I bought mine from amazon.co.uk and had it within a day. You're both nuts. 
Nut #2 reporting: eventually got it yesterday and installed it on the spot.
I gave it a short try so for now I only have a very very first impression (will try harder during the week-end
). Thus the following lines are BY NO MEANS to be taken as my review of the product.
For IFR flights using "your regular airliner" I still prefer FS2004 (and I prefer it over FSX too).
For VFR X-Plane looks better, at least in three essential aspects:
- rivers are better rendered and STAY AT VALLEY BOTTOM instead of randomly climbing across hills
- familiar (to me, I mean
) mountain range looks closer to reality
- the ingame map is way more useful (and useable as well)
On the down side, it's a bit disappointing to see the mountains from the distance (when they look superbly realistic) and then, the closer one gets, the more "square" they look, and the more blurry the textures become. However this was with default rendering configuration, I'll experiment with it to see what it gives.
Also, on my first attempt, I had a very hard time telling roads from railroads (and I am not sure at all I succeeded in the end).
I still have some problems with the views, as in VFR flights I used extensively the joystick hat switch to rotate the spot view. More generally, having used MSFS for 7 years, I developed some reflex gestures and it's troubling when these have a completely different result than expected (I let you imagine the worst).
However, I hadn't yet red the whole manual (obviously, true experts never do
) so still expect to find there solutions to my worries.
Andrei
