Lol -might as well get a Heli? Reverse thrust flying or 4D, whatever you want to call it is not like flying a Heli at all IMO. It is in fact alot of fun -it really puts a whole new twist on 3D flying. Its like having a set of powerful brakes on your plane! I have all 3 sims (sold Reflex already) and have been trying to decide which one to keep and its been really tough deciding. I finally decided to keep G3 because I can do awesome re-paints of the existing planes, I can fly online with others, I can do reverse thrust3D (and soon so can everyone else!) and from what I have been reading from Jim Bourke it looks like they will be realeasing a G3 export plugin filter for GMAX (did I mention that I model things in 3DS Max for a living). GMAX kicks Metasuckio S/P? in the butt BTW, is in english and of course its free so we will soon be making whatever we want to fly in G3 sooon[>:]

Bottom line is this, if you got a fast gaming rig and an internet connection you will get more bang for your buck w/G3! 8 guys flying together, chatting and helping eachother out is way better than flying solo. Photorealism is cool no doubt -but all your doing is moving an object around in space with a pretty photo behind it -no wonder AFPD runs at over 500fps on my PC, the plane is the only object being rendered!

I took a Panoramic background out of Reflex and mapped it on to a sphere in 3dsmax and within minutes had one of my planes flying around so good I could win the VTOC!