FS2004 vs. Elite

[HankPilot2002]

I am getting ready to buy my first flight sim package and was wondering about
the quality of FS2004 vs Elite. Is one package noticably better than the other
? I realize there is a huge price difference in the two. Any input you could
provide would be appreciated.

Hank

[Richard Moore]

Well, elite has a demo to download and try it yourself first.

"HankPilot2002" > wrote in message
...
> I am getting ready to buy my first flight sim package and was wondering
about
> the quality of FS2004 vs Elite. Is one package noticably better than the
other
> ? I realize there is a huge price difference in the two. Any input you
could
> provide would be appreciated.
>
> Hank

[Quilljar]

HankPilot2002 wrote:
> I am getting ready to buy my first flight sim package and was
> wondering about the quality of FS2004 vs Elite. Is one package
> noticably better than the other ? I realize there is a huge price
> difference in the two. Any input you could provide would be
> appreciated.
>
> Hank

I would say that Elite is for proferssional pilots who wish to practise
their IFR approaches and systems. It is a very serious sim. For most people
who want to experience the joy of flying many types, and to have some
excellent world scenery for VFR flying, then FS2004 is preferable.
You can find Elite with Google and download a working demo.
Incidentally as a serious hobby simmer, I have tried ALL the available sims,
and while they all do have good points, it is difficult to beat the MSFS2004
for general aviation.


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[Nats]

The flight model in Elite is excellant - only problem is you have to shoot
the odd pirate and Thargoid which interferes a little.

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"Quilljar" > wrote in message
...
> HankPilot2002 wrote:
> > I am getting ready to buy my first flight sim package and was
> > wondering about the quality of FS2004 vs Elite. Is one package
> > noticably better than the other ? I realize there is a huge price
> > difference in the two. Any input you could provide would be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Hank
>
> I would say that Elite is for proferssional pilots who wish to practise
> their IFR approaches and systems. It is a very serious sim. For most
people
> who want to experience the joy of flying many types, and to have some
> excellent world scenery for VFR flying, then FS2004 is preferable.
> You can find Elite with Google and download a working demo.
> Incidentally as a serious hobby simmer, I have tried ALL the available
sims,
> and while they all do have good points, it is difficult to beat the
MSFS2004
> for general aviation.
>
>
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[HankPilot2002]

Thank you for your reply.......I am interested in a multiple monitor set up
with a multi engine throttle quadrant as well. I am also looking at the Dash
-8 add on to FS2004.


Hank

['Mort']

> The flight model in Elite is excellant - only problem is you have to shoot
> the odd pirate and Thargoid which interferes a little.

LMAO ! I've thought it many a time whem I've the sim mentioned ! NICE ONE !

FWIW Take a look at X-Plane as well...kind of falls half way between the two
IMHO

Mort

[Jari Kähkönen]

HankPilot2002 wrote:

> Thank you for your reply.......I am interested in a multiple monitor set
> up
> with a multi engine throttle quadrant as well. I am also looking at the
> Dash -8 add on to FS2004.

Hey Hank (still laughing at that Thargoid-stuffe ;)

Multiple monitors is no problem, I'm flying my Dash8-Q300 with three
monitors. Two are connected to gf4-ti4200 and one is on Matrox Millenium
II. Here's the setup:

http://aerodome.net/~kahmy/efiv-pit.jpg

The pic is from my flight from EFTU to EFIV with Dash8. The laptop on the
left is my VATSIM "radarscreen". I'm flying all my flights in VATSIM.

Actually this is the Dash, it's payware from PSS (not yet patched for 2004,
but the patch is coming).

http://aerodome.net/~kahmy/dash-pushback.jpg

> Hank

-Jari

[HankPilot2002]

Thank you for the reply ! What is VATSIM ?

Hank

[Jari Kähkönen]

HankPilot2002 wrote:

> Thank you for the reply ! What is VATSIM ?

Hank,

VATSIM means Virtual Air Trafic Network, meaning that it is a global
virtual world, including "real virtual" pilots (human pilots that are
flying in virtual world that can see each other in multiplay) and air
trafic controllers (human ATC's).

Read more: http://www.vatsim.net/about.html

>
> Hank

-Jari