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A milion thanks, Holgi! You're the best! ^_^ DANKE SHOEN! That's a real beauty...!

Holgi, thanks for taking your time to see about this idea Happy flying! Andrew

Hi all, I was looking for this Turkish Airlines livery (the new colors) and haven't found any... can someone that knows one help me find it, please? If it's not done, have a look at this baby... http://www.airliners.net/photo/Turkish-Airlines/Airbus-A321-231/2049563/L/ Holgi, any possibilities? I know you have a wonderful one done for the A320... Would it be very hard to apply it to the A321? Thanks for your time! Andrew

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Hi Mathjis! It's good when a company like Aerosoft asks these questions, and more to its customers. I have never downloaded Flight. And never will. I read enough of that want-to-be money-making software with no NAV-aids, no serious "world", lousy planes (some with no cockpit!), etc... I am surprised that Microsoft didn't make this game for it's X-box. What did Microsoft have in mind when developing this "console game", I don't know. I have FSX at this moment. I usually fly heavies around the world. That's the reason I got the PMDG 747 and 737NG plus your AirbusX apart from other jets. If I want to fly slow and low, I use ORBX scenery and the Carenado stuff. I did try the X-plane 10 demo and disliked it. Really. The future, in my honest opinion? P3D. I'm a type of guy that looks a lot in forums, reads e-magazines (such as FLIGHT!) and other media before I make a decision. X-Plane 10 for me is still miles to go for a great sim (flight dynamics are really bad in my opinion). If I change sim (I really am in no rush) will be when P3D will get it's v2.0 out to the market. Or maybe v3.0. It depends on add-on developers. All in all, Microsoft Flight is basically a "console game", and I don't have consoles or buy those games. I like serious flying -by the way, I'm looking forward to your full AirbusX! So, Mathjis, In my opinion, don't abandon P3D. There are a lot of users going into that platform. Loads of them. I believe it's the future of flight simulation. Regards, Andrew

In my opinion, as I stated earlier, any flight simulation platform alone is a stale "game". The reason why one should "stay" with one is because of the latter spending for addons. Addons are the things that make a simulator "live". Happy landings!

I agree with you. You bet the simulator world can get much better with the computers we have now. If you recall what I wrote before, I never said I'd never change to a better simulator. I'll just have to wait and see what simulator gets the best realism and the best addons. One good way is read the different simulator forums and see what people have to say about them apart from seeing screen shots. That's the way I discovered ORBX stuff...! By the way, runways do slope in FSX, not in FS9. For example look at Aerosoft's "Dangerous Airports" addons and Luckla, from Aerosoft too. Happy landings! Andrew

A computer gets old if you install new demanding software. If you buy a computer and know how to care for it and are happy with your software you bought for it, in a way, your computer never gets "old". Of course, nothing is eternal. I just had to change my screen because it defaulted on me. And a computer can die. But you can't compare a great platform like FSX with a lot of addons and telling me a new virgin platform without addons (in your case X-Plane 10) will be better than the former sim. In a sense, it's not so much about what I spent on FSX. The reason is about starting all over again without any addons ready in the market for you to enjoy except those 3 not-so-important airports Mathijs promised. It's like buying a brand new computer without software... To me X-Plane without great addons is simply a void simming platform. I live near Barcelona, Spain and when I saw the X-Plane 10 screenshots of Barcelona I almost fainted... Barcelona is far from being what is depicted there. The screenshots look like if the city was a huge park full of trees when in reality it's full of concrete buildings... I won't even mention about Barcelona's airport... The streets don't even match close to what it really is. You only need google satelite maps to see that X-plane's "plausible world" is really nothing more than a marketing tool so people may believe it and buy it without seeing in a demo how airports and city scenery are done out of the Seattle area. Thanks to AlpilotX everyone could see shots of other areas of the world. Maybe the only plausable world is in the area of Seattle... Now, the mesh seems correct although I must say that for that I have FS Global. And for clouds and water and beautiful sunsets and sunrises I have REX 2 and Overdrive. I just bought the PMDG NGX for my new i7-2600, 12 GB of RAM and 3 GB of video computer, and boy, does it fly smooth in the most complex scenery... With the great addons I have for FSX makes FSX something like FS20. I agree that FSX solo is nothing more than a boring stale virgin world (even though it included most of the airports in the world, not like the new X-plane). What you add to a sim is what makes the sim special. I would have to wait some years to really start enjoying X-plane 10 (if that sim gets some good scenery and good aircraft). But maybe X-plane 10 will soon be "old" before devs make a lot of addons for it when version 11 will launch...and 10 will be "outdated". I hope you get my point. I am not amused with new virgin simulators, be it X-plane, or Microsoft's flight. What makes a good simulator in my opinion are the ones that have lots of addons. It's simply impossible for any simulator developer to make the whole world great looking, and that's why the community needs good addon makers. And the FSX addon industry is thriving with very good quality stuff. That's why I don't want to change. I'll be ready to change when I see great addons for a simulator that has been tried out and great looking. I don't buy Virgin sims. Happy landings! Andrew

Logically incorrect. My point is to say that people that have spent hundreds or even thousands of €€€€€€€€ (Euros) will find it difficult changing to a totally different virgin flight sim platform like X-plane 10 if that someone has a good rig that runs it smoothly. I say new virgin platform because that's what X-plane 10 is all about, not counting the typical faults you find in a new platform version. Why change to a different virgin platform when, in my case and many more, we have rigs that fly FSX with all the addons wonderfully well? Now, if you are a current FS9 or FSX user with little or no addons, I find if wonderful if you get the X-plane version. You'll only have to wait for the first service packs to arrive so all the platform can be smooth like I personally waited for the FSX Service Packs to arrive. I personally couldn't fly any sim with it's default aircraft and default scenery (default airports)... There is nothing better to fly great addon aircraft or scenery addons such as Carenado, PMDG, Aerosoft, ORBX, etc. Mind you, I didn't buy FSX untill SP2 came out and I had some addons bought. And before buying FSX Professional I did download the FSX demo and liked what I saw as I knew that was a demo and the possibilities that simulator base had for addons. Now, If you have a lot of addons for FSX and you can run them well and even though want to change to X-Plane 10, you are very free to do it. It's more. I'll be sure following the X-Plane community forums to read about the updates and addons they'll be adding to it. If I may recommend you an aircraft addon that is wonderful may I recommend you one a Spanish guy (I'm living in Spain) made: http://www.jrollon.com/CRJ.html He has some freeware as well so I'll give you his page so you can see his quality for yourself. Mind you -it's all for X-Plane version 9 but I read that he's planning to make his stuff compatible for X-Plane 10. http://www.jrollon.com/indexResto.html I hope you enjoy the new sim! Happy flying! Andrew P.S. I liked you saying FSX is mature. Not old, as some say. I liked that. That's talking with common sense.

Erikk, I am sure Aerosoft won't tell you that as it usually is a company secret...

Hi everyone, It seems Aerosoft is the only active FSX scenery developer that I know that is going to start porting to X-plane 10. FS Dreamteam for their reasons (they know their reasons, I won't thrash them like some do as they know much more programing than I do) as well as ORBX -it seems they won't either -not to mention some other devs. Now, about aircraft, I am wondering if Aerosoft will port their aircraft (including the A320/321, CRJ's, etc) as well as PMDG... will they port its aircraft to X-plane 10? I'm afraid X-Plane will suffer from scenery (it seems Aerosoft will be the only one I know from FSX there) and especially from their good heavy aircraft. I know Carenado has some X-plane GA aircraft but not X-Plane 10 native yet... Now, before I give my humble opinion about X-Plane 10, I want to make clear that progress in flight simulation is always welcome, even though it does not come from Microsoft. I am not against X-Plane 10. I think it's another solution to flight simulation and strongly believe that competition is always healthy. I don't have to say that everyone is entiteled to have all the sims they want, it's their choice. That being said, one thing that made me smile when ACES closed down, as time went by, is that people were thrashing Microsoft and FSX, saying that the FSX simulator as a future base simulator would cease to exist... that most everybody would move to the X-Plane 9. Even Laminar Research gave a discount for a time for those changing to X-plane. Well, guess what happened. FSX devs are making more and more scenery and aircraft not to mention other type of addons -freeware and payware- and it seems the FSX addon industry is thriving. There is a reason for this. A lot of people, instead of getting upset about the ACES ordeal, spent their time investigating the script bugs and problems so they could make FSX's code better, just to mention one, Jesus Altuve. Many of you have heard of him. Plus many, many others that I haven't heard about. Thanks a million to all of you guys. I invite those who are skeptical to check out Jesus Altuve's website for free: http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html and compare the results you get from modifying the FSX.CFG (Always save the original file somewhere else!) Now I'll give my humble opinion about the X-Plane 10 after trying it on an older computer I have (only two years old) that runs FSX and the extras very well (sliders at a highish position): ·Problem number 1: Some people try to sell that FSX is older than it is. Old? Not exactly. It was very badly scripted, that's all. With the computers we can have now, we are starting to get the juice out of it, taking into account we have have passed Altuve's CFG filter in the webpage I mentioned earlier. It does work wonders, especially for you people that like flying heavy metal. I can testify that. ·Problem number 2: What about customers that bought all the addon software for FSX? Say I wanted to transition now to X-plane 10. Would I have to buy all Aerosoft's software again (having to wait the time it'll take to convert it to their new platform)? After all it'll be the same software passed on to X-Plane 10. Not to mention all the other addons a lot of people bought apart from Aerosoft's. In my case it's a lot. Is it worth changing platforms when it works well and smooth on my computer? I think not. Another thing is buying X-Plane 10 just for the sake of owning it. But spending money for two totally different platforms, in my opinion, is just crazy. ·Problem number 3: In my honest opinion, after trying X-Plane 10 I believe that they are selling something different of what they are trying to sell. I am not against X-Plane 10. I would say this of any other program if it happened. When you read that people in the X-Plane forums are "thrashing" version 10 because of hardware problems i.e. joystick config problems, and saying that planes don't fly correctly as in what Laminar Research calls "real physics" flying (or real flying behaviour) makes me upset. I tried it myself first. Then to see if I was the only wierd guy out there I went to X-Plane forums (I'd be wrong to go to FSX forums to hear about X-Plane, right?). My point is: Is Laminar Research really selling what it says? When I see the guy that's presenting a program that can be valid for FAA certification and cannot take-off in a correct manner, to me he really loses his credebility. I tried flying the XP Jumbo and it really sucks compared to what I enjoy in the better FSX one and much, much better PMDG (mind you, in X-Plane they sell you that their planes have the real "wind tunnel" flying behaviour, not so in FSX as they say). So this tells me a lot of X-Plane. And that is what people over in the X-Plane community are raving about apart from other things like X-Plane 9 cross-compatibility. I know that all can be fixed by fixes... but this is only the start. And people grumbled about the first FSX problems... My points to end: 1. Group number 1: I doubt people who invested -and still are investing- on FSX addons in hundreds or thousands of dollars will change to another flight simulator platform in the near future. If they do, Great! They are most welcome to do so, it's their money. 2. Group number 2: Those that are new to flight simulators or haven't invested in buying a lot of FSX addons, I find it great if they like X-Plane. I just firmly believe X-Plane 10 is not what Laminar research tells us what it is, at least in flight dynamics terms. Just my humble two cents on the subject. Now, ya'll have the liberty to have the simulators you want. I was just expressing my thoughts on the subject. Happy flying and safe landings on your FS9, FSX and/or X-plane! Andrew

Hi Dutchliner, In my humble opinion I would advise you should stick with FSX. There is no reason why you should spend money in two totally different simulators. Before I state my reasons, I'll tell you what rig I have and the software that runs perfectly on it. Intel® Core™ i7-2600 (no K) (3,4 GHz 8 MB of L3 cache) Intel H67 chipset 12 GB DDR3 (3 x 4 GB) NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 (3 GB) - made for HP Windows 7 64 bits http://h20195.www2.h...x/c02885116.pdf Page 2 for more info. Some Addons: -REX 2 -ORBX Australia 4, Melbourne Intl., Brisbane Intl., Canberra, PNW and all it's freeware stuff. (only for FSX) -PMDG B747X and 737 NGX -AEROSOFT Frankfurt X, Barcelona X, Amsterdam X... etc... -Many more! My humble thoughts: FSX: -It's a simulator that when it was made it was "too good" for those times. We all had to put the sliders to a minimum to enjoy some acceptable FPS. Now, even though some people call it "old", it works wonderfully in my system with any addon you install and I'm sure yours will excel mine in performance. You won't have to "buy" more fps's. I have mine limited to 30 FPS in an external program (FPS Limiter 0.2) while I have it in unlimited in FSX. It works wonders. You only need free JAVA to run it. -The PMDG NGX is so smooth and fast with my processor, that I wonder if it's that complicated addon PMDG was talking about... -FSX has a wealth of very good freeware and payware addons that in my humble opinion put X-Plane 10 to shame, not only for airports but aircraft as well. -The good thing about all the years that FSX has, is that it has paved the road to tons of quality addons... -If I had to brag about having the latest sim always, I'd be really telling people "I have a simulator base without addons"! -I assure you that FSX is great if you know how to install it and you don't have to know the art of tweaking the code to make it much better... - look at http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html from a guy named Jesus Altuve - a great codemaster that will do that for you (the webpage). It'll make FSX even better for your computer. It's free! -Be sure to install FSX in the C:\ for better performance and less problems. Not in "program files"! X-Plane 10 -I don't like the idea of a Sim-City type of flight simulator X-plane is about to release. Be aware that a lot of streets and highways in forest areas can be covered with trees i.e. It's not as it's depicted there. -it's interesting to see that the main page of X-plane has a photo in the center of a B737NG, not a modeled one. -The plane models there are in my opinion are very badly modeled compared to the real model in real-life. -Not all the airports in the world exist in X-plane...Those that exist in X-Plane are little in number and very little are modeled as per basic-FSX standards and the rest are nothing much of a runway. -No native addons for X-plane 10... -Brand-new sim, sure, but you never know what problems are under the hood till the other people buy it and start grumbling on the forums. -What you see on the screen-shots are in a very small area like Seattle. Roads, skycrapers, etc are not in every big city... We'll have to wait a long time to have a lot of good addons for X-plane 10. Those are my three cents... I hope you enjoy your new rig soon! Happy landings, Andrew P.S.: Aerosoft Airbus A321 with REX 2 in FSX. No tweaking made in the screenshot.

Happy 20th Aerosoft...! I wish you many more! Andrew