Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 05, 2006 03:18 AM
While I love and miss Janes Longbow2 for being a great chopper flight sim with the tright balance of overly technical control detail and combat game goodness. It is designed to run on win95 but will run on win98 fairly well with the odd program crash (and frequent pilot crashes; the ground comes up at you so fast some times). I grudgingly understand why Janes won't be publishing any more flight sims. (the most realistic combat flight sim from a civilian organization with an office in the pentagon kinda conflics with that whole 9/11 hysteria)
As a pilot now suffering years of withdrawl from flying, I need something to at least get my imagination off the ground. I need realism though. I need to feel wind on the ealerons when I role and resistance on the rudder when I pivot. I need to feel the elevator crying at me when I pull out of a dive too quickly. My specific need is soaring so that means a flight sim with attention to wind. Where most flight sim focus on going over ground, I need one that focuses on going through air.
Now, at the rist of being labelled a shill, I have been pricing the new MS flightsim (I hear your calls of "Heritic!"). Simply put; realism, force feedback support. They make a piss poor OS but give dues where due.
I've taken a couple of goes at trying to get FlightGear to load with varying degrees of unsuccess. This and the mention of kflightgear have inspired me to have another go at it. Thanks you, this was a pleasent Monday surprise. Who knows, once I get the labella in the air, I'll have to check out the AH64L Apache mods (and by a new flightstick).
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 05, 2006 03:18 AMAs a pilot now suffering years of withdrawl from flying, I need something to at least get my imagination off the ground. I need realism though. I need to feel wind on the ealerons when I role and resistance on the rudder when I pivot. I need to feel the elevator crying at me when I pull out of a dive too quickly. My specific need is soaring so that means a flight sim with attention to wind. Where most flight sim focus on going over ground, I need one that focuses on going through air.
Now, at the rist of being labelled a shill, I have been pricing the new MS flightsim (I hear your calls of "Heritic!"). Simply put; realism, force feedback support. They make a piss poor OS but give dues where due.
I've taken a couple of goes at trying to get FlightGear to load with varying degrees of unsuccess. This and the mention of kflightgear have inspired me to have another go at it. Thanks you, this was a pleasent Monday surprise. Who knows, once I get the labella in the air, I'll have to check out the AH64L Apache mods (and by a new flightstick).
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