A question for you guys who just like to fly your planes like the airline ones, do you really have great fun just sitting there hour after hour of well you tell me.

If it was me I would be itching for a dogfight. :lol:

A few of my ex-airforce colleagues still occasionally say Fox1 or Fox2(shot with gun or shot with missile)when they see another aircraft close to them.

It's all about time compression, the real fun is in landing them - belive me you'd not be bored then:D

Landing any aircraft is the hardest thing to teach or learn.It involves a lot of visual scanning of the environment so that you can allow for rate of descent crosswind etc.On an airliner the radio altimeter with a voice call out is very helpful to judge the flare.Making sure you stay up-wind of the centerline in a crosswind is purely a manual thing though.I have frequently seen an aircraft track the centerline whilst the pilot is on instruments- he then looks up and the aircraft drifts downwind!All I can say is that experience and repetition are what is required.Playing with time compression in the landing phase is NOT recommended.

Good God man - I didn't mean whilst landing:o

I did think that was a bit hard core when I first read it -but whatever floats your boat.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

By some weird coincidence a friend sent me this in my e mail today

it's very appropriate.:D :D :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnlbEmeatko

Are I get, you take off level out and hit the time compression then back to normal time, land and your ready to go again. :hmm:

Got it in one ! It's not everyones cup of tea, and I don't do it all the time.It is quite fun trying to land a 747:o

Edit: I ought to mention the eye candy on the way, and also the fact that you can programme in faliures (engines etc).All of which make the game more fun to play:up:

MCFS 3.
OFF mod.
1946.

Those are the ones, bloody fine games too (OFF is a mod, but beats the lard out of any other WWI simulator up to date)

In no particular order:

Falcon 4 Allied Force
Dangerous Waters
Operation Flashpoint / Armed Assault
Combat Mission (Combat Mission Shock Force will be released 27th July this year :D)

and I'm trying to get a clue of Il-2 series but still waiting for my copy

I have a Saitek Cyborg Evo.

Did flight sims before Sub sims.

IL2
IL2 Forgotten Battles
Ace X pack
Pacific Fighters
Janes WWII Fighters Sim
Lock On

Want : Mig Alley ?

IL2 1946
BoB

Looking for Realistic , Good Graphics , WWI Flight Sim. Want to fly bi & triplanes.

Tools: Saitek X52 with rudder pedals.

I just haven't been able to find any flight sims that are really fun to play since... well... since I owned a Commodore Amiga!

...or maybe it's just been that long (my high school days) since I've had so much free time on my hands that I could learn in detail how the things worked.

I guess I did play the MSCFS in the pacific there for awhile... I didn't have the patience to come back to LOMAC after the A-10 training. IL2 I tried but not the PF version... In IL2 I never got past flying these pudgy looking Soviet clown planes that basically I flew for awhile, saw some enemy planes, promptly stalled and was repeatedly shot down. ... sometimes for variety I could manage a spin stall! Wasn't a whole lotta fun...

Should I bother to give MSCFS III a shot?

:hmm: Mmmm...

Having trouble adapting to the IL2 flight model?

its all the matter of practice mate,
first when I played IL2 sturmovik (1st one)
I couldnt even take off for the first hour
after that I repeatly crashed my planes by stalling it
got shot down mostly for about a day or 2
got my first kill after 5 hours
now I shoot everything that comes in my path and bomb the hell out of ground targets
and I love it:up:
its just a matter of knowing what a plane can do, and what a plane can't do.


you need to take your time to learn the flight model, it isnt easy but when you got the feeling of it. you wont lose it easily.
every plane has its own characistics which you have to discover and soon enough you will find a plane which suits your style.

CFS3 is nice, but I say above CFS3 I say Battle Of Britain 2, or wait for Maddox (IL2 dev team) new game Storm of War : Battle of Britain

HunterICX