A poignant look at Flight Simulator...

[Tinstaafl]

The song is one of Enya's, I think. Not Loreena McKennit. I have a lot of music from those two as well as Maire Brennan from 'Clannad'. Pretty sure I've heard it while listening to Enya. Her 'The Memory of Trees' perhaps?

 

[Ill Mitch]

Heyas,

I gotcha all beat. I had subLogics (later bought by MS) flight sim for my Apple 2. It ran much better than what the vid showed.

A bud of mine had it for his TRS-80. That was pretty choppy, though.

Nu

That's what I started with, Flight Sim 2 for the apple. I have had every version except FS2000 (because it sucked).

www.megascenery.com to take a look at what is out there now. Pretty amazing stuff.

 

[mtrv]

Here is an up to date flightsim video, that I just seen.
Very realistic looking! Microsoft's FS2004 and add ons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gigOl-8tsYc&search=fs2004

 

[~~~^~~~]

First flew the Sublogic one on the Apple my freshman year of high school ('81-'82). Amazing how far the technology has come since then.

Yep - Ran on a 5 1/4 inch floppy. Remember when Bruce Artwick was the FSim guy?

Probably the best Flight Sim ever was Fly! by Gathering of Developers (GOD). You had to know the systems to get the airplanes started and every switch in the cockpit worked as it was supposed to. On the Hawker you had to get the APU going for an engine start. I did some of the Beta testing on that.

What happened to the Sublogic sim where they would deduct points for exceeding limts and bad landings? Also, anyone remember the air ambulance add on where you had to fly rescue missions? The crop duster scenario was fun too. FS4 was the best Microsoft Sim - after that it was all grpahics and no flight modelling.

Falcon 3.0 worked well too.

Oh well, now I fly for a living and have not even loaded FS 2004. But those things were sure fun in high school.

 

[AirBadger]

While FS2004 is pretty cool by itself, its really 3rd party developers that make it realistic. The 747-400 from www.precisionmanuals.com and 767 from www.leveldsim.com come to mind. Really cool stuff, all the important systems are modelled.

 

[pilotguy733]

Anyone ever use Sierra Pro-Pilot??

 

[Ill Mitch]

While FS2004 is pretty cool by itself, its really 3rd party developers that make it realistic. The 747-400 from www.precisionmanuals.com and 767 from www.leveldsim.com come to mind. Really cool stuff, all the important systems are modelled.

For a 747, I prefer the 747-200 from http://www.panelshop.com/, although the designer is kind of a grump.

 

[Workin'Stiff]

Anyone ever use Sierra Pro-Pilot??

I used to but I never had a computer hefty enough to run it... It was a really good program though!

 

[dseagrav]

Anyone ever use Sierra Pro-Pilot??

I think I still have my copy. I never got it to run very well, but I think it was more my computer having issues than the software.

 

[Publishers]

My 12 year old son has been on this with all the add on's like Ultimate Traffic and Active Weather for two years. His transition into actual aircraft was almost anti climatic and his use of the Garmin 1000 etc was a no brainer. Kids today will be so far ahead it is scary.
The trouble is that he thinks a 172 should have auto throttles.

 

[User998]

The trouble is that he thinks a 172 should have auto throttles.

I agree. And FADEC with an auto-mixture would be great as well.

 

[gkrangers]

I agree. And FADEC with an auto-mixture would be great as well.

Already been done.

http://epicaviation.com/tae-distributor/tae-distributor.html