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To: Don Green who wrote (1299)7/12/2025 11:49:50 PM
From: nicewatch  Read Replies (1) of 1316
 
My stepdad used the former version of MS Flight Sim but switched to X-Plane 11. He said it had better 3rd party add-on features that he liked specific to his airplane, and liked their mapping better. He is an instrument rated pilot. He hasn't yet upgraded to X-Plane 12. He's worried some of his 3rd party add-ons won't play nice with the newer version but unsure he's ever seriously researched it, and that might be something I have to do for him. He now has a three monitor setup similar to yours, not 43", but maybe 34" with a 24" on both sides of it. He is space constrained with his desk and isn't anxious to change the current layout.

One of the local airports has an adjacent facility with a much fancier simulator setup that can be rented by the hour but he generally hasn't done that. Similar to what we're discussing just bigger screens, etc. As opposed to the highest level of 3D mechanical flight sims which cost like $10-20mil per pod! :-)

I think his old system could handle X-Plane 12 without issue but seriously doubt it could the newest MS Flight Sim, at least at acceptable settings. His box was something I bought on a whim for myself and at the time he needed a new rig so because I mostly use laptops anyway when I built it out decided to give it to him and only charge for the upgraded parts since the systems he was looking were just so-so for value, imo. It's an old off-lease HP workstation and built like a tank with Xeon CPU albeit underpowered by modern standards it hasn't skipped a beat since he's used it and that's now 8+ years. He uses his iPad mini as well. The FAA allows the iPad to house flight charts for both private and commercial pilots.
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