Understand Wobbie
BUT ,,,, Also I'm NOT getting any YOUNGER at 54 yrs old, meaning - that when I 1st got into this Flight Simming I was 38 in 2002.
I'm sure many of the former freeware Aircraft Developers & Scenery developers aren't getting any younger either , the Flight Sim Community has already lost a significant number of quality developers thru the last 10 years, either due to quitting or due to their Deaths.
On the FREEWARE side of development I'm NOT seeing new developers of "Quality" like once was, the likes of former KBT TEAM (their L188 Electra and others) and many I can't remember, 1 comes to mind is that of Eric Cantu, wherever he is now
?? and all his boeing models from 2002/2004 , most have been ported over by somebody else
?
Another one is the Famous Milton Schupe, who's not cranking out the FREEWARE like he used to either.
Being able to import semi decent FREEWARE is what built this Flight Sim Venue and we didn't have to wrap up hundreds / thousands of dollars in all this to actually ENJOY IT as I recall, back in 2002 thru 2009.
Only to end up years later being told that majority of what we have or purchased won't work properly in the NEW Flight Sim whatever version V.75 or whatever
??
I myself personally along with many others have wrapped up a fair chunk of $$$$$$ in Aircraft and scenery to me anyway thru the years.
I can't justify every few years constantly attempting to replace everything that I had, so it'll work,,, its just too much $$$$$$$$$$
Look, I had at least somewhere around 170 Payware sceneries thru the years and hundreds more Freeware sceneries and at least 70 to 80 Payware Aircraft thru the years as well.
I'm currently NOT Flight Simming and have emptied out my computer totally, BUT when I start back up again I've pretty much made the decision to just go back STOCK / DEFAULT for what I'm going to be doing with flight simulator FSX Gold / Acceleration.
Before I was all into low level flying below 7,500 feet mostly with smaller aircraft,,, and had all kinds of nice scenery what was available anyway for todays times, but it still lacked that true feel even with a lotta ORBX & FTX add ons once outside certain areas.
When I get back into it in November / December sometime I'm mainly going to be cruising a Vintage Jetliner I've decided on that I like the most, that being the Lockheed L-1011 Tri Star , for i'll have all 3 , the FREEWARE version of Thomas ruths and the Just FLIGHT / Black Box version, and Captain Sims version for which I already have anyway.
I'll just get more into the Naviagtion aspect of Flying using INS and the FMC and flying at Higher Altitudes of 25,000 to 40,000 feet and attempting to get from A to B more correctly.
so, I won't need all that up close great looking scenery I once had.
and I've decided instead of FLYING everywhere all over the place like I was with no real purpose or destinations , from now on I'm just going to be flying the south pacific regions and only about 4 or 5 airports back and forth to Las Vegas / KLAS.
Also, I've got too many other things going on to donate hours upon hours flying like I was to bacically no where, but, everywhere in everything under the sun Icould get my hands on, just to see what it was like
I'm just not interested in constantly updating the sim all the time and all the products too, AND everything else that makes the computer work so those products will also work.
On TOP of this property I've got to maintain mow and keep up, along with the maintence of the riding tractor, as well as both my vehicles and the house too,,,
Basically, I just don't have enough hours in my day / week for all this like when I was "YOUNGER", and had more piss & vinegar in me than I do now
I found sitting for um'teen hours in front of this GIZMO Device tinkering around with constantly updating this and that , watching time just FLY by, and the grass getting taller than it should
after a while I really don't feel like FLYING,, too damn tired.
and who really knows in 3 to 5 years if anything FSX will even still work on some NEW Microsoft operating system, they'll roll out
????
we ALL found out that WINDOWS 10 didn't exactly do us much favor with all the complaints .
I'm just NOT ready to sink a bunch of money and time back into something again, that may NOT even work down the road in the future.
OK,,, time to get on my Riding mower and MOW GRASS before the City fines me !!