the info I have gathered up to this point..

default FSX aircraft will include these aircraft:

Cessna 172 Skyhawk
Cessna 182 Skylane
Cessna 208 Caravan
Cessna 208 Caravan amphibian
Beechcraft King Air 350
Mooney Bravo
Boeing 737-800
Boeing 747-400
Boeing 777-300
Airbus A321
Learjet 45
Bombardier CRJ-700
Schleider ASK-21 (sailplane)
Air Creations "Air Trike" (ultralight)
Grumman Goose
Maule MX-7
Beechcraft Baron 58
Robinson R-22 Beta (helicopter)
Bell 206 JetRanger (helicopter)
Extra 300
Piper J-3 Cub
De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver

I have listed 22 here, but Microsoft tells us there are 24.
I have searched endlessly and cannot find these two "ghost planes" Laughing

...I know the above 22 are definitely in the game however Wink

Also new features include:

- moving airport vehicles and jetways
- airliner wing views
- new satelite images of earth, providing extremely accurate scenery everywhere on the planet
- new dynamics in rain and snow (slippery ground)
- the ability to play the game from the control tower as the ATC Shocked

- the ability to play mission-based levels (such as air races or emergencies)
- the ability to fly as a co-pilot
- wildlife around the world (everything from birds to deer)
- the ability to have a pilot career (working for an airline, with very realistically simulated flights, cabin anouncements, etc..)

...i think the guys at microsoft have outdone themselves here..

and i'm saying this after just seeing the screenshots and reading the test reviews.

this is going to be one kick-ass game!!! Very Happy

Ryan Finn
Commercial Pilot
ASEL/AMEL/IA Rated
CFII-A

"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."

Karlw · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:14 pm

That it as soon as i see what it need im getiing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you don't mind that I made a small edit to your "!" marks, we had to scroll sideways about the length of three football fields. Radar

mypilot · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:07 am

tiger7881 · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:28 pm

OOOO HHHH yea !!!, cant wait, u know i tihnk i am sold on thi game too !!!!!!!!!!!! Shocked

Guest · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:49 pm

You had a few mistakes in the aircraft list:

Cessna 172 Skyhawk
Cessna 208 Caravan
Beechcraft King Air 350
Mooney Bravo
Boeing 737-800
Boeing 747-400
Airbus A321
Learjet 45
Bombardier CRJ-700
Air Creations "Air Trike" (ultralight)
Grumman Goose
Maule M-7
Beechcraft Baron 58
Robinson R-22 Beta (helicopter)
Bell 206 JetRanger (helicopter)
Extra 300
Piper J-3 Cub
De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver

plus the DG-808 sailplane

RadarMan · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:04 pm

WantFSX · Guest

Hey guys, I just got back from Oshkosh and played FSX, its great!! It did crash a few times but it is the beta version.....Great Graphics, water is not what it looks like in the screen shots(even on ultra high detail) but I expect it to look like that in the final release...btw, the DC-3 is in the game....no grand caravan on floats Sad

One thing that is really cool is the amount of textures they included with each plane!! Its going to be great! The Microsoft Rep. said that when they were going to redo fsinsider.com and that the minimum hardware was going to be a 1.00 ghz CPU

RadarMan · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:31 am

Guest · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:56 am

WantFSX · Guest

One more thing.....they were running pentium D 3.0 ghz proccessors and then some hyper thread P4 proccessors with a ATI 1900(i think that was the card). One thing that I noticed when I snuck my way into the properties of the fsx computer was that above the Pentium D 3.0 Ghz it said 6.00 Ghz Pentium. I'm not sure what this was......maybe its just combining the cores??? Maybe the computers were in liquid nitrogen in the locked up metal cases!? Who knows.... Laughing

Flying at night was great and the cars and boats were very cool. It was a shame that the joysticks they had didnt have a twist handle rudder Crying or Very sad

RadarMan · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:48 am

What brand joysticks were they using.

The graphics should be much better after Vista comes out with DirectX 10 and the cards come out optimized for that also.

Radar

Thunderbirdman2 · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 6:26 am

This is gonna be awsome im gonna be the first one in line at a store or tommarow ill prebuy it its gonna be great im gettin a new comp and bosting it up ive been saving ever since i heard ill be all jucied up the good thing is ill take all the stuff i dont need on the comp and delete it no internet and ill use this comp for that stuff i mean is that awsome or what at least to me!!! sorry im hyper just had a party lol

Guest · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:32 pm

Hey I can't wait to fly passenger routes! I wonder if we can use Vatsim or is this gonna put them out of business? lol.

Hey about that ATC. We get to be the ATC!???

CtrlAltDlt · Guest

From what I understand, the ATC role is only available in multiplayer gameplay. I don't think that MS is in the business of producing ATC simulators, at least not yet. And supposedly the VoIP interface is just a basic feature that supposedly will not replace VATSIM - supposedly. But then again, what do I know? Whistle

Thunderbirdman2 · Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:41 pm

That would be good to make an atc simulator

spitfiresrule · First Officer Joined: May 17, 2005 Posts: 231

They have a A321 in it Question

are you sure if so thats pretty cool but they dont have any european acft in any of the other ones.....

	Yes, I really enjoy playing it!
	No, I haven't downloaded it yet...
	I'm going to stick with FSX
	I haven't even moved to FSX, I'm sticking with FS2004
	No, X-Plane all the way!
	...Microsoft what?

Okay.. I am sold

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