Dovetail Flight School

[Joe Lavery]

As many of you will already know Dovetail released Flight School yesterday. I've been looking at it for a couple of days now and it's basically FSX with Orbx Global as standard. It's also now a 64 bit application which has increased the frame rates considerably, because it makes more use of the GPU than FSX does.
Let me say initially that it's not aimed at the members of this forum, because they've designed it for folk new to flight simulation. So the interface and overall control you have over the environment is much simpler. Having said that for the price of $14.99 it's extremely good value. And flying over New York with the sliders maxed out and getting 30-35 FPS is something I've never experienced before.
There are features that I don't like, for example you only get two aircraft to fly, the colour palette they've used is too dark for my tastes and they've created a pseudo haze effect which is most unrealistic in places. Also I don't think that any of our existing add-ons will work with Flight School, although there are some resourceful programmers out there who might change that situation.
However it's early days and the performance bodes well for the next release, which I'm told will be aimed more at us flight simmers. I'll keep you posted when I know more.

I've added a couple of preliminary screen shots to give you an idea of what it currently looks like.

Joe.

[jackpilot]

Thank you.....nice shots
Keep an eye on it.

[fsaviator]

That's pretty nice.  From what I'm reading their other sim should address our market a bit more.

I may buy it just to play with on my six month deployment coming up