Flight Simulator for a 14 year old?

My son is seriously interested in becoming an airline pilot, he never stops asking questions and reading up on this profession therefore, I am looking to purchase (xmas gift) a "realistic" game/program for use on the laptop - any recommendation please?



Also, in purchasing the "recommended" game will I need to buy any other programme or equipment in order the game will work as I have been looking at "Microsoft Flight Simulator" and I am a little confused as I am under the impression that I need this in order to play any of the flight games!. The operating system will either be Window 95 or XP



Thanks in advance for your responsesFlight Simulator for a 14 year old?
Flight simulator is cool, but IL2: Sturmovik is the single most realistic flight sim i have ever seen. When you crash your plane in Flight sim, it just stops. Crash in IL2 and bits fly everywhere and the pilot has the potential to die,or live depending on the severity of the crash. My grandfather flew a F4U1-C Corsair in WWII for the marines and he says that it is scary how close the game comes to real life. This is however a WWII flight sim, but if you can fly the ensign killer, you can fly just about anything! Also, Flight SImulator X has some pretty high system requirements, and prolly won't run on a laptop.
Flight Simulator



i have it, veryy good.



or why dont you get him one lesson for christmas, i do flying lessons

their about $8000 for one term, not a bad price.Flight Simulator for a 14 year old?
flight simulator series



a experience of flying a plane



far cry-has a couple of aspects in game were you get to fly a plane
once you find a good simulator, make sure you get a realistic yolk (flight controls)Flight Simulator for a 14 year old?
Flight Simulator is perfect. And it works on Windows 95 or XP
i am 14 and i think you get it its so real to me and famely