Very good product with many add-ons but after having to reload after Windows 10 crash, it seems to be unstable and shuts down for different reasons so hope it is due to the windows upgrade not my computer

Great game, runs awesome on my PC, I just play it for fun and not seriously but it's really good :p
Great graphics and nice addons, steam edition's better!!!!
Really good, enjoyable to play

My boy Jaden literally spent 8 and a half hours straight to fly from California to Florida.... so yea i guess it might be worth your time......

Great game other than not a lot of choice of planes.

I prefer this sim to more recent ones

besides of the woest ad i've seen on steam, great game

I love this game, it runs better than X-Plane 10, because I have a bad computer. The scenery is good, just that now, you're better off waiting for the new Flight Simulator releasing in 2016. If you want to play a Flight Sim really badly, go for it. If yo can wait, wait.

It failed when im gonna run the game. It sucks, i dont know how it dont can failed. Wants the Money back.

probablly the my best purchase ever on steam

It's a good simulator, a tad dated but there is essentially infinite content to create a better world. Default is fun, interesting, and you can see parts of the world - however it's not entirely realistic. Some of the larger cities have more details but if you make a lot of road trips or spend out time in the country you'll quickly realize that there's not a lot of realism near ground level. I prefer to fly low following roads, rivers, streams, canyons and it always amazes me when I see a house in the middle of an interstate or houses lining runways at smaller airports next to terminal buildings and hangars. I'm not complaining too much because the game is dated but the fact that it's still in use by so many and new content is always appearing shows that there is a lot of love for this sim. You will probably spend days or weeks searching through free content and you could easily spend hundreds or thousands of dollars for paid content. Personally, I don't want to spend too much to make it better I would rather wait for a newer sim with better/modern coding and better graphics out-of-the-box. I think Dovetail is going to be delivering something soon or perhaps I would look into P3D or X-plane.

This is still a great sim though and is usually on sale throughout the year for a low price. If you fly high or do standard traffic routes you may not care about the up-close ground level details, but if you prefer to fly under 500ft you're going to notice a lot of goofs and glitches with the world. There are mods and DLC packs that can correct and modernize and make things more realistic, but again it's going to take or money or both and the game is around ten years old or so.

I love the amount of content though, sadly a lot of the freeware aircraft out there are still optimized only for DX9 and I don't like having to turn my graphics down to enjoy games or simulators so I've wasted many hours, probably days or maybe even a week or two downloading and trying to use aircraft only to delete them after being forced to cut my graphics and performance backwards. I recommend it, it's great for beginners or advanced flight sim fans but just like any other simulator or hobby it can become quite pricey depending on what you want to fly, where you want to go, what you want to see, and how much detail and realism you want to experience. There are plenty of stores that offer content and they have plenty of sales throughout the year as well. Be warned though, more realism you want the more you will spend - but even going baseline or buying one of the packages on a Steam sale you'll get plenty hours of this. After-all there have been sim pilots flying this for over ten years...

Even taking the age into account I would give it 7 or 8 out of ten, fly high and it looks good enough, fly low and you'll need to make it look better. I'm not talking about 4k textures or over-detailed roads or anything but I tried following a couple familiar interstates and highways and found very little realism - even some smaller cities and towns the layout just appears completely randomized. I found a spot on I10 where the interstate twisted around a random house - I've seen HP cars sitting in the medians before but never houses. So take that how you will, good simulator, good out of the box, great with pricey add-ons like ORBX.

*You can get a lot of free trial-ware add-ons for scenery but most of the trial aircraft are so limited it's not worth it. Yay I can throttle up and throttle down and look at it in chase plane but can't lift off or turn! If you go with add-ons I would suggest flying a specific path in stock version, load the add-on - I love the Pacific Northwest trial from ORBX - fly the exact same path to see the new level of detail. Stock version you may see power line towers, with a good add-on package you can actually follow the power lines visually, or follow actual roads.

I have not tried any of the "Photo-real" packages though but I'm tempted - however P3D and X-plane are also trying to tempt me these days. 64bit optimized versus adding onto 32bit...

FSX is good though, just make sure you have plenty of hard drive space and some extra spending money to make it better for you.