Dovetails Games just announced the closing down of Flight Sim World (FSW) due 
to lacking of clear direction and sufficient players. The decision was made slightly before a year since its Early Access last year.
The game and its add-ons will be removed from sale on 24th May; but purchased contents will remain in users’ library and available to play in its current format.
by Michael Basler
Here are good news. I just tested SPAD.neXt with FSW support and was positively surprised. My Prepar3d C182 profile (which, of course doesn’t have a counterpart in FSW) works excellently with the FSW Piper. This includes 
notably Tom’s gauges. Some of them are of course not appropriate for the Piper, but the values are all displayed and even the Flaps indicator moves.
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by Colin Moir
Followings are comments originally sent by Colin regarding the early access of the Flight Sim World (FSW). As it is generally covering many aspects of the product, I am posting it as a full piece instead. BTW, sorry to hear that Colin had a bad fall at home while doing DIY recently. Hope him get well soon.
Installed FSW last night too, can’t complain about the price (free) as I’d already bought Flight School … a nice gesture from them, but I’m sure future DLC is where Dovetail expect to make money from this title, it all seems a bit raw just now and that’s expected because its early access … really like the windscreen rain effects, this reminds me of the old Flight Unlimited 2 from Looking Glass, if they can get the effect to change as the Aircraft travels faster I think they will have nailed this visual effect. Continue reading
Whether you are entitled for a free copy of the Flight Sim World on Steam, it is just available for download now. It comes with over 15 GB of contents. Still need time to explore how it performs comparing to the previous Flight School and FSX. Anyway, facing with more and more competition, P3D should be more aggressive and go 64-bit asap.
By the way, my system will be down in the next couple of days due to room rearrangement. May not reply to emails and questions at all.
First Impression:
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