A new perspective on a well worn genre. A flight sim giving you things to do.
You can go through the check lists, and preform the procedures yourself, like to start the engine, or other fancy flight checklists, or you can simply press a button to start the engines. You can fly the entire course yourself, or after take off you can press a button to warp you to the waypoint so you can line up for landing. Usually about 2-5 miles out. After you land you can taxi to the parking area yourself, or you can press a button to warp you there. Basically, you can do anything you want to do and skip the part you may find boring, or just do not feel like doing sometimes. It keeps you interested, and allows you to skip boring real life tedium.
You do not get many planes, but for free you get 2 planes, and 3 more if you buy all the content (at launch). Which I ended up doing, even though I was not planing to. And I am glad I did. While for free you can do some tourist flights from the airport Job listings, if you buy the Maul, you can transport passengers and cargo to other airports. The P 51 is a basic plane with no cockpit, but a powerful engine and the fastest plane available at launch. The plane you get with the Hawaiian pack, I think it is called the AV 6, is powerful and maneuverable.
There are missions you can do, some of which familiarize you with the flight of planes, your controls, and mastering landing specific planes, there are also some educational missions where a person gives information about different things you are seeing, both historical and geographic, as you fly them around.
There are challenges where you can preform maneuvers, or race through rings. or collect gold icons in a time limit.
There are icons dispersed throughout the islands, that encourage you to hunt them down, with clues you can use on the internet to discover where the location actually is. Another educational ploy, which I find interesting, and motivating to look at things you would probably never see otherwise.
The fact that they did not make the entire world forces you to learn all you can, and see all you can with what they did make. I think it is a good thing. Same with the limited planes. I believe they will make other areas as time goes by, and other planes. But it is fun to deal with what they did make already.
The graphics are very good, with both the planes and the scenery, and you really notice this around Honolulu-Waikiki area, which you only get when you buy the rest of the islands. And it runs silky smooth on my modest machine.
You can set it up to fly with your joystick. If you do not feel like pulling out your joystick, you can instantly, easily fly with your mouse, and keyboard, which I like to do sometimes. You cannot pull off maneuvers easily, but can fly from place to place with no problem.
I think their price points are a bit high. If they lowered the price, I think more people would buy the premium content. Also considering if they keep cranking out other areas to explore, and other planes to fly, they will make a ton of money if they price it right. Right now you pay about 50 dollars for the launch content, and any more deluxe plane will be about 15 dollars and other scenery will be 20 dollars if the current prices are not modified. You can see how that would add up.
Any thinking person who heard Flight would be free had to know there would be more content that could be bought. But I think they should lower their pricing.
That aside, I think they are on a good track, where they can focus on delivering great new content, on a regular basis. And keep things interesting for a while.