Consim's Samual Nahura writes: "FS simulation is perhaps the one and only hobby that can probably be considered more a passionate none paying job then a hobby! Flight Sim designers provide the back bone of this great industry and the pilots get to live out there life's fantasies by being the pilot that he or she can not afford to be , chooses not to be or is and is just having a great time simulating the real world of aviation...." Click on Read More to read his full article.
FS simulating has opened up a world of fun , training for real world future employment , and it has single handedly provided great opportunities for the small business man to engage in the honest rendering of services and products to members of the FS community by providing them with quality third party utilities and aircraft and scenery. In my opinion flight simulation has a great future and a long life and I was asking my self as I usually do; where will the next few decades of flight simulation take us all? The reason that I have asked myself this question is that most designers and producers of add on's for flight simulation truly provide the life's blood of this great hobby and as we get closer and closer to recreating a simulated reality will we reach a point where we can truly go no further?? Most designers who create add on aircraft for FS environments strive to create Boeings and Cessna's down to the letter and many have very professionally already succeeded! If we continue to create these same aircraft year after year only adding new animations and effects will this be enough to keep the flame of flight simulation alive long term?? Well this brings me to the point of this mini article. Is there a future for concepts in Flight simulation? My opinion is :YES!! I see flight sim concepts designs as the next best thing to designing real world aircraft. This arena is really an untapped market for the third party designer and can be the future of simulation period! Why I say this is that creating new designs is not only following in the foot steps of many great real world designers but it is giving the community at large something new and exciting and different then just creating ten or twenty models of the same old designs over and over again. FS concept design could really be the future of FS third party design and in the process start a whole new ideology around members of this community seeing our world as more then just an off shoot of reality. I think that we still have a long way to go before designers will start to real mass produce there ideas and have them be accepted as standards in this community at large but I believe also long as designers keep putting there own ideas out there this will be a great start in possibly creating a new direction that FS design will start to go in.
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