Has anybody tried Aerofly FS?

[Sternjaeger]

I have to say it looks quite impressive! Any thoughts/experience with it?

[DD_bongodriver]

I have it........meh!

[Sternjaeger]

really? 

[DD_bongodriver]

Yeah, the development seems to progress at glacial pace, the scenery is Switzerland only, it's photoreal so only looks good at altitude, there are zero objects, very limited systems modelling, it's a bit like x-plane for mobile devices which is probably no coincidence as it has it's own mobile device version.

 

Stenghts:

 

flying about feels reasonably good

[HippyDruid]

I was tempted to try it out over a year ago. I was very keen to see if it had ForceFeedback (FFB) as it looked like quite a nice game.

 

I had asked the developers about the FFB but the response I got was that they had tried it, didn't like the results and pretty much binned it. 

I had totally forgot about it till now.

 

Does it have FFB now DD_bongodriver?

[DD_bongodriver]

I don't think so.

[HippyDruid]

Oh well! I will leave it for another year then! 

[Blooddawn1942]

And there is no dynamic shadows and lighting etc which means you can only fly at daytime. I was really disapointed and kicked it right off from my HD after flying several hours.

[Sternjaeger]

I have to say that I was intrigued by it because whilst looking for a video on wing flutter I found this, which is quite remarkable..

[DD_bongodriver]

Yeah, they had a good stab at the FM side of things, it's quite believeable, wing flexing in gliding simulators has been around for a while, silent wings has it, I think condor has it too.

 

they have started selling add-on aircraft for the sim as well, which I think is pointless as the base game is seriously in need of expansion, they really need to think about oculus support for this as it would make a nice little distraction despite it's current limitations.