Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si...
by ThrowawayFS on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:58PM
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There's actually a reason for that: Microsoft had a separate product called ESP [1] that was based on the Flight Simulator codebase that was marketed as a platform for doing industrial training simulations.
Development stopped with the dissolution of ACES, the Flight Simulator team, but Lockheed acquired rights to continue to develop MS ESP, which eventually became Lockheed's Prepare3d [2].
Development stopped with the dissolution of ACES, the Flight Simulator team, but Lockheed acquired rights to continue to develop MS ESP, which eventually became Lockheed's Prepare3d [2].
[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc526948.aspx
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator#Clo...