There is some talk about adding these necessary features, but nothing on the near horizon. This is because there is no working ATC and no AI traffic to be found anyplace. No, that is not a typo.īefore you pause reading this review and rush over to the Steam store, you need to know how far along the development cycle is and what is still out there over the horizon and without a promised delivery date.Įven though the scenery is significantly higher grade than FSX default, for instance, and the airports are far superior to any default airport, and the 17 aircraft all appear to be from a payware shop, and it is indeed super-fast loading and buttery smooth - it is eerily quiet and lonely in the Aerofly FS 2 skies. and Aerofly FS 2 found them, configured them, and then gave me a choice of running at 60 FPS using vsync or switching to the windowed mode at 120 or 240 FPS. I have mostly Saitek controllers, pedals, panels, etc. Initial configuration and startup was super simple and easy, and I have only scratched the surface of many of the features. On the positive side, this thing is blazingly fast, smoother by far than anything I have ever seen.
Let me go on record as saying since I downloaded Aerofly FS 2 from the Steam store, I have not had a single PC crash, blue screen, VAS problem, controller failure, nothing. But, when looking at startup time, memory management, airplane selections and texture levels, available detailed airports, and ease of use it will be at the top of the charts and actually puts FSX to shame in every one of these categories. They won’t have to unlearn anything.Įverything is not rosy however and it is not necessarily better in every way as some of the OMG threads might state. Many of these newcomers will be owners of one of the VR systems and they will have an advantage over us old timers. I have to keep reminding myself that Aerofly FS 2 will be attracting more and more first time or rookie flight simmers that may have never even heard of FSX or P3D. It is too early in the development of Aerofly FS 2 but, in several important areas Aerofly FS 2 already outshines, outperforms, and flat leaves the others in its wake as long as you don’t dig very deep. More than encouraging, I am absolutely excited as I learn more, and I hope to tell you why.ĭon’t expect any sort of direct comparison between this new flight sim and FSX/P3D/X-Plane. The final product is probably nowhere near completion or even totally defined, but what I have been using for the past 3 weeks is very encouraging. I don’t personally plan on giving up my FSX or P3D anytime soon I have far too much invested in the add-ons and each will co-exist with any new flight sim, like Aerofly FS 2, just fine.Īs you read more and become familiar with Aerofly FS 2 hopefully you will see a very bright and entertaining future for our flight sim community. Some of our FSX – P3D – XP friends are already excited enough to chunk their old time simulator for this new and promising sim currently available on Steam as an “Early Access Game”. Those areas that we will be flying over to connect the high resolution DLCs are the likely targets for better resolution. A more likely approach for the developer might be to complete the USA, then maybe the UK or large parts of Europe. A higher resolution DLC of the world is probably in our future but, I would suspect the file size would be horrendous. You can recognize geographic features from the higher altitudes but this is only intended for fly overs. Now, these DLCs are exceptionally large, superbly done and generally have lots of detailed airports.Ī majority of the earth’s surface has a very low-level terrain mesh with equally low-resolution images.
Aerofly FS 2 calls these areas DLCs, DownLoad Content areas. In fact, you can fly from the West Coast to the East Coast of the USA then on to Switzerland today.Īctually, you can start anyplace on earth and fly around the world if you like using the nav aids but, you will only find airports for take off and landing in three defined areas. Aerofly FS 2 is indeed a very exciting new Flight Simulator specifically targeted for the global market - well it will eventually cover the globe - but significant improvements are already completed. This is a status report on the work-in-progress of a new up and coming flight simulator. This is NOT your typical introduction to a new add-on or product.