Fantastic and realistic flight simulator ...

... With the right hardware.
With a mouse, keyboard or gamepad of Flight Simulator X is in fact making some fun and quite frustrating. No wonder - ever tried to control a real airplane with something? Just.
If you do not just concentrate on the small helicopter proportion or the Jet in the Addon "Acceleration" of the FSX, I strongly recommend the purchase of a Yoke incl. Thrust levers, everything else feels quite unrealistic and degenerates usually in complicated Rumgeklicke in 3D cockpit or rumgetippe on the keyboard (from soulful landings and maneuvers to mention). For that you have to continue to do so with the mentioned basic hardware as enough. Can recommend because of Saitek offering at relatively moderate prices quite a bit of FluSi hardware particularly the "Pro Flight" series. No, I'm not a Saitek employees, had only itself thus had very good experiences.

Now to actually match:
I fly in FSX now pretty regularly since about 7 months everything is included there on aircraft other than helicopters and jet because that makes 1. only with his good joystick fun and 2. irritate me the "normal" aircraft anyway more. Of course I can not claim to have seen it all ... that I'll probably never be able to, for the first time the world has in this FS a complete spherical structure - they can theoretically fly around so completely! Genrell you can say, however, that the graphics in the field of their way well supported realism. Especially the particularly detallieren airports and cities are very impressive. That this quality can not be everywhere in the world so high, is logical - that would be simply impossible to implement. But even in the "normal" resolution areas can live well with the required image quality. In particular, the aircraft themselves are presented extremely realistic and feel the 3D cockpit and realistic according to.
However, the whole thing is quite properly fleet hardware, and although the game which is older ... the release date probably no mortal could play the FS without sacrificing liquid, now that is with some degree of current graphics card and CPU as far as possible. Although small stuttering occur even strong systems from time to time still on, but are not so bad.
One problem however occurs inevitably when you ambitiously engaged in the FSX: One wants sooner or later Accessories, which designed the Flying realistic :) So you dream of multi-monitor systems and all instrument and control panels, available to buy so and can eat a lot of money;)

Finally, I can definitely put the Flight Simulator X every aficionado fond ... it offers virtually inexhaustible material for hundreds of hours of fun and fascination! At the current price of gold edition it takes no more hesitation.