I own Real Flight G5.5, and I find myself flying ClearView more frequently. I like the quality of graphics and variety of aircraft available in Real Flight, but ClearView seems to do things like helicopter physics, slow flight modeling, and indoor flight modeling better than Real Flight G5.5.

You can download a demo version of ClearView from http://www.rcflightsim.com to check it out. It costs $39.99 to register it and upgrade your demo to the full version. If you combine ClearView with the $19.99 ESky EK-0905A USB controller, and you've got a great flight sim and controller for $59.98 or so.

Tower Hobbies has some great pricing on various incarnations of Ikarus' EasyFly 3 flight simulator. You can currently buy the complete EasyFly 3 flight simulator with USB Game Commander for $49.99, but quantities are limited and they will likely sell out soon.

One of my flying buddies just bought Real Flight G6 a couple of weeks ago, and then turned around and won a copy of EasyFly 3 as a raffle prize at our club's general meeting. He says he likes EasyFly 3 better.

If you can get EasyFly 3 for $49.99 with a controller, it is a fantastic value. If it sells out, and you buy ClearView and an ESky USB controller for $59.95, you'll also have a fantastic value. You could also buy EasyFly 3 and ClearView, then fly both with the USB Game Commander controller. You'd still have only spent $89.98, and then you could decide which one you like best.

Good luck and good shopping