Looking around this forum, I can’t see that anyone has mentioned civil flight sims.
I’m a regular ‘virtual flyer’ and I used to be a regular user of Microsoft Flight Sim ’98, with several add ons. Trouble is, FS’98 has several bugs in and some of the scenery is well, frankly, awful.
These days, I prefer Flight Unlimited III. Although the downside to this excellent piece of software is that you cannot fly the ‘heavies’. Apart from that, it is very realistic and good fun.
The reason I play these sims is because of my interest in civil aircraft, but does anyone else reading this use these packages? I would be very interested to hear what peoples thoughts are on this.
By: Airbus - 13th April 2001 at 17:23
RE: Flight Simulations
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By: Saab 2000 - 13th April 2001 at 14:19
RE: Flight Simulations
I have fs 98 and 2000.I enjoy both,i also have many add ons such as Airport 2000 and English airports although heathrow scenery had aircraft of brittania and air 2000 on it,i don’t think they go their.
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th March 2001 at 23:12
RE: Flight Simulations
FS 2000 not to bad still keep bending to aircraft but I am waiting to see what FS 2002 is going to be like. It has got real time interactive air trafic control improved graphics and different aircraft inc cessna caravan both land and float versions. But no due out until later this year hopefully before christmas.
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd March 2001 at 18:06
RE: Flight Simulations
I have FS2000 and my brother does as well and we swear by it, we love doing round the world trips in relatively small aircraft, my brov`s fav. is a Northwest Airlink (Mesaba) Saab SF340
Regards,
Scott
p.s. if anybody has a Jetstream 32 in Eastern Airways colours i would be very grateful to find out where you got it from also if anybody could make one for me it would be even better…for more info. look at www.easternairways.com.
By: Arabella-Cox - 18th December 2000 at 21:27
RE: Flight Simulations
Same for me, except that I like military flight sims.
I’m waiting for the 2.5 upgrade! (Inflight refuelling, Mig29K, …)
By: V1 - 17th December 2000 at 20:12
RE: Flight Simulations
Flanker 2.0? Bloody excellent flight sim. I bought it about six months ago and it is a masterpiece. Difficult to get into, but ultra realistic. I’m not usually one for playing combat flight sims, but the main reason I bought it was because the SU-27 and it’s family are my favourite military aircraft.
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th December 2000 at 16:07
RE: Flight Simulations
Which problems?
I’m using FS2000, CFS2, and I don’t have problems
Ever tried Flanker 2? That’s a real military fligntsim!!!!!
By: DK - 28th November 2000 at 08:49
RE: Flight Simulations
I think that sivil flight simulators are also great and prehaps thats why I have FS2000 prof.edition but I still can´t use it properly and I got it for a year it´s taeking long time to learn.
Regards: DK
By: V1 - 4th November 2000 at 15:42
RE: Flight Simulations
Airline Simulator 2 is an excellent package, but it retailed at £99.99. Rather expensive for most I would have thought, but such is the price you pay for software of such quality.
By: Arabella-Cox - 2nd November 2000 at 08:01
RE: Flight Simulations
My favourite “modern” sim is FLY! It’s great. Best panels around.Probably best graphics too, but it needs a very fast machine & plenty of RAM to fly smoothly AND have good graphics at the same time. I also have FS ’98 at the office, but I’m not really keen on it. It’s OK for a quick “fix” (a couple of circuits of Meigs) while I eat my lunch, but nothing more involved than that.
My all-time favourite sim still has to be old SubLogic’s ATP, ‘tho. Does anybody have any experience with ATP’s modern incarnation, AIRLINE SIMULATOR 2 ?? I believe it’s meant to be very good to fly, even if the graphics are very old fashioned.
By: Richard_1 - 1st November 2000 at 19:50
RE: Flight Simulations
I really enjoy flight simulators aswell.
At the moment I have Flight Simulator 2000. (prof. edition)
but it is causing me a lot of problems, hopefully these will
be sorted out, it’s taken nearly a year.
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