Flight Unlimited 3

[Glenn Jacobs]

Does anyone know if Flight Unlimited 3 is available any where and if it
will run on Windows XL?

Thank you.

Jake

[Don Parker]

Glenn Jacobs wrote:
> Does anyone know if Flight Unlimited 3 is available any where and if
> it will run on Windows XL?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jake

eBay and it should run on XP (just guessing, ran mine on 98SE before selling
it), not sure about XL (;->))

[Johnny 5]

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Glenn Jacobs > wrote in message
...
> Does anyone know if Flight Unlimited 3 is available any where and if it
> will run on Windows XL?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jake
>
You decided to go for FU3 rather than FU2 then? (your earlier thread).

[Glenn Jacobs]

On Fri, 28 May 2004 19:38:40 +0100, Johnny 5 wrote:

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> Glenn Jacobs > wrote in message
> ...
>> Does anyone know if Flight Unlimited 3 is available any where and if it
>> will run on Windows XL?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Jake
>>
> You decided to go for FU3 rather than FU2 then? (your earlier thread).

I have both FU1 and FU2, but as I said earlier I can't get either to run on
XL. I do have a machine that my wife uses currently which has 98 on it and
which she won't be using begining soon. So I will put the FU1&2 on it and
if I can get FU3 at a reasonable price will put it on my XL machine.
Everyone knows that a man can't have too many toys and I have also decided
to forgo buying another real airplane and will probably buy a condo in
Spain or Mexico. The kind of flying I used to do is probably better done a
simulator at my age anyway.

As I said before Flight Unlimited 1 did the best job of any PC based
simulator for acrobatics that I have tried. If there is a better one I
would like to try it. FU2 wasn't quite as good as one, but you could
practice your formation flying with the airliners. I don't know much about
FU3 as far as flying realism, however.

I hope one day another company will take over the FU software and come out
with some new ones or someone else will come up with a realistic simulator.
The processing power is available in todays PCs, I just wonder if there are
enough people out there whot like to do the kind of flying that I do to
make it commercially worth while. At one time I got so unhappy with the
way that the simulators flew that i designed my own, at least the
aerodynamics part, but never got beyond that.

JakeInHartsel

[Tom Allensworth]

The largest community of FU series users is located on AVSIM. You can access
the FU forum here:

http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=130

And there you will find info on availability of all of the FU series.

--
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Tom Allensworth
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"Glenn Jacobs" > wrote in message
.. .
> On Fri, 28 May 2004 19:38:40 +0100, Johnny 5 wrote:
>
> > x-no-aarchive: yes
> > Glenn Jacobs > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> Does anyone know if Flight Unlimited 3 is available any where and if it
> >> will run on Windows XL?
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >> Jake
> >>
> > You decided to go for FU3 rather than FU2 then? (your earlier thread).
>
> I have both FU1 and FU2, but as I said earlier I can't get either to run
on
> XL. I do have a machine that my wife uses currently which has 98 on it
and
> which she won't be using begining soon. So I will put the FU1&2 on it and
> if I can get FU3 at a reasonable price will put it on my XL machine.
> Everyone knows that a man can't have too many toys and I have also decided
> to forgo buying another real airplane and will probably buy a condo in
> Spain or Mexico. The kind of flying I used to do is probably better done
a
> simulator at my age anyway.
>
> As I said before Flight Unlimited 1 did the best job of any PC based
> simulator for acrobatics that I have tried. If there is a better one I
> would like to try it. FU2 wasn't quite as good as one, but you could
> practice your formation flying with the airliners. I don't know much
about
> FU3 as far as flying realism, however.
>
> I hope one day another company will take over the FU software and come out
> with some new ones or someone else will come up with a realistic
simulator.
> The processing power is available in todays PCs, I just wonder if there
are
> enough people out there whot like to do the kind of flying that I do to
> make it commercially worth while. At one time I got so unhappy with the
> way that the simulators flew that i designed my own, at least the
> aerodynamics part, but never got beyond that.
>
> JakeInHartsel
>

[Randy Wentzel]

Glenn Jacobs wrote:

> Does anyone know if Flight Unlimited 3 is available any where and if it
> will run on Windows XL?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jake

Hi Jake,

I successfully used FU3 on 98SE, Win2K and WinXP. I still have it
installed on my XP machine, but I now exclusively fly MSFS 9 since
getting my new computer. FU3 is a great sim if you are working on a
computer with limited processing power.

FU3 isn't available retail, and the company that made it, Looking Glass
Studio, is out of business. Rumor has it that the employees who made FU3
were also disgruntle for having to make a Flight Sim, as that wasn't
really their forte.

Best,

Randy
PPSEL and avid flight simmer

[Glenn Jacobs]

> Hi Jake,
>
> I successfully used FU3 on 98SE, Win2K and WinXP. I still have it
> installed on my XP machine, but I now exclusively fly MSFS 9 since
> getting my new computer. FU3 is a great sim if you are working on a
> computer with limited processing power.
>
> FU3 isn't available retail, and the company that made it, Looking Glass
> Studio, is out of business. Rumor has it that the employees who made FU3
> were also disgruntle for having to make a Flight Sim, as that wasn't
> really their forte.
>
> Best,
>
> Randy
> PPSEL and avid flight simmer

Thanks for the info, I am looking for a copy now. My main issue with MSFS
is they do not handle stall maneuvers correctly, and mainly I like to
acrobatics.
--
JakeInHartsel

[Quilljar]

Try the Real Air Cessna 170. I think it is a free download and is much more
accurate for aeros than the MS default Cessna. It will stall and spin pretty
well like the real thing. About the only aircraft in FS2004 that does:-)

[Randy Wentzel]

Quilljar wrote:

> Try the Real Air Cessna 170. I think it is a free download and is much more
> accurate for aeros than the MS default Cessna. It will stall and spin pretty
> well like the real thing. About the only aircraft in FS2004 that does:-)

Some planes are more accurately modeled than others. I've downloaded
quite a few planes that stall and spin correctly, while I've also
downloaded many that do not.

I found the Citabria (available for d/l off the net) to behave as you
might expect it to in real life.

Best,

Randy

[Glenn Jacobs]

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 19:03:10 GMT, Randy Wentzel wrote:

> Quilljar wrote:
>
>> Try the Real Air Cessna 170. I think it is a free download and is much more
>> accurate for aeros than the MS default Cessna. It will stall and spin pretty
>> well like the real thing. About the only aircraft in FS2004 that does:-)
>
> Some planes are more accurately modeled than others. I've downloaded
> quite a few planes that stall and spin correctly, while I've also
> downloaded many that do not.
>
> I found the Citabria (available for d/l off the net) to behave as you
> might expect it to in real life.
>
> Best,
>
> Randy

Thanks Randy, where can it be downloaded off the net?

--
JakeInHartsel

[Randy Wentzel]

Glenn Jacobs wrote:


> Thanks Randy, where can it be downloaded off the net?

Try flightsim.com, otherwise I can't remember. I can probably just put
it online for you d/l. Give me a day.

--
Randy