The trees are flat. What's up with that?

From watching the posted videos, it both impressed me, and left me cold.

It probably wouldn't even run on my computer

(Processor Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHz
Windows Vista OS Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit with SP1
Hard Drive 320GB (7200RPM)
Screen Size 15.6" HD (1366x768)
RAM 4GB DDR2 667Mhz
Optical Drive DVD SuperMulti with Light Scribe
Direct Disc Labeling Yes
Graphics Card NVIDIA 9800M GS with 512MB GDDR3 VRAM),

BUT, I will probably give it a try. I've never given XPlane a shot, just remember trying a demo many years ago, and seeing snow blow across the runway, pretty cool.

The L-19 vid looked interesting, to say the least.

Thanks for the reviews and vidioes. Vidios? LOL.

It will run on your computer provided you set everything properly, and then you will start
to see what it can do. Patience is critical when learning the new interfaces. This is all new
to me again to, since they decided to change all the view keys. The most critical keys for
me. Rarely do I just sit in the pit to take pictures or videos. Eye candy is most important
to me.

I just spent the last 1.5 hours taking screen grabs of my X-Plane 10 settings from Rendering
options to Weather and taking screen grabs of the results. You will be impressed with just a
little change in the settings can have such a huge hit on FPS rates.

Will be starting a new post down in screenshots when I get time to assemble it. Lot of images
to process and explain.

Austin, in feeding his own ego and looking after his pals, insists on including utter sh*t as the default aircraft.

My best advice if you purchase ANY version of X-Plane, is to sh*tcan all default aircraft immediately and load up with either the acceptable freeware (Search for Brett, amongst others) or the superlative payware available. The default stuff is crap and Austin seems incapable of not shooting himself in the foot by including it.

Of all the default aircraft, I think I remember TWO that don't deserve to be automatically deleted. Unless Austin wakes up to factors such as this, his product will always be the ugly sister of the Microsoft product. Some of us just can't face the truth. He'd rather think that he's an aeronautical engineering genius than increase sales.

Cheers!

Rick...

Check the screen shots section Rick, some new shots.

Nice looking screens Jim. What's the helicopter situation looking like?

Cheers!

Rick...

Hold on, I am still learning the interface functions and setting my stick for
the helicopters has not been learned yet. Have found out a good share of my \
photo real scenery will work with the 9X base scenery installed. Huge job moving
around over 300gb of scenery to test tomorrow, the big 50 milestone will be reached
at 4am.