MS Flight is now available on STEAM ... for free

[simast]

What's really horrible about this sim is their DLC policy. They have just released a new A6M2 Zero plane as DLC without a cockpit. A Japanese Zero plane in Hawaii/Pearl Harbor environment. Their marketing team is nuts.

[Chivas]

If the new IL-2 series gets sorted, and the SDK is released, this could be an opportunity to draw the FSX crowd of modders and thus flyers into the IL-2 series. This was part of Olegs original plan, but unfortunately they are still trying to get the new IL-2 game engine working.

I can see IL-2 servers in the future with just civilian aircraft flying over detailed terrain, especially when they can enable DX11. I would have downloaded MS Flight, just to fly around Hawaii, but I didn't find the MS Flight terrain believable enough. I was expecting more since MS Flight had dumbed down everything else they would have developed spectacular terrain, but it didn't happen. That said it could be improved in the future.

[retrojet]

you would think a bright guy like Bill Gates would have the balls to tell his MS Flight team/ business dept. to turn off the landing lights on their way out...

Theres no such thing as a free flight sim, DLC... I wish I had the dosh...

[Skoshi Tiger]

The flight instructor just told me to beat up the wedding yatch and to land 30 yards away from the yatch! Bush pilot or what?

Should be stripped of her Instructors licence and be drummed out of the industry!

And what the hell was all that with the Ukulele? Spit girl wasn't so bad after all. At least she kept her mouth shut!

Has anyone flown in an Icon? I thought the flight model was a little bit simplistic? Felt like I was running on rails.

[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

Has anyone flown in an Icon? I thought the flight model was a little bit simplistic? Felt like I was running on rails.

I don't think the real Icon is ready yet, its advance orders only, but its meant to be simple I heard.

As for MS Flight ... LOL

[Troll2k]

The Icon 5 started out as a diy kit plane.So there are plenty already out there.I have been told that once the FAA changed the certification qualifications somebody bought the rights and planned to put it into production.Whether or not it is out in the wild or just taking preorders he did not know.

[kestrel79]

First the Mustang without a cockpit and now a Zero? And they expect me to pay for it? At least model the whole plane first.

[Wolf_Rider]

Originally Posted by simast

What's really horrible about this sim is their DLC policy. They have just released a new A6M2 Zero plane as DLC without a cockpit. A Japanese Zero plane in Hawaii/Pearl Harbor environment. Their marketing team is nuts.

you pay for the cockpit later

Then come the working gauges animations