I agree whole heartedly. Steer clear. The carriers in FS9 were always so-so. Nothing great graphically, but on par with many of the freeware offerings, maybe slightly better. FS9 never had built in carrier ops and every different group of carriers had their own way of making things work. Ultimately, they did theirs with uber powerful spoilers that was less than ideal. But hey, everyone was doing something to tweak it.
Come FSX, there was finally a native catapult and arrested landing model and my understanding is they have not adapted this at all. Instead, they continue with their "tweaked" models. And of course, visually they are so far below Javier's models, why bother?
The aircraft are utterly useless. First, my understanding is that their models originally were pirated from others freeware work without giving due credit. Even beyond that "rumor" though, the visual models don't even match freeware models now. The flight dynamics seem whimsical, with some aircraft landing 30-40 kts faster or slower than it's real life counterpart. They have almost unuseable low resolution VC's and the 2D cockpit is basic at best using mostly default Lear 45 guagues put in to a shell that locks pseudo-fighter style.
Now as you can guess I have not bought the Flight Deck 6 variant. I can't truly judge this, but every other title in the series has made so little advancement as to seemingly be able to predict what Flight Deck 6 had to offer.
EDIT: That youtube video is hilarious. Why you'd even want to land an A380 on a carrier, I don't know. If you look close (ok, not really even that close) he actually had a ramp strike that he "bounced" out of.
