X-Plane 9 (PC Games, 2008)

I liked the fact that you can fly almost any kind of aircraft. Great graphics, but manual or instructions leave a lot to be desired.

Purchased X-Plane on eBay - fortunately as the price is much higher in the store. When loading it (I have a couple other professional flight sim packages), I found it to be poorly documented and more difficult to set up than other packages. Each individual control stick, axis control, throttle, mixture, prop setting has to be custom tailored to your controller despite the software recognizing the controller.

While the reality of the scenery is a notch above MS Flight Sim X, it leaves much to be desired on being current - even some of the altitudes represented are unrealistic.

I do not find it a better tool for IFR recurrent training than, so, On Top - another flight sim package targeting the same market. Plane-X seems more like a gamer's program than a true flight sim program.