The Flight Simulator

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.

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Jet aircraft, which started appearing operationally during the last months of WWII, came into their own during the Korean War, and are represented by, among other craft, the Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star and the Douglas A4 Skyhawk.

Military flight simulator enthusiasts will also enjoy flying such jet aircraft as the the F-15 Eagle, the F-16 Flying Falcon, the F-18 Hornet, as well as the MiG 15 and the MiG-29, the SR-71 Blackbird, as well as a variety of military helicopters such as the Sikorsky-S 51 (Horse), the Sikorsky S-76 (Spirit) and the Alouette III (Lark) .

In addition to aircraft, the FlightProSim also offers over 20,000 airports, many of these being former airports – for example army air bases closed after World War II, or Air Force bases closed during rounds of military cuts – which still exist in the military flight simulator. Pilots in real life may not be able to land at these airports anymore, but they will always be available in a flight simulator, as will the aircraft to fly into them.

FlightProSim is open-source software, which means that any qualified developer can create new aircraft and flight scenarios, which other users may download and then fly.  Therefore, new military aircraft are coming online all the time.

In addition to aircraft for a military flight simulator, FlightProSim offers dozens of other aircraft, from the very earliest – the Wright Flyer and the Santos-Dumont 14bis, to an ornithopter, to kit planes such as Burt Rutan’s Long EZ and Quickie, to imaginary craft such as a UFO!

All of these planes have instrument panels that match their real life counterparts. While most of the cockpits and instrument panels are in 2D, some are offered in 3D. These include the 14bis, the Boeing 737, the A-24 Viking, the Airbus 320, the Dassault/Dornier Alphajet, the Tupolev ANT 20 Maxime Gorky, the Arado Ar 234, the Arsenal VG33 and many others.

A 3D cockpit for a military flight simulator adds to the enjoyment of flying the plane, as does the use of the appropriate yoke or joystick, as well as rudder pedals, and even a throttle system. Although it is not necessary to purchase any or all of these accessories – it is possible to fly every plane using the keyboard – it of course adds to the enjoyment of the flight simulator experience.

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