Leafer,
with all due respect, what you want to say with that or what you want to point out with that?
If you mean it could be managed with much more less cost that some persons mentioned here I'm in! Let's start - I have serious plans for business!
:)
Oh - we have no working filghtsim engine right now - than lets buy one from someone who have made on or programme it by our self.
Oh- I see... we have to spend thousands of money first without having a model to fly!
Hmm... Mabyee this is also a reason why it cost more than you/we can imagine in the first place.
And I think something to wash yourself and a working TV is one of the last problems in creating it.
I for instance have no fun developing something , putting my creativity in it and thinking about solving problems even when I'm asleep when I know I'm getting not the money that I deserve for it.
And as a result of it I'm worrying how to pay for my family and the education for my children for instance while programming for a company.
So please do yourself a favour and don't say that living in Russia is cheap
I was 10 years ago working in Russia and was astonished how quick capitalism
manifested there and even worse what I have seen in Germany or the US before.
I don't want to vindicate the costs Jim listed here or find them adequate for what you get, but its the way the things go in politics and economy these days and I'm looking sad to our near future.
But this doesn't fit in a discussion forum about flight simulation.