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flight sim recommendations?
Pattern flier, no tomatoes please, looking for a good flight sim. Having lots
of helath problems and cannot go out to practise..... need a FIX! Looking at Real flight, but is that the best available? This computer has more than enough power for any program, hyper threading, 2 GB RAM, 256MB video; just need some input as to program selection. TIA, Brian |
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"Wincons" wrote in message ... Pattern flier, no tomatoes please, looking for a good flight sim. Having lots of helath problems and cannot go out to practise..... need a FIX! Looking at Real flight, but is that the best available? This computer has more than enough power for any program, hyper threading, 2 GB RAM, 256MB video; just need some input as to program selection. TIA, Brian Brian, No tomatoes, I'm something of a pattern flier myself. I've only had my single-engine VFR license for a little over a year now, and I have logged about 95 hours in Cessna 172's. However, I have been flying computer flight simulators (both civilian and military) for as long as there have been computer flight simulators for the PC, Amiga, Atari, Commadore, etc. My recommendation is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century Of Flight. It is in my opinion the best all-around civilian flight simulator ever made. I like it because the scenery in FS 2004 looks very similar to the scenery in the area that I normally practice flying in when I fly in real life (southwestern Idaho). FS2004 has good weather simulation, pretty good ATC, and great aircraft. Also, I like it because one can download and install terrific free add-on aircraft, VFR scenery, terrain elevations, utilities, the list is long. For instance, I have downloaded the 38-meter terrain elevation for the Rocky Mountain area, which is the area of the country that I live in. This means that the scenery terrain elevations (mountains, valleys) are accurate to within 38 meters anywhere that I fly. I have also downloaded & installed a great water texture that makes flying over lakes and oceans look very realistic. I downloaded and installed some excellant free add-on aircraft, like a French APM-20 Lionceau single-engine VFR mid-wing trainer, a Lancair Legacy 2000 high-performance single engine, an Alon Ercoupe, a Lake Renegade amphibian, even an F-16 Falcon supersonic jet fighter with functioning radar and heads-up display! I also like FS2004 because the airports that I normally fly out of in real life look very similar to the ones that are programmed into FS 2004, the radio frequencies are the same, the taxiways are the same, and the taxiway signs are accurate. FS2004 also has a Garmin GPS that is very similar to the Garmin GPS that is installed in most of the aircraft that I fly in real life. The downside is that FS2004 takes an pretty hefty computer system in order to get decent framerates. I run FS2004 on a 2.8 gHZ Pentium 4 machine, with a Radeon 9800XT video card, Windows XP Home, and 512 megs of ram. It seems to get good framerates of ~35 fps. There are people who like to put down Microsoft products, but as a real life pilot, I really do think that Flight Simulator 2004 is the best civilian flight simulator for the price. I hope this helps.... Randy L. |
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Wincons wrote in message ... Pattern flier, no tomatoes please, looking for a good flight sim. Having lots of helath problems and cannot go out to practise..... need a FIX! Looking at Real flight, but is that the best available? This computer has more than enough power for any program, hyper threading, 2 GB RAM, 256MB video; just need some input as to program selection. TIA, Brian Depends on what you want to do. Real flight rocks. It's got much faster action than FS4. It has in cockpit pilot views and all that. Plus, the RC radio style controller is VERY cool to use. The helicopters are much more realistic in the controls and flight characteristics and much more challenging to fly than the ones in MSFS. MSFS helis are candy ass and no challenge at all. Not realistic at all. The physics in Realflight are very realistic and it's a fast paced sim. It is truly first rate and just a hoot to use. MSFS is more like flying a real aircraft. Percieved as slow and boring but you get to go places, explore a world and read instruments. It doesn't have the same, fast paced pure fun that the RC sim has but it has a different purpose. It too is a fine sim. No question about it. It's just different than Real flight. You have to decide what you want to do.If you want to fly a "real" aircraft, get MSFS. If you want more challenges and just pure fun, go with Real flight. Oh yeah, in MSFS the helis suck. Did I metion that? Good luck. Feel better. |
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:48:59 -0500, "coustanis"
arranged phosphur particles on my screen with the following: Depends on what you want to do. Real flight rocks. It's got much faster action than FS4. Whoa ! Some of us are enjoying FS9 these days. Park your 64 Nash and step into 2004. |
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Greasy Rider wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:48:59 -0500, "coustanis" arranged phosphur particles on my screen with the following: Depends on what you want to do. Real flight rocks. It's got much faster action than FS4. Whoa ! Some of us are enjoying FS9 these days. Park your 64 Nash and step into 2004. What the heck does that mean? Real flight is a year 2004 release with a selection of aircraft as modern as anything you will in MSFS. Just because he likes the action in Realflight better then MSFS (and the action IS good). Just because he likes something different doesn't mean that he's behing the times. Besides, remember this ng is a flight sim ng. Not a MSFS ng. |
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On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:11:18 GMT, ascus4 wrote:
Greasy Rider wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:48:59 -0500, "coustanis" arranged phosphur particles on my screen with the following: Depends on what you want to do. Real flight rocks. It's got much faster action than FS4. Whoa ! Some of us are enjoying FS9 these days. Park your 64 Nash and step into 2004. What the heck does that mean? Real flight is a year 2004 release with a selection of aircraft as modern as anything you will in MSFS. Just because he likes the action in Realflight better then MSFS (and the action IS good). Just because he likes something different doesn't mean that he's behing the times. Besides, remember this ng is a flight sim ng. Not a MSFS ng. Don't get yourself all worked up, man. He was referring to FS4 as the 64 Nash, not Real Flight. Nobody in this day and age should be comparing anything to FS4 as any kind of standard to meet. |
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Presumably a mistake - 04 - 4 - FS4. A miscomprehension?
Angus "Richard Russell" wrote in message ... On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:11:18 GMT, ascus4 wrote: Greasy Rider wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:48:59 -0500, "coustanis" arranged phosphur particles on my screen with the following: Depends on what you want to do. Real flight rocks. It's got much faster action than FS4. Whoa ! Some of us are enjoying FS9 these days. Park your 64 Nash and step into 2004. What the heck does that mean? Real flight is a year 2004 release with a selection of aircraft as modern as anything you will in MSFS. Just because he likes the action in Realflight better then MSFS (and the action IS good). Just because he likes something different doesn't mean that he's behing the times. Besides, remember this ng is a flight sim ng. Not a MSFS ng. Don't get yourself all worked up, man. He was referring to FS4 as the 64 Nash, not Real Flight. Nobody in this day and age should be comparing anything to FS4 as any kind of standard to meet. |
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