"Bruce" == Bruce Shankle writes:

Bruce I did purchase XPlane and documented my experience he
Bruce http://home.nc.rr.com/bshankle/xplane.html

And let's not forget http://x-plane.org, where some more favorable
opinions may be found.

The way I see it, you get a decent user community either way, so it
mostly boils down to user preference. Perhaps the remaining bullet
point for side-by-side comparisons is:

X-Plane: Written primarily by a single developer, who gets rather
short-tempered on occasion.

Microsoft Flight Sim: Written and supported by a huge corporation,
who will cheerfully ignore you until it's time to sell you their
next release.

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Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin