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I had a couple of years with MS Flightsims.

I got into it after a patricular real life flight into LAX.
It was foggy, i was in a jumbo and as we were coming in to land, it was just thick fog looking out of the window.
I could see tops of tall buildings as we got lower, but still could not see the ground.
It was scary.
Anyway, it was a smooth nice landing. Everyone clapped in admiration of the pilot.

It left me wondering though, this pilot is not a magician, how on earth did he do that?

I bought FS2004 not long after as i really wanted to know what it was all about ...

I was a 'flight simmer' for 2 or 3 years after, and i can tell you now, that 'game' answered all of my questions and gave me an understanding of what is actually going on up front in that plane, when flying to your latest holiday destination.

Great stuff, i recommend it to everyone ;)
 
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This is the sim I ended up using most.

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DOS based (but it can be fiddled to run in a window), it's effectively a 744 procedural trainer in which pretty much every part of the 744 is simulated. It wasn't cheap at over £200!

http://www.aerowinx.com

I flew it so much that when a friend and I (who also has the same sim) had a session on the BA 744 simulators we knew more about the aircraft than the woman who ran the session!

This is it with all the extra stuff I had running in the background, planning software, moving map and the 'broker' which linked it all together.

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There's a new version on the way as can be seen from the link I posted above. I've not done much flight simulation for a couple of years but the new version is java based so will run on all platforms and I have no doubt whatsoever that I'll buy it.
 
Breach said:
I had a couple of years with MS Flightsims.

I got into it after a patricular real life flight into LAX.
It was foggy, i was in a jumbo and as we were coming in to land, it was just thick fog looking out of the window.
I could see tops of tall buildings as we got lower, but still could not see the ground.
It was scary.
Anyway, it was a smooth nice landing. Everyone clapped in admiration of the pilot.

It left me wondering though, this pilot is not a magician, how on earth did he do that?
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Chances are he used autoland. ;)
 
I really need to buy Flight Simulator X. It looks fantastic. The latest version I have is Flight Simulator 2002 :( I installed it on Windows 7 a couple of months ago, after several years of not using it. I'd love to use that yoke and instrument panel, but at about £120 each they're way too expensive and wouldn't be worth me using. I'll have to make do with my Microsoft Sidewinder joystick.

Those videos look very impressive, lukefinch. When I do get FSX I'll have to look into getting some extra scenery.
 
Hi Spook

The Yoke, Throttles and peddles are Saitek.The MCP and radio are made by Goflight. Matrox Triple head splits the screen, and i have a TrackIR. On another networked machine the other 2 monitors are connected and running FSCommander (gives an ATC kinda view), and Jeppeson flight charts on the other for all the airport ino (SIDS, STARS, airport info etc.)

Regards

Parx
 
parxuk said:
Hi Spook

The Yoke, Throttles and peddles are Saitek.The MCP and radio are made by Goflight. Matrox Triple head splits the screen, and i have a TrackIR. On another networked machine the other 2 monitors are connected and running FSCommander (gives an ATC kinda view), and Jeppeson flight charts on the other for all the airport ino (SIDS, STARS, airport info etc.)

Regards

Parx
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Brilliant software :)
 
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