Hey Chris,

Been away FAR too long and since Christmas Oculus dropped all my flight sims are getting heavy play again. So since I’m already two FSX installs and one P4D with them running Flyinside and of course the Lockheed product with default support for the Rift I see an article of yours over at Mudspike that gets me thinking.

My experiences with Flyinside are that it can “almost” keep up with P4D when loaded with the same add ons as my FSX. Obviously shaders and 64 bit DO make a difference and especially when we throw on the add ons P4D comes out a clear winner. However I know bumpkus about XPlane other than “real” pilots such as yourself think highly of it and I have a copy of 10 on Steam which I’m thinking of getting Flyinside for rather than buying 11 which is 60.00.

Could you please give any thoughts you might have on this? I believe that the upgrade from 10 to 11 is no cost for flyinside and I know they let you demo it for 15 minutes, but that is why I DON’T have XPlane installed to begin with....the configuration process! I realize I could do it in pancake first like you do for fsx, so that’s what I’ll probably do but I sometimes wish for a profile’s simplicity for my Warthog like Elite or DCS!

Also I realize that the article I referred to was from ‘16 but I’m a little behind the times and the hardware you mentioned is pretty close to my current rig as I’m “still” on a 1080 due to getting the Rift. No regrets there, though.

Will need to contact Chris here, at his own forums. https://forums.mudspike.com/