FSX Steam Edition: Fair Dinkum Flights

Fair Dinkum Flights is a mission pack add-on for FSX: Steam Edition, developed by Turbulent Designs and published under the Dovetail Games - Flight label. It bundles ten scripted missions set across Australia, putting you in the cockpit for activities meant to reflect real pilot work on the continent: sightseeing runs, cattle mustering from the air, and aerial firefighting support. If you have been flying vanilla FSX circuits and want structured objectives with a regional flavour, the pitch makes sense on paper. In practice, ten missions is a very short list. Mission packs live or die by replayability and scenario variety, and this one leans toward the shallow end of both. The firefighting and mustering scenarios are the most distinct offerings here because they ask you to fly with a purpose beyond point-to-point navigation. The sightseeing tours are pleasant enough if you have not already spent time over Australian scenery in other add-ons, but they do not stress any interesting flight mechanics. There is no dynamic weather integration, no branching objective system, and no career progression layer tying the missions together into something with stakes. The Steam review pool is small (thirty reviews at time of writing) and sits at 27 percent positive, which is a meaningful signal even at low sample size. Common complaints point to bugs in mission triggers and a perceived mismatch between price and content volume. From a systems perspective, there is nothing here that rewards repeated play the way a good campaign or sandbox add-on would. The AI behaviour during the missions does not introduce complications that a mid-experience FSX pilot would not solve on the first attempt. Where this pack could find a legitimate audience is with newer FSX users who want guided Australian content and have not yet exhausted the base mission library. The structured format does provide clearer goals than free flight, and for someone still building instrument and low-level flight confidence, cattle mustering in particular forces you to fly slow and low with precision. That is a genuine skill context. But experienced simmers will exhaust the content in an afternoon and find nothing to revisit. The mod ecosystem for FSX is enormous, and freeware mission packs covering regional scenarios exist across multiple community hubs. Before purchasing, it is worth checking what the AVSIM and FSDeveloper communities have produced for Australian operations specifically. The bar for paid mission content needs to be meaningfully higher than what dedicated hobbyists release for free, and Fair Dinkum Flights does not clear that bar convincingly given its review reception. Diego, Scout Team