The Flight Simulator

The pc flight simulator can provide hours and hours of enjoyment for its users, from individuals who  first learn how to fly with them and then move on to a career in aviation, to experienced pilots who like to feel the rush and to fly planes that they never otherwise would be able to do…like the Wright Flyer or the Santos-Dumont 14 bis, to military aircraft such as the Fokker triplane of WWI to the Spitfire of WWII to the Lockheed SR 71 Blackbird.

The first criteria of course is that the user have a computer that is powerful enough to run the flight simulator. Flight simulators are made for both the Mac and the PC, and while the Mac used to have much better graphics than the PC, that distinction has pretty much fallen by the wayside in the last few years. Read the rest of this entry »

FlightProSim is software that allows a pilot to fly over a hundred different aircraft, to any one of over 20,000 airports located around the world. It also allows the pilot to hook up over a network and fly in formation with other pilots. What it does not do is allow pilots to indulge in air-to-air combat. But that doesn’t mean that it isn’t a good military flight simulator.

The user will find planes from World War I – as for example the Sopwith Camel and the Fokker Dr. 1 Triplane, World War II planes such as the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire, the Vought Corsair, the P-51 Mustang, the A6M2 Zero, and the Messerschmitt bf 109. Read the rest of this entry »

FlightProSim is a computer flight program that offers a variety of aircraft to fly, and makes a splendid jet flight simulator.

FlightProSim is a fully-featured piece of software. It offers over 100 aircraft – from the pioneer craft of the Wright Flyer, which could make controlled turns, to the Santos-Dumont 14bis, which couldn’t – to the aircraft of WWI like the Sopwith Camel and the Fokker Dr. 1 Triplane, to the aircraft of WWII like the popular Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane, to the Japanese Zero, to the Messerschmitt 109 and Focke-Wulf 190. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re looking for a flight training simulator, you need look no further than FlightProSim.

Although experienced pilots will enjoy flying the various aircraft in this flight training simulator, the beginning pilot, one who is simply trying to learn the ropes before moving on to the real thing, can get a taste of it with FlightProSim as well. Read the rest of this entry »

Flight simulator scenery consists of a variety of terrain, from cities – complete with high rise buildings, trees, and homes, to towns, to bucolic scenery such as mountains and hills.  Clouds also count as scenery, as does rain, as do the stars and moon. The scenery must also look realistic at different times of the day and night.

For example, with FlightProSim, the player will find that all runways have correct markings and placements. The approach lighting is accurate. When night flying, the player can view ground lighting in urban areas – even see car headlights on major roadways. Read the rest of this entry »

Trying to learn how to fly an airplane can be daunting, especially in today’s economy when lessons are so expensive. More and more people are turning to a flight simulator game to give themselves the illusion of flight, and of course they want to fly in the most accurate conditions possible, both in the terms of the aircraft they are flying, but also the types of scenery that they fly over and the airports at which they take off or land.

One such flight simulator game is FlightSimPro. Read the rest of this entry »

Rather than purchasing flight simulator software from a store, take the less expensive route and visit their website to get a flight simulator download. Flight Pro Sim provides simulator software that is easy to download, and easy to install.

There’s only one drawback to a flight simulator download that I can see, and that is that instead of having actual print manuals that you can look, you get PDFs which you have to print out. (I am of the generation that still prefers to be able to hold a print book or print manual, rather than read it on the computer screen.) Read the rest of this entry »

The earliest aircraft didn’t have cockpits. Orville and Wilbur Wright lay prone on the bottom plane (or wing) of the Wright Flyer in 1903. Future innovations allowed the pilots to sit upright on the bottom wing, but there was still no cockpit, and pilots didn’t wear seatbelts, either. Although most of the aircraft in the FlghtProSim consist of flight simulator cockpit, they do include a couple of these pioneer aircraft, including the Wright Flyer and the Santos-Dumont 14bis.

It was not until 1913 (after several dozens of aircraft designs had taken to the air) that a plane was given a cockpit, in Igor Sikorsky’s airplane The Grand. After that, cockpits became prevalent, but most of them were open to the sky, including those of WWI fighters and scout planes. Even in the 1920s, passenger planes had enclosed cabins for the passengers, while the pilots flew in open cockpits. By the 1950s, however, closed cockpits were the rule rather than the exception. Read the rest of this entry »

When choosing a flight simulator, aircraft is important. But the flight simulator airport is also an important part of the realistic flight experience.

The more airports that flight simulation software offer their customers, the more popular that game will be. To be sure, the variety of aircraft is the player’s first concern, but the flight simulator airport is also an important component….no more so when the people using the software have actually been to the airports in question and know the number of runways that should be at each airport, and over which type of scenery they should be flying when they take off. Read the rest of this entry »

If you want to fly the fastest civilian plane in the world, you can do it with Flight Sim Pro. Indeed, you can fly two of three fastest civilian planes in the world – the Concorde and the Citation X.

When it was flying, the supersonic Concorde was the fastest civilian plane, with an average cruise speed of Mach 2.02 (about 1,330 mph) with a maximum cruise altitude of 60,000 feet, which was more than twice the speed of conventional aircraft. The Concorde flew passengers from 1969 to 2003, but it was never able to make a profit. Read the rest of this entry »