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News Archives July 5th, 2002 Members Area The Soaring Simulator: Version 4 added Soaring Simulator 4 is a highly realistic soaring flight simulator. Take off, landing, thermals and ridge soaring are possible. The scenario Hardware requirements The team Links Patches Flyable aircraft KA8 Porta ASW 27 More here: Soaring Simulator 4 Longbow box contents Longbow from Janes was released in 1996 and remains possibly the most immersive simulation of the AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter. I've added scans of the box contents - now that was what you called a manual!. - Longbow box contents Longbow 2's immersive virtual world Longbow 2 succeeded in immersing me totally in it's virtual world. Longbow 2 was the sequel to Longbow and it added two more flyable choppers to the stable BlackHawk Kiowa Warrior There was also added a virtual cockpit mode, fully scrollable with readable instrument displays. The Kiowa and Blackhawk cockpits featured side by side seating, and the Blackhawk even had door gunners! Battlefield Snapshots from the Front Cockpits Kiowa Warrior cockpit Box Links 1998 combat helicopter squadron: Longbow Anthology In 1998 both Longbow and Longbow 2 were released along with the *Flash Point Korea - Mission Pack* in Longbow Anthology. Tornado or Phantom sim? Francisco J. Campos sent in some shots from this 1990 Spectrum sim. Yes, it was a Tornado sim of sorts even one of the splash screens shows an F-4 Phantom ! - F1Tornado Instrument Flight with voices! In 1987 Jim Bailey wrote and pubished an instrument flight sim for the CP/M operating system. It even had voices! " It hollered at you if you were off your altitude!". Later he wrote an add-on for Microsoft Flight Sim which provided voice Air Traffic Control using the aircraft location, heading, altitude and radio settings extracted from the sim. Instrument Flight - a CP/M sim from 1987. End Members Area Check out the News Archives to see what you've been missing ! News Archives Page last edited January 2008



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