You know, I can sort of see why piracy is rife in the flight simulation arena.
We have so many people who were once back-yarders (doing it for the love) and now attempting (being coerced) to setup corporations around FSX.

There's a few companies that need to get a grip on reality. I paid $50 for a copy of FSX gold.
I know of one company who wants to sell me a $90 777. (2X CS price)  

A scenery company is asking well over $1k if you bought all their scenery.

I'm not saying people shouldn't be rewarded for their work, they most certainly should, but some pricing realism seems to have gone the way of the dodo.



Sadly "the spirit" left the flightsim community years ago, I remember playing Flight Simulator on Dad's $9000 IBM clone in 1983 and then I got my Commodire 64.  
If you needed something it was always flightsimdotcom

*I have never pirated a line of software...

That computer was an Olivetti M24.
The first IBM clone!
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=535
It's sitting in the room next to me as I type, one of these days I should fire her up, the big proviso would be the condition of the 5.25 floppies.

The 20MB hard drive (yes MB is correct!!) should be ok.

FS1 was all wireframe.  
FS2 on C64 was the bees knees, bought to you in full living colour, still a wireframe but lots of green grass and blue skies. lol.

IIRC the aircraft was loosely modelled on a Piper Lance??

You really needed a good imagination. The kids of today will never know...
At least it didn't have Facebook.