i agree Mongoose. although i am not part of the SCP, i remember a thread a few years ago, before release 1 from the SCP came out, where people were talking about what features they wanted added. Some were detracting and still hoping for FS3. I said way back then the things that these guys are going to be doing would be our own FS3. I asked when the last time was that a developer asked the players what features they would like to see, then did everything possible to DO it. The SCP kicks ass, they have done everything that we have asked (within reason), and have gone beyond that into the realm of some unreasonable requests.
I have always believed that what they were creating was in fact a successor to FS2. Proof of this is in the launcher and fred alone, if we could label an engine FS3, this would be it.
Well done SCP guys, you have made things possible that weren't possible when i first came here.