As soon as I bought X-Plane 8, and was taking off in a 747 from O'Hare Intl. I thought if it would really be everything that is said in the box. I closed the game and opened the web browser to see if i could find any review, and found a site with downloads for the game. I downloaded Orly Airport (Paris, France), installed it and started the game again. I fell from my chair: I could see the airport! I could see the ramp my plane was parked at!! I could see other airplanes parked at other ramps and a great amount of vehicles moving among the ramps!! I looked again, from inside the Boeing 747 and could see it all, and a m-a-r-v-e-l-o-u-s instrument panel. Since then I think X-Plane brings to my desktop the most exiting flight simulation experience I ever had, so it must be the best flight simulator. The only downside: pilot and atc voices are crap, and until now I haven't found a way to fix this.
X-plane is low cost flight simulator for PC that faithfully recreates the "feel" of flying. As a real GA pilot myself, I can tell you that X-plane is much closer to reality than anything else you can buy on the market in... Read Full Review
Well, this is how a flying sim should be like-AMAZING. I want to say to the people that complain about how the menus in the game look that the game is a SIMULATOR and it simulates flight NOT pretty and colorful menus. O ... Read Full Review