The Flight Simulator

Want to try your skills in a fighter jet simulator? Flight Pro Sim has what you are looking for. Of the over-100 aircraft they have available, only a handful are fighter jets, but they are the cream of the crop.

Aviation history experts divide fighter jets into five generations (although of course some experts the experts differ on the exact dates that each generation starts and ends!).

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Here are the generally accepted dates:

First generation: mid-1940s to mid-1950s
Second generation: mid-1950s to early 1960s
Third generation: early 1960s to around 1970
Fourth generation: around 1970 to mid-1990s
Fourth generation…and a half: 1990s to 2005
Fifth generation: 2005 onward

The first operational jet fighter was the Messerschmitt 262 (rarely referred to by its nickname, the Swallow!) which first saw service in April, 1944. It is appropriate, therefore, that the ME 262 be one of the aircraft available for the fighter jet simulator that is Flight Pro Sim.

The United States’ first operational jetfighter is also represented, the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, which saw service in 1945, and went on to success during the Korean War. The version available in the Flight Pro Sim game is an F-80C (the re-designation occurring in 1948, after the Army Air Forces became the US Air Force).

Even the Russians’ MiG-15 is available, but Britain’s first entry in the jet fighter ranks, the Gloster Meteor, is not yet represented.

The choices of the fighter jet simulator continue, however, with second generation jet aircraft such as the Douglas A4F Skyhawk, a delta winged, single turbojet-engine powered craft that made its debut in 1956.

Third generation jet aircraft  are represented by the the Grumman A-6 Intruder, a twin jet-engine, mid-wing attack aircraft, which first flew operationally in 1963.

Fourth generation aircraft are represented by the Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet (introduced in 1973) a light attack jet and advanced trainer aircraft.

Fifth generation is represented by the Eurofighter Typhoon (2003) a twin-engine canard-delta wing multirole aircraft.

Of course, no fighter jet simulator would be complete without having such craft as the F-15 Eagle (1976), a twin-engine, all-weather tactical fighter, recognized around the world.  Also available to fly are the F-16AT Falcon-21 (1990) – a variant of the F-16 Flying Falcon, with trapezoidal wings, and the F/A-18.

The F/A-18 Hornet (1983) is the aircraft that the U.S. Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, have flown since 1986.

Flight Pro Sim’s choices of fighter jet simulators will grow over time, since it is built on open source technology and any approved developer can add new aircraft to their database at any time.

In addition to its fighter jets, the simulation software also offers a hang-gliding experience, not to mention piloting a UFO. An ornithopter, a Wright Flyer, and a Santos-Dumont 14-bis are among the earliest aircraft available to fly. There are also gliders, dirigibles, kit planes such as the Rutan Long EZ and the Rutan Quickie.

World War I has the Sopwith Camel and the Fokker Dr. 1 Triplane, World War II, the Supermarine Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane, the Vought F4U-1 Corsair  and the A6M2 Zero. Among others.

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