Dovetail Games flight simulators

[rhumbaflappy]

Hi all.

A current synopsis of Dovetail's information:

Both Flight School and Flight Simulator are based on FSX technology... no MS Flight technology. Release for Flight School is April 2016, available through Windows Store or Steam. There will be an XBOX version of Flight School.

No 3rd party addons for Flight School. There will be 3rd party addons for Flight Simulator, but the availability of an SDK or APIs, their price, and allowance of 'unauthorised' addons has not been discussed. No release date for Flight Simulator other than 2016. No word on sloping runwways, true helicopter flight mode, or other issues absent from FSX. It is unclear if FSX addons will work in Flight Simulator (but I would seriously doubt it). Both Flight School and Flight Simulator will be 64-bit and DirectX11. I don't read if Windows7 or Windows8 are supported.

FSX:SE is not being developed further, but newer addons may be released through Steam.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/314160...46890550990408

Dick

[stansdds]

There is a thread in the FSX forums discussing Dovetail's new sims. It's a mix of jubilation, groans, and wailing as well as the gnashing of teeth. Much like what we saw with the announcement of FSX by MS.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...titles-in-2016

[manfredc3]

Well,

Dovetail has released Flight School.

I am downloading as we speak, and will have to wait till tonight to give it a spin.

[Javis]

Downloading here too. Almost done ( took about 6 minutes... ). Up front, without having seen anything yet other than screenies, bummer that DTG went with FSX rather than MSFlight to enhance and update. IMHO the latter had a much better 'feel of flight' compared to FSX. Way better environment as well.


Oh.... download finished. Back to Flight School !

[TuFun]

Looking at the file structure appears to be the same as FSX. Aircraft folders look the same so possibly can do repaints for those models. Overall not bad for a starter sim!

[Gdavis101]

Looking at the file structure appears to be the same as FSX. Aircraft folders look the same so possibly can do repaints for those models. Overall not bad for a starter sim!

I agree.. I like it.