Hello everyone!
I started with FSX, then switched to P3D and then to X-Plane 10. Then I bought the Oculus Rift CV1 and ran X-Plane together with FlyInside XP. At the same time I ran DCS and Aerofly FS2 and now I came across the FlyInside simulator. Important: Everything I write now refers exclusively to my experiences with VR.
DCS, Aerofly FS2, and X-Plane in combination with FlyInside XP offer a really great feeling to sit in an aircraft cockpit, but somehow it wasn't like flying over the world with a real aircraft. Aerofly FS2 offers incredibly nice graphics, but even there the feeling of flying hasn't really set in.
Now I did a few laps with the FlyInside simulator, flew loops, landed and also flew at high altitudes. Something was better here, but I didn't know what. I felt it was more like a real flight than the other simulators and now I've figured out what it is. If I fly with DCS, Aerofly FS2, or X-Plane, then the more distant area appears to me quite two-dimensional, i.e. the 3D feeling I have actually only in the cockpit and if I fly very close to something (e.g. a house). Things that are at a greater distance, on the other hand, seem rather flat to me. In the FlyInside Simulator this is not the case, because things that are far away, such as hills or houses, actually seem far away to me. I have the impression that I would actually look into the distance and accordingly the world seems more natural to me. If, for example, I fly towards a mountain, then I can see from a distance where the edge of the mountain is and where it goes downhill again. In my opinion, this is not the case with the other simulators.
When I'm travelling at extreme altitudes, about 22.000 ft, the world really seems to be extremely realistic, even if FlyInside Simulator is still far away from showing a beautiful world, but the picture is already really worth seeing. I've never had the impression in a simulator that I'm really at this altitude. Even the moon was there, which made the impression even stronger.
I am writing all this because I would like to hear from you if only I have this impression, or if you can confirm it. I would like to call on the makers of FlyInside Simulator to attach particular importance to this feature, because it seems to me to be a unique selling point.
Greatings from Germany