For me, the biggest disaster, (from what I can remember), was the omission of the drop-down, in-game, Menu option for connecting to any Multiplayer Server of your choice, using the same, simple, straightforward, interface as used on FS 2004.
It was possible to connect to Multiplayer via the drop-down Menu while the Sim was running, instead of having to restart the Sim and return to the Main Menu.

The top-of-the-screen, in-game Menu, in FS 2004, covered everything you ever wanted to do, whilst the Sim was running.

If the same Menu could be included in the new Sim, (maybe with a few improvements?), it would be ideal!

A lot of very useful "things/options" were left out in the change from FS 2004 to FSX!

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004...FS Nav... ...!

Steve M wrote on Oct 6^th, 2010 at 8:03pm:


I like this idea. Would probably help with FPS and allow for much more detail. This feature could also just be embedded and take effect automatically. While the flight loads, it locates where you are and only loads autogen within, say, a 60 mile radius.

while i do sort of like the "at-a-glance" aircraft selection of FSX, (and it does offer the dropdown menu as well)... Like Davy said, they must have forgotten that some designers offer 20 different paint jobs for 1 aircraft and if you have 20 aircraft with that many paints... well, it takes up a hell of a lot of space and time just to scroll through the list.


I think they should have at least 50 different types of craft to choose from as DEFAULT.. everything from the Wright Flyer to the Space Shuttle.  Some of these could only have 1 paint, others maybe 2-3.    Throw in some Fighter Jets, F14 / 15 / 16 / 18, and 5 Highly detailed carriers for Carrier Ops would be nice too.

Fr. Bill wrote on Oct 9^th, 2010 at 12:49pm:


However I prefer the FS9 and earlier method, with just a listing and only showing the selected aircraft.  The whole thumbnail thing I don't like, some aircraft don't have thumbnails, most you can't see enough in the thumbnail to matter.  Microsoft allows you to choose how you view files in Windows, you would think they could do something similar with this.

Travis, I don't think I could take exception to a single idea you've had for FLIGHT in these threads! I had thought a hanger style menu would be awesome too, I even thought of the "never ending tunnel" bit. IMO i would love a hanger menu similar to 'Colin McCrae: Dirt 2's '3D trailer' and corral. Where you can even walk around your car between events, and people are milling about with background atmosphere. Also I hope the lighting system ends up much like Dirt's , judging by the webisodes, it's already heading that direction!    WOOT!

YES! How about a real walk-around inspection! no pilot worth his peanuts would take off without first completing a walk-around. sometimes i would even simulate this in external view for my ultra realistic flights. would love to be able to manipulate rudder alerions and elevator with mouse and inspect hinges, linkages, fuel etc... oooooooh the possibillities!

patchz wrote on Dec 27^th, 2010 at 9:13pm:


We think that MS has someone over at Avsim's forums, as all the topics that were on the December 8th news update were brought up numerous times there and worded the exact same way. I  also emailed the link to this forum to MS a while back, so hopefully they are actually coming here as well.