I always wanted to fly, and I bought aerofly FS a few months before starting real life flying lessons. The idea was to be in a Visual Flight Rules (VFR) airplane and familiarize myself with flying, but skip (unknown) procedural parts. aerofly FS isn’t a full flight simulator like MFSX or X-plane, but to my opinion, it succeeds very well in introducing VFR flying. Flight dynamics are accurate; I spent most in-game time in the Cessna 172 Skyhawk, flying VFR over Switzerland, and landing/taking off at all airstrips. I use real VFR circuit patterns and airspace classification information to add to the experience, and just fly VFR flights from one place to the other. I also do a bit of airwork, e.g. maneuvers (stall recovery, steep turns, slow flight, crosswind landings) and procedures (emergency, circuits), but lack of resistance of joystick/pedals and lack of G-force loadings are not making the experience very close to the real deal. But none of these is the game's fault. In that regard, I miss other AI traffic, radio telephony with ATC, simple procedures (e.g. start the engine, turn on landing lights, VOR navigation), and maybe recording capacities. Few additions are planned, but it is still unclear when and how they will be released. Nevertheless, I love flying & I love aerofly FS. Out.

If you live in switzerland or want to explore this country, its the best you can get. You can overlay mountain, city and even town names. I used it to familiarize with unknown Airports and regions, before travelling there. But if you think you need extra realistic flight model, then buy Xplane or FSX and dream flying realistic... Anyway with none of them you will get the feeling of an real VFR flight.

TL;DR: One of the worst flight simulators I've every played.

I've been a fan of Flight Simulators ever since I played Microsoft Flight Simulator X back in 2007, and have been playing various simulators ever since.

Aerofly looks decent, has neat graphics, and looked promising. I managed to fly (and land) the Cessna quite easily.
So what's my problem with this game?

I guess my standards are too high. Flight Simulator X had dozens of planes, and allowed me to fly anywhere in the world. aerofly has a much smaller selection of planes and airport, which was disappointing.

The fact that you can break various parts of your plane (mostly the wings) when crashing looks visually good, but it usually makes no sense: if I slam on the ground too hard, my wings shouldn't fall off. I'd expect an explosion, or my plane stopping to work, but having my wings fall off and the rest of my plane rolling around makes no sense at all.
While we're at the subject of crashing, crashing planes is where the physics engine of this game really shows how bad it is: I don't know if you watched Air Crash Investigation or saw footage from real plane crashes, if you would you would see crashing in this game is nothing like that. when I crash in game, my plane is thrown back into the air upside down, falls again and then the game restarts.

The planes in game were too easy to manouver and did not feel right. The controls are extremely senetive and the planes react so quickly as if they are unaffected by gravity, wind or drag. Calling this a simulation is like calling Just Cause 2's flight mechanics a simulation: it's a balant lie.

On the subject of simulation, there's no Air Traffic Control, no failure simulation, no ability to start in a parking lot and drive your plane there, no control over most of the detailed plane subsystems (Compared to other simulators which allowed me to turn off the engine, or cut off one of the fuel tanks, enable navigation radios, or set trim...).

So my bottom line: not really worth 40$ (and I'm starting to think it wasn't worth the 20$ I paid for it when it was on sale).

With beautiful Switzerland landscape and nice flight models this flight simulator looks good if you haven't flown it yet. But first thing you will notice is that nothing really works. Try switching something via your cockpit buttons and you hit a wall because there is no functionality on the buttons.

Being only limited to Switzerland is also a very big downside. The world also seems unreal with only sun shining all the time and bright colours. Because the sim is so limited it cannot really compete with X-Plane and FSX. It is only good for soaring. Unless the developers expand the world and give more indepth features for it i dont recommend getting this. You can get quality addons for fsx with the price of this game that give as high level of detail to Switzerland as is presented here and you can use it with much indepth simulator FSX.

cd key not working they reafly f me over on this on