The modern flight sim community may be one of the hardest lots in the world to please. We have aircraft add-ons where systems and flight models approach a level of fidelity previously only available in full flight simulators. Yet, we’re also, at least in my view, more dissatisfied than ever before. Why is this? I think it’s because we’ve come to want it all, and to want it now. Consider, by way of example, the critique received by Flight Factor for neglecting to update their A320, or by HiFi for opting to release ASXP as-is...

If you’ve been engaging with the X-Plane community on Facebook or any forum, you’ll probably see the term “BluFX” thrown around quite a couple of times; which an add-on which gives post-processing abilities to X-Plane, take it as a dynamic Instagram filter for your simulator.