* Michael Basler -- Saturday 01 June 2002 17:43:
[review in http://www.flightxpress.de/]
OK, let's sort the items and add a few:
- Old-fashioned overall appearance (4 screenshots delivered, including KSFO
+ C172 panel), not to be compared with state-of-the art simulators
- Very few functions compared to other simulators [1]
- Cockpits "from yesterday"
- Bad flight characteristics (sometimes planes react too sensitive,
sometimes too sluggish), much worse than X-Plane
- Weather + Scenery disappointing
+ Some good 3D effects (sunset...)
+ comparatively good frame rates
+ free (beer, speech)
+ cross platform
+ open (full source code!) and extensible
+ remotely controllable via telnet/http/...
+ support directly by the developers
Doesn't look too bad, even if the negative items were all true. And then:
FGFS has not even had a 1.0 release. It will get all the (useful) "functions"
of other simulators over time. OTOH it has already a lot of functions that no
other simulator has. Finally: There's no alternative on Linux and other
Unixes.
m. :-)
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