I have only used FSOne for a short period of time, but so far I really like it. The airplanes do what I think they should do given a certain stick input. Just like in real life, when I over control the airplane it does things that get me in trouble!

My only other sim experience comes with G2. In my opinion (and that's all anybody can offer) FSOne is far superior in flight performance. The only thing from G2 that I would like to see come over to FSOne are some of the fun fly games, like the limbo flying and spot landing. Those are things that we do at our club picnic every year and are a lot of fun.

I have read through all 29 pages of this post and there are a lot of people who say one sim is more realistic than another, but it all comes down to personal opinion based on setup. And with FSOne there seems to be plenty of options in the program to change not only the airplanes physical cahracteristics, but all the servos throws, prop & engine characteristics (as well as choosing standard sizes and brands), and transmitter characteristics (rates, expo). If you don't think the airplane flies like your own, take some measurement from your 'real' airplane and change the setup. From what I have seen, this is a very capable sim (that's not saying the other sims aren't, just saying that this one IS).

I have been flying RC (off and on) for 20 years and have flown many different types of airplanes. In all the flying I have done, I have never flown '3D' (successfully). I truly believe this sim is more than capable of helping me learn (which is the reason I bought it, to learn 3D flying).

To all the FSOne folks that have been monitoring this forum, thanks for staying involved and helping everyone out. That is one of the reasons I purchased this sim.

Happy Landings!

FWIW, my installation and patch updates went without a hitch. Everything has preformed exactly like the FSOne guys have said it should. I am running an AMD Athon 2400, 512mb Ram, GForce 5500 128mb AGP video card, motherboard integrated sound card, and Windows XP Home Edition on my 3+ year old HP desktop computer.

I also agree with the comments about a written instruction manual. That would be very helpful.