The bazillion post long Hanger 9 FS One thread is pretty useless with banter back and forth, so I thought I'd do a new one.

I'm getting back into flying after a 15 year hiatus (My five year old wants to play and am dusting off my old birds and putting electrics into them. I never got very good with a full four channel and I'm looking at FS One as a simulator to help me out there. I've played with G3.5, but found it less than perfect in graphics, but rich in planes. The other sims seem to have cult followings that like to bash each other, which is of little interest to me and the AFP sim seems lacking in planes for the price. FS One has been labeled the sim to get for airplane realism so I'm intrigued.

Now that FS One has been out for a while, where are the plane updates? Every other "big" sim has updates with more planes, but I've not found any for FS One. Is FS One still being fully developed and updated? How does it stack up to the "800 pound gorilla that is G3.5? G3.5 even has fan planes available for exchange and downloading, does FS One support that kind of third party work?

I'm looking to buy soon, so I'm seriously considering what to get - The requirements are:

Accurate physics, else why bother? I don't want a video game. Altitude taken into account? I'm not at sea level!
Good selection of planes so that I can find one similar to mine.
An included controller, I don't want to risk my "real" ones.
Fixed point of view so that it is like flying at a field.
I have a Dell Dimension 2400 (512MB) with a GEforce 5500 (128MB) running W2000 SP4, will it install without hassle?

It seems like FS One is good to go with all but the planes. With only a couple dozen planes that isn't a very wide selection. is it good enough to risk the cash on a product that hasn't expanded in a year?

Thanks for your opinions,
DLC
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Dennis Clark
Colorado