Aerofly FS "new sim"

[ParaB]

Got it today and played around for a couple of hours. The photo textures are excellent, and the aircraft (8 different types) are nicely detailed. aeroFS is NO FSX or X-Plane. It's a rather "simple" (and I mean that in a positive way) flightsim that concentrates on getting you into the air ASAP. FMs so far seem "OK" to "good", but there's always room for improvement. The sim's easy to set up and doing VFR flights and soaring is great fun. The sim also provides a number of "challenges". There's no radio calls, no AI aircraft, a rather basic weather simulation and only daylight flying. So, more than enough negative points for those looking for them

I so far am greatly enjoying this sim. I hope it becomes successful enough so that the devs can keep working on it.

All screenshots were taken a maxed settings, FPS ~80 (!).

[Insuber]

Soaring? Do you mean that it could possibly replace the venerable Condor Soaring Simulator? GREAT!!! They have a new customer then!

[Madfish]

I think the game has some great points.

+ awesome high altitude terrain
+ great plane immersiveness (canopy reflections, stains, pilot model etc.)
+ great non-combat content as far as I can tell (challenges / trails etc)
+ gliders available!

- no multiplayer (seriously...?!)
- questionable low altitude graphics

All in all neither CloD nor Aerofly FS are amazing. They all come with their pro's and con's.

For me, personally, Aerofly FS isn't that amazing since it lacks multiplayer. The low alt graphics I could forgive but I'm not the single player type of guy.

@ParaB
The screenshots are a little over the top. I'm on a fast connection but not everyone is. Also mountain screenshots are usually kind of worthless. They ALWAYS look good. Even in Flight Unlimited from 1995 the mountain view looks great from high altitude so please please please never post mountain screenshots to show off a game.

[addman]

Thanks for the feedback ParaB! Might have to check this one out.

[ATAG_Snapper]

Thanks for taking the time to post these pics, ParaB. The aircraft graphics look good and the scenery at altitude is breathtaking. What are your thoughts on the clouds? They look very good in the pics, do you find they're well done in the sim as you fly through and around them?

[raaaid]

i can percieve an stereoscopic effect in that mountain shots, mindblowing

[ParaB]

@Madfish: You do realize that this sim only covers Switzerland? A bit hard to find areas that are not covered by mountains, to be honest.



@Snapper: I think the clouds are "ok". I've seen much better ones in FSX 3rd party addons and they also lack CloD's effects of fogging/icing up the canopy.but the devs are working on them.

[ATAG_Snapper]

There's a landscaping contractor in Texas that could level and grade those pesky mountains in 2 days....maybe a week, tops! LOL

[KG26_Alpha]

Looks ok for what it is (a small Swiss flight sim) I don't expect its a full blown dynamic weather all singing and dancing simulator, just some basic flying around the Swiss mountain side.

It suffers from the usual terrain stretching by the look of it.


PS:

12/29/2011: Update to version 5.7.1.9 available for Max OS X and Microsoft Windows.

[superman]

If only Battle of Britain had taken place in the Swiss alps