Yep! $40.00 is a rip in my opinion! RealFlight is at least considerate enough to provide a way to plug into the controller and use ones personal transmitter.

I have not yet used RealFlight 3. and still dont trust peoples personal views when they claim it to be better than AeroflyPro Deluxe. But there are several things I liked about RealFlight 2 when I had it. One of the main reasons I switched to AeroflyPro when I did was because RealFlight did not have or make available several of the planes that I wanted to fly in my simulator!!!

So far as I know they are still very propritary in that reguard and limited in the plane choices they allow, even though I think I heard a claim that they didn't have the planes available because they were too lazy to set them up without the manufacturer of the planes submitting the specs to them ? !!! Likely story? Sounds fishy to me. What about customer satisfaction? Same goes for the manufacturers of AeroflyPro reguarding some of their choices!

FMS is still the best simulator all around considering the price when used with a nice joystick. Its free. Just keep the cost of the joy stick set down or you may as well go out and buy Aerofly, Reflex XTR or RealFlight.