Of course this might be prohibitively expensive, but thousands of Tileproxy users can’t be wrong; you just can’t beat the real thing.

When it comes to airport scenery, the conversion path is simplest; Jonathan Harris wrote a really good converter for MSFS BGL-based scenery; visit X-Plane.org’s scenery forum to see the threads on this tool. For mesh scenery the conversion is non-trivial.

Unfortunately, airplanes probably represent the hardest conversion — a PMDG airplane is filled with MSFS specific code, and is intimately tied into the MSFS SDKs, even if it does replace a huge amount of the core sim.

I have no doubt that that level of airplane is possible in X-Plane, but would PMDG want to port? I don’t know…the concern I hear repeatedly from MS third party companies is: market share; they want to target the widest available platform.

The World
I have a huge amount of time & money invested in the environment in which i fly; the scenery, terrain mesh, textures, and weather. For me the world in which i fly is of equal importance to the realism of the aircraft/systems. X-Plane does not yet come close to matching the scale & detail avaialble in MSFS. I realise that scenery is likely a matter of licensing rights, but if there is any way you can obtain the MFSF scenery class rights and /or create some form of conversion tool so we could bring our existing 'world' to X-Plane then that would be fantastic.

Commercial Add-on’s
I almost exclusively fly PMDG/Level-D aircraft. I also utilise many of the add-on programs that work with these. I understand securing outside commercial support is all about having viable marktet share to ensure return on their investment, but even the announcement of such partnership/future development would entice. I would imagine now is a favourable time for X-Plane to start courting these companies.

At present there is no imminent reason for MSFS users to make the swap. The closure of ACES does not mean that our programs suddenly stop working, but get both of the above and you will have a very attractive proposition for mass transition to X-Plane.

What follows then is the phenominal support of tens of thousands of freeware developers & enthusiasts who are the people that truely have the power to make X-Plane the defacto flight sim.

Regards & Good luck,
Rod