Ditto that.

Not interested in any of the planes, nor in Airrace, never flew a "Mission".

Some of those missions aren't bad.

Also i just got Acceleration for about $20 including shipping at amazon.com

The missions can actually be fun.

But the real pleasure for me comes from mastering the heavy jets and flying real world routes with real world AI all around you.

A couple of must haves IMO are REX 2.0, GEX, LD 767 (also really enjoy the Flight1 MD80, has the best training module ever), and some kind of AI traffic addon. All have their flaws but all are light years better then stock. For free stuff World of AI is great.

with GEX and REX etc.one just installs them and how does one then implement it in the sim does it give you an option to use default or other landscapes scenery etc.
thanks

And real ATC à la Radar Contact.

REX is the more complicated add-on. Yes, you can fly without REX weather but what's the point in installing it (a lengthy process) if you aren't going to use it. The coolest thing about REX IMHO are the themes. You get more of them if you also download and install the free add-on called Overdrive. But you have to have REX 2.0 installed for Overdrive to work. It's a lot of downloading. The themes change clouds, weather, water, airport lighting, and airport runway surfaces. Or you can change each individually. Create your own theme.

I think I have seen your name over on the 1c forums snake, once REX is installed it does it's own thing, I just play fsx as normal and you see a little message saying Rex is downloading the weather, then a few seconds later it looks amazing.

I don't have gex, but the scenery packs I do have just replace the default scenery, Orbx has demo's that include the olympic peninsula and tasmania.

hi Pos yes im on the banana forum and WOP gajiin forums, thanks all for your help,im seriously nearly buying this,only thing holding me back is do I have the time that its going to need

Sure you do, you can just hop airport to airport in a general aviation plane, I usually continue from where I land next time I play, going to fly around Australia eventually

My opinion (and it's only that) flying over England in Cliffs of Dover is far more realistic than almost anywhere in FSX with or without Acceleration, any game that requires 4 or 5 paid add ons before it starts to do what was promised on release is a money pit. Out of the box FSX looks Horrible compared to modded IL-2, a decade old sim with free add-ons, but that's just my opinion and I don't plan on reinstalling it, not even to fly A2A's Piper Cub with that but-ugly biatch in the front seat (a paid for add-on).