Thanks for posting this. I wasn't aware that a survey had taken place. I wonder if that's a reflection of where it was advertised, and if that means it under-represents the FG community.
I agree with Hooray that we're going to struggle to attract the typical flightsimmer - it's particularly interesting that they are more likely to be using payware than previously, and are spending significant amounts on an ongoing basis both on software and hardware (a lot of 10XX graphics cards
).
However, I think there are some interesting nuggets there:
- 2.2.2. The gender gap is just depressing (98%+ male)
- 2.3.3. Surprisingly high proportion of RL pilots (> 25%)
- 2.5.5. Looks like people are saying they are increasingly using payware. I wonder if that's partly a reflection of the ultra-high fidelity payware that's available - OrbX, PMDG
- 2.6.2 Given the relatively low proportion of mainland Europeans in the FS communtity, interesting that FSWeekend is so popular. I guess it is attracting a larger proportion of the community than (say) the Flightsim Show at Cosford.
- 2.6.5 Higher proportion than I would expect are writing software or are 3d modellers ( 13%), so my view of them as purely consumers is perhaps unrealistic.
- 2.6.8 Not quite sure what to make of this data. Discord, Facebook, Reddit are being used constantly, but unclear if this is just for flightsim purposes.
-Stuart