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Skymachines attempts to make a good, if not ignorant, argument but it is fundamentally flawed. In 1971, a brand new Chevy Corvette would run you $5496. Today they're upwards of $50,000. You can't simply compare numbers from then and now and say "Look! I told you it's happening." Milk, wheat, eggs and flour have all gone up exponentially in price. Can less people afford to eat? Sure, but that doesn't stop the fat people from finding ways to eat. I believe the same rule applies to GA. There are those who are content to simply look at a pretty shape and wiggle a couple joysticks and that satisfies the desire to "fly." I was never one of those. You cannot simply play a video game and be satisfied that you have achieved something. Flying to Rome, Paris, London, Sao Paolo, Moscow, Sydney and Beijing may be possible while sitting in your game chair eating cheese puffs, but it will never come close to the excitement of flying a real aircraft. There is no comparison. For lack of better comparison, that's like saying that if I play Forza Motorsports I will never have the desire to some day drive a Bugatti Veyron or Enzo Ferarri. Is flying expensive? Yes. This is not a new fact or something plaguing the GA community. Flying has always been expensive and has always been an elite group simply because of that nature. This game is an atrocity to the FS franchise and thankfully does not carry the name. This game does no more for the GA industry than the infamous Call of Duty franchise does for the military.