We don’t expect everyone to enjoy the Pelican. If it’s not for you, that’s fine. You can simply choose not to download it from the Marketplace and pretend that it doesn’t even exist.
Our hope is that fans of the Halo series who otherwise were not interested in Microsoft Flight Simulator will see the Pelican in the trailer and decide to give MSFS a shot, especially if they’re already an Xbox Game Pass subscriber so there’s no additional cost to them. We know many of these people will mess around with the Pelican for a week or two and then move on to other games, but some portion will fall in love with MSFS – something they never even thought to try until now – join our flight sim community, branch out into flying other planes, maybe take the time to learn how to fly more realistically, and perhaps eventually fly on VATSIM, PilotEdge, or IVAO. These new players, in turn, help grow our hobby and expand the number of flight simmers, creating an even greater incentive for 3rd Party Developers to release more high-quality aircraft and other addons. Even if you personally have no intention of downloading fictional aircraft like the Pelican (or other popular science fiction spaceships that are available from mod sites), its addition to Microsoft Flight Simulator will still benefit you in the long run.