CAE possible competitor MS FSX

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 23 Jun 2006, 03:41

CAE may produce a consumer version of Flight Simulation!

http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do? ... ID=2286986

teddybAIR · Post by **teddybAIR** » 23 Jun 2006, 13:01

If true, this will still need a lot of time, given the fact that they are still to explore the major opportunities and assess whether it is indeed an interesting market for them as a company. We flightsimmers can only hope that they will take this serious and come up with a competitive product for MSFS. Such competition would finaly lead to GREAT improvements to be made in subsequent versions of flight simulator instead of the 'minor' improvements I have experienced ever since I fly with the simulator (my first version was the '95, then '98, the 2000 and finally bought the '04, skipped 2002)

Kind regards,
tom

killerwhale65 · Post by **killerwhale65** » 23 Jun 2006, 17:25

having seen a video of a CEA simulation, i can only hope this will be true since the graphics here are far more superior then FS.

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » 23 Jun 2006, 19:39

killerwhale65 wrote:having seen a video of a CEA simulation, i can only hope this will be true since the graphics here are far more superior then FS.

But so is the hardware that it is running on I would suppose... Those machines aren't your average desktop PC.

Philip1069 · Post by **Philip1069** » 23 Jun 2006, 20:07

Has anyone an idea about the improvements MS will introduce in FS 2006 ?
Will these be 'major' or minor improvements... again ?

AlexanderM · Post by **AlexanderM** » 23 Jun 2006, 21:44

is there going to be an fs2006 then?

royke777 · Post by **royke777** » 23 Jun 2006, 22:21

I've bin a couple of times in simulators from CAE and they are good !!

like Atr 42/72, F50, Do328, f27, C130

i can tell you if they want to make something for a normal computer , that will be a MAJOR job .
if they want to make it much more realistic than it is now ,you need to have a very good uptodate computer i guess .

fokker_f27 · Post by **fokker_f27** » 24 Jun 2006, 11:34

Interesting! I hope the quality will not drop when they make it for the pc.
Something I'm hoping to see in FSX and CAE are better crash effects.

royke777 · Post by **royke777** » 24 Jun 2006, 12:25

haha if you are in the sim and you crash:P you just get a black screen

AlexanderM · Post by **AlexanderM** » 24 Jun 2006, 16:46

sloping runways would be nice too,... Courchevel is a laugh in FS9, especially with those trees right in front of the runway

fokker_f27 · Post by **fokker_f27** » 24 Jun 2006, 20:15

I agree. I was dissapointed when I tried to take off. Saba is also terrible without scenery. The island is flat in FS, but is in fact a big mountain in real life. Those 'extreme' airports are unusable in FS.