[A new simulator (July / August issue)]

I was flying in FSX today, and it amazed me how sad the default jetways look compared to the AES ones.

Is there any possibility that a lite version of AES could be incorporated into the default scenery (just jetways, air stairs, marshaler, and pushback truck), and then there would be payware versions that would upgrade a particular region (i.e. Europe) to the full version (caterers, cleaning crew, fuel truck, deicing truck, etc...). Then, if you decide to use addon scenery, you would buy an addon version for that airport, like we do now.

[A New Simulator (June edition)]

Has Aerosoft decided which graphics program the sim will use?

Apple's OpenCL seems very interesting, and it has backing from AMD/ATi, Intel, Nvidia, and other major companies. What makes it interesting is the program has the ability to offload some of the workload to the GPU. For instance, the sim could use the GPU to process weather data, AI data, physics data, etc... Many of us have very powerful GPUs that are underused in FSX, but we still get bad FPS because FSX is very CPU intensive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_CL