The Flight Simulator

Flight Pro Sim is a full-featured flight simulation program, that can be downloaded from the internet. The base level of the program offers twenty aircraft, and detailed airports and scenery around the state of California.  Now, that’s quite enough to get started on, but of course that’s not all that Flight Pro Sim offers. For a one-time fee, users can go to a Members Area to download eighty more aircraft, and Scenery Packs for over 20,000 airports and scenery for the entire world.

Of the hundred or so aircraft, there are several Boeing aircraft, including a Boeing 747 flight simulator. Also included is the Boeing 707, the 737, two versions of the Boeing 747, and the 777.

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All of the aircraft featured in Flight Pro Sim are presented as accurately as possible. The instrument panels are accurate, whether they are electromechanical or electronic (glass cockpits) or whether or not they even exist. (Flight Pro Sim offers the Wright Flyer and the Santos-Dumont 14-bis, which don’t have instrument panels).

There is a difference in flying small aircraft, fighter aircraft, and commercial airliners, and this is quite apparent in the Boeing 747 flight simulator. The reaction time of a fighter aircraft is instantaneous…that of a Boeing 747, not so much so!

Indeed, Flight Pro Sim is completely customizable. The user can decide if he or she wants to start flying from any airport, or from any altitude, heading and speed. The user can decide how much fuel the craft is carrying, how much other weight (such as if you were flying a bunch of passengers somewhere) what kind of weather you want to fly through, the season (summer or winter) and whether or not you want to do any night flying.

Although the base package of Flight Pro Sim starts the user with only 20 aircraft and California as the scenery parameters, it is an easy matter to download everything else needed from the Members area. Planes can be downloaded one at a time as you desire them, or in an entire batch. The scenery can be uploaded in 10 degree by 10 degree sections.

Now, how do you fly a Boeing 747 flight simulator? Well, that’s something you’re going to have to learn on your own. The manuals that come with FlightProSim (two PDF manuals that have to be downloaded) give you the basics of flying, and there is an on-screen tutorial for the Cessna 172P. There are also a few other brief other tutorials, but nothing for the vast majority of aircraft. However, you can find tutorials for these on the web.

It takes months and months for a FlightProSim user to learn how to fly, let alone a Boeing 747 flight simulator. A flight simulator is not a game (although you will occasionally hear computer flight simulators referred to as games!), it takes much work to learn how to fly these craft, although of course not quite as much as flying the real thing. But it is as close as a home simulator can get.

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