How is Aerofly FS4 as a flight simulator?

[rice^]

Being a VR user, and looking for better performance I decided to give FS4 a try. And yes the VR performance is fantastic. I have not done any proper flights yet. I'm not really too concerned about scenery and looks, just want a great flight simulator. Could anyone give their opinion as to how FS4 compares to MSFS2020 and XP, as a flight simulator in terms of flight model, systems depth etc?

[PDP_Storm]

in terms of flight model and system depth is really good, at par with XP i would say. But the environment rendering and lighting is better in XP. VR i have heard that AF FS4 is the best in the market. but AF FS 4 consumes a lot of space for just 3 addons which doesn't even have 1/4th the global airports comparatively XP offers the best in terms of space to global scenario ratio. AF FS 4 has a very good advantage over XP is that you can configure your keyboard to aircraft pitch, roll and yaw while for XP you need a mouse (track pad in laptop is not very efficient) or joystick. Since I travel a lot i prefer to have no add-on controllers hence use only keyboard for control.

[kalnon]

I've been debating for a long time whether to buy this flight simulator or not and if it's worth my time. I've used FSX, P3D, MSFS, XP11 and XP12 and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. What appeals to me about Aerofly FS 4 is the flight modeling, system depth and the good performance.

X-Plane 12 has the first two things but currently it has terrible performance and is barely playable unless you have an extremely high end system and even then frame rates are pretty low unless you use a very low FSR setting or turn down the other graphics setting down a lot and it still has problems with anti aliasing (a problem XP11 also had even worse), jaggies everywhere unless you set it to 8x AA and get 18 fps. I know it's still in beta but who knows if they will ever solve those problems or not.

The only thing I don't like about Aerofly FS4 is that it's scenery does not cover the entire world like all other simulators and there seems to be no 3rd party development that I can find for it for aircraft or scenery, etc.

If I can pick it up on sale, I will definitely buy it but it rarely ever seems to go on sale.

[msoodman]

In addition to the above comments, I add that it has very good tutorials for beginners. I fly with Aerofly and XP12, but to learn, I use Aerofly's written tutorial for both. It is not XP or Aerofly, buy both , both are not expensive.