yeah the Orbx sale is great i want to buy AU sp4 but i have to wait till the end of the month but i did pick up NZ south today. I missed the last sale they had.

I picked up the academic version of P3D as i had the spare money but all we know about v2 of P3D is that it will support dx11 which is not much to go on and does not say anything about compatibility of current addons.

When i post to someone who is thinking about buying P3D i always ask them what they expect to get from it and if there flight sim is running fine is it worth swapping over as P3D is not perfect even though they have already fixed a lot of bugs that is in fsx, Some people do have a performance gain while other might not. While i have had a performance gain and the sim runs smoother than fsx for me some have had the opposite and found it worse than fsx, if i was to put that in terms of fps for me.. in the CS757, 727 and 707 i have seen between 3 and 10fps more in the VC with my current hardware.

Oh the other good thing about P3D, if you ever get board of flying in the air you can fly under water in a sub

Why not get it for a month on the Developer licence, to try it out? Or I believe there is a free trial option (or was, not sure if its still going on now) I am running P3D on the $9.99 per month licence and find it much more stable than FSX and most addons work flawlessly, a few developers are now making addons for both FSX and P3D (some for no extra cost!) and of course Orbx has the SBSL for PNW, PFJ, NZSI and AUS for free so as long as you bough them for FSX you can run them in P3D. Those that aren't made for P3d can be (fairly) easily installed with a little tweaking.
Think I might get the Academic version in the next month or so, was worried about the watermark before, but it took me ages to see it in the two images so not so concerned now!  

(i'm also over what would normally be considered Academic age, but I take the odd flying lesson now and again, so that i feel should satisfy the licence requirement!)

Adamski_NZ wrote on Apr 14^th, 2012 at 5:25pm:
I agree. It's hardly noticeable at all. I had to look very closely to see it.

I am installing P3d Acade3mic, could CS consider making an installer to support P3d for all of thier FSX products, or alternativly posting instructions on how to port?

Thanks

you don't have the 757/767 to test under P3D Markoz ?

Thanks, I'll waiting for your inputs before

Thanks Markoz ! Enjoy your flights with the new 1.0

One more question Markoz, you have the student version of P3D ? The full is too expensive (200$)