Interestingly enough, Jörg mentioned something about being approached by real world flight instructors asking him to make fs2020 usable for flight training. P3D is the only commercial simulator, without an entertainment offering, and is used by many flight schools. Out of the box, Xplane isn’t FAA certified and just as much an entertainment product as FSX was.
And all this means, is that it can be used for official procedure training, it says nothing about the flight characteristics or physics. The training Xplane version is 500 dollars + though, and can only be certified together with specific hardware as a package. It can’t be used for the things Pilot Workshops uses X-Plane 11 for. MS and Asobo have done exactly that, and they have done a wonderful job at it! Keep in mind nowadays many game developers call their products ‘simulators’ but what they actually develop and sell is a game. Similarly, MSFS 2020 simulates ‘flight’ and ‘aviation’ in a video-gamey, entertainment way (just like Goat and Surgery Simulator 2013) while X-Plane 11 does it in a highly accurate and professional way to the extent that you can buy the professional version of X-Plane 11 tomorrow, buy the required hardware and get it FAA-approved for flight training. Surgery Simulator 2013 doesn’t simulate surgery like Forsslund System’s Kobra Oral surgery simulator does. The publisher calls and sells it as a ‘simulator’ without revealing more details but decided to leave its functionalities at ‘entertainment’ and ‘video-game’ level just like Goat and Surgery Simulator’s publishers did. MSFS 2020 is like a Goat Simulator or Surgery Simulator 2013. Work that often involves multiple companies software and hardware working on top of a platform to delivery bespoke solutions. that’s ok for consumer products but MSFS as it stands is just wholly unsuited to a sim platform used for training and simulation work. It’s more a game than a platform, you can’t have custom programming, very limited SDK etc.
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