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I read an article on CNN's website that one reporter was testing FS2000 to see how it looked after hearing that the terrorists used it for their training. The guy was awed by its realism and accuracy. After that, M$ decided to rearrange the scenery in FS2002.

That terrorist stuff is pure garbage . . .

Saying that someone could learn to fly, operate and crash an aircraft into a building (not really that hard, anyway) just from using FS is like saying someone could learn to do drive-by shootings by playing Grand Theft Auto.  There's just no comparison to the real act of doing something so disgusting and vile.

As to this thread's ORIGINAL idea, I've been looking around at what's new aircraft-wise for FSX.  I noticed that they have several new aircraft already shown: Maule, Beaver and Grumman Goose.  I was looking at images of the Goose (trying to get a front-end view) and noticed that in the following two shots, there are two versions of the aircraft: one with outboard floats and one without.

AVSim Shot

FlightSim Shot

Does this point to an increase in multi-model stuff?  In FS9, the only aircraft that have more than one model are the Cessna 208 and the Lockheed Vega.  I'm fairly sure they won't include the Lockheed Vega in the new release, so that leaves the Cessna.  Could it be they are branching out, making more models for the stock aircraft?

I realize that FS is more of a modder's paradise than anything else, but I do think it would be a good idea if the quality of what we buy could be somewhere close to the quality of what's available out there.

For instance, how many of us would simply discard (or render unusable) the stock Goose if it were less visually enticing than one of the others available online?  I know for a fact that if it doesn't match up, I'm simply going to delete it and replace it with the Lynn and Bill Lyons version.  No thought needed.

So where does that leave the stock aircraft?  After all, there are replacements for nearly every single aircraft in FS9, and I KNOW that there are replacements, all freeware, for all the currently known new stock aircraft of FSX.

So are all of the designers over there just getting shafted because they aren't using their talents to the full, or is this the limit of their abilities?  If it is, by all means, go hire Lynn and Bill!  They have the talent and the want to do this stuff, and they're doing it for FREE right now!  They're stomping MS into the dust with their versions of aircraft, and most of it they aren't even getting paid for.

Anyway, that was my rant for the day.  I'm gonna go replace the car oil now.

i the sim would give somone a step up when going into the real world because its not compleatly un familiar