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Fly Away Reviews Summary

Fly Away has a rating of 4.5 stars from 115 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Fly Away most frequently mention flight simulator and good work. Fly Away ranks 311th among Video Games sites.

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GB
1 review
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Beware when you sign up for the pro membership.

You will be charged
You won't be able to cancel
They will ignore all your emails
You will be charged
They will ignore you
You will be charged

Avoid this company at all costs.

Date of experience: November 6, 2023
GB
1 review
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I'm an FSX Acceleration user on an old windows 7 Pc. Love this site for the freeware add ons both planes and scenery. Some of my favourites … Concorde, Pompei, Paris scenery, dolomites scenery, LHR T5, Thunderbird 2 including mole haha and even a space 1999 Eagle. ( showing my age now) I've managed to get most things to work in FSX. Just remember to keep preview directX 10turned off in settings … display… graphics otherwise you can lose some plane textures and end up with albino looking planes!

Date of experience: March 29, 2023
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fly Away Simulation is a great store to buy your aircraft for flight simulators. I have had zero problems with them. They seem very responsive if you need support. They offer great products too. The only thing I would suggest is that they have a one click solution when they email you about updates. They are on top of things when it comes time to update their software, usually after Asobos updates break things.

Date of experience: November 30, 2021
Canada
1 review
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They have problems with airplane gauges A320-211-GJVB-CFM, like they don't light or function. I did the correct instalation, it still they didn't work.

Date of experience: November 20, 2021
Massachusetts
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Be careful... make sure you cancel your membership after you purchase anything on this site. I asked to be cancelled last year and was told by Fly Away that I was cancelled, but I was not told to remove them from my PayPal account, so a year later, I got another bill for $55, since the membership auto-renewed. While I know this site has some great stuff, this was a shady way to make a buck, and I never even used their products. Also, the reason I signed up was to get the FSCUIP plugin needed to run EZDOK - BUT it didn't work. When I talked with Flight1.com, ( the owner of the FSCUIP plug-in) he said that Fly Away has no authority to sell the FSCUIP and that I had to buy it through him on Flight1. I feel cheated, for sure. Cancel your subscription on PayPal now if you don't want to get hit with a membership renewal of $55.

Date of experience: March 16, 2021
Ian S. Fly Away Rep
over a year old

Dear Cally,

Firstly, I'm sorry to hear of the issues you seemed to have with our service. All of our memberships do indeed automatically renew and this is made very clear when signing up. Of course, you may cancel the renewal at any time. As to why yours renewed after being canceled is something I will look into and ensure this is refunded.

As for FSUIPC - we do not sell this anywhere on the site. I think you may be referring to the free unlicensed version we have in our freeware library. You would still need to purchase a license to use this software to its maximum functionality.

Bulgaria
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Okay, I have a lot of ORBX scenery, but particularly for CA I do not have so much - two airports and the base packages of ORBX.
I decided to download Photorealistic CA scenery from flyawaysimulation.com
I had two choices - giving 55 / 60 dollars for Pro account so I can get this scenery on normal speed, or wait for four days and then getting it.
I decided to torture myself and wait for four days with open Google Chrome and wait the scenery to download.
I was 3 days in, my GPU updated, my pc updated and I got frozen pc. I needed to restart my pc, because it was not responding at all.
I restarted my pc forcefully. I went back to my Google Chrome and resumed download. It was showing my scenery to be stuck at 75 % and 0 download speed.
I lost 3 days of waiting for this scenery. I was unable to use my pc, because of it.
All of this to pay 55 dollars in order to get it.
I was not going to download anything else from there, since I invested into my Prepar3D more than 20 000 dollars already, including the custom rig I build for it entirely.
I do not have spare money to pay scam company, that makes my pc weak like hell with i7 9700KF processor and RTX 2070 GPU on it! My pc is POWERFUL ENOUGH to handle any game I throw at it.
Fly Away Simulation, you are awful company and you do not deserve any support or money.

Date of experience: December 11, 2020
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Can't be trusted
July 31, 2020

Unreasonable restriction for download speeds (50kbs). A scam to get you to purchase there downloader. Glad reputable sights like Avsim.com and Flightsim.com don't charge you to download other contributors files and programs.

Date of experience: July 31, 2020
Delaware
19 reviews
16 helpful votes
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Top of the line high quality flight simulation products and knowledge based website that actually caters to what you want and or need in order to experience flight. If you have questions you will find the answer on this site, it's knowledge base increases daily as does the flight simulation world.

Date of experience: June 16, 2019
Spain
1 review
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Good balance
June 9, 2019

Good balance regarding cost and quality. Besides that, easy installation and reasonable frame speed results in a desirable product

Date of experience: June 7, 2019
Peru
1 review
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Es una gran experiencia impresionante volar en un Foker Dr I de la 1 guerra mundial. Me gusta la historia y sobre todo, aunque de modo virtual, vivir lo que esta en los libros. Gracias, muchas gracias.

Date of experience: June 7, 2019
GB
1 review
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Great for updates
June 6, 2019

As a retired man having free downloads means I can join in with every one else in the flight sim world

Date of experience: June 5, 2019
Virginia
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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It is a great resource being a simulation fan since 1985 and pilot since 2005, many thanks to put together all this talented people who develop wonderful virtual planes/jets and realistic scenaries, so we can enjoy them!

Date of experience: June 5, 2019
North Carolina
1 review
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Great Downloads
June 6, 2019

Some great downloads without having to be a member. Nonmembers have a slower download speed. But is overall a great add-on site.

Date of experience: June 5, 2019
Michigan
1 review
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Great site look forward to the emails! I look for sites that understand their target audience, in this case flight sim. I have purchased many items and find them as advertised. I know they will keep up the good work.

Date of experience: June 5, 2019
Arizona
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Site organization
June 5, 2019

The contents on Flyawaysim.com are old and outdated, most of them don't attract my interest, some of them are incomplete and they created issues in my flight simulator, plus membership fees are a little high and if you're not a paying member of the site, downloads will be very slow.

Date of experience: June 5, 2019
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I enjoy playing the games and all of the updates, thanks to all the people adding new planes, some of planes and missions are very impressive and enjoyable.

Date of experience: June 4, 2019
Mexico
1 review
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One of the better reference to find useful extensions, airplanes and other resources to reinforce and makeup with a better scenarys the standard and many times ugly equipment of the FSX.

Date of experience: June 4, 2019
GB
1 review
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Love it very useful for the flight sim community. Very varied and extensive content I use it for FSX and FS9

Date of experience: June 4, 2019
Portugal
1 review
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Everything at hand.
Good details of contents.
Good to navigate among items offered.
Good graphics on the site.

Date of experience: June 4, 2019
New Zealand
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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I always look forward to my weekly update from Fly Away. 9 times out of 10, there's some gem of a sharerare/freeware add-on that I might have missed - or one that I'd already had but forgot to reinstall after some sim upgrade or other. It's an invaluable service - and very easy to use. Keep up the good work!

Date of experience: June 4, 2019

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