Yikes! You have some expensive FSX there, Mark. Well, I don't know how much mine was. Bought it pretty early as it came out, later added the Acceleration addon. But that's from years ago, I wouldn't buy it at the same price now.

I guess most folks pretend to be 'academic' of some kind and pick the 50 dollar P3D.  :-X 200 bucks is a bit steep from my experience. It was no different than FSX on the fps and some addons still don't run. I can't recommend the 200 dollar license if the picture still is like in the video and needs the tricks and tweaks on the installation of software which easily runs in FSX.

I know some folks running it ok, others returned it and one is a serious fan who only flies two or three planes which all work. But for 200 dollar, you can get some hardware or quite some planes and scenery. However, they seem to offer a refund policy.


I'd stick to the cheap options for testing. They don't state anything on a minimum subscription time span here. http://www.prepar3d.com/partners-overview/developer-network-program/ So my guess is that those 10 bucks give you 1 month. Cancel it soon enough and it won't get prolonged. Forget about it and you have two months.  :D

That one month testing thingy from back then isn't there any more it seems.  :-/