A good flight sim?

[DieFledermaus]

I bought a joystick today for my 29th bday. Id like to know whats a good sim out there i can break my joystick in.

[wootoow]

Re: A good flight sim?

2 that i can recommend but have very steep learning curves are Falcon 4.0 and Lock-on modern air combat. Falcon comes with a 750 page pdf. Both are quite hard but very rewarding once you've figured them out.

[Cdr]

Re: A good flight sim?

Have to agree with Falcon 4 or Lock On. Falcon 4 is very much a 'hardcore' sim, whereas LOMAC is a little bit more lightweight (you dont need to know the full start-up procedure for the F-16 just to turn the engines on).

If you're after WWII sims, then the best for that era is definately the IL2 series (IL2 : Forgotten Battles, IL2 : FB Aces Expansion, and Pacific Fighters). You can't go much wrong with them, and they're constantly being updated to incorporate new planes (and they're excellent online).

Have fun!

[RAF92_Warhawk]

Re: A good flight sim?

If your looking for a WWII series, IL2 sturmovik (mentioned above) with all the expansion packs is by FAR, the best simulator you can get. The physics are amzingly realistic. http://www.pacific-fighters.com/en/home.php I highly recommend it.

[jimbob]

Re: A good flight sim?

yep love il2 online - tonnes of fun... and runs well even on 100-250 ping... lol at the ww2 online as a flight sim remark - you have to pay to play tht lol

but seriously what it comes down to is coming from bf2 which is absolutely laughable when it comes to flight characteristics or a realistic representation of aerial combat. alot of il2 servers out there have got it set to really realistic settings - with no external views or tags with stuck in cockpit view.... simulater starts to get real boring to the non serious gamer then lol.... and i am guessing the newer setting flight sims servers are much the same (?)

- i am a serious gamer :p

[Guidon666]

Re: A good flight sim?

F-19 stealth fighter for the C-64. Best sim ever made.

[Cdr]

Re: A good flight sim?

lol at the ww2 online as a flight sim remark - you have to pay to play tht lol

You'd be surprised at how good WWIIOL (or Battleground Europe) is. There's nothing like doing a CAP with 4 other Spitfires as your ground troops move in on a town, they call for support and you dive down from 20,000 feet to intercept the Ju-87s that are pounding their foward base. Then, as the German fighter support appears you call for backup and 6 other Spitfires arrive just in time. You limp back home, with fuel streaming out the back and land with 4 confirmed kills.

Or doing a CAS with your Hurricane MKIIc, 2 500lb bombs and 350 cannon rounds. Getting both bombs to land on top of a Panzer and watching him blow up feet from your infantry.

The pay to play is a bonus - it keeps away the children that plague BF2. Yes, it's not a hardout flight sim - but by god is it fun :)