Junji Hirayama 's Home Flight Simulator 211
hifiandrew writes "I love seeing home mockups of cockpits for Flight Simulator like the recent Slashdot article of the person who used 13 Monitors and 9 PC's. But this one takes the cake for cockpit coolness! While doing a Google search for 747 cockpits, I ran across a web site of a person in Japan who has the coolest home cockpit for Flight Simulator I've ever seen. It has a perfect built-to-scale layout, backlit panels and even a projector for the scenery! All running on relatively modest PC hardware. I'm envious!"
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http://web.archive.org/web/20020219202626/www.wak
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Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:4, Informative)
For a few dollars more you can get the Mars scenery discs and fly a plane on Mars.
And the price is very reasonable compared to some other offerings.
Dang, just checked the site and saw that there is a version 7 out, guess I need to upgrade... again...
Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? (Score:3, Informative)
Il-2 Sturmovik FB is probably one of the "best" combat simulations in terms of accurate flight modeling, AI, graphics and selection of aircraft. It's not so hard to learn due to it being a WW2 sim, no complex avionics or procedures. You will have to practice though before getting your first kill.
For a modern combat sim the best is probably Falcon 4.0 with SuperPak 4 (a user-developed patch using the game's full source code, authorized by the game's publishers). It takes months to become proficient at it though (i.e. be able to operate everything in every mode in your sleep).
A good helo sim is Enemy Engaged: Comanche vs. Hokum. It's widely accepted that it is by no means "hardcore", with sacrifices to realism made at every turn for the sake of gameplay, but it's very fun and has moderately detailed systems simulation. The 4 year old Longbow 2 is probably the most realistic helo simulation every made, its graphics aren't too bad for a 5 year old game either. You can find it on ebay.
For a civilian simulation, you might want to look into MS Flight Simulator 2004 or X-Plane.
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