Hi Ed, Well, I like mine which was a Real Flight Deluxe and then upgraded to a full G2. I run it with a 7 year old system (Windows ME, 32MB video card which is small, 1000MH clock speed Pentium III and 365M ram. I do get a little stutter when in the heavily treed fields. I have several of the accessory disks which provided some interesting models. The downloads from the Great Planes and other sites have also greatly added to the versility. I can fly some 3D but not all the manuevers as the software just won't handle it correctly. Standard aerobatics are great. The ability to turn on smoke helps flying in staight lines or round circles, etc. I use a transmitter interface so I can use my own Futaba transmitter. I think Airtronics and JR transmitters are not compatible, tho.

For a $65 price it would be a good buy, if you can get it loaded onto your son's computer. I would have a little contract with the seller that allows you to back out/ get money back etc. if you can't get it to load and run.

You might need to call Great Planes support to see if it can be ran with Windows VIsta if that is what he has for an operating system.