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To me, that doesn't matter because I almost never use the defaults anyways. Today's addons have better dynamics than their default counterparts, so I use those a lot.

MS will eventually get there with the flight simulator

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Just look at Halflife and Halflife 2.
Those are two different engines, but add-on developers quickly learned the new engine and managed to produce even better mods to the game.

Same scenario will apply to FS

From what Ive seen, it looks like they are working on flight models.  At CES, the speaker took the bell 206.  He took off, turned (like a helicopter SHOULD), then flew off just like a real heli.  All this on an Xbox controller.

And yes, it was a live display.

Remember, we still have 1 year, so I imagine that there will be ALOT  of improvements by the time it arrives

Well I'm not that impressed by the eye candy, it's nice but shouldn't be the main focus of the update. They missed the one bit of eye-candy I would have cared about and that is self-shadowing, proper mixing of shadows, soft shadowing and just the shadows in general need alot of work as this is a huge part of making something look real. This is why models in G-max or other modelling programs can often look miles better than they do in the sim.

Plus no mention of better flight dynamics, at the moment flightsim cannot model what happens when an aircraft essentially stops "flying" and falls on momentum and the physical properties of the airframe, like when a sukhoi does it's backflip or any of it's airshow tricks (something that required great lateral thinking to get over when making the AS sukhoi.) This in turn means it cannot model VTOL (this is also because vectored thrust is also not modelled. Plus the previous improvements to turbulence and rudder and ground handling are needed as mentioned by Nexus.

Plus I for one would like to see the ability to use runways that are not totally flat as the majority of runways on small fields are not, this would mean that the ground physic of the airplane would have to be updated as well.

On the good side the birds and dolphins make a nice change but I would like to bird strike and I doubt it will happen but it would be good to have an IL-2 like damage engine.

Come on MS pull your socks up you have alot to catch up to other sims. Use those resources you have.

it can be my eyes, but is that water 3d?

Uhh... how many times do some of us have to say that M$ will never tell us everything we want to hear until the very last moment [most likely after the release]? To borrow from somebody's statement: People who truely know cannot tell [obviously they signed a non-disclosure agreement] while those who say what they think they know may not be true at all.

So, just because M$ didn't say anything about the dynamics doesn't mean that the dynamics will be crap.

And for crying out loud, if you think that FSX will be crap, then don't buy it and stop whining. Do you have any idea how much effort the M$ developers have put into creating this sim? I don't know either, but I can bet my butt that the effort was massive.

Just wait. several years from now, we will be going through this same dumb arguement for FSXI, FSXII, etc. It seems to me that this is a never-ending cycle. And yet, people still buy it after complaining. Sheesh!