Man, I've never seen that kind of confidence in a sim! My AFP is scheduled to arrive today from UPS, and I'm pretty excited to test her out

You are going to be the same way ... everyone is who owns the sim. I've even been accused of paying people to post in this forum. You will see why I didn't have to pay anyone in just a few hours!

Make sure you install the AFP update/patch after you install your 2 cd's. The patch is on the homepage of www.aeroflypro.com

Ok, I've played it, and I have to say I'm very impressed. However, I have noticed that it is near impossible to get the planes to tip stall, or spin out in a very tight loop. Also, I have to admit I've never really flown much 3D with a real plane, but the planes feel almost too stable at slow speeds. None of the aerobatic planes have any real tendency for wing rocking, or tip stalling. I have flown a Kyosho .40 sized cap (real one, not sim) and it always felt like it was on the brink of dropping a wing during harrier decents and other wing-stalled maneuvers. If I mash full up even in smaller planes in the sim (UCanDo for example) it always does a perfect wall or harrier. I really am in not a place to say this isn't how it really is, but from what I've heard, I (being a neophyte 3D'er) probably shouldn't be able to do perfect near-verticle harrier landings time-and-time again. I have heard the bigger they are the easier they fly, but is it THAT different?

Hey all you pilots of real-world 3D planes (who have used AFP), shed some light on this for me.

Yes, the bigger they are the less they will stall. Also almost all 3D planes are designed not to tip stall.

Fly some of the smaller planes. Also change you simulation speed to 115%. You can download lots of smaller planes at rcsim.de

I just downloaded some warbirds, and even when pushed to the limit of their stall speed, none of them will tip stall. I know that isn't realistic because I've flown many warbirds, and most of them will tip stall easily, let alone if you intentinoally try to get them to.

I wasn't able to try the Corsair because the wings folded up every time at the start and I don't know what key that funciton is bound to.

Also, the "Photorealistic" sceneries don't work, the preview pic shows up, and it will load the level, but the background is mostly pure white with only the plane showing.

From first impression, it seems AeroFly is simulates the planes a bit too "easy". Even well-built planes aren't as predictable as the ones in AFP seem to be.

Your problem with the scenery is you are not converting the images to BMP's. They come as JPG's but you have to convert them with a batch process to BMP, you can't just rename them. Read the readme file.

You also need to assign the folding wings on the Corsair to a keypad button. Again, it's in the readme file with a picture instruction.

These planes will tip stall. Also increase the simulation speed to 115%.

I know that in real life when I learned how to fly I was told how to break a stall/spin and the Corsair does need those inputs to do so, if you screw up once, it's going to hit the ground. In fact, the further into the spin it gets the harder it is to break the spin and recover. Again that's how many planes are in real life.

Now something even harder is to get it into a spin with the wings folded, that's the ultimate disaster. Considering I've seen doghouses and brooms fly I won't say that it's unrealistic for the Corsair to fly with folded wings, but it is most definitely very hard to fly that way and do anything beyond basic flight.

I honestly think the sim is very close, maybe a bit easier on the defaults, but they do behave very similar to the real models or at least the ones that I've flown. I'd like to find a Duraplane simulated in it and then make it overweight to see how much of a brick it can become. The real model is a dog if you put it overweight by 3 lbs and barely flies, but it will spin like the Corsair under those conditions and is hard to regain control.

For what it's worth, my plane of choice is the Cap 232 and the sim does it justice. The others are fun to play with, who knows if they're accurate, but they are fun. I've never flown a P40 before and I suspect it's greatest challange is on the ground, or so I've been told. I like flying hard to fly planes personally, especially tail wheel planes. Except in real life, they can humble you real quick which is why I'm working on adding that endorcement.