Flight sim 2004 anyone?

Talon

Talon

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I was just wondering if anyone plays Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: a century of flight?  I do, i've logged 50 hours since last christmas when i got it.  I just want to see if anyone plays it and if there is any really good aircraft mods for it.  I have about 100 aircraft installed and moded already, I want to find somemore to fly though.  I've been tweeking the graphics settings to get the best performance.  Basically i just want to collaborate mods and settings with anyone who plays it to get the best out of the game.

Talon
 
I play it, but not to tweak it. I think you could log more then 50hrs if you weren't playing to tweak it. LoL. I could log 50 hours a month, at one time, I did.



A video I did

Presentation quality suxors. But then I had to get a 1Gb video down to under 10Mbs. Go figure, the presentation quality took a hit.
 
lol, i spent about 10 hours tweeking the mods for more aircraft.  That was awsome, i watched that, thanks gave me a new idea to make short videos of each aircraft.  I know i could log a lot of time but i have lots of homework and school workload.  I dont get much time to play, maybe an hour a week now. Maybe i will quit cs and play flight sim and make videos for fun.  hehe
 
lol jfreak, i've been playing flight sim since flight sim 2000, its in my opinion, more entertaining and more educational than cs. I can learn my geography while i play. Although, all i do now is building hop in seattle with a u-1 huey.
 
the first flightsim I played was wireframe model. You didn't fly, you typed in commands and hoped that you were actually landing. haha.

Now I spend about $500 to $1000 per MSFS release on sceneries, utilites and planes. I tweak for realism. I fly into LAX and I enter patterns alongside Southwest Airlines or United and I get directed to the proper Air Canada (Star Alliance) gate. I fly the actual planes that would fly the route. You don't see me flying a 767 on a route that an A319 would fly or a DH1/3 would fly.
 
Oh, and I find it quite relaxing. Even if you are trying to land a 744 (747-400) in a major crosswind on a dark and stormy night.

Hey Talon, have you checked out this site: FSClips This guy has some amazing flightsim videos. He does his own music as well. Enjoy
 
Thanks, i'm looking at the clips now.  yeah, it is very relaxing for me too.  I dont buy anything else to go along with fs but i do download free mods to install for more aircraft.  Eventually someday i want to become a pilot, just got to find money for flight school, so fs is my substitute for now. Peon are you an actuall pilot or work for an airliner company?
 
For me, MSFS is more then a game. It is a hobby. No, I am not a real pilot, but I have gained knowledge from real pilots. I know enough that I can sit down and do everything a pilot would have to do to fly a 737 from Calgary to Los Angeles, only in the sim world, where it is a bit different. I prepare a proper flight plan, calculate fuel and fuel the plane appropriately, load up the plane appropriatly, fly the real routes. I have plates for the major airports so I can fly the proper approach or departure paterns, all with realtime weather hammering me.
 
Yeah, it seems really pretty darn realistic, but do you have to sit there flying straight for 2 hours when flying from destination to destination?
 
Nope, you can basically do anything you want.  I sit and hop building tops in a choper for fun.  I tried to get my lisences but I tried once and havent tried again.  I just fly when i'm bored or need some relaxing relief from just life.
 
I was a HUGE fan of Flight Sim II from SubLogic in the 80's. This is the basis for today's Microsoft games. I loved playing the game and using all the radios and making flight plans. I still have my two 'Adventure' books for the game. I've since bought FlightSim 5.0, 98, 2000 and 2002, but hardly ever play them.
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Talon, playing FlightSim, especially going through the tutorials and stuff are a great help for ground school. I took ground school and having played FlightSim II really helped. I already understood taxiing, wind, using the radios, air flow, etc. I never did get my pilot's license. My best friend continued on to get his pilot's license, so I ended up just flying with him. Nearly 15 years later, he is now flying helicopters! What an experience that is.
 
At one point I did go through all the tutorials.  Yeah, that does help a lot for flight school.  Knowing taxing commands, take off, landing, and the phonetic alphabet.  I've read a 600 page aviation flight manuel also, so i'm pretty much set when i get into flight school, dont know when that will be because of money, but hopefully soon.
 
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Quote[/b] (dudedude7000 @ Oct. 19 2004,3:15)]Yeah, it seems really pretty darn realistic, but do you have to sit there flying straight for 2 hours when flying from destination to destination?
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You don't have to.

For me, it is a hobby.  I set aside a few hours a week that I just sit there doing a 2.5 hour flight.  I set up all the realism settings to make it as "real as it gets" and also adjust settings so that at anytime the plane can have a failure. I have weather programs that download the latest weather that I can also use to plan my flight with. I have fuel planners for the different planes and flight plan programs to properly setup a flight. There is alot of knowledge that goes into it when I sit down for a couple of hours. I do take it fairly seriously.

But not everybody takes it a seriously as I do, and there are just as many people who take it more seriously then I do.

For some people, it is just a game, once they get a plane in the air, and pointed in the right direction using GPS, they put the simulation rate to 16x and do a 2 hour flight in 10 minutes.  Then hopefully they land the plane at their destination.
 
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