The Flight Simulator

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 »

In real life, when one wants to take private helicopter lessons, one will generally learn on a Robinson 22 (at least in the United States). Probably for this reason, FlightProSim’s flight simulator helicopters offers a Robinson 22, as well as the military helicopters such as the various Sikorskys (the S51, 76C, S58 Choctaw, CH-53E Super Stallion and the UH60 Blackhawk), two Piaseckis, the H-21C and the HUP, a Lynx, an Alouette, and even an Osprey (although that is a VTOL and STOL, rather than a helicopter, I include it here). 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 »

Flight simulation games are an exciting way to experience the feel of being a pilot without the expense and risk.  Most simulator software offers a variety of aircraft to try out, but there is one that allows you to fly anywhere in the world with over 100 planes to choose from, from the old to the new, the small to the large.

FlightProSim is a complete flight simulator software package, which can be downloaded from the internet. Its basic package features 20 aircraft, and scenery and airports around California, but purchasers are able to go to the Members Area of their website to download over 80 different aircraft – either one at a time or in one batch, 20,000 different airports, and accurate scenery for the whole world. Read the rest of this entry »

The aircraft and scenery flight simulator downloads offered by FlightProSim allow you to expand your aircraft arsenal along with your ability to see the world. FlightProSim’s basic package comes with 20 aircraft and about 100 airports – past and present – around the California countryside.

However, there are still over 80 aircraft one can download, as well as 20,000 airports and scenery that cover the entire world. This is all available for just a modest extra fee. The extra material can be downloaded from the Members area of their website. Read the rest of this entry »

There are many types of flight simulator computer programs on the market, and Flight Pro Sim is among the best.  When evaluating any flight simulator, there are several factors to take into account.

First of all, the realism of the experience is paramount.  Realism of the flight simulator experience via yoke and rudder pedals is one thing, but the experience is dampened somewhat if the terrain over which you are flying does not look realistic, or if the instrument panels on which your computerized craft depend are not accurate. Read the rest of this entry »