It is, however, awkward to use when we want to get up close or check out an unusual angle. We do have the 'Spot View' to allow us to look at the outside of our plane. The basic FS9 product, however, doesn't really allow us to see this 'eye candy' in its full glorious detail. Even larger aircraft are coming with cabins full of passenger seats or cargo pallets. Fully-clickable virtual cockpits are becoming the norm, the most recent versions matching 2D cockpits in terms of visual clarity. Even close up, airline liveries such as the PSS 'Gulf Air' Airbus A330 shown above look as good as the real thing. The smallest components of undercarriage, door and control surface are reproduced in the finest detail. Īs our hobby develops and grows, one of the improvements is in the visual detail of aircraft. A 4-Star rating requires the product be good enough to reset that current notion of what is 'best' and the rare 5-Star rating reserved for those exceptional products which mark a quantum leap in the thinking and technology of the genre.Ĭomplete details of the rating system may be found here. As a general rule, a 3-Star rating indicates the product matches the best technology currently available in that genre. The AVSIM Commercial Rating System: 1-Star to 5 Stars in one-half star increments. Reviewed by: Paul Middleton - Staff Reviewer Microsoft Flight Simulator - View Management softwareįS2004 (There was an FS2002 version that had less function and was freeware)
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