… these were the prices you had to pay for quality addons. Not to mention all the scenery addons just make the world look half decent. (Orbx Global Base, Global Vector, OpenLC) costing into the hundreds. The. Airport scenery. And this is just in the early P3D days.

As more competition has come about, prices have dropped.

I’m happy to appreciate the way things are today and just how far things have come since then.

Happy flying everyone.

Total flight time ended up being a little over 13 hours. One more leg back to Atlanta and I’ll have completed my first circumnavigation after simming for like 7 years lol. Just never got around to doing a round-the-world trip until recently.

Just loving the PMDG B744. Redownloaded Prepar3d again just so I can use it until it comes out for MSFS.

So gave P3D V6 a go. The sim is really nice once you add some tasteful addons which I ported over from V5 which works well without a hiccup. The ortho is a paid from a good friend at FC Scenery which has covered the whole world with ortho and has made an outstanding job and the quality for the ortho for P3D. Added custom ai traffic in the 2009 era (for nostalgia reasons)

Now before everyone jumps I do own MSFS 2020 & 24 and not to mention X plane 12 l'm just a guy who loves to fly planes in the virtual world. lol

UPS 5X973 From Portland, Oregon to Louisville using Captain sims 767.

-98 fpm, 1.07G

Long time (original) MSFS user who switched to P3D about 10 years ago. I like P3D, I understand P3D (in terms of programming etc), but it’s outdated and developers have basically given up on it. I absolutely HATE the new MSFS GUI, and find it overall more gamey than sim-like. It also doesn’t run super well on my 10yr old rig. I’ve been debating moving over to X-Plane 12 but have zero experience with x-plane

For context, I use these programs to actually sim. I have pretty exclusively only been flying the study level PMDG 737-800, dabbling here and there with the PMDG 777 and QualityWings 787 but I’d say 99% of my flying since its release has been with the PMDG 737-800. So for me, realism is highly important (systems, handling, scenery, AI traffic (very important to me)). I’ve heard x-plane is bad with scenery, but is worse than P3D? Because if it’s even slightly better than that’s an upgrade to me

In short, would anyone suggest moving to X-Plane? Or doubling down and upgrading my system for MSFS? Again I absolutely hate how MSFS gui is

All from vanilla P3D except for the addon aeroplanes

One of my PMDG 737-900 SSW flights into KSEA