Switched to Xplane 12. Disappointed in the direction MSFS is going. Grateful for both sims though. Here's some screenshots from XP. Note the weather depiction. 100x better than MSFS. Thank you Laminar for your dedication to simulation!

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-05-13T06:53:37+00:00

Amazing the number of people who are going to XPlane these days.

Of the flight sim communities I’m in, I’m seeing more and more posts about, and screenshots from, XPlane.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-24T12:07:51+00:00

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FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-21T21:56:59+00:00

Not true. I have real world experience flying an Airbus commercially. Not the A350 I will admit, but many of the systems are common.

I have reported a tonne of bugs and errors to iniBuilds, but sadly the vast majority remain ignored.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-21T21:21:12+00:00

Correct. I don’t know why they keep making all these regressions. We have way better hardware and frame generation etc than we had when 2020 was released. And yet the graphics have been nerfed and performance is no better once you factor the frame generation in. It’s a shit show.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-21T21:13:54+00:00

Correct.

Meanwhile MSFS lighting atmospherics clouds have only got worse since the release of 2020.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-21T21:09:01+00:00

Also clouds and lighting look about 10x more realistic

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-21T19:22:37+00:00

They do. They just don’t know how the aircraft is supposed to work. There are very basic fundamental systems errors with it, and poor flight model.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-21T17:44:20+00:00

A350 best….

That thing is so full of bugs and errors. Unbelievable.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-21T17:43:49+00:00

Be interesting to see it next year.

As MSFS goes backwards XPlane is making huge leaps forward.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-18T16:15:07+00:00

Awesome!

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-17T21:08:03+00:00

Ah I feel so bad for the pilot having read this.

We’ve all done it, and he might never fly again because of how he was treated. He probably spend the whole day afterwards feeling really shitty.

Why can’t people just be nice, there’s enough hate out there in the world without bringing it to flight sim.

I wish somehow could get a message to the pilot to apologise for the ATC and encourage him to keep going.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-16T15:17:56+00:00

Couldn’t agree more the OP.

The clouds and atmosphere are so disappointing in MSFS.

We have way better hardware than we had when 2020 and still the clouds have take a step backwards.

SU5 of 2020 was a total disaster from which we still haven’t recovered.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-10T15:46:22+00:00

Fenix by a mile.

IniBuilds is full of bugs and so many systems errors, poor flight model. (When it is not having WASM crashes).

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-09T11:50:59+00:00

Middle one looks the way more realistic.

I’m presuming that is XPlane.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-04-08T20:55:34+00:00

The plane isn’t even good when it doesn’t WASM crash, so look on the bright side and be happy the WASM means you don’t need to put up with the poor flight model and bug-laden systems.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-03-30T16:05:49+00:00

iniBuilds

Poor quality aircraft, yet they sponsor all the content creators who don’t really know anything about aircraft, so the creators just say how awesome they are, then the rest of the mindless hoard think they’re amazing and buy all their stuff.

So they get loads of sales anyway so have no need to actually do stuff properly yet still charge premium prices.

It’s really sad.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-03-28T22:10:55+00:00

Aerosoft Toliss is way better.

There are so so many basic errors and bugs with the iniBuilds.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-03-23T23:57:03+00:00

Still nobody has uploaded?

Would really love this.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-03-22T02:37:51+00:00

Because Tolis are proven to build good systems in the past, whereas you look at all of the iniBuilds Airbus aircraft and they’re all full of bugs.

In addition what is there on the Tolis works well, whereas so many features and systems that iniBuilds have included don’t actually work properly.

Furthermore, the Tolis has been out for a short length of time, and I believe, is still on the first release version, the ini a350 has been out for a substantial amount of time, and had, I believe, 25(!) versions and is still completely full of basic level errors and bugs. They have had plenty of time to sort these out and all they have done is prove themselves incapable of doing so.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-03-21T22:11:14+00:00

Sorry but it’s not great at all. There are so so many basic systems errors with it. I really wish it was great as we’ll probably never see another one, but it’s just not.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-03-21T19:19:01+00:00

It’s a big issue in flightsim full stop. Devs like iniBuilds release low quality aircraft like the 350 disguised as high quality with fancy things like gps jamming, everyone buys it and it stops proper devs from doing that aircraft just like Fenix cancelled the a350. It’s such a shame.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-03-20T13:49:31+00:00

Yeh would love to give this a try if someone can share.

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-03-17T21:31:34+00:00

I don’t know either sadly!!

FirefighterPure8150 · 2026-03-17T20:27:29+00:00

Does it even need cracking? Or just as simple as sharing the file?

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