This or Aerofly FS 2

[PavDog]

So if anyone has used them both, I'm looking for some help between this or Aerofly FS2.

I've been reading that X-Plane has more animations, and that's important to me (Catering trucks, flight attendant announcements, etc.), but I also like great graphics. Basically, I want a simulator with some "game" aspects to it. A commercial jet with fairly realistic controls and flight behavior, but with game type stuff as well like; cabin views, lots of animations like reverse thrust, flaps, opening doors, catering trucks, etc.)

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Georgey]

AEROFLY ISNT A SIM ITS A GAME LOL!

[PvWolf666]

FS 2 Looks fine in screenshots. I tried it and I found it pretty horrible to play. There is no autogen at all. What you get is buildings in cities, handplaced, and thats it. The landscape is great but you can get the same effect using Ortho4 for free. There are no other aircraft in the sky at all nor at airports. There is no ground vehicular traffic. It will also get very expensive when they finally finish the rest of the world, and take up a ton of HD space. They only have a few states in America and Switzerland in game at the minute. The flight characteristics in X Plane are spot on. In In FS 2 they are pretty generic.

[CorreAktor]

Ultimately only you can decide.

That being said, I haven't used Aerofly but it is very limited to the number of airports and geographic spaces, which is why I haven't gone with it. Visually, Aerofly looks a lot better, and probably over time will add the world and other integrations.

If you are wanting to train to learn to be a pilot, I would say that Xplane is a better bet, since the Xplane Pro version is capable of having the FAA certifiication for training (if you have the money, equipment, time, etc).

If you don't care about all the geographic areas, plane systems, realism (not visual realism), add-ons, mods, etc. (outside of steam) and just want a great looking flight simulator that you can jump in and fly, Aerofly is probably a betterr bet for you.

For me, I like to create realistic ground textures from areas that I have flown to, or over, in real life, along with learning flight systems and how planes turn on, failures, etc. I can do that in Xplane and, from everything I've read, Aerofly doesn't have all of that yet.

Xplane can be frustration, especially if you have realism settings turning up and don't know what you are doing. I don't know about Aerofly, but if you are taking off in Xplane and you inadvertantly push your rudder (I have a hardware rudder) too hard one way too quickly, you can blow a tire. You take off just wrong with the flaps in the wrong position, you can have a flap ripped off.

Also, it doesn't look like Aerofly supports some of the ATC simulators, where you have real people doing tower control for many pilots. If you want a multiuser setup that is realistic for ATC, there are communities, such as VATSIM to do this for Xplane, FSX, and P3D.

NO simulator is going to be perfect, the question is what are you wanting to use it for. It sounds like you want more of a "game" instead of a "simulator", and I'd venture to say you probably will end up with Aerofly.

[PavDog]

Thanks for the feedback!

[m4rt14n]

How did you like the sim?

[Big Ram]

I tried Aerofly a few months ago, and I really liked the VR. Unfortunately, that was about it; I particularly couldn't get over how dead and empty the world was. I ended up refunding it.

[PavDog]

Thanks!

[Vnub]

X plane is the best choice for me, after years of microsoft and P3d. The flightmodel dynamics are outstanding. Then there are the mods, wich can differ you grahics to get the best performance out of it!

[IntrudR]

I am flying since years now:
FSX
P3D
X-Plane 10
Aerofly FS2
X-Plane 11

I gave FS2 a try but was very disappointed about the bad fly physics. In my opinion it is an arcade flight game with very basic functionality.

Just the small planes like the Cessna "feel" right in FS2. And you can also do some relaxed VFR flight in X-Plane and when your skills improve you can start to get into the flight management systems, real weather flights and all that stuff. You get a lot of tutorials on youtube.

Since 2 years I am just flying with X-Plane and payware flight models (Airbus A330/350, Boeing 777/747-8 and Bell 407 helicopter). I can recommend the invest if you want to fly real routes with SID, STARs and transitions and very accurate flight physics. But also the default planes are really well made.

[PavDog]

Thank you both!

[cercata]

I wanted a game for flying over the world, and I was waiting for FS2 because it was arcade, so easier to handle. I didn't bought it because the don't support touch controls in VR.

I just bought X-Plane 11, and the second day I already made a Flight with the Cessna between 2 airports, so I recomend this also for people that don't know to fly.
And then maybe one day I'll learn.

I also found the landscape quite good for default scenery, with UHD packs this is gonna be very good looking

[malorob]

one problem with fs 2 is the size differance and very little content.....
fs2 is 147gig in size and this is 1 , 4th the size
time to get my ssd back and delete fs2

[Sailer]

X-Plane has more system depth for some aircraft and you can procedure the aircrafts. X-Plane is more system simulator. In case you have knowledge about flying an aircraft and you are willed to invest lots of time XP11 is nice.
Aerofly FS2 is a sim, Not arcade. Don’t listen. It has a superb flight model. It is different to XP11 but very good. Aerofly FS2 ist missing some night lightning and weather. ATC/AI is work in progress and coming soon.
The scenery is enough for hundreds of hours to fly in.
Aerofly is more easy to handle and has some options which makes it easier to fly. Prefer Aerofly FS2 in case you are new to flight sims or want a VR experience. Or in case you don’t want to spend lots of time for flight planning and preparation.

[Mister_X]

150GB to get an airplane on the runway ready to go and all scenes empty, Really I can't understand why they call it simulator. I will try X-Plane 11 FS. But I guess it will be very hard.

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Originally posted by Mister_X:

150GB to get an airplane on the runway ready to go and all scenes empty, Really I can't understand why they call it simulator. I will try X-Plane 11 FS. But I guess it will be very hard.

X-Plane 11 is a great sim. Very easy to use and only uses about 5GB without scenery. Each region is about 15GB.