If you want to get a real idea of what it's like to fly go with microflops flight simulator. Stay away from the newest version "Flight Simulator X" and instead pick up the older "Century of Flight" version! The newest one was designed to use Vista and is a *HUGE* resource hog!! Unless you're running VIsta and have a big machine you'll do a lot better with the older one. You'll also find tons of add-on scenery, planes etc. for the older one, there's very little extras designed specifically for X although it will use the older goodies.
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I am considering purchasing a Flight Simulator Game anything I should consider?Microsoft flight simulator X is great and uses many real life aspects of being a pilot.
It depends on what game it is. The most realistic simulation I have seen so far is on Blazing Angels:Squadrons of WWII for Wii, with just the Wii Remote. Obviously you wouldn't feel the airy feeling of a cockpit but the view would look realistic.I am considering purchasing a Flight Simulator Game anything I should consider?
I cannot recommend X-Plane high enough. It's very, very accurate flight mechanics (there's a simulator company that uses it for their machines. With the full motion simulator it actually counts towards a certain number of flight hours). It will certainly help you get familiar with the cockpit (really helped me when I was having trouble learning stall recovery). It's got weather simulations, very accurate and detailed maps, will let you fly anything from the Wright flyer to a spaceship, and design your own aircraft. The X-Plane community is not so much a community of video game geeks, but is instead made up of airplane geeks.
Greenghost is right, stay away from Microsoft Flight Simulators.
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Microsoft's simulator is a GAME. It's fun, but ultimately it doesn't have the verisimilitude that X-Plane does.
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