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The best Flight Simulators on PC
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Welcome to Flight Simulators!
I am a big fan of flight simulators! Here you can find some of reviews about good simulators I love to play
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
The only differences between the Standard and Professional versions of FS2000 are the number of default aircraft and the number of detailed cities. If you decide to buy this go with the Professional Version. It is worth the extra . FS2000 continues the tradition of accurate flight modeling and adds the following new features.
(1) Real Weather -- you can download real time weather data for your flights. This is a major improvement over previous versions by setting up realistic challenges. Imagine descending through realistic looking clouds and seeing rain pelt your windshield as you line up for final approach. Turbulence and wind shear are well modeled.
(2) Built in flight planning -- This addresses one of the biggest weaknesses of previous versions. Most simulator pilots do not have an extensive collection of navigational charts. This always limited your ability to fly off the beaten path. The new flight planning interface, while not perfect, opens up the world. There are now roughly 20,000 airports modeled in FS2000 worldwide.
Microsoft has had a history of selling HIGH quality simulation. They were one of the first to sell such a product, and continue to produce a great line of simulation games. They also have a history of creating some of the bulkiest programs for computers to run. Flight Simulator 2000 is no exception with this. Unless you have the newest super computer on the market, don't be surprised if the program runs slower than acceptable. On my computer, the frame rates I was getting were ridiculous, so bad that I was left with no choice to uninstall the program. Although, if you are lucky enough to own one the nicer machines, here are the features that I found to be really nice and a very good compliment to the older edition.
This game is great for any pilot, from beginner to ace, that just wants to have some fun. The only drawback is the size of the program. It takes so much memory to store and run that it sometimes becomes a burden to run, unless of course you are the lucky ones, which I have mentioned above :-)
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Combat Flight Simulator
Where to start? I’ll start the review where most of the pilots begin their way in FS and in the real world – flight lessons. The lessons in the last version, FS2000, were written by a real flight instructor, and a quite funny one too. He’ll teach you every thing, from flying straight-and-level to getting this thing on the ground, even when you can’t see anything out of the window. In case you wondered, no dramatic changes were made in the lessons, but I think there a few changes.
The lessons are almost perfect – in a quite fun way, you’ll get the required knowledge to pass the ratings (tests). Although a lot (and I do mean a lot!) of practice will be required, you can get quite professional with time. So if you’ve worried you won’t be able to manage flying a plane, that won’t be a serious problem – assuming you have time and patience to read a lot of materials.
The main, most annoying thing with the new version, is the handbook. Remember that big handbook in FS2000? Forget about it. All you get is a few “Acrobat Reader” files on your hard disk, containing everything you (might) need. This is outrageous – considering the high price of the product. It could get even more expensive if you print it.
There are tests along the way, to earn ratings. To have a chance passing those ratings, you must have the appropriate charts (Navigation charts, which gives information about landing in a specific runway). But, and this must be some of the most stupid things I’ve ever seen done, Microsoft didn’t supply the charts for the last two rating checks (Commercial and Airline Transport Pilot Certificate) – In the briefing, it just directs you to the last page in the handbook. Which handbook? The handbook of FS2000!!! Microsoft has changed the first two rating tests, and supplied the charts, but forgot doing that on the others! Professional? Certainly not.
This is coming to an end, so let me sum up. FS2002 is heavily improved on Graphics. Of course, that is not enough – the ATC and the filled skies are the biggest change. The manual problems are quite irritating, but I’m not sure it’s enough to prevent you buy it. So, think for yourself – do you need the new version? If you never tried the series, and you really like airplanes, go for it. I really can’t find any reason to not do that. If you have FS2000, make your consideration – if you still play it a lot, you should probably upgrade. If you don’t really use it, or flight only to practice specific areas (Navigation with VORs, for example), maybe you shouldn’t.
Of course there are dozens other good simulators, like Microsoft combat flight simulator and others.more reviews can be found here . If you want to know more about tracking web sitie try these web utilities . I will update this page with new simulators soon!
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