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Cameron, I've had X-Plane for years and have purchased many aircraft. I enjoy the accurate real-time external views of the aircraft and have always enjoyed being able to watch replays of difficult landing situations. Until now most of the basic operations of the aircraft have been visible in replay. I understand that it is not now practical to save everything to replay mode, but I hate to see the movement of basic flight controls eliminated from replay. I have so many beautiful planes now that I will just be more careful in the future to choose products sensitive to my preferences. I only mentioned the price in this discussion because the CRJ-200 is described as one of the most advanced X-Planes. I enjoy the CRJ-200 very much, but one of the features I always took for granted does not work any more.

I would like to add my voice to those who think replay mode is an important feature of X-Plane. I've been told that unless the flight control uses X-Plane standard datafefs, it will not show in replay. I e-mailed my concern to Randy Witt at X-Plane and he forwarded it to Austin Meyer with the suggestion that this issue be considered in future upgrades of X-Plane 10. Hopefully developers and the people at X-Plane can find a way to retain what have been the good features of X-Plane. In the future I will be checking with the developer about how well the aircraft offered for sale performs in replay mode before spending $59.95.