Flight Sims

I hear ya on that one I remember one time I was on a flight from one city to another, and I ran out of fuel on MS Flight Sim 2002 (I think it was 2002, might have been 2000 ) And the nearest landing strip was right in view. With some careful manuevering, I swing it onto the runway but slightly too fast. In an effort to slow down, I turned to the right and suddenly the control tower is right in front of me and BOOM. There goes my pilot's license

Has anyone played MS Flight Sim 2004 yet? I've had my eye on it for over a year, but I've been waiting for the price to come down... but now I'll probably just wait for the next one haha.

 

 

 

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Hi,
The game that I have is Flight Simulator 2002. It combines great graphics with FINOMINAL flight physics.

The default planes that come with the game are: (Not forgetting that you can download an unlimited amount of other planes for free off the internet.

+ 4 Cessna's.
+ 3 Boeings
+ 1 Bell (helicopter)
+ 1 Display Plane (extra)
+ 1 WWI plane (Sopwirth Camel)
+ 1 Learjet

A few extra's aswell...

It has the entire world fully designed with corresponding terrian and realistic cities and landmarks. It also has a hole range of extra scenarios availible for you to use. Some of them under the name of 'Scenic Wonders' will take you into the mouth of a volcanoe so that you can actually see the eruption. The whole game is really accurate.

Physics: 10/10
Graphics: 8/10
Sound: 8/10
Accuracy: 10/10
Interactions: 9/10

Overall Score: 90%

It's a good game.

Sean Webber
militaryknowledge@hotmail.co.uk

 

 

 

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[attachment=206:attachment]Hi!

I have FS2002 but don't really find time to use it anymore. Funny though, about 5 months ago I was obssesed in flying so I even took a 30 minute lesson in a Cessna 152. Now it dosn't interest me at all. Wierd. Anyway, back to your question. I have FS2002 and the 'World Airports' add-on. Thats what you want to do. Buy Fs2004 with loads of add-on packs. You just better prey you have a fast computer! Oh yehr, I got FS2000 purely so I could have Concorde. I also started making my own flight Simulator (see attachment) with ultra-realistic physics and I'm thinking about starting it again. I hope I've helped. (Try here - RC Simulations for some useful products and a 'what-not-to-do' when building a website.)

Lee Webber (See attachment)

BTW:



Note my brothers great spelling. Well done Sean!

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In the past couple months Atari released Falcon 4:Allied Force. This game was produced by people in the modding community and is everything that Falcon 4 should have been when shipped in 1998. Graphics are updated a little, but new campagins and the dynamic campagin engine actually works making it probably the last word in modern jet combat siims.

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I played Flight Sim 2000 which had bad graphics but it was fun for a while, good thing I didn't buy it. I borrowed mine from the library, hehe. But yeah, during the flight it's really boring especially if the flight is departing from NYC and arriving at Manila (Philippines). I never finished a flight and I never got to perfectly land a plane. All my attempts to land a plane crashed. I turned off the engines and tilted the nose up high to make the flare but I was always too high so i dive for a bit and then I crash. I'm planning on getting the FS2004, are the graphics any good? Are there more buildings and structures this time cuz I really want to seee more structures or else it's just another boring flight not worth buying.

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Falcon 4.0: Allied Force is an excellent upgrade to the original game back in 1999. It came out last year (2005) and is by far one of the most accurate and interesting flight sims. Of course it's a combat flight sim, but key words are flight sim. The program meets or exceeds all USAF requirements for simulation. Allied force has graphics updates and major bug fixes to online play and the dynamic combat engine. Campaigns go based on how well you fly.

This isn't a game for those wanting to jump inthe cockpit and bomb stuff. It took a couple years of playing a few hours a week with a HOTAS joystick system for the original Falcon 4.0 to be able to fly and not die all the time.

Landings in falcon 4 are good, because if you take off and then have your mission scrubbed by AWACS call, you have to jettison your stores and burn fuel for 10 minutes at full afterburner because just like in real life, ifyou land the F-16 heavy, the landing gear will collapse.

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I have flight sim 2002 but i can honestly say it does get boring. I only used it to learn how to use my joystick. After when i was pretty good at flying planes i got combat flight sim which in my opinion is sooo much better and way more entertaining. don't bother with normal flight sims unless you have a real need for it.

-HellFire

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LOL, that must be Flight Gear. It is free and open source, but it is rubbish. Only thing that you could use it for is system stability testing, because that thing will use up all RAM and virtual memory, and then demand more.

Only airplane that is decently design is Cessna 172, and it flies good until you decide to roll to the right. After that only way is down. Why? After rudder is moved to the far right it can't get back.

Some other aircraft are not even flyable (you cannot start engine on lightnig).


There is one flight simulator that is free, and there are many combat modes. Downsides - not very realistic and graphics and sound look like game was built in early nineties. But it is good thing if you want to learn to fly.
It is YSFLIGHT

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I come from watching the Ysflight website, and it looks very cool, besides being free,,it looks very professional. It kind of active..and has updates and new versions..But I´ve seen the screeshots and the graphics are kind of lame..looks like a nineties game. I think I will go for this one though..I will try it,,and after that I will post..cheers

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As far as combat flight simulators go, look around for Nova Logic's F-22 Lightning 3. Should be dirt cheap nowadays since it's really old, but you have the option of launching with a global thermonuclear weapon. Oh man, get me some cheat codes for infinite weapons and god mode, and watch the mushroom clouds grow

Multiplayer was rather fun, but that was back in '98

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