I made a statement on my site that I would explain why I was using FS2000 as the simulator software for my VC10 simulator (instead of FS2004, FSX or XPlane). The reasons are varied, but all revolve around the fact that FS98 and FS2000 are the two variants of Flight Simulator I have used most.

As a consequence of this (and also because I wanted to use 'retired' computer hardware that I had lying around) I opted to use FS2000 because I had created several add-ins that allowed voice ATC on flights, voice response to certain ATC requests, real world weather (via internet METAR data), I had lots of photo-realistic scenery and a few good VC10 models. I have created an 'authentic' 1960's VC10 co-pilot flight panel for FS2000 - obviously the Captain's position is being built up of real avionics so no need to simulate that, particularly as the sim will only be flown from the right hand seat. Also, FS2000 is somewhat less demanding in terms of hardware resource which means that I can get good video frame rates even with scenery density and complexity set at a high level.

All the computer hardware & software has been set up & configured ready for installation - interfacing of the controls will have to wait until the construction and installation work starts.