So this is the Civilian sim version of the IL-2 problem 
Well, gonna have to go reinstall FSX now and take a look lol.
Pretty much agree with all you have said on this new sim Beach, just came back from playing it again and I am having fun going through the lessons acting the part of a brand new casually interested flight simmer 
Looks like it has proper Steam cloud support, have it installed on three machines and my progress and flight hours seem to be updated on each one, that does not happen in FSX Steam ver.
Have found a decent Nvidia Inspector profile that helps the cockpit shadows a little bit, also been looking in the FSc.cfg, but apparently not everything you change there will take effect the way it does in FSX Steam or P3D, it will just revert back once the sim has been started again? Its early days though and I’m sure the community will find some worthwhile tweaks soon.
One guy on Moansim has found a way to improve sky textures, have got my Saitek trim wheel operating as it should, all controls do now and that just leaves the exotica like panels and FIP’s if Dovetail ever choose to allow them in this sim, they had better do in the full sim, made quite the investment in Saitek and VRInsight GA panel stuff here!
Its a shame there wont be any DLC for this, but I suppose with the main sim to work on they need to put a stop on man hours upgrading and maintaining this one while they work on what will hopefully be the masterpiece later this year … Though I can see that straying into a 2017 release if they want to do it right.
Dovetail do seem to be listening though, so fair play there.
Beach, did you ever fully try those FSX training lessons? apparently there is a bug in one or two that makes them in- completable? for sure I have some third party files to drop into the appropriate folders that fixes this, these were not widely available or communicated but one of the first mods I do on a new install of FSX or FSX Steam with the intent to fly these lessons from start to finish one day.
I did a long time ago…with the CD version of the game though, not Steam. So I don’t know if they’ve held up over the years. I did accomplish all of the missions and checkrides though. I did not complete all of the single missions though…
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Thanks for your thoughts on this Beach. I picked this up last night. My first thoughts regarding the controller options, so far, not as intuitive as FSX. Many, if not all the default key assignments (from what I’ve seen so far) are the same as FSX. I spent a few minutes in Control Manager making a .map not combining my controllers (FS,PT,TQ,PP). This would allow for (you would think) all available axes to be assigned, in game. Normally. In game, so far I can’t seem to figure out what axis is what with multiple controllers assigned. Typically, CM Device 1 (for me) is the FS, CM Device 2, the PT CM Device 3, the TQ and CM Device 4, the PP.
In FSX you can actually see CM Device 1… In the controller options menu of Dovetail Flight School, so far, not so much. I’ll keep playin’ with it…
Went through all the Pilot Training, passed. Then I thought I’d fly from/to Currituck NC to Elizabeth City NC. A flight I’d flown a hundred or more times before in FSX, before add-on scenery and after. I have to admit, the stock in the box scenery for this is pretty darn good! Here I am lining up on Elizabeth City…
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Is it a full globe simulation?
If yes, has anyone checked out the other “biomes” whether they look ok, too?
Quite often I noticed that while North America looks great, Europe is not that good (the buildings in Germany in stock FSX for examplem, they look… American.) Mediterranean and Asian and African parts sometimes look strange.
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Well, let me fly out of Orange County to Oceanside, a flight I’ve also done quite a few times. We’ll see how San Onofre turned out. In FSX it wasn’t even close.
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Can you post pics when you do? I’d be curious to also see how accurate it is.
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Well, I went from MCAS CPEN to MCAS El Toro. CPEN looks NOTHING like I remember it, neither does El Toro. That said, San Onofre, looks the same… as FSX. UGH
World map, yes:
Hey! I LIKE this drag and drop!
…but where’d the boobs go…?
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They still haven’t grown.
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Or maybe they’ve already been removed…
They were as they appear here. 
DA42 is available now if you had pre-ordered
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Saw that e-mail earlier today…gonna go check her out… 
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So I think Dovetail hit this DA42 out of the park with regards to both the aircraft and the included tutorials. Steam updated the game (I was an early supporter, so got the DA42 for free) and the Flight School GUI showed a new airport in Germany where I could start taking DA42 lessons.
Dieter (as I call him…the German flight instructor) is full of good information…
Cockpit looks very nice with lots of presaved viewpoints. I haven’t explored the menus on the MFDs much, so I’ll comment more on that later. This is an intro flight in the DA42 and (as usual) the Dovetail mission runs really well with lots of good information and guidance…
The missions are set up with nice cut scenes that lead you from stage to stage. Again, DFS isn’t really geared to most of us veteran flight simmers…so take all criticism you read of it with a grain of salt since most of it is from decades old (read: jaded) flight simmers that can’t reposition themselves 20 years earlier and look at a sim with fresh eyes. Yes, it is FSX revamped. Yes, FSX offers a lot. But this is pretty good actually…
On the takeoff roll - STOP READING NOW IF YOU DON’T WANT SPOILERS!
The instructor guides you through everything, assigns airspeed/altitude/heading targets…
DFS is a very nice looking sim actually. Yes…that slight blue-ish tinge is still there…but isn’t that bad… Soon enough, you lose an engine and the instructor has very good tips on flying single engine in a piston twin. Step on some rudder, bank slightly into the good engine, and let the ball sit out about half a width. All solid advice…
He’ll give you directions back toward the airport…
But you won’t land…just the basics of single engine work on this flight…
Really nice mission. I have three more to go with the DA42, but they seem very high quality and geared in the right direction. Ignore the sim snobs…this is good stuff. Do you need it? Maybe not…but if you don’t need it, you aren’t the target audience. I will say though…even though I’m an old hand flight simmer, if Dovetail continues down this road with instruction/modules, I will sign up for every single one of them. I like them…it gives a purpose and career feeling to the sim. They need follow on content faster though or they risk people dropping out out of disinterest…
BeachAV8R
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Awesome news!
Yay, Koblenz!
And as someone who has been there I have to say, if you squint really really hard it kinda looks a bit like Koblenz. So yeah, like FSX, a bit better.