ORIGINAL: BasinBum

Stinky,
I'm sure you'll be happy with AFPD but to answer your question about the opinions here....

The main problem with the opinions about G3 are because it was released too soon. People who tried it early on were disapointed and I assume from RobT's well written mini review he tried it before the last update. It has been a work in progress and has gotten significantly better with each update, I'm very much looking forward to the next one.

As for people's opinions here, unless they have tried all three (with the latest version of G3) than the opinion probably doesn't mean much. It is a lot like asking someone to recomend a doctor, everyone is convinced that they have a great doctor because they only see one and if they didn't think he was great they'd switch. The fact is there are lot's of good doctors and all three sims are good. They have differant good and bad points and contrary to the post about physics being an exact science with the sims, there are built in tradeoffs that make them vary.

I have found many planes to not fly as well as I would like on G3 but then again my Hangar9 Cap snapped like crazy in real life just like the one on the sim. So if all the planes feel great as they seem to do on AFPD does that mean it has "better" physics or do some poor flying tendancies as some models display on G3 mean it has "better" physics? It is just a tradeoff that the designers programed into their sims and a matter of personal preferance.

I think a plane that fly's really easy is better suited to learning 3D on the sim and the reason so many like AFPD for 3D. I saved my Lanier 1/4 scale Cap (before I sold that POS) when it snapped out of a loop because of the experiance I had gained flying G2 which would snap just like the real thing did. I like to use Rick Delton's planes for practicing 3D on G3 because they are tweaked to fly so easy but then move on to the stock set-ups so I can translate what I have learned to the real world.

I'm going over to a friend's house who just got AFPD the other day and maybe I'll sing a whole nother tune after I try it, I can't wait to see what Breakstuff says after he get's his copy.

Dion, you are pretty good about only stating facts and not bashing the other sims but you are biased and maybe spend to much time on non AFPD threads.