Flight Sims

[planecrazy.eu]

Bargain compared to some of these other companies, £10 Million i heard for a 6 Axis B737.

X-Plane looks the Job, i am downloading a Demo of it right now.

I take it FAA certs come when the Dynamics are as good, or close to the real thing. I am just currious how far out is MS FS2004? It feals pretty real but i have only had a few hours in a real plane so i cant really tell.

I had a look at flight-gear simulator too, seems a little basic though?

[No Mate!]

To be honest, nothing is as real as the real thing.

[jay_hl]

Originally Posted by planecrazy.eu

Bargain compared to some of these other companies, £10 Million i heard for a 6 Axis B737.

Not that I have a spare 10 mill but can anyone point me in the direction of any companies that sell motion simulators. Cant hurt to have a look ?

Oh yeah, I you can add a website link that will be a bonus!!

Thanks

[waveydavey]

http://www.flightmotion.com/

[aidanf]

Flight Sim for Mac

Anyone know if there's any good flight sim available for the Mac? At this stage I'd even take a flight game to dawdle the odd hour away when needed!

[AppleMacster]

The one and only:

X-Plane

A great simulator with excellent and accurate flight dynamics, lots of aircraft to download from a thriving community and for the bold, a 57Gb world scenery pack!

[Keygrip]

Large screen flight sim?

I'm NOT a great game player and dread the thought of "shoot-em-up" XBox (or whatever) games - BUT I have just taken delivery of a decent size (42") LCD flat panel, widescreen, HDTV.

It did make me wonder if there is a decent flight sim producer to plug into it that I could use for practising with - not playing with.

Couple of points - I do have a very low powered laptop permanently wired to the TV (for internet radio use) but doubt that it would be powerful enought to run a decent program (700mHz processor, 512 RAM) - and do not really want to buy a full blown PC to replace it just to fly the odd ILS and NDB approach....so I'm wondering about a purpose bought sim machine, not just another PC.

I'm also wondering if the TV itself would handle the graphics required to run such software reasonably.

Any thoughts?

[Conan the Librarian]

Those more seasoned than me, will no doubt advise further, but MS FlightSim is and always has, had something of an appetite for hardware. What about getting an older version of Flightsim though? FS98 or 2000 would find that processor and RAM config to be high end performers in their own day.

Conan

[130.4]

You can get a repackaged MS Flight Sim 2002 for £8 at Amazon (and probably other places too.) I think your laptop may be just about good enough. It's not the processor speed that matters so much as the graphics card, and laptops usually don't have particularly fast graphics cards. But if it's too slow for FS2002 then you've only lost the price of a couple of beers.

[Keygrip]

Good thinking guys - I already have FS2000 (and 2002?).

I'll have a bugger about when I get back back.

[Craggenmore]

http://www.aerowinx.de/

http://www.aerowinx.de/html/simulator.html

PC Requirements


- Intel Pentium PC or 486DX66 with VGA monitor and CDROM drive.
- MS-DOS 5.0 or higher, or Windows95, 98 or ME.
- 40 MB free hard disk space, and 535 kB free conventional memory.

Optional:
- Analog joystick, rudder, throttle with IBM compatible joystick adapter.
- Sound Blaster compatible sound card (click here for more info).

No real processor use and just like the real thing...