The Flight Simulator

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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 »

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 »

The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is general aviation’s most successful aircraft. It first took flight in 1956 (when it could be purchased for a mere $8,700), and is still being produced today. Today, it’s up to the 172 S and costs $283,500. So it’s no surprise that more people fly a Cessna 172 flight simulator than the real thing.

FlightProSim is software that offers over a hundred aircraft for the armchair pilot to fly – not only airplanes but a hanglider, gliders, zeppelins, helicopters, even a UFO.

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Flight Pro Sim is flight simulator software that offers over 100 aircraft for the armchair pilot to fly. These aircraft start with the Wright Flyer, in which the pilot lay prone on the bottom wing and controlled the craft by shifting one’s body this way and that, to the pioneer aircraft of World War I such as the Sopwith Camel, to military aircraft of World War II and beyond. Also included in the fleet are gliders, dirigibles, helicopters commercial airliners like the Boeing, home built planes like the Rutan Long EZ and the Quickie.

Those looking for a Cessna flight simulator can do no better than Flight Pro Sim, which has no less than ten Cessnas in its fleet!  These include the Citation X, which is the world’s fastest civilan jet, which cruises along at a speed of Mach 0.92. Read the rest of this entry »

The Airbus A320 is a short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger jet airliner. The first A320 began construction in 1984, had its first test flights in 1987, and were delivered to Airbus’ first customers in 1988.

The A320 is the first commercial aircraft to use digital fly-by-wire flight control systems, and that is what an A320 flight simulator has to replicate. “Fly by wire” means that computers on the plane transmit the pilot inputs into electrical signals, which are then sent through wires to actuators that move the control surfaces. (Unlike Boeing, which allows its pilots to have the final say, computers have the final say on what happens aboard an Airbus, overriding what pilots do if the computers think it is an incorrect response.) Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Flight Pro Sim is a flight simulator that offers over 100 aircraft to fly, 20,000 airports to take off from or land into, and real-world scenery covering the entire world. This software makes an excellent 747 flight simulator.

The Boeing 747, otherwise called the “Jumbo Jet” is the first widebody aircraft ever produced, way back in 1970. As is usual with aircraft, improvements and design changes were made on a regular basis. Since 1985, the 747 has had a glass cockpit (all instruments are electronic, rather than electromechanical). Read the rest of this entry »

Most of the fun with flight simulators comes from the fact that the armchair pilot can fly practically any plane he or she desires. Flight simulator aircraft are unlimited – any aircraft at all can be uploaded to the simulator as long as designers know how to program it.

Flight simulator aircraft runs the gamut from the very beginning aircraft – from ornithopters to the Wright Flyer to the Santos-Dumont 14bis. Read the rest of this entry »