The early access version of Fly Inside Flight Sim is available now. Just $32, $25 if you’ve purchased any version of Fly Inside. It’s interesting for a number of reasons:
- It’s 64-bit, but runs dramatically better on older systems than P3D or X-Plane because it’s not based on legacy code. Supports modern graphics APIs and multi-threaded operations. 90 fps with details cranked and weather!
- It fully supports VR, but performs well on flat screens too
- The scenery engine looks great. The buildings, etc. are currently “developer art” and look like crap, but those are just placeholders and they’ll be updated, and there’s a scenery SDK.
- It’s not add-on compatible with FSX per-se, but it’s obviously not too hard to port stuff over given all the stock planes are payware FSX planes.
- Third parties can sell or give away planes anywhere, so should get much better third-party support than DoveTail.
- If you’ve been wanting to fly just one of the included planes in FSX, it’s worth the price of admission! At full retail, all the planes combined would cost $389.90 for FSX. The beta includes:
- Milviz Beech 55, Cessna 310, Cessna T-50 Bobcat, DHC-3, 737-200, T-38A aircraft
- TFDi Design 717
- Milviz Bell 407, MD-530, and CH-47D Chinook
Anyway, yes, it’s a fresh start, and yet another new sim, but at the low cost of entry, it’s worthwhile just to play around with the planes. (The TFDi 717 alone sells for $59.99.)
Hoping lots of folks will check it out, because it’s pretty impressive for a super-early release, they’re doing the right thing with the SDK, and I want to see them get enough support to keep developing.