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More than 25 years ago I created the Flight Sim Museum, creating virtual museum exhibits and continue overseeing it's growth.
During that time I've seen many incredible changes in software environments, hardware platforms and communication speed and breadth brought about by the internet.
In this 60 second video (made in 2006) I introduce you to the spectacle and drama of flight simulation.
Soundtrack: "MiGMan Fanfare" composed by Peter Inglis.
Virtual Pilot | Video editing: Peter Inglis.
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year: tags: Aircraft Exhibit description: This variable geometry, 4 engined low observable bomber with a crew of 4 was conceived as a replacement for the B-52 Stratofortress. It's mission changed post Cold War from strategic nuclear strike to precision low level strike, with a payload of over 84 Mk-82 500lb bombs.
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year: tags: Exhibit description: Produced from 1955 to 1962, the B-52 was conceived as a stand-off nuclear launch platform and has seen action delivering conventional munitions from high altitude - essentially in the same manner as World War 2 bombers. The last model B-52 - the H model - was designed specifically for low level strike.
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Bizarro B-58 year: tags: Bizarro B-58 description: Chino reported: This is CLEARLY the Bizarro World version of the B-58 Hustler, the world's first supersonic bomber, and one of my all-time favorite planes! The only place I've seen a real B-58 is in the USAF Museum in Dayton (it's the Bendix Trophy winner). It's pretty cool. I believe it still holds world records in in some speed/distance/altitude categories.
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year: tags: Image Gallery description: In December 2005 the BBC did a news story on the entrance of the Eurofighter Typhoon into service in the RAAF.
Northrop F-5E Tiger II year: tags: Exhibit Northrop F-5E Tiger II
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F-8 Crusader year: tags: Exhibit F-8 Crusader
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year: tags: Exhibit description: Grumman F-14A+ Tomcat. This swing-wing fighter was the mainstay of US fleet Air Defence for decades.
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year: tags: Exhibit description: McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle
Sims versus reality year: tags: Exhibit Sims versus reality description: Chino said: "
I spent about 20 minutes talking with the young pilot seated on the well-armed jet in this picture. He got a B.S. in aeronautical science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Florida), getting his civilian ratings up to CFII in the process (all single props). Then he applied to the Mass. Air National Guard to be an F-15 pilot.
They sent him for 2 years of USAF training (T-37, T-38, F-15), and he has been flying the F-15 in Cape Cod for one year now. The lucky stiff!
He said one thing that made me feel a little good. He spent a lot of time with F-15 by Janes Combat Simulations before he went to USAF/MANG. He said that before his real F-15 training, he had never survived more than 5 minutes at full realism in the sim. After he started real F-15 training, it finally all made sense, and he started to do great."
Takeoff by Sean Long year: tags: Exhibit Takeoff Takeoff by Sean Long
year: tags: Cockpit description: Anyway I was planning my F-16 cockpit, and a quick phone call to General Dynamics USA led to a nice chat with a senior manager and my request for a photo of the F-16A cockpit led to this arriving in the mail a week later!
F-16 cockpit 1/8 scale model year: tags: Cockpit F-16 cockpit 1/8 scale model description: My first cockpit was scaled fairly closely to the F-16. Using calipers I multiplied the dimensions out to build a cardboard mockup and then a plywood and aluminium prototype.
F-16 Photos by Ian Black year: tags: F-16 Photos by Ian Black description: Unfortunately this book is out of print.
F-35: Images of cockpit, simulator year: tags: Exhibit F-35: Images of cockpit, simulator
F-35: Images of cockpit, simulator year: tags: Exhibit F-35: Images of cockpit, simulator
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F-86 in simulations year: tags: Exhibit F-86 in simulations
F-86 at Bankstown airport for the FSX launch, Sydney, October 2006 year: tags: Exhibit F-86 at Bankstown airport for the FSX launch, Sydney, October 2006
year: tags: Exhibit description: Lockheed F-104S Starfighter Described as the "missile with a man in it" the F-104 was a lightweight fighter which proved popular with NATO allies.
F-104: In private hands year: tags: Exhibit F-104: In private hands description: Two privately owned F-104 Starfighters at the Great New England Air Show at Westover ARB, August 2000.
F-104: Giorgio year: tags: Exhibit F-104: Giorgio description: Giorgio flew the F104 in the Italian Air Force starting in 1966 and accumulating almost 2000 hrs on the G and S models.
F-104: Italian F-104 Starfighter crashes at Leeuwarden Air Base 2nd May 2002 year: tags: Exhibit F-104: Italian F-104 Starfighter crashes at Leeuwarden Air Base 2nd May 2002
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F-111 year: tags: Exhibit F-111 description: GD F-111 Aardvark The F-111 was probably the most capable low level attack aircraft ever built, and could still be in service today.
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Dump and burn at the Gold Coast year: tags: Exhibit Dump and burn at the Gold Coast
Dump and burn video year: tags: Exhibit Dump and burn video
Wheels up landing year: tags: Exhibit Wheels up landing description: Successful wheels up landing of F-111C at Royal Australian Air Force base Amberley.
1996 images of the F-111 year: tags: Exhibit 1996 images of the F-111
True story behind the 'dump and burn' technology year: tags: Exhibit True story behind the 'dump and burn' technology
Flight sims featuring the F-111 year: tags: Exhibit Flight sims featuring the F-111
RAAF Amberley (Home of the F-111) base visit, 1995 year: tags: Exhibit RAAF Amberley (Home of the F-111) base visit, 1995 description: In 1995 MiGMan and PC paid a visit to Amberley, a RAAF base in sunny Queensland, Australia. as guests of No.1 Squadron. Australia is the only country in the world operating the F-111, the Americans called it the "Aardvark", or "Vark"... the Aussies call it the "Pig". Aardvaark is Afrikaans for "Earth Pig"
year: tags: Exhibit description: F/A-18 Hornet. The F/A-18 was developed as a replacement for the F-4 Phantom, the A-6 Intruder and the A-7 Corsair. Note that the first two of those aircraft were two-seaters and the single seat F/A-18 used a "glass cockpit" concept to enable a single pilot to fulfil the same mission roles. The F/A-18 Hornet was developed in the 1970's and is still the backbone of many Western Air Forces.
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F/A-18: facts year: tags: Exhibit F/A-18: facts
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Videos year: tags: Exhibit Videos
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Videos year: tags: Exhibit Video Videos description: Bae Harrier Gr.Mk3
He-111 year: tags: Exhibit He-111 description: Heinkel He-111. The He-111 was a German medium bomber with a crew of 5 that flew from 1935 until the end of WWII.
Saab Jas-39 Gripen year: tags: Exhibit Saab Jas-39 Gripen
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Ka-50 Hokum year: tags: Exhibit Ka-50 Hokum
McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender year: tags: Exhibit McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender
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year: tags: Exhibit description: MiG-15 Fagot. The MiG-15 was the main jet fighter of the Soviet Bloc in the 1950's. The MiG-15 was fitted with a copy of a Rolls Royce engine and it gave Western nations a nasty start in the skies over Korea, 1951.
The MiG-28 appeared on-screen in the movie Top Gun. The US Navy has a division which liases with movie productions and in this case they sprayed T-38 Talons with black paint. year: tags: Exhibit The MiG-28 appeared on-screen in the movie Top Gun. The US Navy has a division which liases with movie productions and in this case they sprayed T-38 Talons with black paint.
North American Mitchell II (B-25C/D) and III (B-25J) year: tags: Exhibit North American Mitchell II (B-25C/D) and III (B-25J)
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Republic P-47D. This was the fighter that Gabby Gabreski got most of his kills in. year: tags: Exhibit Republic P-47D. This was the fighter that Gabby Gabreski got most of his kills in.
Supermarine Spitfire MkI | Supermarine Spitfire MkIX | Supermarine Spitfire L.F. IXc and L.F. IXe year: tags: Exhibit Supermarine Spitfire MkI | Supermarine Spitfire MkIX | Supermarine Spitfire L.F. IXc and L.F. IXe
year: tags: Exhibit description: Boeing Stearman. Chino reported: "Here's a shot of me in the Yellow Peril and also a cockpit shot of the approach to Riverside (CA) airport.
This was on my first (20 min) Stearman ride at an airshow.
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Su-21 Flagon-F year: tags: Exhibit Su-21 Flagon-F
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Su-32 year: tags: Exhibit Su-32
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Su-37 year: tags: Exhibit Su-37
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Flying T-6 Texans in Germany 2006 (Mark Schimmer) year: tags: Exhibit Flying T-6 Texans in Germany 2006 (Mark Schimmer)
Game Commander year: tags: Controller Game Commander
Gameport Rudders year: tags: Controller Gameport Rudders description: The article by Mark Schimmer is about connecting game port rudder pedals to the Saitek X-45 but it may help with other game-port style rudders and newer sticks.
3DFX Voodoo year: publisher: 3DFX tags: Display 3DFX Voodoo description: In 1998 the 3DFX Voodoo graphic card hit the market and caused a quantum leap in computer gaming. Suddenly computers that struggled to get 20 fps could run at 60 fps with amazing textures and light sourcing.
3 Qubed 3D glasses year: tags: Display 3 Qubed 3D glasses
Bugeye Technologies year: publisher: Bugeye Technologies tags: Display Bugeye Technologies description: Components and visual systems for professional flight simulators. Bugeye Technologies 3 window Flight Simulator suitable display system.
Display systems for your Flight Sim year: tags: Display Display systems for your Flight Sim
Oculus Rift year: tags: Display Oculus Rift
Personal Display System Virtual Cockpit year: tags: Display Personal Display System Virtual Cockpit
Simuleyes year: tags: Display Simuleyes
Track IR year: publisher: Naturalpoint tags: Controller Track IR
Vri year: publisher: Vri tags: Display Vri
Cockpits: Graphics Cards: Videos year: tags: Display Cockpits: Graphics Cards: Videos description: Watch this playlist at YouTube
Cockpits: Instruments: Videos year: tags: Cockpit Cockpits: Instruments: Videos description: Watch this playlist at YouTube
Cockpits: Motion: Videos year: tags: Cockpit Cockpits: Motion: Videos description: Watch this playlist at YouTube
Cockpits: Sound year: tags: Sound Cockpits: Sound description: Watch this playlist at YouTube
Aura Interactor year: tags: Sound Aura Interactor
Low Frequency Transducer year: tags: Sound Low Frequency Transducer
The first flight simulator in History. year: tags: Cockpit 10 miles The first flight simulator in History. description: Francisco J. Campos reports: "in December 1927, the first commercial flight between Barcelona and Madrid for Spanish Airline Iberia took place with a huge success. This gave Doctor Andreu a great idea: create a ride for his park imitating a plane flight. He commissioned the construction of a replica from that plane, a German-made Rohrbach Roland able to transport 10 people and its crew. The plane was hanging from an elaborate crane rig, allowing it to fly in a circle pattern, powered by its own propeller. Since the whole contraption was placed in top of the mountain, and "flew" over open space, the passengers had the exact feeling of a real flight over the city."
Peter Jungmann from BCC GUMP contacted me with information about their full motion simulators. -
BCC GUMP simulators
Build your own trim device year: tags: description: In May 2006
Ed Bult
contacted me with details of his home-built trim control. With USB technology this sort of construction is cheaper and easier than ever.
F-16 cockpit: scale model year: tags: description:
My first cockpit was scaled fairly closely to the F-16 using calipers I multiplied the dimensions out to build a cardboard mockup and then a plywood and aluminium prototype. The F-16 cockpit turns out to be rather a snug fit! This is the 1/8 Scale model I used - assembled by PC.
Fly Aces cockpits year: tags: description:
A.C.E.S. F/A-18 AeroDome® and our new WWII AeroDome® both feature a large domed projection screen attached to the front of your cockpit. It gives you the effect of piloting your own Omni Theater.
F-16 Cockpit by Peter Hausamann year: tags: description: Exhibit - F-16 Home Cockpit by Peter Hausamann (April 2003). Comments - " I've included some photos of the construction project. Hope they may be of some interest to you or to other members. The cockpit features the Thrustmaster H.O.T.A.S. Cougarcontrollers and CH Products rudder pedals."
I was using X-Lite with my ISP's VOIP package (must remember to cancel that!)
Bought 30 days of Skype as a first trial of the service. It works well.
Must get a Skype-enabled phone.
Docs
Email client
Mozilla Thunderbird (Free).
Maybe it's time to start thinking more in terms of "mobility", and redirect my emails to Hotmail, let them store the data. Or just use WebMail to read from my mail servers. Do I really need to store most of my emails locally? No.
Docs
Web Browser
Installed version 3.6.13
Docs
Text editing
"NotesPad (freeware) Text Editor for Windows
Developed by Skip Bremer. Skip considers NotesPad to be "Old tech", it will not be supported.
Skip warns that the Uninstall does NOT work."
Topstyle and Windows notepad.
Docs
Acrobat 6.0
pdf authoring Print-to-pdf drivers
- - - WIP
Docs
Spreadsheets
Excel 97
Win 7 has Microsoft Excel Starter 2010 included
OK. Doesn't support advanced functions, I don't need them anyway.
Bought Office 2010
The advanced functions are pretty cool actually ;< )
Bought this excellent e-book from http://shop.office-watch.com/ - Office 2010: the real startup guide. 400 pages of well presented information to get you started with Office 2010. It only cost $9.95 if you subscribe to one of their free newsletters.
Docs
Edit Word documents
Word 97
Bought Office 2010 which contains Word 2010
Data
Database
Microsoft Access 97
This venerable prog. is still pretty widely used apparently, but is is difficult to run in Win7. In order to do so I would have to upgrade to Windows 7 Pro and then download the Win XP virtual machine.
Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition is included as a demo in Win7. Check that out, but probably ...
Get Access 2010 ???
Move to MySql ???
Docs
Digital Comic Reader
Comical (free) - Last updated 20xx - a lightweight app. which does the job.
Comic Rack (free) - Last updated 2010. A much more ssophisticated prog. which used to slow my single core PC to a crawl as it managed the library.
Comic Rack (free) - Last updated 2010. Uses .NET v.4.0. Looks beautiful on Win 7.
Comic Rack (free) - Last updated 2010
The Microsoft .NET Framework is a software framework for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It includes a large library, and it supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability (each language can use code written in other languages.) The .NET library is available to all the programming languages that .NET supports. The framework's Base Class Library provides user interface, data access, database connectivity, cryptography, web application development, numeric algorithms, and network communications.
Wikipedia
xplorer 2
Might install xplorer2 - this is a tabbed explorer which greatly increased my productivity in XP
OTOH explorer in Win 7 is mighty impressive. It will take a while to "explore" all the options available in that.
File management
FTP
CuteFTP 6.0
Upgraded to CuteFTP 8 Pro - Price: $29.99
File management
Download Manager
GetRight Version: 6.3e
Runs on Windows 7
OK
File management
Backup
Foldermatch 3.4.8
Upgrade
Upgraded to 3.5.6: $15.00
File management
Join split archives
HJSplit Version: 2.3
Get v3.0
OK
Graphics
Image manager, tagger
Microsoft Office Picture Manager...
It wants to use "Libraries", and doesn't seem to offer a great deal of tagging. Investigate further
Media
Graphics
Screen grabber
HypersnapDX - Registered
Win 7 has a "Screen Clipper" built in, similar to the Mac tool. Still need hypersnap for game screens.
Media
Graphics
Image Editor
Paint Shop Pro 7
I have used this brilliant, lightweight image editor through 3 versions from 1998. Unfortunately since Corel acquired JASC, development seems to have ceased. People report various problems getting it to run in Win 7 64 bit.
Paint.NET seems popular, it is free and 64-bit. The forums seem active. I will give it a go.
> > > > I will need another prog to handle vector graphics. This is particularly useful in logo design.
version 3.7.1 released Dec 22. 2010 integrates with the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch version
Media
Music notation
mp3 production
.wav output
Sibelius 4
Upgrade to Sibelius 6
Media
ISO mounting
DAEMON Tools
"Also, you can mount images using DAEMON Tools Gadget if it's installed (only for Windows Vista/7)."
Installed DAEMON Tools Pro demo
Media
Video converter
Handbrake (free)
Works fine
( I do not understand that logo!)
Media
Video converter
DVD Shrink (free)
MS website reports a compatible upgrade is available, but v3.2.0.15 was dated 2004... Users do report it works OK
Media
Video Player
I stopped using Windows Media Player some years ago in favour of the excellent Winamp. For the past year I have used VLC for video viewing.
Media
mp3 player
Winamp does library functions well
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Security
Anti-virus
AVG Registered version
The new new PC has McAfee® Antivirus installed
MacAfee gets good reviews. Being thoroughy embedded with the O/S, firewall etc. also gives it traction. Buy the 3 PC licence when trial expires
Yes - replace with Microsoft Security Essentials.
Security
Anti-virus
LavaSoft AdAware
Might be redundant...
Yes - replace with Microsoft Security Essentials
Security
Anti-virus
pyBot Search and Destroy
Replace with Microsoft Security Essentials
Security
Anti-virus
Ad-Aware - free plug-in for Firefox
Redundant? MacAfee does ad-blocking.
Yes - replace with Microsoft Security Essentials
Web Dev.
HTML Editor php javascript
Homesite 4.5
Problems reported in 64 bit. It is, after all, 10 year old code.
Adobe bought Allaire some years back and ceased development. The only upgrade path they offer is to the bloatware known as "Dreamweaver&quit;. After a bit of googling I found that HomeSite/Topstyle creator Nick Bradbury now publishes a new version of TopStyle. It was a CSS-only editor, now it is a full HTML, XHTML and CSS editor.
Mmm... last used in 2002, I can probably safely delete that now ; < )
Believe it or not, this kind of thing (banner rotation) was hard to do back then!
ibill scripts
Membership management scripts. Very expensive back in 2002. A whole lot cheaper a year or two later. How quickly the landscape changes! They are still around, at https://www.ibill.net/Default.aspx
SqlShopA
A very user friendly web-shop I used for years, in conjunction with St. George bank and eway. PayPal must be driving/have driven a lot of these businesses to the wall.
12.7mm SATA Optical (DVD Rambo/Combo/Blu-ray Discâ„¢)
Sound
2x2W stereo speakers with audio enhancement
Integrated communications
Wi-Fi Link 6250 a/g/n, Intel® Wi-Fi Link 1000 g/n, non-Intel® 11g/n, 10/1000 Ethernet connectivity 3xUSB2.0 ports, eSATA (by model), 1x34mm ExpressCard slot (by model), RJ45, VGA, Micin, Headphone, 1x5-in-1 Multicard reader (SD/SD pro/MMC/MS pro/XD), HDMI (by model) camera 1.3/0.3M integrated web camera
Weight
2.6 kg
Dimensions
377x17.3~34.9x250 (mm) (WxHxD)
Battery life
Approx. 4hr (integrated graphics) with 6-cell battery
Included software:
Power2Go 5.5 (w/o and w/BD optical support)
McAfee® Antivirus
YouCam
VeriFaceâ„¢ 3.6
ReadyComm 5.1.1
OneKeyâ„¢ Rescue System 7.0
Lenovo Energy Management Software 3.x
WinDVD®
Office Professional 2007 Trial
OneKey™ Theater 2.x (special for Windows® XP)
Windows Liveâ„¢ essential (Live Suite+ToolBar+Portal)
DDNi
Office Personal
Easy Themes
The desktop themes supplied with Win 7 are very artistically put together. As well as rotating desktop backsgounds, they also change the appearance of the windows and the sound scheme. You change themes with a mere 2 clicks:
WIP description: Article - MiGMan's cockpit: the MiGpit MkI Date - Early 1990's Author - MiGMan Description - I used to fly in my own home-built own cockpit. It was programmable if you had a day or so to spare!
The TRC 372 ATD is an affordable and versatile entry-level Aircraft Training Device. ... it uses mechanically driven instruments utilizing servomechanisms and electronics. It is a faithful, realistic copy of the instrument panel of the Cessna 172 Skyhawk, with all instruments in the exact same position as in the real aircraft. With fully functional knobs and dials that you can adjust exactly as you would in the original aircraft.
Real Simulator year: tags: description: Real Simulator are based in Spain and dedicated to manufacturing the most realistic possible F-16 cockpits, seats and rudder controls.
3dfx Interactive year: tags: description: 3dfx Interactive, Inc. is no longer providing support for any 3dfx products and drivers. Information about 3dfx is no longer available from the 3dfx.com website. Please be advised that on February 19, 2002, the 3dfx.com website will be shut down entirely.
A Taiwanese software company sells a Direct 3D filter which turns all your 2D movie content into 3D. Yes, it does work. Download the free trial and give it a go.
Apparently it integrates neatly with Windows media Player, although I use it with
Stereoscopic Player 1.7.1.
Documentaries such as the Canadian "Jetstream", following CF/A-18 training becomes thrill-a-minute. In the BFM footage you feel as if you're right there, turning and burning. Animated features prove to have startling and satisfying 3D qualities. The Justice League Unlimited Season 2 'Flash and Substance' episode gave a real sense of the Flash's speed. Narrgh, words don't do it 'justice'. Get hold of it and try it for yourself.
Gravis Phoenix year: tags: description: "The Gravis Phoenix was a low budget alternative to the (then extremely costly) HOTAS solutions from Thrustmaster and CH Products."
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Why defrag? - Your programs can access and load the necessary files quicker and most programs will then run faster. This is partcularly important in flight sims which have to access and update scenery data during flight, such as the Microsoft series of civil sims.
So the solution is to get a dedicated computer games sound system.
Advantages:
Virtually unbreakable
loud
Vibration
Multi-channel sound for better directional cues
Inexpensive
Light, easy to transport
The placement of the sub-woofer doesn't matter because low frequencies are omni-directional - although I suggest putting it directly under your seat for maximum effect! description: For years I've used Rogers studio monitors and a whopping great monster of an amplifier to provide my jet combat sound immersion. The sound is good, but lacks the thundering, rumbling bass you want in air combat and there's always the risk of blowing the tweeters. Thundering bass = more immersion - you can feel the flaps and gear cycle, feel when the wheels hit the runway, feel when the enemy slugs rip through your wings!
This is truly flying "by the seat of your pants".
Body Shakers year: tags: description: Mark Schimmer reported: "Recently I hooked a set of so called "Body Shakers" to my hifi rig. These are low frequency transducers (28 to 55 Hertz) which normally induce vibrations on walls or other large objects. They give a great tactile feeling, expecially on sounds like piston engines, slow firing guns, afterburner rumble and .... incoming fire (makes me almost leap out of the seat)."
Aura Interactor year: tags: description: Equipment - Aura Interactor - Force Feedback on your body
The rumble of the engine at 80% power could be felt through my body. I pushed up to full military power. The sensation was VERY nice. I kicked in the burner and WOW, my body was saturated with the feeling of power. - Len Hjalmarson - Combatsim
Jim Oldfield, Jr - Vice President and Publisher of Abacus
"Abacus is a publisher of quality flight simulation software and computer books. We've been developing and publishing software for the home consumer market since 1978 making us one of the pioneers in the personal computer industry."
We're one of the world's leading developers and publishers of flight simulation add-ons. Currently, our worldwide bestsellers include Corporate Pilot, CoPilot, Private Pilot and FS Design Studio - all add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000.
These software products are sold by a network of major retail chains and computer specialty stores throughout the world.
Our Premier Collection Series of flight-sim add-ons delivers Internet-only flight sim addons direct to users by download. Each product in the series is chosen based on the highest quality standards and offers the user a chance to "try-before-you-buy".
You may also recognized us as the publisher of the well-respected Flight Simulator World Magazine for flight simulator enthusiasts. "
year: developer: Air Power Australia tags: Publisher description: " Australia requires a modern integrated joint national force structure for its defence. Air Power Australia aims to contribute to the development of such a joint force structure. Air Power Australia is a non-profit entity established with the aim of promoting air power in this context; stimulating public and parliamentary debate on air power topics; educating the community; and, publishing and archiving papers and articles on air power topics."
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year: developer: Alphasim tags: Exhibit Publisher description: Developers and publishers of high quality add-ons for Microsoft civil flight sims, they specialise in military aircraft.
year: developer: Commercial Level Simulations tags: Exhibit Developer description: " Commercial Level Simulations is a recently-founded (2006) development team that designs flight simulator expansion software. Based in The Netherlands, CLS has quickly established itself in the market and is recognised as a leading developer in this field. The key to their success has been to develop a wide range of popular aircraft that are well designed and fun to fly for beginner and expert alike. The crew at CLS have the benefit of many years experience in flight sim development and a number of their products have won awards. " (Pub info)
year: developer: Databecker tags: Exhibit description: 2003: "DATA BECKER Corporation (Newton, MA) is a privately held publisher of high-quality, value priced computer software, books and paper run by Howard March, president and CEO and John Kaminski, vice president of sales. The company's add-on flight simulation software provides users with ultra-realistic flying experiences." (Pub info)
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year: developer: Digital Integration tags: Exhibit Publisher description: This UK based development team have created a string of innovative Flight Sims which manage to place the gamer in the most sophisticated air combat environments while maintaining a high level of accessibility. They consistently pushed the limits of 3-D modelling and portrayed the most up-to-date combat avionics systems reaching an apogee with the 1998 sim http://www.migman.com/sw/TAW/index.phpTotal Air War which reproduced a modern air war as seen from an AWACS and from the cockpit of the next generation fighter the F-22.
year: developer: Domark tags: Exhibit description: UK developer founded by Dominic Wheatley and Mark Strachan during the 1980s.
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year: developer: DSB tags: Exhibit Publisher description: DSB Design is an example of the way the internet has empowered talented artists, enabling them to form creative collaborations which span the globe and then deliver their creations to fans.
Until I met David Brice, the founder of DSB Design at the Australian Flight Simulation Expo - August 28th, 2004, I had assumed the creator of a magnificient Eurofighter for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002, was a German based group. Not so. It turns out they live just down the road from me in sunny Sydney, Australia. Small world indeed.
year: developer: Eagle Interactive tags: Exhibit Publisher description: Eagle Interactive developed the software used at Fightertown. As of 2002 there appears to be no web site for Eagle Interactive. Head of Eagle Interactive is Dave Kinney, founder of the Fightertown combat flight simulation center in Southern California.
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year: developer: Electronic Arts tags: Exhibit Publisher description: Electronic Arts published some of the most classic flight sims of the 1990s.
With over 20 years of uncompromising dedication to developing the most cost-effective and realistic PC-based flight training solutions available, ELITE is now one of the most respected names in the business. That is why you'll find ELITE in more airlines, aviation academies, corporate flight departments, flight schools and universities worldwide than any other compareable simulators.
FSAddon Publishing was founded by Miguel Blaufuks and François Dumas, with the main purpose of publishing new and existing software add-ons for the Microsoft Flight Simulator range of products. " (Pub info)
14-May-09
Dear Migman,
Hello, I'm the Lead/Commander of the 2009 FSX Thunderbirds. I tripped on your website today and was very surprised in seeing a website that I actually enjoyed looking at.
I would just like to say very nice website, and if you would like to know more about the FSX Thunderbirds, our website is: www.FSXThunderbird.com.
Thanks alot and I attached a few of pictures in this message for you also.
- Lt Col. Burst
GMX Media is on track to become one of the world's leading publishers and distributors of video games for all consoles (Microsoft®, Nintendo®, Sega® and Sony®), personal computers (PCs), and Macintosh hardware, as well as all available interactive platforms. Headquartered in the UK with operations or partners in every major territory in the world. " (Pub info)
year: developer: GOG tags: Exhibit Publisher description: GOG have done simulation fans a great service by making older titles available and tweaked for modern platforms.
year: developer: Hi Tech Creations tags: Exhibit Publisher description:
Based in Texas USA, HiTech was founded in 1999 and has a simple and focussed philosophy:
" ... not to create a large corporation, a vast gaming network, or a line of online games.
It's just to create one game, but one that is better than any other like it.
Contrary to most companies, our goal is to keep the company small. We know that with a singular focus and an experienced cohesive team that enjoys its work, the production, service, support, and overall level of satisfaction will be unmatched.
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According to the critical reviews HiTech Creations have succeeded in this goal.
year: developer: HLBS Publishing tags: description:
Based in Texas USA, HiTech was founded in 1999 and has a simple and focussed philosophy:
" ... not to create a large corporation, a vast gaming network, or a line of online games.
It's just to create one game, but one that is better than any other like it.
Contrary to most companies, our goal is to keep the company small. We know that with a singular focus and an experienced cohesive team that enjoys its work, the production, service, support, and overall level of satisfaction will be unmatched.
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According to the critical reviews HiTech Creations have succeeded in this goal.
Inertia was formed in May 1999 to develop flight simulation games using technologies licensed from Parsoft Interactive. Members of the team had previously developed Hellcats over the Pacific, Hellcats: Mission at Leyte Gulf, A-10 Attack!, A-10 Cuba, Fighter Squadron: Screaming Demons over Europe.
year: developer: Interactive Entertainment Networks tags: Exhibit Publisher description:
"Wild Bill" Stealey has recently (2003) rejoined IEN as CEO."
My goal is to have a profitable series of products based on WarBirds. I would like to see a flying sim for every period of airborne conflict the United States has participated in, Dawn of Aces, WW II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm.
I would like to have a civilian simulator that would allow the players to fly Cessna's, Pipers, WarBirds, over the US using current IFR and VFR rules. I would like to have a Total Sim series that included great land and tank battles (the WarBirds team tells me we could do that with WarBirds III!)"
(From an interview at www.furball.warbirdsiii.com).
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year: developer: Just Flight tags: Press Archive description: Originally founded in 1995 as 'The Associates'. Innovative and productive publisher of Microsoft Flight Sim addons. Publisher of PC Pilot magazine.
RAF 2000 The fun of Flight Sims! year: developer: Just Flight tags: Video The fun of Flight Sims!
year: 2006 developer: Just Flight tags: Links
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year: developer: Key Publishing tags: Publisher description: Publishers of magazines - including PC Pilot Magazine | Books | Multimedia | Flight Sims | Video and DVDs | apparel and merchandise.
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year: developer: Konami tags: Publisher description: KONAMI CORPORATION was founded in Osaka, Japan in 1969 by Kagemasa Kozuki, who currently serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Perhaps better known for their arcade machines, they also produce games for popular console machines such as the X-box.
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year: developer: Kuju tags: Publisher description: With over 100 employees, Kuju is based both in Godalming (Surrey), and central London and has been developing games for over 12 years.
1997: Kuju Entertainmentestablished.
In March Kuju buys Simis from Eidos and releases Team Apache (1998) by Simis.
2001: Kuju Entertainment releases Ka-52 Team Alligator.
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year: developer: Leatherneck Simulations tags: Publisher description: Designer of aircraft for Digital Combat Simulator World (DCS).
year: developer: Looking Glass tags: Publisher description: Looking Glass Studios is now sadly defunct (early 2000) but some of their more famous products were Flight Unlimited, Flight Unlimited II and Flight Unlimited III.
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year: developer: Mad Doc tags: Publisher description: In October 2001 Xicat Interactive signed an agreement with Jane's Information Group to continue the military games suspended by Electronic Arts. This included the much anticipated Jane's Attack Squadron by Mad Doc Software, which had been sidelined for a year.
year: developer: Microprose tags: Publisher description: Microprose developed a line of genre-defining Flight sims from the mid 1980's to 2000. Hasbro acquired Microprose in 1998.
Microprose FaceBook group year: developer: Microprose tags: Links Microprose FaceBook group
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year: developer: Microsoft tags: Publisher description: Microsoft is the world's largest software developer. Microsoft recognised the potential of flight simulation in the 1980's, and civil flight sims continued to be their flagship entertainment product well into the 2000's.
The 'open architecture' of the series has been key to it's enormous popularity, with 3rd party vendors releasing scenery upgrades, extra aircraft and 'adventures', as well as a thriving 'freeware' community.
year: developer: Microsoft tags: Video 1980's Civil Flight Sims
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year: developer: Mission Studios tags: Publisher description: Founder Bob Dinnerman wrote F/A-18 Interceptor for Electronic Arts. In 1988, an unknown Macintosh developer called Velocitypremiered a flight simulation called Jetfighter. The success of this program lead Velocity to take it seriously and they released two years later a sequel: Jetfighter II.
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year: developer: Rage tags: description: "Rage Software plc, based in Liverpool, UK was formed in January 1992 by Managing Director Paul Finnegan, a man with extensive industry background (Ocean 1983, Special FX 1987) who saw an opportunity to create an independent games development business producing original, innovative and high quality products."
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The end of a sim-era. year: developer: Rowan tags: The end of a sim-era. description: In an interview at www.combatsim.com in November 2001, when asked why the source code to MiG Alleywas released, Dave Whiteside said :
"... we are no longer doing flight sims (after Empire took us over at the end of 2001, and we would not be able to publish any patches that were required (no money was allocated to this), rather than let MiG die and all the code sit doing nothing it was considered a good idea, a swan song, if you like, for Rowan (after 13 years in the flight sim market)".
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year: developer: Sierra tags: Exhibit Publisher description: Sierra have had a long and dedicated relationship with Flight Sims, bringing some of the all time classics to the public. The company started in the late '70s as On-Line Systems when founder Ken Williams converted Roberta William's hand-written game concept into the first graphic/text adventure game ever created - "Mystery House".
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year: developer: Simulator Store tags: Publisher description: Cockpit parts and accessories: www.thesimulatorstore.com (formerly: F18simulator.com). Run by former Marine pilot Steve Patterson.
year: developer: Sinclair tags: Exhibit Publisher description: Clive Sinclair invented Electric Cars and personal computers in the early 1980's and had a colourful and zany public personality.
year: developer: Sinclair tags: History description:
"Sir Clive Sinclair has been inventing electronic devices for over 35 years. Although he is best known for his computers, he has to date released over 70 different products ranging from amplifiers to multimeters to electric vehicles. He continues to produce new items at the rate of about one a year.
Sinclair User year: developer: Sinclair tags: Links Sinclair User description: SUMO - an unofficial archive of Sinclair User, which ran for longer than any other Sinclair-related magazine; 133 issues from April 1982 through to May 1993.
CRASH year: developer: Sinclair tags: Links CRASH description: CRASH - the ZX Spectrum magazine which was published from 1984 to 1991 by Newsfield (and from 1991 to 1992 by Europress).
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year: developer: Small Rockets tags: Exhibit Publisher description: Small Rockets is an independent game company based in Guildford, UK. The company comprises a team of around 20 programmers, artists and producers.
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year: developer: Strategic Simulations Inc. tags: Exhibit Publisher description: www.ssionline.com redirects to Ubisoft at www.ubi.com/US/.
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year: developer: Third Wire tags: Exhibit Publisher description: Third Wire Productions was formed by ex EA/Janes and Microprose programmer Tsuyoshi Kawahito. Their first product: "Project 1" focussed on the "classic" jets of the 1950's and '60's.
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UDS year: developer: UDS tags: Exhibit Publisher UDS description: UDS is an interactive entertainment developer based in Norrkping and Gothenburg, Sweden. The company was founded in 1993 and today they have 75 full-time employees.
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year: developer: Virtual Australian Air Force tags: description: Check out this amazing video one of their members created in LOMAC. It recreates the infamous "MiG-28 incident" from the movie Top Gun.
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year: developer: Virgin Interactive tags: Publisher description: In 1998 Virgin Interactive published 'Sabre Ace', one of the earliest flight sims which supported the new technology of 3DFX.
year: developer: Virtavia tags: Publisher description: Founded by former members of Alphasim, Virtavia sells FSX addons through their own site, and third party vender sites such as Flight1.com.
year: developer: Vista Oz tags: Exhibit Publisher description: Vista Oz comprise an international team of skilled enthusiasts who have combined their skills to focus on providing a significant upgrade to the representation of Australia in the Microsoft civil flight sims - starting with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.
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year: developer: VR1 Entertainment tags: Exhibit Developer description: VR1 was formed in 1993 and develop titles for Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's PlayStation and developed Microsoft Fighter Ace 3.0 - an on-line multiplayer flight sim.
year: developer: Wings Simulations tags: Developer Exhibit description: Wings Simulations has been developing computer games since the 1980's for the Amiga and Atari platforms. Their most well known PC simulation is Panzer Elite - a World War 2 tank simulation.
year: developer: Yager tags: Exhibit Publisher Developer description: "YAGER is an independent developer of computer and video games based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1999 by five dedicated developers and artists, our focus is the creation of vivid and meaningful AAA gaming experiences. Today, a team of 90+ developers is busy at work bringing YAGER's vision of gaming to life."
Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim, Oberschleissheim year: tags: Museum Review description: Chino visited the German Museum - Aircraft Center in Schleissheim (Deutsches Museum - Flugwerft Schleissheim), a suburb of Munich in 1996.
A-10 Cuba year: 1996 tags: MiGMans curated Videos Training mission MiGMans Combat Diary description: Training takes place in a desert area with canyons and rock formations for you to test your agility in.
A-10 Cuba year: 1996 tags: Video Training mission MiGMans Combat Diary description: The A-10's ordnance can be clearly seen hanging off the hardpoints.
Your main aerial threats are MiG-29 Fulcrums and the Su-25 Sturmovik.
Luckily for me the A-10 is still able to fly with damaged wings and control surfaces.
It's Pucker factor 5 at low altitude - there are structures everywhere!
The sensation of altitude and speed at low level is up there with the best You'll also notice the effectiveness of the A-10 camouflage. Actually all the planes are hard to spot, especially when they get down low.
A-10 Cuba year: 1996 tags: Video description: Total fun and games in the A-10 (Kids, don't try this at home!
A-10 Cuba year: 1996 tags: Video Review description: This video review, by Aaron James Rogers, is one of the best video reviews of a combat flight sim I have watched! It is informative, well paced and covers all the major features of the sim.
A-10 Cuba year: 1996 tags: Avionics description: The Virtual Cockpit (VCP) integrated seamlessly with the static, instrument views, of which there were two - upper and lower panel.
Merely by moving the hat switch you were taken to VCP mode.
A-10 had a one of the nicest analogue cockpits seen up to 1996.
All the buttons worked and could be operated with the mouse. This feature certainly sped up the learning curve immensely.
There was a host of dials - and they all worked!
A-10 Cuba year: 1996 tags: Links description: Steve's HOG HEAVEN is an amazing resource for this sim. It has new sounds, printable maps - very detailed - manuals - everything you need. (Thanks to Frankie Kam!) Formerly at http://members.aol.com/russillosm/a10.phpl
A-10 Cuba Activision's A-10 Cuba site year: 1996 tags: Links Activision's A-10 Cuba site description: (Thanks to Frankie Kam!) Formerly at www.activision.com/games/a10cuba
Rob "Bomber" Henderson remembers: "A320 AIRBUS by Thallion : This was bar far the most complex civilian flight sim I flew on the Amiga. It was developed in conjunction with the airline LUFTHANSA of Germany. The sim came with a huge manual, a massive "notepad" containing Jeppessen airfield approach charts for almost every controlled airfield in Central Europe, and 4 high level navigation charts, and a massive poster of a real A320 cockpit."
Aces Collection year: 1997 publisher: Sierra tags: Combat description: This collection contained: A10 Tank Killer | A-10 Tank Killer 2: Silent Thunder | Aces of the Deep | Aces of the Pacific | Aces Over Europe | Red Baron.
It also contained maps and a multimedia reference on Early Aviation pioneers.
Aces Collection year: publisher: Sierra tags: Combat description: This collection contained: A10 Tank Killer | A-10 Tank Killer 2: Silent Thunder | Aces of the Deep | Aces of the Pacific | Aces Over Europe | Red Baron.
It also contained maps and a multimedia reference on Early Aviation pioneers.
Aces Collection Docking with a Zeppelin year: tags: Docking with a Zeppelin description: This picture and others like it amazed me - I had assumed that aircraft docking with Zeppelins only occured in games like 'Crimson Skies' by Microsoft, but here it is in real life. (From the history of flight presentation included in this package).
Aces High year: 2000 publisher: Hi Tech Creations tags: Combat
Aces of the Pacific year: 1992 publisher: Sierra tags: Combat description: Part of the most complex and popular World War II sim series of the early 1990s.
Aces over Europe year: 1992 tags: Combat description: The most complex and popular World War II sim of 1992.
Acrojet year: 1985 tags: Civil description: Acro Jet was released in 1985 on the Sinclair Spectrum.
Advanced Tactical Fighters year: 1996 tags: Combat description: Advanced Tactical Fighters was the sequel to Marine Fighters, and third in the series. It introduced stealth and vectored thrust aircraft. I remember the first time I booted it up on my 486 DX-66. I leapt into the Grumman X-31 and headed for the clouds. For a while I was convinced there was something wrong with the program because this aircraft just seemed too fast! MiGMan thanks Cajun Hawk for his ATF pictures which helped to kick off this museum back in 1998, when it was only about 6 pages in total !
Air Combat Classics year: 1993 publisher: LucasArts tags: Combat description: Air Combat Classics is a collection of Classic Sims from LucasArts released in 1993. It contained:
Battlehawks 1942 | Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe |
Their Finest Hour (Battle of Britain).
Air Power year: 1995 publisher: Rowan tags: Combat description: Similar in style to the 2000 sim Crimson Skies, Air Power was a sim set in a fictitious land and set your colourful planes against zeppelins and other nasties!
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: 15 minutes of fun description: Here's a fun mission that takes only 15 minutes to fly using Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002. You can fly the whole mission with one eye on the compass heading and one eye (and your camera) out the cockpit window.
The leg between B and C is through some winding valleys and will test your nerve at 200 feet! Don't forget to turn Terrain Mesh complexity to 100 %.
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Installation description: In general the aircraft worked in FS 2002 (apart from minor issues), the sceneries should be deactivated due to flickering. Unless you don't mind flickering!
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: CockpI.T. Cockpit description: All of the cockpits have Autopilot and Navigation consoles which are available by pressing ' shift-2 ' and ' shift-4 '.
I found the autopilot window could be undocked and moved to a second monitor with very little impact on frame rate. Some also have a Horizontal Situation Indicator, and the B-45C Tornado has altimeter, airspeed and rate of climb as well.
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: CockpI.T. Virtual Cockpits description: Fixed cockpits in most sims are great for instrument flying but don't really enable you to simulate real visual flight conditions, where most of the time the pilot's head and attention is out of the cockpit.
Using the virtual cockpit with the HUD display gives a much better 'simulation' of the visual flying experience.
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary Navigation description: A low level visual navigation exercise in Japan. I used pilot's ONC and the mission took about 20 minutes to fly in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002.
A development of the Lincoln, the more powerful Shackleton served well beyond its intended lifespan in both the maritime recon and AEW roles.
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Aircraft: Flyable description: To see the mighty Vulcan in action check out the James Bond movie Thunderball. What an utterly fantastic looking aircraft - a flying sculpture!
Powered by 6 28-cyl radials (and later 4 turbojets as well), the B-36 flew high and slow. It was not uncommon to stay aloft for 2 days without refuelling.
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Aircraft: Flyable description: The virtual cockpit is good and combined with the pop-up Altimeter - Airspeed and Rate of Climb panel makes it a good choice for visual flights.
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Aircraft: Flyable description: "The first jet-powered strategic bomber to serve with USAF, over 2100 were produced. "
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Aircraft: Flyable description: Starting this beast up and watching the Engine indicators - count them! - come to life is fun. Landing it is even more fun!
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Aircraft: Flyable description: The Mirage crashes Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 when you attempt to load it. These pictures were taken in Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (1998) at RAF Woodbridge.
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Aircraft: Flyable description: I spoke to an Australian former Vampire pilot some years back. He told me that the Vampire had several throttle settings which were not used because of vibration. Naturally enough, in accordance with 'Murphy's Law', when flying the circuit the throttle settings you wanted to use corresponded exactly with the vibration zones!
Designed in 1949 as the successor to the Vampire, the Venom's more powerful Ghost engine and its stronger airframe made for a much more effective aircraft.
Total production of the F-86 exceeded that of any fixed-wing fighter at a staggering 9,502.
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Aircraft: Flyable description: The successor to the F-86 Sabre, the F-100 was the first combat aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight.
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Aircraft: Flyable description: Note that F-8 lowers full flaps and the brake chute.
The '102 had a dual-stick control system where the pilot controled the radar with one hand and flew with the other. The Dagger was also unique for a fighter in that it carried missiles internally.
As the RAF's first purpose-built night and all-weather interceptor, the Javelin was a large aircraft who's thick delta wing prohibited supersonic flight. First flown in 1951, many variants were produced, the latter ones with afterburning engines.
As the Allies' first operational jet fighter, the Meteor underwent rapid development, especially of its engines. The underpowered 1943 prototype was transformed by a sequence of more powerful engines into an outstanding multi-role aircraft. The
First flown in 1952, the 'crescent' wing was a tremendous technical achievement. However, Soviet missile advances soon rendered the Victor's mission obsolete and despite being upgraded to B2 standard in 1959 with its much more powerful engines, the Victor had to be consigned to the low-level role.
Air Power Cold War F.6 year: 2000 tags: Aircraft: Flyable F.6 description:
... all the various marques of Hunter were a delight to fly and much admired by their pilots. Many still fly today in the hands of private owners. Total production was 1,985, 79 types flew with 17 air forces.
The Il-28 was the mainstay of the medium bomber fleets of the Soviet bloc countries for most of the '50s
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Aircraft: Flyable description: The MiG-15 out-turned, out-climbed and had a higher service ceiling than the North American F-86K Sabre. Also - the original NATO reporting name was "Falcon" - it would be interesting to get the story behind changing the name from that of a 'Bird of Prey' to a 'block of wood'!
The Su-11 first went into service in 1968 as a replacement for the ageing Su-7 and Su-9 and benefited from its predecessors' extensive combat history in other Warsaw Pact countries. It was designed as an all-weather interceptor and had a phenomenal climb rate, with a service ceiling of 55,000 ft.
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary description: I love the Angle of Attack meter in this cockpit. Here I'm turning to land, pulling about 17 degrees AOA and 2G. When you hit 30 degrees AOA the stall warning starts ticking loudly. You can even enter high speed stalls by wrenching back on the stick too aggressively at speed.
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Aircraft: Flyable description: "In 1952 the first Tu-16 ( NATO Reporting name 'Badger' ) flew and represented the new generation of Soviet bombers to be produced during the 1950s. Built in large numbers, some 2000 were made before production ended in 1960."
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary Navigation description: This is a big aircraft!
I decided to use it's long legs and explore the region around Vladivostock, a long time favourite area of mine since Advanced Tactical Fighters. Check out my campaign set in the region (Operation C.O.R.K.).
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Aircraft: Flyable description: Being the fastest prop aircraft in the world and having an extraordinarily long range makes the Tu-142 the ideal choice for a weekend away!
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Aircraft: Flyable description: Quite a handful around the circuit this one but heaps of power. The low- slung design reminds me of 1950's American autos.
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Campaign NATO description: Chuck Yeager's Air Combat is remembered as a classic sim from the early 1990's. Would it cut the mustard today?
Well... no! The graphics are primitive, the cockpits basic, scripted missions limited in number and scope.
The attraction was in playing the same missions over and over, a quick air combat fix and never exactly the same twice.
So, 10 years on - what are we to do? Track down a copy of Chuck Yeager's Air Combat or do we move on?
Let's move on - at least to 1998, to Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (1998). In that sim, straightforward, scripted missions provided hours of fun in the WW2 European theatre but unfortunately stopped short of the jet era - the 1950's.
This is where Air Power: The Cold War (2000) fits the bill with it's 20 missions and 30 flyable aircraft! The missions are minimalistic, straight to the point and guaranteed fun in a 5 minute time slot.
A group of IL-28 'Beagles' have slipped under the radar and are bearing down on your airbase. Your colleagues are just taking off and are vunerable - only you are in the air and able to fight off the enemy.
A damaged B-47 is under attack from a group of MiG-15s. Only one of the MiGs is assigned to finish off the bomber, but all the others are after you ! Save the bomber by destroying the one MiG, then polish off the rest with your wingman.
A unit of V-Bombers is high over the Channel on its way to attack an East German airfield. Your 4 Gloster Javelins must fight off the attacking MiGs if they are to be successful.
B-45's are high ovehead on their way to attack the enemy. One of their escorts has suffered engine failure and has had to eject. Scramble your Sabre, get up there and replace him before the MiGs pounce !
Air Power Cold War 7 year: 2000 tags: Mission NATO 7 description: The classic Korean furball, but this time over Germany - every man for himself !
Air Power Cold War 7 year: 2000 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary NATO 7 description:
The classic Korean furball, but this time over Germany - every man for himself !
Furball is an understatement!
I enjoy playing this mission over and over. Sometimes the dogfight is over in a minute but more often I end up at wave-top level with one MiG in front and another somewhere behind!
Your Shackleton may be outdated, but it has two 20mm cannons up front, ideal for strafing ground targets. Use them to good effect on the Soviet submarine which is stuck on the surface off the German coast. Watch out for the armed patrol boat escort.
Air Power Cold War 8 year: 2000 tags: Mission NATO 8 description: Taking off and using the autopilot - Shift 2 - to climb to 10,000 feet while admiring the cockpit was fun. The Engine sounds are great too. The flight to mission area is about 300 miles - about an hour and a half at 200 knots. Unfortunately using 'X' to skip to the next waypoint dumps you directly in front of a small flotilla of patrol boats and the target sub... READ ON
A Tu-16 Badger and its crew have decided to defect to the West and are circling your base trying to get permission to land. You and your wingman are escorting the defector and must defend him from the attacking MiGs who will do anything to shoot down their erstwhile comrade.
Air Power Cold War 9 year: 2000 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary NATO 9 description:
A Tu-16 Badger and its crew have decided to defect to the West and are circling your base trying to get permission to land. You and your wingman are escorting the defector and must defend him from the attacking MiGs who will do anything to shoot down their erstwhile comrade.
He he - those MiG-19 's are pretty good, and determined to down their defecting comrade. Not once have I managed to protect the Tupolev Tu-16 Badger, but , not to worry, the dogfighting is excellent!
Intelligence reports indicate that the Soviets are arming some bombers with nuclear weapons which will be used against NATO targets. Only your F-100 has been able to penetrate the defences. Destroy the bombers as they take off with your guns and rockets and then escape Westwards if you can, but beware - these Badgers are no easy game !
Air Power Cold War 10 year: 2000 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary NATO 10 description:
Intelligence reports indicate that the Soviets are arming some bombers with nuclear weapons which will be used against NATO targets. Only your F-100 has been able to penetrate the defences. Destroy the bombers as they take off with your guns and rockets and then escape Westwards if you can, but beware - these Badgers are no easy game !
Those Tupolev Tu-16 Badger 's are deadly shots with the tail gun. I was shot to pieces several times before I managed to nail one. At least the MiG-19's which turn up only have forward facing cannon!
Finally, after disposing of the Tupelov's and MiG I headed home on 'warp drive' - and about 105 miles from home ran out of gas!
Fortunately I was 3 miles out from an airstrip and managed to 'dead stick' it in.
A fun mission.
Air Power Cold War year: 2000 tags: Campaign Warsaw Pact description: The missions are minimalistic, straight to the point and guaranteed fun in a 5 minute time slot.
Air Power Cold War 1 year: 2000 tags: Mission Warsaw Pact 1 description: "Protect the bombers and destroy the fighters. "
Air Power Cold War 1 year: 2000 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary Warsaw Pact 1 description: It's a tough job protecting those Bears against the Hawker Hunter F.6's of R.A.F. Woodbridge.
If you do clear the air don't try and land at R.A.F. Woodbridge or you'll get a most unfriendly reception from the AAA! Since there are no waypoints leading home I decided to 'defect' and land at the deserted base a few miles South.
Air Power Cold War 3 year: 2000 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary Warsaw Pact 3 description: There is no airbase at the last waypoint. I flew a circular search pattern until I ran out of fuel and had to bail out.
Air Power Cold War 5 year: 2000 tags: Mission Warsaw Pact 5 description: "Destroy all the Vampires. "
Air Power Cold War 6 year: 2000 tags: Mission Warsaw Pact 6 description: "Destroy 5 all bombers and at least one Sabre."
Air Power Cold War 7 year: 2000 tags: Mission Warsaw Pact 7 description: "Kill at least 2 Sabres. "
Air Power Cold War 8 year: 2000 tags: Mission Warsaw Pact 8 description: " Sink 2 ships and shoot down the enemy fighter. "
Air Power Cold War 9 year: 2000 tags: Mission Warsaw Pact 9 description: "Destroy the Tu-16 and at least 2 Escorts. "
Air Power Cold War 10 year: 2000 tags: Mission Warsaw Pact 10 description: "Destroy the attacking aircraft. "
Air Power Cold War R.A.F. Woodbridge year: 2000 tags: Scenery R.A.F. Woodbridge description: R.A.F. Woodbridge appears in Microsoft Combat Flight Sim when you install Air Power: The Cold War.
Air Power Cold War E.G.A.F. Scholdmow (believed to be fictional) year: 2000 tags: Scenery E.G.A.F. Scholdmow (believed to be fictional) description: E.G.A.F. Scholdmow appears in Microsoft Combat Flight Sim when you install Air Power: The Cold War.
Air Strike USA year: 1985 developer: Digital Integration tags: Combat description: Air Strike USA was published by Digital Integration and released on on the PC in 1985. Really an arcade game rather than a flight simulator it is mainly of interest because the Publisher / Design Team Digital Integration went on to produce some of the finest PC Flight Sims ever to grace screens worldwide.
From humble origins....
Air Support year: 1992 publisher: Psygnosis tags: Combat
Air Warrior (Public Domain) year: 1990 tags: Combat description: Air Warrior was introduced to the gaming public as a free - public domain - piece of software which could be downloaded and played in practice mode at home. You then logged on to a dedicated server in your city via modem and played in a virtual war.
Air Warrior III year: 1998 tags: Combat description: Air Warrior 3, released in 1998 is a popular on-line World War 2 Air Combat sim running in Windows '95 and '98.
Aircraft Animator year: 2000 publisher: Abacus tags: Civil description: It took aircraft from Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 and added moving parts such as landing gear and propellor blades.
Around the World year: 1999 publisher: Abacus tags: Add-on description: Adds Amelia Aerhar's aircraft - the Lockeed Electra - and scenery all along the route of her last, unfinished flight of 1937.
Avenger A-10 year: 1991 developer: Spectrum Holobyte tags: Combat description: Lars Gramkow Nielsen reported :
" From what I've been able to make out, it was supposed to be released after Falcon 3.0, as the second of the Electronic Battlefield Series sims - of which Falcon 3.0 was the first. "
MiGMan's industry sources reported that the main problem was the low altitude rendering of terrain by the graphics engine.
Avro Vulcan for CFS2 year: tags: Cockpit description: The virtual cockpit gauges function, as I expect them to in 2003, but they are rather blurry and the clarity doesn't improve on zooming in.
Avro Vulcan for CFS2 year: tags: Manual description: It's all very well to write a casual, conversational, checklist for a pilot who already knows his GPU from his franistazzit, let alone his Vulcanised franistazzit, but I really feel what's needed is a step by step list, in fact an idiot proof list of operations.
Avro Vulcan for CFS2 year: tags: Summary description: I hesitate to criticise a product which has probabably been a labour of love for the developers, and am are especially loath to discourage work on the classic '50's jets - but once a product starts competing for your sim-allowance then it has to measure up.
With no missions, dedicated bases, radio communications or working navaids the Vulcan seems very lonely in Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2.
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty Eighth Excerpt from the manual 1.59 meg (supplied to the Flight Sim Museum by Hasbro in 2000) pdf year: 2000 tags: Manual Excerpt from the manual 1.59 meg (supplied to the Flight Sim Museum by Hasbro in 2000) pdf
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty Eighth Interview with Iain Howe, producer at Wayward Design. year: 2000 tags: Interview with Iain Howe, producer at Wayward Design.
Battle of Britain 2: Wings of Victory year: 2005 tags: Combat description: It features an enhanced graphics engine based on the classic Battle of Britain by Rowan (2000).
Battle over Europe year: 2004 tags: Combat description: Dynamic campaign add-on for IL-2 Forgotten Battles.
Calculator sim year: 1977 tags: Space description: Before personal computers were a reality enthusiasts used to program aspects of flight on simpler devices.
Cargo Pilot year: 2006 publisher: Microsoft tags: Add-on Civil description: "Enjoy a career as a virtual cargo pilot - feel the pressure as you fight bad weather, with the Black Box watching your every move." - pub info.
Check Six year: 1993 developer: Pegasus Japan tags: Combat
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer year: 1987 publisher: Electronic Arts tags: Combat description: Flight Instruction, Formation flying, Aerobatics, Pylon racing, this sim had it all! Despite the clunky looking graphics by today's standards, Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer was an ambitious attempt to teach the basics of flight on a personal computer. Edward Lerner developed and programmed it to showcase 14 different flyable aircraft. This exhibit contains AUDIO content.
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer year: 1987 publisher: Electronic Arts tags: Civil description: Real aircraft: Bell X-1, Cessna 172, Douglas X-3 Stiletto, General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, North American P-51 Mustang, Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Sopwith Camel, SPAD S.XIII, Supermarine Spitfire.
Experimental aircraft: Grace Industries XPG-12 Samurai, Hilleman Ltd. XRH4 MadDog, Lerner Aeronautics XNL-16 Instigator.
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat year: 1990 tags: Combat description: Chuck Yeager's Air Combat was for many people their first exposure to PC flight simulation of any kind and the beginning of a life-long hobby.
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat year: tags: description: World War 2: P-51 Mustang, World War 2: Fw-190, Korean War: F-86 Sabre, Korean War: MiG-15, Vietnam War: F-4 Phantom, Vietnam War: MiG-21 Fishbed.
Classic Airliners 2000 year: 2000 developer: Flight One tags: Civil Add-on Aircraft: Flyable description: Flyable aircraft: BAC 1-11, Boeing 707, Boeing 720, Boeing 727, Boeing 737-200, DeHavilland Comet, Douglas DC-3, Douglas C-47, Douglas DC-4, Douglas C-54, Douglas DC-8, Hawker Siddeley Trident, Lockheed L-188 Electra, Sud Aviation Caravelle, Vickers VC-10, Vickers Viscount
CM5 Super Galaxy year: 2009 publisher: PC Aviator tags: Civil Add-on description: "Built for FSX engine, very high detail exterior and interior, photoreal textures, detailed doors and cargo bays." - pub. info
Comanche Gold year: 1998 publisher: Novalogic tags: Combat Helicopters: Flyable description: Added: new campaigns, new missions, mission design tool, weather effects and a campaign designed exclusively for NovaLogic by a former U.S. Army Team Comanche member to the 1997 release Comanche 3.
Combat Air Patrol year: 2001 publisher: Psygnosis tags: Combat description: "This was a late addition to the long line of flight sims for the Amiga, and it was also one of the best. The whole sim was based on the 1991 Gulf War ( Desert Storm ) and you could take to the skies in either the mighty Grumman F-14A Tomcat or the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet. "
Combat Air Patrol 2 year: 2017 tags: Combat S/VTOL description: A 2016 simulation of the AV-8B Harrier. This sim could pick up where SVGA Harrier Assault (1992) left off in 1992, with a flyable AV-8B Harrier and a dynamic campaign!
Combat Helo year: 2001 developer: Richard Hawley tags: Combat
Combat Lynx year: 1984 developer: Durell Software tags: Combat Helicopters: Flyable description: Allowed you to fly the Westland Lynx in a ground Attack role.
Combat Squadron year: 2001 publisher: Abacus tags: Combat description: Adds aircraft designed by Terry Hill to Microsoft Combat Flight Sim, Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000.
Conquer the Skies year: 1997 tags: Combat Anthology description: This collection was published by Microprose in 1997. It contains four of the best ever DOS flight sims: 1942: Pacific Air War, Falcon 3.0, Fleet Defender, Gunship 2000.
EF 2000 year: 1999 publisher: Digital Image Design tags: description: "Brakes off and the tyres rumble, 120 knots and the dragon leaps into the air."
- an ode to EF 2000
MiGMan, 1999
Elite year: tags: Combat description: What started as one of the first wire frame sims of the 1980s has become an space exploration sim featuring real physics and an almost inconceivably large physical domain to explore.
Enemy Engaged Comanche vs. Hokum Add 'Enemy Engaged Apache vs. Havoc' maps to 'Comanche vs. Hokum' year: tags: Guide Map Add 'Enemy Engaged Apache vs. Havoc' maps to 'Comanche vs. Hokum'
Enemy Engaged Comanche vs. Hokum year: tags: MiGMans Combat Diary description: It was early April 2000 and 2 of the world's most fearsome helicopter gunships landed on home PCs worldwide. Enemy Engaged: RAH-66 Comanche versus Ka-52 Hokum, to give it it's full name, is the successor to Enemy Engaged: Apache vs Havoc.
Eurofighter (Alphasim) year: publisher: Alphasim tags: Civil description: The AA radar allows real intercepts to be made, commonplace in combat sims but a first for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.
Eurofighter (Alphasim) year: tags: MiGMans Combat Diary description: Here I am in Alphasim's Eurofighter taking off from Kingsford Smith airport, Sydney, Australia to try and intercept on a QANTAS passenger jet.
Eurofighter Typhoon year: 2001 publisher: Digital Image Design tags: Combat description: In 2001 Digital Image Design (DID) released Eurofighter Typhoon, an accessible and immersive simulation of tactical jet combat.
Eurofighter Typhoon: Operation Icebreaker year: 2002 publisher: Digital Image Design tags: Combat description: 15 new missions and enhanced weather effects enhance the sim - but the real value lies in the inclusion of the original Eurofighter Typhoon and the excellent strategy guide in the package.
Europe 1 year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Civil Scenery
Europe 2 year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Civil Scenery
Europe 3 year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Civil Scenery
European Air War BF-109 year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable BF-109 description: "The Bf.109 was the Luftwaffe's benchmark fighter throughout WWII. It first flew in 1937, saw combat during the Spanish Civil War, and some variants remained in service until the end of the war in 1945."
European Air War Bf.109E-4 Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Bf.109E-4 Instruments description: "The Bf.109 was the Luftwaffe's benchmark fighter throughout WWII. It first flew in 1937, saw combat during the Spanish Civil War, and some variants remained in service until the end of the war in 1945."
European Air War Bf.109G-6 Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Bf.109G-6 Instruments
European Air War Bf.109K-4 Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Bf.109K-4 Instruments
European Air War Bf-110 year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Bf-110 description: "As learned during the Battle of Britain, the Bf110's only hope of survival is to keep airspeed high, execute hit-and-run attacks from high altitude, and avoid lengthy turning battles with single-engine fighters."
European Air War Bf.110C-4 Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Bf.110C-4 Instruments description: "As learned during the Battle of Britain, the Bf110's only hope of survival is to keep airspeed high, execute hit-and-run attacks from high altitude, and avoid lengthy turning battles with single-engine fighters."
European Air War Bf.110G-2 Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Bf.110G-2 Instruments
European Air War Fw-190 year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Fw-190 description: "The Fw190A series was arguably the best fighter in the Luftwaffe inventory in the early 1940s and considered by some to have been the best fighter in the world at that time, earning the name 'Butcher Bird.' "
European Air War Hurricane year: tags: Hurricane description: "With over 15,000 Hurricanes built, the aircraft served on virtually every front; even remaining in front-line service as a ground-attack aircraft well after production ended. "
European Air War Hurricane I Instruments year: tags: Hurricane I Instruments description: "With over 15,000 Hurricanes built, the aircraft served on virtually every front; even remaining in front-line service as a ground-attack aircraft well after production ended. "
European Air War Me-262 year: tags: Me-262 description: "Arguably, the Me262 left behind the greatest legacy of any WWII-era aircraft: the Jet Age. Entering combat in 1944, the Me262 could outrun anything in the Allied inventory, including the mighty P-51 Mustang."
European Air War Me. 262-A Instruments year: tags: Me. 262-A Instruments description: "Arguably, the Me262 left behind the greatest legacy of any WWII-era aircraft: the Jet Age. Entering combat in 1944, the Me262 could outrun anything in the Allied inventory, including the mighty P-51 Mustang."
European Air War P-38 year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable P-38 description: "The P-38 is a decent dogfighter, and ETO pilots reported it could out maneuver any Luftwaffe fighter between 18,000 and 31,000 feet, and hold its own against lower-altitude opponents."
European Air War P-38H Lightning Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable P-38H Lightning Instruments description: "The P-38 is a decent dogfighter, and ETO pilots reported it could out maneuver any Luftwaffe fighter between 18,000 and 31,000 feet, and hold its own against lower-altitude opponents."
European Air War P-38J Lightning Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable P-38J Lightning Instruments description: "The P-38 is a decent dogfighter, and ETO pilots reported it could out maneuver any Luftwaffe fighter between 18,000 and 31,000 feet, and hold its own against lower-altitude opponents."
European Air War P-47 year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable P-47 description: "The P-47 was built in larger numbers than any other US fighter in history. From 1942 until the introduction of the P-51, the P-47 was the US Army's workhorse, performing both air-to-air and air-to-ground sorties."
European Air War P-47C Thunderbolt Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable P-47C Thunderbolt Instruments description: "The P-47 was built in larger numbers than any other US fighter in history. From 1942 until the introduction of the P-51, the P-47 was the US Army's workhorse, performing both air-to-air and air-to-ground sorties."
European Air War P-47D Thunderbolt Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable P-47D Thunderbolt Instruments
European Air War P-51 year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable P-51 description: "The P-51 will always be remembered as the fighter that won the air war in Europe. "
European Air War P-51B Mustang Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable P-51B Mustang Instruments description: "The P-51 will always be remembered as the fighter that won the air war in Europe. "
European Air War P-51D Mustang Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable P-51D Mustang Instruments
European Air War Spitfire year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Spitfire description: "Turn performance is good, but being slower meant that the enemy could generally dictate the terms of the fight, disengaging at will. Subsequently, later Spitfires added emphasis on speed. "
European Air War Spitfire IA Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Spitfire IA Instruments description: "Turn performance is good, but being slower meant that the enemy could generally dictate the terms of the fight, disengaging at will. Subsequently, later Spitfires added emphasis on speed. "
European Air War Spitfire IXC Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Spitfire IXC Instruments
European Air War Spitfire XIVE Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Spitfire XIVE Instruments
European Air War Tempest year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Tempest description: "Used mainly for ground attack, the Tempest is a very fast aircraft, making it an excellent interceptor against V-1s. "
European Air War Tempest V Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Tempest V Instruments description: "Used mainly for ground attack, the Tempest is a very fast aircraft, making it an excellent interceptor against V-1s. "
European Air War Typhoon year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Typhoon description: "The Typhoon accelerates well in a dive, reaching speeds around 500 mph, and subsequently suffering from compressibility problems as the local airflow over the wing approached the speed of sound. Like the P-38, Typhoon pilots need to closely monitor their speed in a dive."
European Air War Typhoon IB Instruments year: tags: Aircraft: Flyable Typhoon IB Instruments description: "The Typhoon accelerates well in a dive, reaching speeds around 500 mph, and subsequently suffering from compressibility problems as the local airflow over the wing approached the speed of sound. Like the P-38, Typhoon pilots need to closely monitor their speed in a dive."
As a designer of F-117, Michael adds Stealth Pilot to his long list of favorite roles. In his seven years here at Electronic Arts (EA), he has graced us with his abilities as Skateboard Maintenance Officer (Skate or Die), Football Coach (John Madden Football), Sensei of the EA martial arts dojo (Budokan) and Senior Lawnboy (PGA TOUR Golf). In his spare time, Michael likes to eat chili verde burritos at 2 a.m., and skateboard down the shag halls here at EA. There he goes now!
Chris is an interesting programmer who began his keyboard tickling at the
tender age of 23. His obvious talent led him to be snapped up by
Mediagenic, where he saw the light and game to EA. When he isn't pulling
14-hour days behind the EA curtain, he participates in historical fun
with the Society for Creative Anachronism, plays with his unusual
collection of pirate ships, and plays four different recorders and the
hammer dulcimer.
Chuck has been programming since age 17, and hasn't been able to stop.
He joined EA after a 7-year stint with Epyx, breaking his vow never to
work for the "Evil Empire" (EA). I guess if you add enough zeros onto
the end of any check, even vows change. Chuck likes to scuba dive (they
don't call him "Shark Bait" just cause he's pretty), create electronic
sculptures, and skateboard in his spare time.
Brain has been interested in computers since he was a kid. He started
programming on the old Vic 20 at home as a hobby, then he graduated to
the Commodore 64, and later to the Amiga. He finally started getting
paid for his work when he got hired at Distinctive Software, Inc. in
Burnaby, British Columbia. Working at DSI, Brain became the living,
beating proof that you don't have to hate going to work. DSI later
became Electronic Arts Canada, and the rest is history.
F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0 year: 1993 tags: Combat description: F-117A runs very well on a 386 and is a "thinking person's sim" emphasising tactical thinking over reflexes. The sim was a major enhancement and re-release of F-19 (1988) by Sid Meier.
F-14 Tomcat year: 1990 publisher: Activision tags: Combat description: The opening scenes to this 1990 flight sim from Activision are an accurate time capsule! The PC hardware of the day was only capable of displaying a limited number of polygons and colours, and the sound made good use of the latest sound card technology. Note that in the game you could also fly in cockpit view.
F-14 Tomcat year: 1990 tags: Combat Video description: The opening scenes to this 1990 flight sim from Activision are an accurate time capsule! The PC hardware of the day was only capable of displaying a limited number of polygons and colours, and the sound made good use of the latest sound card technology. Note that in the game you could also fly in cockpit view.
F-15 by Janes year: 1998 tags: Combat description: F-15 by Janes had to be the strike fighter sim of the Millenium! Although it does have a formidable Air to Air capability in terms of Radar and ordnance, the F-15E is about half way down the ladder in manoeuverability... not a dogfight machine! But for fans of the Strike Aircraft community... F-111, A-6 Intruder, Tornado... 1998 was hog heaven!
F-19 Stealth Fighter year: 1988 publisher: Microprose tags: Advertising description: " Imagine Falcon - Imagine a few hundred square miles of fantasy.
Imagine F-29. Imagine a few thousand miles of fantasy.
Fly F-19.
Fly over 409,600 square miles of reality.
Fly fast.
Fly the real thing.
Over 3,300 missions possible.
Graphical detail and depth of gameplay are claims made by others. Here they are reality.
Fly F-19 soon on your Atari ST and Commodore Amiga."
"F-22 Total Air War 2.0 (TAW 2.0) is a total conversion of Total Air War, which also includes the campaigns from F-22 Air Dominance Fighter (ADF) and the Red Sea Operations (RSO) expansion disc. TAW 2.0 is the follow-on to Total Air War 2008. The goal of TAW 2.0 is to provide a simulation experience that equals or surpasses your fond memories with the original ADF and TAW. TAW 2.0 is self contained. You do not require the original F-22 ADF or F-22 TAW to play."
F/A-18E Super Hornet year: 1999 tags: Combat description: This sim demanded your full attention. It detected you were not giving full attention... and then turned around and bit you hard! The computers did their best to fly the plane where you pointed it, but couldn't rescue you from gross errors of judgement like my full loops at low altitude! From a hard-core point of view I like this... it forced you to correct sloppy habits and get into the checklist mentality.. getting into a "landing state of mind" when landing... not dwelling on the fantastic dogfight you just had / didn't have.
This indeed is the essence of creating an immersive sim!
F/A-18E Super Hornet year: 1999 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary description: This plane looks hot and I just want to get airborne!
Forget studying the manual, forget flight planning, forget pre-flight... how hard could it be?
What could go wrong?
F/A-18E Super Hornet year: 1999 tags: Summary description: Super Hornet is a demanding sim.
It demands your full attention... it detects you are not giving full attention... turns around and bites you hard!
I've lost track of the new and exciting ways I found to auger in: Stalling in straight and level flight | Stalling in a slow turn | Stalling upside down | Coming out of a loop too fast and too low
... and many more I coudn't analyse at the time. From a hard-core point of view I like this... it forces you to correct sloppy habits and get into the checklist mentality.. getting into a "landing state of mind"" when landing... not dwelling on the fantastic dogfight you just had / didn't have.
This indeed is the essence of creating an immersive sim!
F/A-18E Super Hornet pdf year: 1999 tags: Key Commands pdf description: This list of commands was provided by Digital Integration.
Thank you Digital Integration!
F/A-18E Super Hornet Touch'n'go and then a loop over the runway. year: 1999 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary Touch'n'go and then a loop over the runway.
F/A-18E Super Hornet year: 1999 tags: Carrier Ops Takeoff description: What a mixture of technologies! A steam catapult fed by a Nuclear Reactor lauches an aircraft burning fossil fuel. ... which makes like a pterodactyl to fly!
F/A-18E Super Hornet year: 1999 tags: Carrier Ops Navigation description: Being able to quickly find the aircraft carrier becomes pretty important when your fuel is low. If you're like me you'll be all strung out too after some harrowing dogfights.
F/A-18E Super Hornet year: 1999 tags: Carrier Ops 10 miles description: The autopilot flies a perfect approach, every time. Myself, on the other hand...
F/A-18E Super Hornet year: 1999 tags: Aircraft Fighter description: The MiG-29 Fulcrum is a formidable point defence fighter. I wouldn't get into a turning battle with one of these!
It's smaller than the Super Hornet and excels at low speed manoeuvering with sufficient thrust-to-weight ratio to rescue it from some very deep holes!
F/A-18E Super Hornet year: 1999 tags: Aircraft Fighter description: Inspired perhaps by Aram Katchaturian's "Sabre Dance", this flock of Flankers engaged in an ancient ritual.
Falcon (1987): Version 2.5 year: publisher: Spectrum Holobyte tags: Combat description: Exclusive to MiGMan! An self professed "old man" Mark Hermonat- waxes poetic about his first combat sim Falcon, The F-16 Fighter Simulation v1.0 by Spectrum Holobyte.
" I have always loved the original Falcon 1.0 by Spectrum Holobyte released in 1987. I would play the black bandit mission over and over trying to see how many MiGs I could down before the bingo fuel warning appeared.
(Me too - MiGMan)
Unfortunately it is not playable on todays PC's.
However, I have been playing around inside the assembly language code of Falcon for over a decade and, feeling real nostalgic, I decided to try and fix it so it could be played on todays PC's. My current PC is a Pentium II 266 and it now works fine on it. Hopefully others will benefit from this enhancement as well.
Falcon 3.0 year: publisher: Spectrum Holobyte tags: Music description: The Falcon 3.0 soundtrack still brings tears to the eyes of sim-veterans. Click on the video tape images to hear the tunes or DOWN THE ZIP FILE - 53 K
Fighters Anthology year: 1998 tags: Reference description: Fighters Anthology comes with a second CD full of reference material. Videos, photos, 3D models and pages of data are available for aircraft, tanks,ships, SAM's and AAA. If you're looking for a CD reference to Air Warfare since the 1950's, you can't get much better value than this.
Fighters Anthology year: 1998 tags: Easter Eggs description: Bob Silvey found this "Easter Egg" on CD1 of the Fighters Anthology set: the full version of LHX Attack Chopper with a printable command sheet!
Fighters Anthology year: 1998 tags: Summary description: A great introductory sim series. It was extremely ambitious in scope and I for one spent many hundreds of hours in the virtual skies of this series.
The method of presenting flight information in user defined windows still hasn't been improved on 10 years since the series started. The reference CD is worth the price alone.
Fighters Anthology MiGMan's Training Missions year: 1998 tags: Training MiGMan's Training Missions
Fighters Anthology in pictures year: 1998 tags: Checklist Landing in pictures
Fighters Anthology year: 1998 tags: Checklist HASELL description: HASELL is an acronym for Heading, Altitude, Speed, Lookout, Location.
Fighters Anthology year: 1998 tags: Checklist Formation Flight description: Formation Flying demands a high degree of accuracy and good airmanship. Skills gained by practising formation flying practice will aid you in combat.
Fighters Anthology Practice year: 1998 tags: Checklist Formation Flight Practice
Fighters Anthology year: 1998 tags: Checklist AA: Gun description: Definition: A gun attack achieved by crossing the bogey's flight path (often at high angles of deflection).
Fighters Anthology year: 1998 tags: Checklist AA: Gun description: Definition: A gun attack achieved by maneuvering to the rear quarter of a bogey.
Fighters Anthology year: 1998 tags: Checklist AA: Radar description: As the range closes you have several options:
Forward Quarter Radar Guided | Rear Quarter IR Missile | GUN Snapshot | GUN Tracking shot | Missile Defense | IFR or Night Intercept
Fighters Anthology year: 1998 tags: Training description: I've put together some Training Missions to help you get the most out of Fighters Anthology. Unzip them and copy them into your Fighters Anthology directory.
Set in Vladivostock 1999, MiGMan's Operation C.O.R.K. takes you on a campaign involving North Korean Chinese and American forces in a struggle over access to the port of Vladivostock.
Fighters Anthology year: 1998 tags: Mission MiGMan: Operation CORK description: You will fly an F-14 Tomcat against land, air and sea forces. You won't be alone however.
For a start you fly as number 2, with an able wing leader giving you instructions. Then there are the F/A-18 Hornets and F-14 Tomcats of the CVN Eisenhower and the Harriers and Cobras of the Marine Expeditionary Brigade along to give a hand.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 1B year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 1B description: Your first mission from the aircraft carrier... watch out for traffic! Refly this mission as often as you like to practice your checklists and procedures.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 1C year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 1C description: A fleet of North Korean vessels is approaching...sink them!
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 1D year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 1D description: Provide a CAP for the fleet as we mop up the rest of the North Korean frigates.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 1E year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 1E description: We are preparing to anchor at Vladivostock while the Marines assault the beachhead. The E-2C Hawkeye has picked up fighter-bombers inbound... possibly MiG-23's.
The Marines use LCAC's to move men and material ashore. From now on the action will be focussed inland as the Marines take the beachhead and proceed North to Khorol. Expect fierce opposition.
The Landing Craft Air Cushions are expecting you to protect them... don't let them down!
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 2B year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 2B description: If these fuel trucks don't arrive this will be a very short campaign!
Provide air cover for the convoy enroute to Vozdvichenka. Then land there. You will be operating out of Vozdivichenka until the Air Force boys get there to help out.... late as usual!
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 3A year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 3A description: The Chinese are launching a major air attack to attempt to dislodge the Marines from their FOB (Forward Operating Base). Scramble and take out the attackers... it's your neck too!.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 3B year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 3B description: Our next objective is to neutralise the Chinese airbase at Khorol, 30 nm North. Go in before the strike package and open a window through the Chinese air defenses.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 3C year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 3C description: The ground battle is raging! Mop up any armour, fighters or bombers left at Khorol.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 4A year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 4A description: You expect to see Chinese fighters on this mission... but keeo your cool.
The region has been quiet for a couple of months now.
You are flying routine CAP's to enforce the no-fly zone. On patrol will probably see Chinese fighter aircraft but do not provoke any incidents.... listen for instructions from your wingleader.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 4B year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 4B description: Chinese Q-5's are reported enroute to Khorol, in defiance of UN directives... if they proceed over the border...turn them back or shoot them down!
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 4C year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 4C description: Provide TARCAP for a retaliatory strike at the Chinese airbase Dangning. Keep the airspace clear long enough for A-4 Skyhawks to strike their targets, then cover their egress.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 4D year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 4D description: A supply convoy is reported enroute to Dangning... destroy it.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 4F year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 4F description: Intel reports Chinese Armour massing at Khorol airbase. Communications intercepts indicate a planned attack on Vozdvichenka. Intel are finally earning their pay! Destroy the armour before it is mobilised.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 4G year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 4G description: Take out the ships delivering ingredients for chemical weapons. Unfortunately an extremely dense fog has rolled in.
The RWR and RADAR will be your "eyes" on this flight. Use your AA radar to lock up Blue leader and maintain a trail formation as you climb to altitude.
Stay sharp!
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 4H year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 4H description: Humint resources have confirmed chemical weapon production at the factory complex. The fog has lifted so fly up and level the factory.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 4K year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 4K description: We are sending a strike package in to disable Dangning airbase, the main Chinese Bomber base in the region. Your flight has been assigned the Command bunkers.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 4L year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 4L description: The Chair Force has arrived! You have done a good job at Vozdvichenka. Fly down to Kraskina and await the arrival of the CNN Eisenhower.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 5A year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 5A description: The North Koreans have set up a SAM site which impinges on the Air Defense Zone. Provide escort for the F-4G Phantom Wild Weasels as they deal with this menace.
You might take some AGM-65 Mavericks or AGM-88 HARM's aboard to help with the SAM's and AAA.
After the mission, rejoin the Carrier group.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 5B year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 5B description: Welcome Back to Navy life! To remind you, your objectives for this phase of the campaign are:
The North Koreans have been making noises about the Russian oil rigs in this area. Look out for attacks by torpedo boats or bombers, as well as protecting the fleet. Get used to the busy pace of Naval aviating again!
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 5C year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 5C description: The fleet is under attack.....scramble!
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 5D year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 5D description: Attack Runway 36 at Jixian as your wingleader attacks the storage facility. This is an Alpha strike with Wild Weasel flights and Fighter escort. The skies will be crowded... keep your eyes open.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 5E year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 5E description: MISSION NAME: Protect E-2 Hawkeye. A couple of cheap cannon shells from this MiG-17 can down some pretty high-tech assets.
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 5G year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 5G description: MISSION NAME: BARCAP LOCATION: Eisenhower, off North Korea
Fighters Anthology Hornet: 5H year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Hornet: 5H description: Take out the POL (Petroleum, Oil, Lubrication) tanks at Kimchaek.
Fighters Anthology Overview year: 1998 tags: Campaign MiGMan: Operation CORK Overview description: You will fly an F-14 Tomcat against land, air and sea forces. You won't be alone however.
For a start you fly as number 2, with an able wing leader giving you instructions. Then there are the F/A-18 Hornets and F-14 Tomcats of the CVN Eisenhower and the Harriers and Cobras of the Marine Expeditionary Brigade along to give a hand.
Fighters Anthology Mission 1A year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 1A description: The crew is assembled to watch a replay of a CNN broadcast.
Fighters Anthology Mission 1B year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 1B description: The Eisenhower Carrier battle group has been directed to proceed at best speed to Vladivostock in order to provide air cover for a small scale Marine expeditionary force based around the Wasp.
Fighters Anthology Mission 1C year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 1C description: The situation is worsening. Russia has effectively lost control of the region North of Vozdvichenka and the North Koreans have become involved.
Protect the fleet from enemy aircraft. Keep an eye on the E-2 Hawkeye, and try to protect the Harriers and A-6's as they try to turn back an approaching North Korean fleet.
Fighters Anthology Mission 1D year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 1D description: Provide a CAP for the fleet as we mop up the rest of the North Korean frigates.
Fighters Anthology Mission 1E year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 1E description: As night falls, continue to protect the fleet.
Fighters Anthology Mission 2A year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 2A description: Provide CAP over the Marine beachhead.
Fighters Anthology Mission 2B year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 2B description: Provide CAP over the Marine convoy as it moves North to set up the Forward Operating Base (FOB). Land at Vozdvichenka after the CAP, you will be based there for a while.
Fighters Anthology Mission 3A year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 3A description: Provide CAP over the Marine forward base.
Fighters Anthology Mission 3B year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 3B description: Once again provide CAP over the Marine base being set up at Vozdvichenka. Keep an eye on the E-2C Hawkeye, which is now orbiting farther North. As soon as you take off, set up the data link and check the E-2 position on your moving map display. When the area is safe, land at the Marine base.
Fighters Anthology Mission 3C year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 3C description: Provide TARCAP as the Marines take the fight to the Chinese base at Khorol.
Fighters Anthology Mission 5A year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 5A description: Cover the F-16 and F/A-18 flight suppressing North Korean air defenses near Kraskino.
Fighters Anthology Mission 5B year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 5B description: Defend the Fleet from North Korean and Chinese fighter/bombers.
Fighters Anthology Mission 5C year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 5C description: The fleet is under attack, scramble!
Fighters Anthology Mission 5D year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 5D description: Provide CAP for a retaliatory strike at Jixian.
Fighters Anthology Mission 5E year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 5E description: Fly a routine CAP.
Fighters Anthology Mission 5F year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 5F description: Fly CAP as the F/A-18's turn back North Korean fast patrol vessels.
Fighters Anthology Mission 5G year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 5G description: This is a solo reconnaisance flight.
Fighters Anthology Mission 5H year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 5H description: Fly TARCAP as the F/A-18's beat up on North Korean supply depots at Kimchaek.
Fighters Anthology Mission 1A year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 1A description: Scramble and intercept the approaching Russian transport. Formate on it within view of its' pilots and fire shots across its' bow. If it approaches within 10 miles of our base, destroy it.
Fighters Anthology Mission 2A year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 2A description: The imperialist lackey dogs have dared to challenge our rightful claim to the lands of our ancestors. Round them up and drive them back into the sea!
Fighters Anthology Mission 3A year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 3A description: With ever greater audacity the capitalists seek to establish a military presence on our very doorstep! Our response....call in the demolition team.
Fighters Anthology Mission 4A year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 4A description: Fly a regular border patrol, the westerners usually send up F-16's to meet us. Amuse them for a while, then test their responses.
Fighters Anthology Mission 4B year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary MiGMan: Operation CORK Mission 4B description: Escort the bombers. Make sure they arrive safely. Don't forget you can outrun the American Harriers, your MiG will go supersonic very quickly.
Fighters Anthology Airports - they are all type 1 year: 1998 tags: Airports - they are all type 1
Fighters Anthology 1 TARCAP year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 1 TARCAP description: Notes: Your wingman will report contacts, so be ready to order "Attack contact" Alt F. As you egress to Waypoint E, perform a full circle turn every minute or so and check your radar for bandits. Cruise at 75 -80 % throttle (4) to enable your wingman to keep up. At Waypoint G, tell your wingman to "Bug Out" (Alt-B) and follow him at 1 mile separation for a carrier landing.
Fighters Anthology 2 Strike on the Paul Doumer Bridge year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 2 Strike on the Paul Doumer Bridge description: Once again the mission begins in the air so remove the 2 wing tanks and reduce internal fuel to 79 %. Load an AVQ-10 Pave Knife and 2 x GBU-10 Paveway I's. You might wish to replace the AIM-7's with AIM-9's.
Fighters Anthology 3 Escort over Thanh Hoa Harbour year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 3 Escort over Thanh Hoa Harbour description: Mission Failure will be adjudged if you let any of the A-6's get splashed, and if you quit before they finish their waypoints.
Fighters Anthology 4 Armed Recon (Interdiction Strike) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 4 Armed Recon (Interdiction Strike) description: Having too many different altitudes in a flight plan only unnecessarily complicates matters. The actual patrol sector is very short, about 3 miles. This mission profile is actually a point-to-point interdiction. At waypoint F set alt to 3,000 feet (below the cloud cover).
Fighters Anthology 5 Pipeline (TARCAP) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 5 Pipeline (TARCAP) description: As you can see, the CAP needs to last about 6 minutes mission time. The most likely source of MiGs is Vinh airbase and White flight will help to cover that source of threats. Try my suggested flight plan, set speed to 400 knots.
Fighters Anthology 6 Uong Bi Power Plant year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 6 Uong Bi Power Plant description: At waypoint A activate Ground Radar (shift R) and lock up the mission objective. Look out for MiG's.
Fighters Anthology 7 Haiphong Concrete Co. (MIGCAP) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 7 Haiphong Concrete Co. (MIGCAP) description: You obviously launched late and will need to hustle to be of any use to the strike package. Rearrange your flight plan as shown will and plan on "buster" (maximum speed) to waypoint A.
Fighters Anthology 8 Uncle Ho's Boatyard (Wild Weasel) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 8 Uncle Ho's Boatyard (Wild Weasel) description: Delete waypoints C,D,E and F. The target area is small and 1 waypoint will suffice.
Fighters Anthology 9 Thanh Hoa Bridge year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 9 Thanh Hoa Bridge description: The low cloud ceiling (5,000 ft) makes dogfighting difficult. Be wary of collisions in cloud and of impacting the ground. Look at MiGMan's checklist for radar intercepts in bad weather.
Vietnam Mission 9
Fighters Anthology 10 Langchi Electric (Wild Weasel) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 10 Langchi Electric (Wild Weasel) description: Use the HARM seekers (M)to find the AAA. Expect very heavy AAA in the targe area
Fighters Anthology 11 Frescos Alfresco (MIGCAP) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 11 Frescos Alfresco (MIGCAP) description: The most hazardous part of this mission by far is the carrier landing in fog. Use your Air to Ground Radar Shift-R and your map Shift-M to aid you in locating the ship and lining up for landing.
Fighters Anthology 12 Motor Pool (Strike) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 12 Motor Pool (Strike) description: Although the briefing said 2100, it's not very dark for the first 5 minutes! Turn your A-G radar on immediately (Shift-R) and you can lock up the target. Prepare for a Carrier Night Landing with MiGMan's Carrier Ops checklists.
Fighters Anthology 13 Goin' Downtown (Escort) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 13 Goin' Downtown (Escort) description: This is a good dogfight mission.... a "target rich environment&, you might say. Despite a Mission successful message, when I landed I was told "Mission Failure"... there's just no pleasing some people. One more black smudge on my record!
Fighters Anthology 14 Ninh Binh Freeway (Armed Recon) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 14 Ninh Binh Freeway (Armed Recon) description: Given that the total flight time is only 10 minutes, don't take external tanks but do take a full internal fuel load. Take Mk-82 Snakeyes, Rocket Pods or Mk-84 Slicks.
Fighters Anthology 15 TARCAP year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 15 TARCAP description: Aircraft: rec. F8J, I suggest the F-4J Phantom II instead.
Fighters Anthology 16 Line in the Sky (TARCAP) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 16 Line in the Sky (TARCAP) description: You have 2 wingmen. Stay sharp...plenty of air action in this mission....stay very sharp! Stay away from the Chinese MiG-17's North of the buffer zone. Don't be surprised if this mission is graded as a failure, apparently you have to destroy 13 targets!!
Fighters Anthology 17 RESCAP year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 17 RESCAP description: Try to stay above the fog. Use the Bad Weather / Night Intercept Checklist if you have to descend into the soup. To land, try designating the carrier on Ground Radar(Shift-R), fly over it and execute a landing pattern.
Bear in mind that an IFR carrier landing is about the most difficult thing you can attempt in the world of flying. If you quit the mission (Ctrl-Q) within 3 miles of the carrier you will still get a "Mission successful" message.
Fighters Anthology 18 Iron Hand (Wild Weasel) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 18 Iron Hand (Wild Weasel) description: Keep a sharp lookout for MiGs
Fighters Anthology 19 Alert 5 (Scramble) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 19 Alert 5 (Scramble) description: Alter the flight plan as shown at right. This is a scramble, go for it! Get up there and mix it up!
Fighters Anthology 20 Hai Duong Barracks West (Strike) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 20 Hai Duong Barracks West (Strike) description: Try Mk-84 slicks and AIM-7 or AIM-9 for self-defense.
Proceed at max speed to the target before the sun sets.
Fighters Anthology 21 Quan Long Airbase (MIGCAP) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 21 Quan Long Airbase (MIGCAP) description: Change the flight plan as shown at right. Delete the extra waypoints, one will suffice to mark the target area.
Load Ordnance: As usual, lose the two external fuel pods and adjust internal fuel to 79%.
Fighters Anthology 22 Collateral Damage (STRIKE) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 22 Collateral Damage (STRIKE) description: As usual, lose the two external fuel pods and adjust internal fuel to 79%. Since this is a "precision" strike, load up with AGM-65 Mavericks or GBU-10 Paveways.
Mind you, to my knowledge there were no AGM-65's deployed in the early 1970's, but I guess they approximate the Walleye's actually used at the time.
Fighters Anthology 23 Troubled Waters (TARCAP) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 23 Troubled Waters (TARCAP) description: As usual, lose the two external fuel pods and adjust internal fuel to 79%.
Fighters Anthology 24 Route Pack III (Interdiction) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 24 Route Pack III (Interdiction) description: Although the briefed takeoff was 0900, it's actually about 0500 (dawn).
Ingress at high altitude and max speed to avoid MiGs. Also watch out for MiGs on egress....you should probably avoid them due to the low fuel state of your flight at this point in the mission.
Fighters Anthology 25 Tonkin Gulf Shooting Club (Sweep) year: 1998 tags: MiGMans Combat Diary 25 Tonkin Gulf Shooting Club (Sweep) description: The sun sure comes up late in these parts, but don't worry it will be shining in a couple of minutes. Apparently you have to destroy all the MiGs, on the ground and airborne, so take a close look at Hanoi airport. This is one of Jane's famous hair-tearing / frustrating missions...expect to play it a few times to succeed.
Chino:
" I have always enjoyed reading military novels and techno-thrillers, especially those in which air combat figures heavily. I also enjoy building and flying missions for combat flight sims. A few years back I decided to combine these interests and build some missions based on scenes from a few of my favorite military action novels.
At the time (1996), I was flying mainly in Jane's ATF with the NATO Fighters expansion disc. It contained a good mix of flyable aircraft, terrain areas, and ground objects as well as a pretty decent mission builder. Since then, all of the aircraft in ATF/NATO Fighters (and more) have been released in Jane's Fighters Anthology (JFA). I have recently tested these missions in JFA, and they still work. So read the books -- fly the books -- have fun. If you build missions for other sims based on these books, please let me know."
Fighters Anthology Force of Eagles by Richard Herman, Jr. (1988) year: 1998 tags: Mission Force of Eagles by Richard Herman, Jr. (1988)
Fighters Anthology Red Phoenix by Larry Bond (1989) year: 1998 tags: Mission Red Phoenix by Larry Bond (1989)
Fighters Anthology The Red Horseman by Stephen Coonts (1993) year: 1998 tags: Mission The Red Horseman by Stephen Coonts (1993)
Fighters Anthology Cauldron by Larry Bond (1993) year: 1998 tags: Mission Cauldron by Larry Bond (1993)
Flight of the Intruder year: 1990 publisher: Rowan tags: Exhibit Combat description: Flight of the Intruder, released in 1991, is one of the classic combat flight sims of all time! It was developed by two teams, one in the USA and one in the UK.
Flyable aircraft were the A-6 Intruder, F-4 Phantom, MiG-21 - this was the first time I got to fly a MiG-21! I remember flying head-to-head against my brother - he in the F-4 Phantom and myself in the MiG-21. Somehow he could always tell which aircraft was piloted by me despite my best efforts to send in the drones first!
Flight of the Intruder year: 1990 publisher: Rowan tags: Combat Aircraft: Flyable description: A-6 Intruder, F-4 Phantom, MiG-21.
Flight of the Intruder year: 1990 tags: description: Until Falcon 3.0 was released, Flight of the Intruder led the pack in features. I remember getting FOTI for the Atari ST, sometime after I came across Falcon, and being amazed at the depth of the simulation, especially the mission planning options.
Flight of the Intruder A scene from the movie. year: tags: Press A scene from the movie.
Flight of the Intruder Dave Whiteside on the development of FOTI year: tags: Installation Dave Whiteside on the development of FOTI
Flight of the Intruder The Rowan FOTI team year: tags: Programmer The Rowan FOTI team description: Flight of the Intruder, released in 1991, is one of the classic combat flight sims of all time!
Flight of the Intruder Rowan crew: Magazine preview 1989 year: tags: Programmer Rowan crew: Magazine preview 1989
Flight of the Intruder Magazine advert December 1990 year: tags: Press Magazine advert December 1990
Flight of the Intruder Rob "Bomber" Henderson remembers Flight of the Intruder year: tags: Artwork & Packaging review Rob "Bomber" Henderson remembers Flight of the Intruder description: "... when you eventually got back on the carrier, you felt like you had achieved something."
IL-2 year: 2002 developer: 1C Maddox tags: Exhibit Combat description: This much anticipated sim recreated the efforts of the Soviet Airforce on the Eastern front in World War 2 from June 22nd, 1941.
IL-2 Rebirth of Honor Add on to IL-2 Sturmovik Forgotten Battles. year: 2008 developer: 1C Maddox tags: Combat Exhibit Add-on World War II Add on to IL-2 Sturmovik Forgotten Battles. description: "Rebirth of Honor" (ROH) is a campaign expansion for the computer flight simulation ‘IL-2 Sturmovik Forgotten Battles’ with the ‘Ace Expansion Pack’ (FB+AEP). It runs also under ‘Forgotten Battles’ + ‘Ace Expansion Pack’ + Pacific Fighters merged install. (FB+AEP+PF) and under
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946."
IL-2 The Fires Above Add on for IL-2 1946. year: 2007 developer: PlusWave Expansions tags: Combat Exhibit Add-on World War II Add on for IL-2 1946. description: "2 campaigns: Luftwaffen- campaign “Greif” and russian campaign ‘Red Banner’. Extremely detailed ‘world’ on the maps Kurland, Moskow, Leningrad and Murmansk. 300 Missions, over 700 very high quality plane skins, over 200 pilot skins. Over 75 hours of immersion."
IL-2 Wings over Citadel Add on for IL-2 1946. year: 2008 developer: PlusWave Expansions tags: Combat Exhibit Add-on World War II Add on for IL-2 1946.
IL-2 Wings over Jungles year: 2008 developer: PlusWave Expansions tags: Combat Exhibit Add-on World War II description: " ‘Wings over Jungles’ is a campaign pack containing four separate campaigns.
The campaign ’Monkey’ (US3) where you take the roll of a WWII US Navy Fighter pilot flying from aircraft carriers.
The campaign ’Angel’ (US4) in which you are flying for the US Marine Corps as a dive bomber and later as a fighter pilot.
The campaign ’Kyuden’ (IJ3) which lets you fly as a Japanese Navy fighter pilot from aircraft carriers.
The campaign ’Katana’ (IJ4) which leads you as a Japanese Navy fighter pilot to various assignments.
Wings over Jungles (WOJ) is the second of a series of campaign addons for the flight simulator PACIFIC FIGHTERS (PF). it will also be playable under IL-2 Sturmovik Forgotten Battles + Ace Expansion Pack + Pacific Fighters merged install. (Version 3.0+) (FB+AEP+PF) and under IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946. "
IL-2 Wings over Waves year: 2008 developer: PlusWave Expansions tags: Combat Exhibit Add-on World War II description: " Wings over Waves (WOW) is the first of a series of campaign addons for the flight simulator PACIFIC FIGHTERS (Version 3.0+) (PF). It will also be playable under IL-2 Sturmovik Forgotten Battles + Ace Expansion Pack + Pacific Fighters merged install. (Version 2.0+) (FB+AEP+PF) and under IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946."
Jet-Pilot Trim and systems modelling. year: 1996 tags: Flight Model Trim and systems modelling. description: "Without automatic Trim Control, elevator trim will not be adjusted during acceleration or deceleration, neither will stall and spin prevention be activated. In this situation one has to fly carefully to avoid loss of control."
Jet-Pilot year: 1996 tags: description: "As far as I know, this was the only computer simulation based on the Lightning aircraft.
Had it been fully developed much earlier, it might have been a useful training aid for the RAF. It could have helped ground radar operators and controllers appreciate the pilots problems, etc."
Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 3 Microsoft Flight Simulator graphics 1998-2002 year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Civil Microsoft Flight Simulator graphics 1998-2002 description: Comparison of aircraft and scenery in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002. I took up all the flyable aircraft in the standard release of the sim, and where possible, flew them in the same locations, enabling a quick look at how far the graphics had advanced in 5 years.
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 First look at the Beta version in August 2000 year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Combat First look at the Beta version in August 2000
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Fighter: Checklists year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Combat Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Fighter: Checklists
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero versus B-24 Mitchell year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Combat Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero versus B-24 Mitchell
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Fighter: Checklists year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Combat Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Fighter: Checklists description: Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Fighter: Checklists year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Combat Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Fighter: Checklists description: Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Fighter: Combat year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Combat Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Fighter: Combat
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Combat Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat description: Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Combat Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat description: Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 Lockheed P-38F Lightning year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Combat Lockheed P-38F Lightning description: Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 Vought F4U-1A Corsair year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Combat Vought F4U-1A Corsair description: Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 Air to Air: Lead versus lag pursuit year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Combat Air to Air: Lead versus lag pursuit
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 US campaign year: publisher: Microsoft tags: Combat US campaign description: Well everything on this atoll may have been a target - but as a corollary of that, everything on this atoll was regarding me as a target!
Some kind of ship was throwing up tracers but the action was so furious I couldn't make out what it was. I paused the sim and panned around I could see it was in fact... a submarine!
Orbiter year: tags: Space description: Martin Schweiger's "Orbiter" is a freeware space flight simulator for the PC that is fun, powerful, realistic, expandable, and educational. Based on the real science and math of orbital mechanics and atmospheric flight, it features a first-person astronaut's perspective and beautiful 3D graphics. Orbiter's developer, Dr. Martin Schweiger, has created an amazing virtual world of real and fictional spacecraft, space stations, planets, and moons. It includes a variety of spacecraft, space stations, and sample scenarios or "missions."
Orbiter Go play in Space year: tags: Space pdf Go play in Space description: This Introductory Tutorial manual is a colorful picture book about humans going to Mars, how they might realistically go about this, and where this might lead in the future.
Orbiter Go play in Space year: tags: Space Downloads Go play in Space description: This Introductory Tutorial manual is a colorful picture book about humans going to Mars, how they might realistically go about this, and where this might lead in the future.
Orbiter Mars: Just Imagine year: tags: Space Mars: Just Imagine description: A colorful picture book about humans going to Mars, how they might realistically go about this, and where this might lead in the future.
The missions were simulated with specially developed add-ons in the freeware Orbiter space flight simulator, and most of the graphics are screen captures from Orbiter, though some are real photos from NASA. Intended for ages 10 to adult, the book includes an appendix with details for each page, including information on the add-ons used in Orbiter to create the images.
Orbiter In orbit over the USA and Australia. year: 2005 tags: Space Review In orbit over the USA and Australia. description: I think Orbiter should really be flown in a dark room up close to a big monitor. It's like looking out the window of the Shuttle, with Bach, Strauss, and Ravel cycling in the background.
Orbiter Apollo 14 year: 2005 tags: Space Apollo 14 description:
"Here are some Apollo 14 pics from a tutorial on recreating Apollo missions.
The craft is a few years old now but still cool (the look is still much the same - I downloaded a lot of the Apollo stuff but have not tried any yet, as I'm still trying to achieve the orbit I want and maneuver with thrusters).
The addon people for this thing are maniacs, and the Forum is the one of the most multinational I have ever seen -- 12 year old kids in India to retired USAF guys in Colorado to all sorts of people around Europe, some Australia, etc.
Orbiter International Space Station year: 2005 tags: Space Flight Test International Space Station
Orbiter year: 2005 tags: Space Links description: "Orbiter (available from www.orbitersim.com) is a freeware space flight simulator for the PC that is fun, powerful, realistic, expandable, and educational. The download page directs you to several "mirror" sites that actually host the program zip files. "
Orbiter Apollo 14 year: 2005 tags: Space Links Apollo 14 description: Apollo screen caps from Apollo Lunar Mission Tutorial by John Dunn.
Orbiter Search for Orbiter mods year: 2005 tags: Space Mod Links Search for Orbiter mods
The release of Orbiter 2006, the latest version of this comprehensive freeware space flight simulator, has been announced. Orbiter offers accurate physics, excellent 3D graphics, astronomy features, and a first-person astronaut's perspective.
Created as an educational project by Dr. Martin Schweiger of University College London, Orbiter has been in development since 2000. Orbiter allows users to virtually experience many aspects of space flight, including launching to orbit, orbital maneuvering, rendezvous/docking with the International Space Station, deploying satellites from the space shuttle, and even flying to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Strike Aces | Fighter Bomber year: 1989 publisher: Activision tags: Combat description: The sim was set in a bombing competition inspired by Gen. Curtis LeMay's training events. It featured an unusual mix of flyable aircraft: F-4 Phantom , F-15E Strike Eagle, F-111 Aardvark, MiG-27 Flogger, RAF and Luftwaffe Tornado and the Saab Viggen.
TFX year: 1993 publisher: Digital Image Design tags: Combat description: TFX is an acronym for "Tactical Fighter Experimental". When you look at the graphics available in the other early combat flight sims it is easy to see why TFX caused so much excitement on it's release. The flight model could be adjusted from "arcade" to "military" and play modes ranged from arcade levels to the "UN Commander" mode. As UN Commander you planned missions, selected the aircraft and flew the Eurofighter, F22 or F117 Stealth Fighter.
Total Air War year: publisher: Digital Image Design tags: Combat description: Total Air War (TAW) is an aptly-named product. More than a combat flight simulator, it offers a strategic component based on modern air warfare theories first applied in the 1991 Gulf War.
Total Air War sported a spiral bound manual which included more than one hundred pages of detailed information on both allies and adversaries weapons platforms and systems.
US Navy Fighters year: 1993 publisher: Janes Combat Simulations tags: Combat description: This sim was the successor to the wildly popular Chuck Yeager's Air Combat and started a series that ran to the end of the 1990's. Get an overview of the series in the Fighters Anthology (1998) exhibit.
The combat-focussed gameplay was enhanced by the atmospheric and user friendly interface. The ability to tweak most aspects of the sim from the graphics to mission waypoints and loadouts made you feel in control without overwhelming you with detail.
It still remains a model of good interface design. The first mission of the Ukraine campaign remains for many fans a reminder of just how atmospheric a sim can be.
Check out the videos, showing the entire first mission from briefings, through mission planning, arming, carrier takeoff in the F-14, intercept and carrier landing.
US Navy Fighters year: publisher: Janes Combat Simulations tags:
US Navy Fighters Mission 1: Rescue Boris Yeltsin year: publisher: Janes Combat Simulations tags: Mission 1: Rescue Boris Yeltsin
US Navy Fighters Mission 1: Briefing year: publisher: Janes Combat Simulations tags: Mission 1: Briefing
US Navy Fighters Mission 1: Planning year: publisher: Janes Combat Simulations tags: Mission 1: Planning
US Navy Fighters Mission 1: Fly year: publisher: Janes Combat Simulations tags: Mission 1: Fly
US Navy Fighters Mission 2: Planning year: publisher: Janes Combat Simulations tags: Mission 2: Planning
US Navy Fighters Mission 2: Briefing year: tags: Mission 2: Briefing
Borderless Gaming year: tags: I.T. Utility description: Remove the borders from windowed games.
Defrag the hard drive year: tags: I.T. Utility description: To move the files around on the hard drive so they are "contiguous" rather than fragmented.
DOSBox year: tags: I.T. Utility description: DOSBox, an x86 emulator with DOS | www.dosbox.com/
Computer Gaming World year: 1981 tags: Press description: Computer Gaming World was published from 1981 and the final issue was #268 in November 2006. You can read about and download all the historic issues of Computer Gaming World at the Computer Gaming World Museum.
MiGMan on the ABC year: tags: description: Peter "MiGMan" Inglis gave a Flight Sim Masterclass on the November 14th 2006 episode of ABC TV's 'Good Game'.
Mars? just Imagine" by Bruce Irving (pdf file) year: tags: Guide description: This PDF file is a colorful picture book about humans going to Mars how they might realistically go about this and where this might lead in the future.
PC Pilot Magazine year: tags: description: This mag is beautifully presented with generous screenshots. The writers range from professional aviation authors to academics - and they are all flight sim nuts!
Simulating Reality year: tags: description: XY and Z axes vectors ray tracing polygons texture mapping these and many more are the tools used to model real events inside a mathematical simulation.
Weapons of War Vol.1 'Fighters' year: tags: description: "An adequate base level introduction to the subject. Afficionados will find the information too shallow. Content comprises a 40 minute documentary with stock footage and a single voice-over. The """"hard cover book"""" is a 24 page booklet nested in the DVD case."
Mark Berent year: tags: description: Books by Mark Berent
Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlet year: tags: description: Captain Scarlet is Biggles (a fictional WWII pilot) reimagined for the 21st century in the 1960s. Ripping yarns and tales of derring-do.
Internet Archive
year: tags: description: As our web archive grew, so did our commitment to providing digital versions of other published works. Today our archive contains: 330 billion web pages, 20 million books and texts, 4.5 million audio recordings (including 180,000 live concerts), 4 million videos (including 1.6 million Television News programs), 3 million images, 200,000 software programs.
Data Storage year: tags: description: Flight sims often access large amounts of terrain data during flight, so speed of data access is a crucial issue.
Borderless Gaming year: tags: I.T. description: Remove the borders from windowed games.
Defrag year: tags: I.T. description: Defrag the hard drive
DOSBox year: tags: I.T. description: DOSBox, an x86 emulator with DOS
Gamesave Manager year: tags: I.T. description: Manage all your saved games.
GOG year: tags: I.T. description: Buy, download and run current and classic PC games and sims. Excellent. Makes your collection portable. Works well!
Launchbox year: tags: I.T. description: Launch ALL your sims! DOS, Windows, Steam, GOG...
Joy to Key year: tags: I.T. Key Commands description: Remap your joysticks and game controllers. Doesn't always work in a sim, but brilliant for the desktop environment.
I remapped an old Logitech game pad so I could cut (Ctrl-X), copy (Ctrl-C), paste (Ctrl-V), save (Ctrl-S), close window (Ctrl-W) and Delete (Delete !!!) etc in windows apps with one touch.
MSI Afterburner year: tags: I.T. description: Tweak and overclock ANY graphics card.
Nexus Mod Manager year: tags: I.T. description: not tested. Not sure at all this would work with Microsoft flight sims as I remember running a separate utility to manage those addons. But ... ??? ...
ShareX year: tags: I.T. description: Screen capture, share, edit - and - so - much - more! not tested. Has OCR built in. Automate uploads... a ton of features.
Steam year: tags: I.T. description: Buy and run current and classic PC games and sims.
Top Style year: tags: I.T. description: html, php, css, java script editor. Been using it for about 10 years. Lightweight and powerful.
Ultra Mon year: tags: I.T. description: Manage all your monitors.
Skeleton year: tags: I.T. description: A dead simple, responsive boilerplate. You should use Skeleton if you're embarking on a smaller project or just don't feel like you need all the utility of larger frameworks. Skeleton only styles a handful of standard HTML elements and includes a grid, but that's often more than enough to get started. In fact, this site is built on Skeleton and has ~200 lines of custom CSS (half of which is the docking navigation).
Retrieve Google Spreadsheet Worksheet JSON year: tags: I.T. description: Use the method at answer #5. // to find worksheet (tab) ids access your sheet through this link.
// https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/worksheets/YOUR_SPREADSHEET_ID/private/full
// and download the file.
// open in firefox, expand the tree and search for the sheet name
Aerobatics: Loop year: tags: description: Defn: "a complete circle flown in the pitching plane"
LOOP CHECKLIST
PERFORM HASELL CHECKS
ESTABLISH HEADING AND ALTITUDE
ESTABLISH BEST CLIMB SPEED
The optimum speed for entry into the loop is the best climb speed.
Aerobatics: Stall Turn year: tags: description: In this manoeuvre the a/c enters a near vertical climb. Rudder is applied to slice the nose down until the a/c is in a dive on a reciprocal heading.
Note that this manoeuvre is not possible in most modern jet fighters, except in a/c with horizontal thrust vectoring capabilities.
Aerobatics: Slow roll in level flight year: tags: description: The a/c rolls through a full 360 degrees about the longitudinal axis.
Whilst learnt as a level flight manoeuvre, fighter a/c are capable of performing the slow roll during a climb.
Aerobatics: Roll off the top of a loop year: tags: description: This involves the first half of a loop followed by a 180 degree roll, to bring the a/c into level flight on a reciprocal heading and at a higher altitude.
ROLL OFF THE TOP OF A LOOP CHECKLIST
PERFORM HASELL CHECKS
ESTABLISH HEADING AND ALTITUDE
ESTABLISH BEST CLIMB SPEED
Aerobatics: Barrel roll year: tags: description: Defn: The a/c describes a spiral path during a slow roll.
When done correctly a positive g loading is maintained and altitude maintained.
BARREL ROLL CHECKLIST
PERFORM HASELL CHECKS
ESTABLISH HEADING AND ALTITUDE
ESTABLISH BEST CLIMB SPEED
APPLY LEFT AILERON
APPLYING BACK PRESSURE ON THE STICK, DESCRIBE A HALF CIRCLE ABOVE THE HORIZON AS THE A/C ROLLS
AS THE A/C ROLLS INVERTED, RELAX BACK PRESSURE AND DESCRIBE A HALF CIRCLE BELOW THE HORIZON
Aerobatics: Vertical figure of eight year: tags: description: Defn: A loop - half roll - roll off the top performed in sequence to describe a vertical figure of eight.
VERTICAL FIGURE OF EIGHT CHECKLIST
PERFORM HASELL CHECKS
ESTABLISH HEADING AND ALTITUDE
ESTABLISH BEST CLIMB SPEED
NOTE ALTITUDE
EXECUTE A LOOP At the end of the loop...
ALLOW THE NOSE TO PITCH UP 5 DEGREES
ROLL INVERTED (HALF ROLL)
APPLY BACK PRESSURE TO PERFORM AN INVERTED LOOP
CONTINUE INTO A ROLL OFF THE TOP The a/c should finish the manouevre at a similar altitude, and the same airspeed and heading as it started at.
Aerobatics: Outside loop year: tags: description: Defn: This is a loop performed with the pilot on the outside of the loop.
WARNING This is a prohibited manoeuvre in most a/c. Check the Aerobatic rating certificate before attempting.
Oil and/ or fuel starvation may result in engine damage.CAUTION Excessive negative G loading (over 3 negative g's) will cause pilot "Red Out".
This is due to blood being forced into the pilot's head and the capillaries of the eyes.
Permanent eye damage may result.
Aerobatics: Tail slide year: tags: description: Defn: In this manoeuvre the a/c pitches up to about 70 degrees, with a vertical airspeed of zero or less than zero (descending).
The combat use of this manoeuvre is arguable although some possibilities are;
to break enemy doppler radar lock
to force an overshoot by a pursuer
WARNING This is a prohibited manoeuvre in most a/c.
Check the Aerobatic rating certificate before attempting.
Damage to the ailerons may result from the reversed airflow.
TAIL SLIDE CHECKLIST
PERFORM HASELL CHECKS
ESTABLISH HEADING AND ALTITUDE
SET 70 DEGREES PITCH UP
REDUCE POWER TO IDLE Use air brake if necessary to reduce airspeed
MAINTAIN PITCH ANGLE
AS NEGATIVE VERTICAL VELOCITY DEVELOPS
PULL BACK ON STICK This is the quickest way to get the nose down
Aerobatics: Flick roll year: tags: description: Defn: This is a spin in the horizontal plane and is irrecoverable in some a/c, difficult to recover in most.
WARNING
This is a prohibited manoeuvre in some a/c. Check the Aerobatic rating certificate before attempting.
Aerobatics: Cobra year: tags: description: WARNING This is a prohibited or impossible manoeuvre in most a/c.
Check the Aerobatic rating certificate before attempting. Airframe damage or Inverted spin smay result.
COBRA MANOUEVRE CHECKLIST
PERFORM HASELL CHECKS
ESTABLISH HEADING AND ALTITUDE
AIRSPEED 180 - 220 KTS
PITCH UP RAPIDLY TO 80 - 100 DEGREES Airspeed will drop rapidly to 125 kts
Mark Berent year: tags: Pilot Author description: His first four books present stories based around flying the F-4 Phantom during the Vietnam conflict, a subject to which he obviously brings a wealth of personal experience.
Larry Bond year: tags: Programmer description: The creator of the Naval Warfare simulation Harpoon. He applies the meticulous mind of a wargamer to writing and his books abound in credible and detailed encounters on land, sea and of course in the air. He co-authored Red Storm Rising with Tom Clancy.
Phil Broad year: tags: Programmer description: Phil Broad is a World War 2 aviation enthusiast who has a good collection online of his Mosquito snaps. He also runs a Warbirds Squadron so check it out if you are interested in flying a more up-to-date simulation of the Mosquito.
Adrian Brown year: tags: Flight Sim Fan description: check out his Flight Sim Toolkit website
Dale Brown year: tags: Pilot Author description: Dale Brown is a former USAF captain who logged thousands of hours aboard B-52 and FB-111's. His novels contain detailed recreations of cockpit scenarios.
Francisco J. Campos year: tags: Flight Sim Fan description: " My absolute first sim was Intercepteur Cobalt for the ZX Spectrum. I had a 16Kb Speccy by then, so I was only allowed to load the 'Pilot's Test' and the 'Take Off' module. Intercepteur Cobalt just had instrumental flight, and for a good reason: it was written entirely in BASIC, with no graphics. "
Francisco J. Campos Orphalese Tarot cards designed by Francisco J. Campos. year: tags: Flight Sim Fan Orphalese Tarot cards designed by Francisco J. Campos. description: "This is the only Flight-Sim poker card deck in the world AFAIK. It is created for Orphalese Tarot, a Windows software created by my old friend Richard Jefferies. I use to design virtual decks for him, and I didn't wanted to miss the chance for this one. "
Francisco J. Campos year: tags: Flight Sim Fan description: F-15 Strike Eagle II (Microprose): It allowed me to discover f/sims on PC (I had a Nec V30 XT PC by then). I have fond memories of this one, it always helped me to be amused in my life's worst moments. I collect versions of it: I even have the B/N Gameboy one!
Francisco J. Campos What is a Blood Chit? year: tags: Flight Sim Fan What is a Blood Chit? description: " The concept of the blood chit originated in China during the early days of World War II. It was created by members of General Chennault's American Volunteer Group: the Flying Tigers. The famed pilots wore Chinese and American flags, and a message in Chinese characters. "
Francisco J. Campos Francisco's handpainted miniature: Japanese WWII pilot year: tags: Flight Sim Fan Francisco's handpainted miniature: Japanese WWII pilot description: Francisco's handpainted miniature: Japanese WWII pilot in flying harness, with goggles and katana. It's a 54mm scale metal miniature from an Italian brand.
Francisco J. Campos Francisco's handpainted miniature: Japanese WWII pilot year: tags: Flight Sim Fan Francisco's handpainted miniature: Japanese WWII pilot description: Female Parachutist from New Hope Design.
Francisco J. Campos F15C EAGLE PILOT - "Viper" year: tags: Flight Sim Fan F15C EAGLE PILOT - "Viper" description: All the details are highly accurate, including official marks and badges, real zippers, wires, straps and so on.
year: tags: Video Pilot description: "Fighter Ace Col. Richard Candelaria discusses his air combat experiences during WWII. He discusses combat missions, flight characteristics of aircraft, and being shot down and captured. "
year: tags: Video Pilot Korean War Forward Air Controller description: "Bob Cashman shares his experiences flying a Cessna L-19 Bird Dog observation plane during the Korean war. Produced by Jarel & Betty Wheaton for Peninsula Seniors www.pvseniors.org based on Bob's presentation at the Western Museum of Flight in Torrance, CA."
year: tags: Fiction description: Usually credited as being the author who created the "techno - thriller" genre. He certainly played a major part in it's development by taking traditional "thriller-espionage" genre and added much more technical accuracy and procedural information.
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year: tags: Pilot Non Fiction description: Lt. Charles H. Cook flew a B-24D named "Cookie" with the 90th Bombardment Group in the southwest Pacific in 1942-1943. At that time, Allied forces were greatly outnumbered, and Japanese invasion of New Guinea and Australia was a very real threat. Bruce Irving has interviewed Charlie Cook and composed this valuable record of his aviation career. The entire article is also available for free download here.
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year: tags: Pilot Fiction description: A graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, he spent 14 years on active duty with the US Army ranging from Tank Platoon leader to operations officer in Korea.
year: tags: Flight Sim Fan description: Dan Crenshaw made this generous donation of classic flight sims to the Flight Sim Museum Collection.
Frederick Forsyth year: tags: Fiction description: Frederick Forsyth is the reknowned author of "The Day of the Jackal". He is totally capable of matching the technical depth of Clancy and cohorts without sacrificing the trademark Forsyth pace.
Jos Grupping year: tags: Flight Sim Fan description: "Harrier Pilot Kevin Gross, Colonel (Ret) USMC, describes Harrier history and design features. Produced by Jarel & Betty Wheaton for Peninsula Seniors www.pvseniors.org"
Dudley Henriques year: tags: Pilot description: Dudley Henriques has flown high performance planes for over forty years, including at least seventy different types of airplanes from experimental and prototypes to and fighters, both jet and propeller.
Richard Herman year: tags: Pilot Author description: Herman's books populate the world with flawed (real) characters and flawed (real) planes. The stories often emphasise the perspective of the C.O. who has to motivate those characters and develop tactics for difficult tasks.
Mark Hermonat year: tags: Programmer Flight Sim Fan description: My first experience ever with a flight sim was when I had a job in the media department of a Toronto advertising agency doing research runs on an original IBM XT. Hiding in the corner with all of the other computer documentation was a copy of Microsoft's
Len Hjalmarson A History of Military Flight Simulations on the PC year: tags: History A History of Military Flight Simulations on the PC
Len Hjalmarson year: tags: Flight Sim Fan description: Len "Viking 1" Hjalmarson was one of the co-founders of www.combatsim.com. Since then he has established himself as one of the few journalists who specialise in combat flight sims.
Andrew Hofmann year: tags: Programmer description: Strike Commander : Playtester.
Bob Hoover year: tags: Pilot Video description: "Bob Hoover's presentation at the Salute to Bob Hoover and North American Aviation special event held at the Western Museum of Flight. Updated. Produced by Jarel & Betty Wheaton for Peninsula Seniors www.pvseniors.org"
James Huston year: tags: Author description: Top Gun graduate James Huston flew F-14's off the USS Nimitz and worked as a Naval Flight Officer before becoming a lawyer and a writer.
Peter 'MiGMan' Inglis (pdf) Peter Inglis' submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into Australian Defence Force Regional Air Superiority, 2006. year: tags: Publication (pdf) Peter Inglis' submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into Australian Defence Force Regional Air Superiority, 2006.
Peter 'MiGMan' Inglis MiGMan (Peter Inglis)'s submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into Australian Defence Force Regional Air Superiority, 2006. year: tags: Publication MiGMan (Peter Inglis)'s submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into Australian Defence Force Regional Air Superiority, 2006. description: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
- Juvenal 1C CE. (Who watches the Watchmen?)
Peter 'MiGMan' Inglis Comparison of F-111 and F-35 year: tags: Aircraft Comparison of F-111 and F-35 description: Table based comparison of the F-111 Aardvark, and it's proposed replacement, the F-35 JSF.
Bruce 'Chino' Irving Chino (the "Optics Dude") year: tags: Author Pilot Flight Sim Flight Sim Fan People Chino (the "Optics Dude") description: Chino's professional background in Optical Science and Engineering neatly complements his aviation enthusiasms. He has written books on space travel and contributed extensively to the Museum content.
Bruce 'Chino' Irving Bruce 'Chino' Irving at Soundclick year: tags: Publication Bruce 'Chino' Irving at Soundclick
Bruce 'Chino' Irving BFM: mp3 by Bruce 'Chino' Irving year: tags: Publication BFM: mp3 by Bruce 'Chino' Irving description: " I was in a funny mood and was telling my brother about the old US Navy Fighters sim and how one of the RIO voices would say "C'mon, do some of that pilot shit." This got me sim-nostalgic and I wrote this song. SFX are from Falcon 4.0(reinstalled for the occasion!). "
Bruce 'Chino' Irving BFM: The song by Bruce 'Chino' Irving year: tags: Publication BFM: The song by Bruce 'Chino' Irving description: " I was in a funny mood and was telling my brother about the old US Navy Fighters sim and how one of the RIO voices would say "C'mon, do some of that pilot shit." This got me sim-nostalgic and I wrote this song. SFX are from Falcon 4.0(reinstalled for the occasion!). "
Bruce 'Chino' Irving Bruce 'Chino' Irving year: tags: Flight Sim Fan Bruce 'Chino' Irving
Bruce 'Chino' Irving A Citizen Soldier in the Air' year: tags: Publication A Citizen Soldier in the Air' description: Bruce Irving has interviewed Charlie Cook and composed this valuable record of his aviation career. The entire article is also available for free download.
Robert Irving year: tags: Flight Sim Flight Sim Fan description: Strike Commander : Documentation, Gameflow, Additional conversations, Mission layout.
Scott Malensek year: tags: Author description: From Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to his military and political interests, he is also an avid aviculturalist. He has worked all over the United States, but still lives in the Cleveland area. His first novel is Black Rain for Christmas.
David Marshall year: tags: Programmer description: David Marshall was one of the chief boffins at DI and his experience is indicative of the real world aviation expertise embedded in their products.
David Poyer year: tags: Pilot Author description: Poyer writes great action novels with an authentic feel and displaying a keen insight into human character. I particularly enjoy reading them in the bath, it adds to the immersion!
Bob "DeJanitor" Roberts year: tags: Flight Sim Fan description: I have known Bob since the Flight Sim Museum opened as MiGMan's Combat Diary in October 1998. He encouraged me from the very beginning and made some of the earliest contributions to the Flight Sim Museum.
Heiko Schroeder year: developer: Wings Simulations tags: Producer Programmer description: Co-founder of Wings Simulations, his first game was published in 1987, but his first real hit was in 1989 with X-Out, which sold in excess of 120,000 copies in Europe.
Bob Johnson year: tags: Pilot Video description: "Combat pilot and carrier test pilot Bob Johnson presents his experiences during the cold war & Vietnam war, and US Navy carrier test pilot."
Barret Tillman year: tags: Fiction description: His books are gripping reads and abound in "Easter Eggs" for military flight sim nuts. They also put the flying squarely into context as part of larger operations and strategic / tactical goals. They get my highest endorsement.
Ray Tobey year: tags: Programmer description: Programmer of 'Skyfox' - an absolute classic on the Apple ][.
Joe Weber year: tags: Fiction description: A former Marine pilot who writes gripping Air Combat Novels. His books always have a strong emphasis on aerial action and Joe's background allows him to flesh out the details.
Joe Weber year: tags: description: A former Marine pilot who writes gripping Air Combat Novels. His books always have a strong emphasis on aerial action and Joe's background allows him to flesh out the details.
J.D. Wetterling year: tags: Fiction description: Flew 268 combat missions in an F-100 in Vietnam and was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses, fourteen Air Medals, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He was Top Gun in every fighter squadron in which he served in the USAF.
Steve Pisanos year: tags: Pilot Video description: "Steve Pisanos presentation on how he emigrated to the US prior to WWII, developed a passion for flying, and became a double ace fighter pilot."
Robert Sternfels year: tags: Pilot Video description: "Highly decorated WWII combat pilot Robert Sternfels provides a first hand account of piloting his B-24 Sandman bomber in a raid on oil refineries in Ploesti that was one of the single most devastating raids against the Nazi war effort."
J.D. Wetterling year: tags: Pilot Author description: Flew 268 combat missions in an F-100 in Vietnam and was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses, fourteen Air Medals, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He was Top Gun in every fighter squadron in which he served in the USAF.
J.D. Wetterling year: tags: description: Flew 268 combat missions in an F-100 in Vietnam and was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses, fourteen Air Medals, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He was Top Gun in every fighter squadron in which he served in the USAF.
Dave Whiteside year: tags: Programmer description: Dave Whiteside has had a long association with developer / publisher Rowan, and been involved with some of the absolute classics of air combat simulation.
Teut Weidemann year: developer: Wings Simulations tags: Programmer Producer description: Co-founder of Wings Simulations, Teut was one of the first people in Germany to actually hold a job as a Game Designer/Producer.
Sid Yahn year: tags: Pilot Video description: "Fighter pilot Sid Yahn's account of flying P-51s, jet fighters, KC-135 tankers, working with the Thunder Tiger Team, and serving as US Embassy Air Attache."
Chuck Yeager year: tags: Pilot description: Listen to Chuck Yeager talk about air combat in Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer
Cajun Hawk year: 1998 tags: Visitors Book description: This was the first email I ever received about the Flight Sim Museum! - MiGMan.
Nice article, though I think it has two noteable exceptions. The first helo sim, Gunship by Microprose which was line drawn, not even shaded, just monochrome wireframes. Also from EA and Brent Iverson in 1990, LHX Attack Chopper.
Thanks for a great Saitek page. year: 1999 tags: Visitors Book description: " Thanks for a great Saitek page. It's one of the best resources on the web. "
Cheers, John "Slappy109" Arrington
Nice website MiGMan. year: 1999 tags: Visitors Book description: Nice website MiGMan. I've got you bookmarked for future browsing.
AMBULATER
Great page. year: 1999 tags: Visitors Book description: Great page. I've been playing sims since Flightsim by Psion for the Sinclair Spectrum in 1983.
Still have the manual, maps and Pete Bonnani's book. Have ordered Falcon 4.0 from EBworld and hopefully it will land in Oz next week.
All the best,
Dekka
Gremlin year: 1999 tags: Visitors Book description: I am including some shots of Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. (Don't tell anyone else this but it was fun to play again. I just love cutting into a B-17 box in a Focke-Wulf 190 with guns blazing. Bloody magic and the game includes blackouts and stalls.
Most appreciated. .... you have some great pictures there! Only someone like yourself who have built their own cockpit can appreciate the amount of work that goes into one of these 'projects' I estimate that I am about 40% completed, and the hydraulics are going to be the last implemented. Us Aussies must stick together!!!
Regards.
John Dunkley
Adelaide. AUSTRALIA
Well, if you think you have seen it all... year: 1999 tags: Visitors Book description: Well, if you think you have seen it all , there is always something that suprises you!
Man , this is cool, and brings back memories. The way you describe those sims is exactly the way it started. Big color TV Spec/16 Nightflite (Sinclair Spectrum) Nightgunner and Fighter Pilot by Digital Integration.
Even with Falcon 4.0 on my HD right now, these times will never come back. Last time I saw a old magazine and a ad from Digital Integrationthat reminded me of going to the U.K to pick up a copy of Fighter Pilot by Digital Integration.
My wife (girlfriend then) thought it was for a romantic weekend ;< ) man, i was hooked !!
It all ended with me and my wife owning a real flightsim-shop, and we still love it. But looking at your flightsim- museum page sure brings back fun memories We couldn't have dreamt of Falcon 4.0 could we?
Seems like your taste in sims is very close to mine, since virtually every sim I plan on playing (not enough time right NOW, but soon I hope) is covered - very deeply - on your site.
PLEASE keep up the GREAT work!!!!!!!!!!
"Gunner", March 11th, 1999
This page is the BEST! year: 1999 tags: Visitors Book description: This page is the BEST!
I have always wanted to find a page like this one. I like the section where there was the first MiG-29 Fulcrum - Domark 1990 by Domark.
MiG-29 Fulcrum - (Novalogic - 1998)- What a difference between the two games! Anything that has to do with the MiG-29, I like.
... and thanks for refreshing my memory about things. I loved the Falcon 3.0 yeah it was lame, but back then we didn't have cinematic surround sound like heavy metal F-15 by Janes Combat Simulations type intro clips/ soundtracks , and even though I love the bass thumping , Guitar gut wrenching cinematics/ soundtracks of today's sims , the sound clip of the Falcon 3 music on your site brought a tear to my eye . man I missed that .
Almost made me reload Falcon gold......nah...T minus 5 days and counting to Falcon 4.0 ...damn , I can now die happy."
Joe
It made me realise once again how far Sims have come. year: 1999 tags: Visitors Book description: I remember from a night shift in Ijmuiden. A colleague had put the damned game on our Hydro/Meteo computer and played it for hours. As you probably know you can't turn out the engine noise and everyone was going mad because of that ghastly whistling noise.
To make a long story short, at 0330 in the morning there was a thunder storm outside and my colleague had to go to the bathroom.
While he was away we changed the name of one of the files causing F-19 to crash rather dismally. Told my colleague that the tower had been hit by lightning while he was taking a leak, causing the file to get corrupted. Had a hell of job to keep from laughing.
Thanks for jogging my memory, I enjoyed your virtual museum.
Brought back memories of Sims that I played on a long procession of computers, and it made me realise once again how far Sims have come.
I think a lot of people take the quality of the modern sims for granted."
Thanks for a great visit,
Julian Sallows
Very nice site! year: 1999 publisher: Microprose tags: Visitors Book description: Gabe Turk from Microprose
LOVE your site! year: 1999 tags: Visitors Book description: Hi MiGMan, LOVE your site!
I remember when a good friend and I would sit down for an entire weekend and play Pilot-Copilot with F15 Strike Eagle 3. One of the best forefront sims out there!"
Cheers!
Ray Sotkiewicz from Blue Side Up, the Home Cockpit Site
Jon Velapoldi year: 1999 tags: Visitors Book description: I just had to share this with you. My background is in Flight control systems for aircraft. Never before had I seen a flight sim actually show the effects of the flight control system actively stabilizing the aeroplane as I had seen the first time in EF 2000.
Well, call me quirky and geeky, but by golly, I got really excited when I saw this from the external view in EF 2000.
My roomate (who is a pilot, though he is not very good at sims), works at the same lab I do, and he, too, had a broad grin on his face when he saw the moving control surfaces! I think it is interesting how few people probably realize what is going on with this : )
My brother thought it was a bug in the game that the surfaces were moving almost continually. I just had to sit back and chuckle : )
He's a lawyer...
Anyway, I enjoy your webpage, it has tons of useful stuff in it.
Jon Velapoldi
Flight Dynamics and Control Laboratory
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
God we all thought we were so high tech back then.
I remember my buddie had 2 sims he bought that we played the hell out of in '87... one was called F-15 Strike Eagle IF-15 Strike Eagle Ior something like that it was probably the precursor to todays F-15 by Janes Combat Simulations by Janes Combat Simulations.
He also had another one that we loved that was an AH-64 Apache simulator (Gunship (1987)). I can't remember for the life of me what it was called, but it was monochrome!! It seemed pretty detailed at the time but my good looking back now it was archaic!!
I started out personally with Chuck Yeager's Air Combat in '92, that was the first one I personally owned.
Anyway, I love your museum!!
It brought back a lot of great fun memories. Scary to think what we will think of Falcon 4.0 in 12 years huh?
Bob, March 8th, 1999
' 20 years on and it's still going strong, who would have thought! - MiGMan, 2018.
A great amount of info. year: 1999 tags: Visitors Book description: "Your site was easy to navigate and there is a great amount of info.
It's also nice that you reply to people! Great Site MiGMan and keep up the excellent work."
John
Just a note to thank you for your site. year: 1999 tags: Visitors Book description: Just a note to thank you for your site. I have been having trouble with my Saitek X36 Combo (since new actually) probably what you call spiking ( if that means it's not linear left to right ie with jumps 'n' things.
Anyway your guide to disassembling the stick was a tremendous help and it inspired me to actually do something with it ( and a need to fly Falcon 4.0. I followed your instructions (Saitek), lubed the pots and Hey Presto a working X36. Fantastic, now I'll have a look around the Saitek Web Ring. "
Cheers Seb
Flight Sim paradise! year: 2000 tags: Visitors Book description: My most highest salute to the man who makes this site as righteous as it is!
This is definitely a bookmark moment for me. I will come back often and revel in this Flight Sim paradise!
Anyway just a little point.....just for the sake of authenticity.
In your Take-off Checklist in the F/A-18E Super Hornet the Right engine should be started first as this provides power to the Hyd system (so it say's in the manual).
Sorry if you think this is "petty" i just thought with a great site like yours everything should be perfect !
Cheers,
Mark Bewick (Roamer)
- Not a petty detail at all Mark - au contraire, these are the kind of details that flight simmers live for! - MiGMan.
A great catalyst! year: 2000 tags: Visitors Book description: Dear MiGMan,
Your site has been a great catalyst in fostering my fledgling ideas of constructing a home built simulator as well as providing invaluable links to "sim" resources.
I am currently collecting components to build my own simulator. It will probably be a multi-role simulator sense I enjoy a good game of "Battle Zone". I also enjoy Apache Havoc and Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator. I never really got into Falcon 4.0.
One other thing, I laughed when I saw the products represented on your site. Why? Because I own the exact same products, right down to the Aura Interactor backpack.
Anyway, thanks for your efforts.
Chris "Muther-Goose"
Everithing, for me, started with F-19 Stealth Fighter (1989) .
I still remember one night I went Back to the office, where my 286 was, just to play it until 3 AM. Driving back home I still remembered those red pentagon that were designating Ground Targets.
I was also playing Gunship (1987) at that time, and Chuck Yeager's Air Combat.
I was 20 years old at that time. Ah yes, I remember many hours playing F-19 Stealth Fighter (1989) on an Atari ST and F-117A Stealth Fighter on a PC laptop!
Then came the 486 (my own computer this time) along with TFX. .... I don't think any othe simulation EVER gave me as much emotions as that one. Awesome clouds and lightning!
Then EF 2000 by Digital Image Design , Longbow , F-22 ADF and most recently Falcon 4.0 and now F/A-18 by Janes.
Your web site is beautiful, and gave me some emotions rediscovering such old pieces of software, and still so beautiful.
From Paolo, Feb 2000
Among the best of Aviation sim sites. year: 2000 tags: Visitors Book description: I still love coming to this site you have created and consider it among the best of Aviation sim sites.
I have just gotten my own site up and running and would like to know if I could post a link to your page, My focus is on Armor in Action (and is an extensive series of Armor Pictures I took over the years), but I do have a small section of aircraft in action also. I would be placing your link in a standard links section.
Although my focus is on Armor and Tanks I would like to make an exception for adding a link to the MiGMan site because of its quality and content.
As a fellow Aussie. I am so proud of your Olympic section on your site.
I am from Sydney myself. I got home early that night from the F-111 flight because I had to fly out overseas the next day.
When I step out of my house, I heard noise as if a jet was flying... but couldn't see where it was and it sounded very loud. I looked up and I just saw a flame light up. The afterburner, and then a small burn, and then it switched off again. I live in the Canterbury region so I am very close to the stadium.
Then I ran back into the house and checked out the ceremony on the TV. After the F-111 went over the harbour bridge, I saw it came straight towards my suburb... it was amazing! A flaming fire ball coming straight towards my direction. It wasn't like a trail because the flame was behind the jet which was flying toward me... it looked like a fireball came out of the sky!
I grabbed my camera as quickly as I could... but as soon as I went to snap a photo they switched off the burner... "Bugger!"
Hope you had a ball during the Olympics. Travelling overseas telling people about the Olympics was probably one of my proudest times during overseas in Asia and Europe.
Cheers,
Albert aka Recker
389th Thunderbolt VFS
Sydney Australia.
I was too busy flying. year: 2000 tags: Visitors Book description: I have the boxes for A-10 Tank Killer, and have already scanned them. I'll save them as jpg's and send them to you compressed. I have the original boxes for both games, along with several other old games - F117A Stealth Fighter etc - all complete with original manuals, registration cards, etc...
I started playing Tank Killer in 1989, when I was ten (or eleven... I can't remember when during the year it was released...) I was hooked immediately, and when I learned of version 1.5, I irritated my father enough for him to pre-order a copy for me... to this day, I still sometimes get the music beeping from the pc speaker stuck in my head...
I found your site through Home of the underdogs and wanted to check it out to see what info it had on early flight sims.
I can't remember which version it was, but when I was 5 or 6 my father amazed me by bringing home a friend's copy of MS Flight Sim... It was monochrome, wireframed, hard to learn to use (especially for a 5-6 year old...) but extremely addicting. Since then I have loved Computer flight Sims, and tonight I have downloaded a copy of 1.5... My originals are 5&1/2's, and I no longer have access to such decrepit (and fun) machines... I miss the IBM pc my dad sold for twenty bucks... (he should have kept it, for nostalgia's sake...).
I don't think I'll ever get rid of the A-10 boxes, as they represent why I never had many friends in grade school... I was too busy flying.
Steve O'Neill
Lack of sleep! year: 2000 tags: Visitors Book description: A comment on your website My only "complaint" about it and your efforts in putting such a mass of material together and maintaining same is ... lack of sleep!
My own!
It's that good!
The breakdown of the flight sims alone, by specific year and with individual comment and reference(s) is, by itself, worth the gander not to mention everything else although the The Flight Sim Museum excellent as that is, has the unfortunate effect of making me feel ancient.
Those graphics of Sub-logic type runways a la the old days and what was available pre-pentium effectively and indeed graphically shows how far we've really come in this hobby and aviation adjunct.
Dr. Anthony J. Lomenzo
A big thumbs up year: 2000 tags: Visitors Book description: I have been visiting your websites many times so far, and tonight I spent wonderful hours at the Flight Sim Museum; - I just wanted to give you a big thumbs up for the website, it has been a favorite place to visit for a long time so far, and it will be.
Thanks for the effort!
Nick Schreger (MeatWater)
MeatWater: audioworX
Audio for Entertainment-Software
http://www.meatwater.com
meatwater@meatwater.com
Well done MiGMan! year: 2000 tags: Visitors Book description: An armchair pilot
After searching high and low for some answers to my problems with the Saitek X36F/X35T joystick and flight controller I came across: "Fix your Saitek joysticks and throttles" - a wealth of information!
Well done Migman, its good to see flight sims are alive and well. My first experience with a flight simulator was 20 years ago! Now I consider myself an "Armchair Pilot", but very few people I know use flight sims so we are few and far between.
I purchased Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2 and I love it! A far cry from Flight Simulator 1's monochrome wire frame graphics - with little or no game missions other than take off and landings using a keyboard as flight controls!
Great site!
Dominique Denais
Caboolture Electrical
Ace! year: 2000 tags: Visitors Book description: Hello! I just found your site for this wonderful flight sim. - F/A-18 Korea
What can I say? - Ace!
You've done a great job portraying all the necessary flight info in one easy to understand place. There are very few other places up to your quality and commitment. Well done!
And with the forthcoming release of the OpenGL version for the PC I will be able to go back to the splendid textured graphics I used to enjoy when I had my Voodoo card in place (With my GeForce the voodoo won't run in parallel for some reason).
Thanks again for a well designed site.
Nigel Alefounder
Shropshire, England
I really enjoyed your site. year: 2000 tags: Visitors Book description: Just wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed your site. I found it by doing a search on Google.com for F15 Strike Eagle.
I was wondering if there were any new sims for this bird. I was glad to see that my experience with flight sims is very similar to yours.
I also remember the days of LED flight sims, and I even went so far as to write a TI calculator sim of "hyper" space travel.
I don't have it anymore, and I doubt I could recreate it, not that I'd even want to. Anyway, later, and keep up the great work.
Bill England
There is a lot going on on your site. year: 2000 tags: Visitors Book description: The last time I discovered your site I said, "this is real neat", looked around a bit and then surfed on my way to something else. I think the biggest thing I didn't realize at the time is that there is a lot going on on your site and things are constantly updated.
Glad I signed up on the list and re-discovered the MiGMan.com!
Mark Hermonat
A personal dream of mine. year: 2001 tags: Visitors Book description: I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your site. I was very pleased to see a personal dream of mine to create something like this become a reality.
An outstanding effort.
Thanks for putting so much into this experience. I have been collecting flight sims since Dam Busters.Your site is a walk back in time. Again great job!
I have to say this: you are one helluva flight sim enthusiast, and it shows, brilliantly and devotedly. Your pages inform and help to spread the word about flight simulators and the developers history. Congrats to you, sir.
I have a degree in Physics, and love aeronautics and astronautics. I've been an afficionado of flight sims ever since I laid my eyes on ... F-15 Strike Eagle II (1989), F-15 Strike Eagle II, F-117A Stealth Fighter and Chuck Yeager's Air Combat.
In those days...well, in those days I just wondered if simulations would ever get off the ground and depict reality as much as possible. I would go crazy when my 386 machine had a brain malfunction and my campaign was blown to pieces when I had to reboot it.
Then came along F-29 Retaliator and us guys in the University, had dogfights among us playing F-29 Retaliator.
I pretty much lost contact with the flight sim world because I assumed that no one really cared enough to make sims more accurate and less arcade.
Then...recently, I bought: F-16 Aggressor, FA-18 by Janes, USAF, F-16 Multi Role Fighter by Novalogic... and I'm awaiting for the arrival in my mailbox of F-22 Lightning 3, Total Air War and EF 2000.
I love F-16 Aggressor- good flight modeling, good graphics, good soundtrack, more than fair enemie's AI, albeit having an average campaign and not having a deep storyline.
But I wonder what the fuss is all about, when they talk about Jane's simulations. I have a pretty good machine (AMD DURON 700 MHZ, 128 SDRAM 133 MHZ, 32 MB GRAPHIC CARD - TNT2 RIVA 64, A DVD PLAYER FAST ENOUGH), and these games, with settings on maximum detail, seem to die before my eyes, getting slow and boring.
On the other hand, real combat is, without a doubt, more intense, fast and deadly than the combats I have fought through these games!
Everybody seemed so eager in beating (up on) F-16 Aggressor , giving emphasis to its faults, but to me , this seem, is very much one the best simulations (whatever the genre you consider) ever done. Ok, I grant that Bethesda Softworks could have given it more time to test it, to develop it, to give it more variety, but it's a fine simulation.
I would very much like to know your opinion on this, if you have the time. As for me, I certainly consider myself as belonging to the hardcore type of flight sim enthusiast, and certainly hope to find in Super EF 2000 and Total Air War the super realistic and engrossing simulations everybody talks so much about (I know F-22 Lightning 3is not a hardcore simulation).
Keep up with the good work.
Sincerely,
Miguel Lousado Margarido
The Art of flying year: 2001 tags: Visitors Book description: Your museum is a very unique dedication to a form of art only certain people can appreciate but it is very much appreciated.
Thanks for the tips. I didn't have much joy on altavista re US Navy Fighters specifically but I'll try the wider DOS thing and see what I can dredge up.
I'm fairly new to sims but have been enjoying European Air War a lot - having been a child of the Airfix generation it was a big thrill to be able to "fly" all those old birds after all those years just building kits and reading about them. I have an early Pentium MMX box so I am limited in what will work and it's a bit galling to find backward compatibility also such a big a problem!
I'm presently making a start with Novalogic's Mig 29 Fulcrum and enjoyed reading the pieces on your site, which is a good source on so many flight sims. I'm not a pilot so I'm quite happy with those sims which simplify (or allow you to simplify) things so you can get - and stay - in the virtual air and blow things up.
Not that I'm blowing up much at the moment - I spent about 10 minutes last night, having used up all my missiles, twisting about after a lowly F7 (Chinese version of the MiG-21) trying to nail him with the cannon. I'm not very good at ACM at the best of times (prefer tackling B17s and B24s in a Bf110G) and that radar gunsight takes a bit of getting used to. Had to break off when I got a low fuel warning but the bugger came after me and shot me down - cheek! At least I'm getting pretty good at ejecting : )
Falcon 4 runs passably on my box and I suppose I ought to get into that as it seems to be regarded as about the best modern air combat sim and has a good following. But I do like that big Soviet bird and that lovely scenery!
All the best and good luck."
Ivor Hughes.
Gunship year: 2001 tags: Visitors Book description: Thanks for your little review of Gunship in today's posting in the newsgroup. I saw a copy downtown for $20 -- guess I'll have to go get it. I love sims with nice terrain.
My name is Marc and I am a HUGE fan of US Navy Fighters. I am having difficulties running my copy of USNF. Please Keep Reading! i have contacted Electronic Art's Technical Support and they have no record of the game (Funny That).
If you could offer me some advice, or direct me to someone who can I would greatly appreciate it. My problem is that when I start USNF, I get to the prompt for Video Mode, soundcard etc., Then it goes black, and nothing happens.
Occasionly i get a message saying "cannot find USNF CD, please insert into your CD-ROM" - "Continue" - "Cancel", but my CD IS in the drive and it IS reading it. This is rather confusing for me. PLEASE HELP ME?
Sincerely, Marc.
P.S. I really liked your Site, keep up the good work! Thanx For Reading This E-Mail.
My reply to Marc was:
"Hi Marc,
There are many reasons that could cause your problem.
First - try and reinstall the game. Then make sure you have the latest drivers for your soundcard and graphcs cards. Beyond that I can't help you unfortunately. One way to vastly simplify your life would be to get Fighters Anthology - which contains USNF converted to run under Windows.
DOS sims are difficult to run at the best of times - one day I hope to write a guide but it won't be in the near future."
Marc replied a day later:
"Hey MiGMan,
Thank you for your help, I was not expecting your reply, and to my surprise, you hit the nail on the head.
After installing new drivers for my sound and video, and re-tweaking my 3D accelerator, IT'S WORKING!! THANKY OU SO MUCH! I had no idea it was so simple.
I just want to let you know that I like the sim museum site of yours very much! All those flying hours of the ancient past are coming back to me now. Thanks!"
" This ain't got nothing to do with news or info, just a few words to let you know your site is WICKED!!!!
I found it today and have been there most of it, it's a trip down memory lane, not only the sims themselves but the machines I played them on. Keep up the good work - PEACE."
" Hey, just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your site, aside from how old it makes me feel.
Keep up the great work."
Andrew
A trip down memory lane. year: 2001 tags: Visitors Book description: "Just to say a Thank You for the great work you do MiGMan. The museum is a trip down memory lane for us old dogs and a joy every visit. Special thanks too for the EXCELLENT Saitek pages. You obviously put a lot of work into them and it's a credit to you."
Thanks to MiGMan year: 2001 tags: Visitors Book description: Yep, I would also say Thanx to MigMan.
I remember my first Sim was Sub Logic Jet and I thought it was the $hit running on my high tech 10MHz XT Clone's amber monitor.
Look where we are now.
I do miss what I call the "Flight Sim Renaissance though. Remember when Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (1998), European Air War, World War 2 Fighters, Longbow 2, F-15 by Janes Combat Simulations were all still new games.
That was an excellent year for Sims and I hardly had enough spare cash to buy them all
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At least now I can occasionally go back and buy an older one that I do not yet own like RB3D etc. Just wish the damn newer OSs would support these games properly.
"I ventured to MiGMan's site to look for an old game i use to play on the Amiga F/A-18 Interceptor and i looked at the date it was released.
That's when i thought (set the scene: Comic Book guy from Simpsons just when the bomb is about to hit him)...
"i have wasted my life".
No, i am only kidding i don't regret any of my simming but when i look back, i was starting college (90) and i got my first amiga 500 ( half meg ram ) and this was the game that started me off (Wingstoo). The final mission chasing cruise missiles the submarine type aircraft carriers, all great fun. The dial card protection system or was that some other game, forgot already.
And from there a series of games that may not have been great in there field but were truly seminal to me.
Falcon 3.0with its manual that you could kill a man with. (for FPS types Robocop with its dongle protection and different types of gameplay).
If there was one game you could point out and say "now that was a great game" i would have to say F/A-18 Interceptor was the one for me.
"LOL. Same for me too. I graduated high school in 1990, went to college and my dad bought me an Amiga 500.
I spent some hard earned money on the Hard Disk/memory expansion device and spent $220 on a 80MB (yes, MB, not GB) hard drive and another $150 for an addtional 2MB of RAM for a whopping 2.5 MB RAM.
I was stylin', and the envy of all the computer nerds at the time. My games included some basketball game, Civilization, and a space fight/strategy game that I forget the name of. I belive I did have Falcon though, but didn't take the time to read the manual to properly play it, and some other Jet Fighter sim that I can't remember either (sheesh, I AM getting old). Must've been like Jetfighter II or something.
Sad to say, my flight sim passion didn't really start until I got a PC in '94 after College and my first game purchase was Jane's US Navy Fightersfor DOS, on my new Pentium 60 with 4MB RAM and an S3 Virge chipset with a 650MB HD....
Oh, reminiscing. And yes, thanks to MiGMan for making me feel old as well.
I'm almost 30, but still addicted. That's either good or bad... I guess take it any way you can!
Have been looking at your site now for over a year, and find it very interesting.
The reason I'm sending you an e-mail is that I have found A320 Airbus has been brought out again, and made to run under Win 95 - 98. I dont know if you know this, you probobly do. Also is there any chance you could put X-plane on your site, as it's a wonderfull sim, and especially now that it's released in �29.99 form and not �200+.
Keep up the good work. Your site is one of the best."
"Just like to drop you a note to say I love your Site!
Up till about 3 months ago my Game collection had no Flight sims in it at all. I started by getting F-22 Lightning 3 and the rest is well... history. I now have around 15 Sims, mostly unplayed as i cant stop buying em lol! Your site has been a great insight for me and I always check out your Stuff before going on another spending spree!
Talking off which I've just ordered a few more! SO just like to say thanks for all your hard work!
Thanks
P. Brown
Excellent work about this site. year: 2005 tags: Visitors Book description: Salute to every flight simmer!
" Excellent work about this site. Happy flying to everyone who reads this entry."
Independence War? year: 2005 tags: Visitors Book description: I don't see Independence War series in the 1990s Space Sims. Independence War is one of the most cool space simulations ever... "
P.Luna
Sun 14 Aug 2005
Thrustmaster Mark II FCS year: 2005 tags: Visitors Book description: I recently had the urge to take to the skies with my older version of MS Flight Simulator, and in the process got out of storage my Thrustmaster Weapons Control System Mk II (it too, is old, but is still in good working order).
Regrettably, however, I searched high and low - without success, for its operating software disk. So I can only assume at this point that its been lost forever.
Might you have any suggestions as to where one might be able to procure an original or copy of this operating software disk?
I attempted to contact Thrustmaster in this regard, but since they no longer carry it in their model lines, their website would not allow me to place any inquiry about it. Thank you.
Lee Wilhite
Thu 25 Aug 2005
Falcon 3.0 DOS version. year: 2005 tags: Visitors Book description: I recently dusted off this old game. How does a nontechnical computer user get it to run on a pentium 4 PC ?"
Chuck Ferguson
Sat 17 Sep 2005
Thanks for keeping this invaluable repository online. year: 2005 tags: Visitors Book description: It remains one of the classic flight sim sites that all simmers should be aware of. Always brings back many good memories, and I'm surprised at how many sims I never new existed!
Great work bud! "
James "Nutty" Hallows - nutty@flyfoxy.com
Fri 23 Sep 2005
MiGMan: Thanks James!
For those who don't know, James Hallows is the genius who created the interface for programming the Thrustmaster HOTAS Cougar - arguably the world's best combat flight control system.<
16 weeks grounded year: 2005 tags: Visitors Book description: New PC keeps locking up
Gidday migman
You may or may not remember me - I'm the old geriatric who fronted you after your talk at the Sydney Flight Sim Expo and sought your advice about a video card for my new computer that I was planning at that time..
Fact of the matter is, I have now built my dream computer, mainly with FS2004 in mind but have run up against a brick wall. The bloody thing keeps locking up solid on both FS2002 and FS2004. I have scoured all the flightsim sites for weeks and tried all the tips and suggestions I can see without success.
I was wondering if you know of any experienced flightsimmer in Brisbane who might be prepared to help me out. Can't seem to find any organised group in Brissy on the internet so was hoping you might know someone, as I'm sure they are about..
Yours in hopeful anticipation.
Alan Kilpatrick (Brisbane)
20/9/2005
...the final chapter..
Thought the RAM was crook so took it back to supplier A for testing - returned unable to fault.
Local computer guru suggested it was the RAM sockets on mobo - took entire case and contents to mobo supplier B who wrote up the following fault report for his techie (this is a cut and paste)
" MB only from us. System has been unstable. System locks in the middle of running Flight Simulator. Can do it from 10 seconds to 10 minutes. screen, mouse lockes, can't alt crtl del. System can sometimes lock up in other programs but not as frequently. RAM has been tested ok by Umart. Custoemr has tried reisntalling windows from a clean start 5 times already with no change. custoemr believes he has all of teh latest drivers. Customer just recently tried to update the BIOS on the motherboard but after the updated the system will post but come up saying the CPU overclock has failed and it will not load defaults. or system can give Cmos checksum bad error."
After a week of anxiety received the following diagnosis from supplier B (more cut and paste)
"Custoemers cpu seems to be causing the system to crash randomly. using the customers cpu on our test motherboard the system had trouble installing windows xppro and was unstable. using our test cpu both the test system and the customers system were functioning correctly. I also used a P4 3.4Ghz Prescot to test the customers system which functioned correctly. All hardware exept for the cpu test ok"
Took CPU to supplier A for testing - after another week was rewarded with a brand new CPU under warranty from Intel. Have installed said CPU and after 16 weeks of total frustration my dream machine is now carrying me effortlessly throughout the flightsim world.
Love to stop and chat Pete but I've got 3 months of flying to catch up on....!!!! Thanks for all your suggestions mate and who knows - we might meet in cyber aerospace sometime.
Cheers for now
Alan Kilpatrick
JF2 and XP with DOSBox... help year: 2005 tags: Visitors Book description: 22 OCT 2005, 1451 HRS local Wow, what a website you have.
My first PC game was Jetfighter II, and I have been trying to use DOSBox with D-Fend (the front end program for DOSBox) and cannot get it to run.
Jetfighter II always bails out whenever I select Freeflight or a Mission. I have been successful at getting DosBox to run many older games such as: Conquest of the New World Star Trek TNG A Final Unity Strike Commander Wing Commander II However, JF2 has got me over a barrel. Can you share the settings you are using with DOSBox to get JF2 to run? Thank you."
Craig Knapp
Sat 22 Oct 2005
MiGMan: I seem to remember getting to run under a normal Windows 98 DOS box.... but maybe my memory is fooling me!
Great site you have here!! year: 2005 tags: Visitors Book description: I have a running thread in a few sim forums called Sturmovik Essentials.... it is in www.simhq.com- The UBI forums for IL2 (natch) Hyperlobby, Netwings,SOH and Frugals as well I believe.
I just added this great site ot it. Keep up the good work."
99th_Bearcat
Sat 29 Oct 2005
How to run 'Chuck Yeagers Air Combat' under XP year: 2005 tags: Visitors Book description: Is it possible to run Chuck Yeager's Air Combat under Windows XP? I assume it can be run in a dos window with the right compatibilty mode set, but I would appreciate some pointers in how to configure the sound and joystick settings (autoexec.bat!) Many thanks. "
Paul
Wed 09 Nov 2005
Operation Flash Point: Resistance (2002) year: 2005 tags: Visitors Book description: Strictly speaking, OFP is a first person shooter, but it also has a tremendous flight simulator with all the third party addons which rivals the best flight sims. One downside is all the developer's patches. It went from 1.0 to 1.96 with about 15 patches in total!
But if you want to fly virtually any military and a lot of civilian acft without a huge learning curve the OFP is the one to buy! Plus there's a tremendous amount of fansites to support the newbie."
Dan Hanke
Thu 17 Nov 2005
MiGMan: Thanks for the heads up! Look for an OFP gallery in the Museum soon!
Combat pilot in the Royal Navy flying Vickers Supermarine Scimitar F1s. year: 2005 tags: Visitors Book description: I will be getting some flightsim software soon and was checking out your site when I noticed my name was the same as yours. For info I was a combat pilot in the Royal Navy flying Vickers Supermarine Scimitar F1s.
Originally designed as an interceptor its high altitude manoeuvering left a lot to be desired. It was eventually alocated to ground attack where its very high tolerance to G forces made it quite a hot rod.
I have only flown civilian helicopters so your sim packages might fill the gap.
John Flexman
Mon 21 Nov 2005
MiGMan: Hi John, I think you are confusing me with Richard "Flexman" Hawley (featured on this site in the Combat Helo exhibit). Richard Hawley is famous in the Helicopter simulator community for his contributions to Longbow , Enemy Engaged - Apache vs. Havoc and the Enemy Engaged - Comanche vs Hokum strategy guide.
Multiple Monitors year: 2005 tags: Visitors Book description: I've been a flight sim buff for a very long time, including having a private pilots licence for 10 years. It got to be too expensive a hobbie for me so I'm on the computer sims now.
I would like to run a secondary monitor to put FS's gauges on and just have graphics on my main monitor. I have a P4 3.2gig system with an ATI X850XT video card. I've looked around at a number of sites but can't seem to find any software that will split up the FS's windows. Anyone out there know where or even if I can get software that will do this, even if its just a trial copy? :) "
Greg
Tue 27 Dec
Track IR
Greg, multiple monitors are easy nowadays -
Windows XP
Any reasonable graphics card (USD$200.00 plus) will support two monitors
1) Start Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
2) Launch a flight
3) Press Alt-Enter to change from fullscreen to windowed mode
4) Open your extra windows (gauges etc)
5) Right click and "undock"
6) drag to the second monitor
7) press Alt-Enter to change from windowed mode to fullscreen
8) resize the windows as desired
Now combine this setup with Track IR on the main screen and you are flying in a very sophisticated virtual cockpit with unlimited views!
Thrustmaster drivers year: 2006 tags: Visitors Book description: Operating software for Thrustmaster flight control MK I, Weapons control sys MK II, Rudder control sys.
I have obtained the above listed components. I need operating software to use with Microsoft's combat flight simulators. Where can I obtain? Thanks in advance. "
Tim
Wed 11 Jan 2006
A Citizen Soldier in the Air year: 2006 tags: Visitors Book description: I just finished reading 'A Citizen Soldier in the Air'.
I just am always amazed at these guys. Great article, Thanks.
I have put a photo of the Owen L Buford (42-72899)crew who flew in the 321st Jolly Rogers on their web site. My step-dad trained with them just before they went over.My dad was grounded and replaced by Kenneth Rode.
They all died on take off Feb. 29, 1944. My dad never got over it. He talked about until the day he died. I found out later their remains were recovered and brought back in 1983. I am always willing to share a copy of the photo, if any wishes a copy.The photo is of the training plane, not the plane the crew went over in."
Terry - Dumerauf@CS.com
Sat 14 Jan 2006
Thanks Terry, it is always good to be able to share the history of these events which affect us all.
The whole article A Citizen Soldier in the Air - free PDF downloadcan be read or downloaded in .pdf format (suitable for printing).
SVGA Harrier Assault (1992) year: 2006 tags: Visitors Book description: I found it impossible to get this classic sim running under Windows 98, unfortunately it doesn't seem happy with 3D video cards. If you have an older conmputer with an S3 graphics card you should be able to run it. "
I got it running using dosbox.63 with a frontend made by D-Fend, link via dosbox. Used the wizard from the frontend, did not change anything, and off i flew. Only drawback is that my cougar throttle (and aaxis) are not being recognized, stick and rudder are ok."
Koriel
Tornado Album year: 2006 tags: Visitors Book description: Has any come across the Tornado Album released and avilable when the flight sim Tornado (1993) was released. If you know of the album or no anyone has got it I would be very interested in listening to it, still trying to track down a copy on ebay
Adrian Brown - info@adrianebrown.co.uk
Battle of Britain - Their Finest Hour year: 2006 tags: Visitors Book description: I realy enjoyed reading through your website, there were some sims I played and almost had forgotten.
But there was one I considered very important and couldn't find, it was "Their finest Hour the Battle of Britain" by Lawrence Holland and Lucasfilm games. I'm not quite sure when it came out, probably around 1990, it was the first Sim I played, I was seven!
It would be realy great if you could ad it to the site. Thanks for the wonderfull tour through your Museum, keep up the good work. "
Greatings 76IAP.-Maennis
Fri 27 Jan 2006
Alien pig abduction year: 2006 tags: Visitors Book description: First I must say you have what I consider to be the best site on the net, regarding flight simulators!
I was in "free flight" mode of my Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (1998), flying a Spitfire over England, when believe it or not, I came upon a U.F.O. in the act of abducting a pig!
I noticed a fine line on the horizon and since in "freeflight" there aren't any other planes in the air, I "flew" over to check it out, as it didn't appear to be a problem with my video card settings.
Imagine my surprise upon seeing this U.F.O. and pig!
An added surprise was seeing Stonehenge in the immediate vicinity of the U.F.O.. I must admit to not knowing much at all, about programming, but I'm sure these objects must be the result of a programmer leaving his or her own personal touch, ha!ha!
Have you, or do know of anyone else finding these somewhat out of place objects in their copy of the game? "
Thank You! Jim Benson.
Fri 03 Feb 2006
MiGMan: Do a search for "Easter Eggs" on this site and you will find quite a few little jokes put into sims by the programmers.
Knights of the Sky year: 2006 tags: Visitors Book description: Rob 'Bomber' Henderson's review of Knights of the Sky on your Knights of the Sky page indicates a lack of knowledge of WWI and ballistics. Knights of the Sky is the best simulation of the WWI air war I have found.
They really captured the essence of the times with the random life expectancy factor and true deflection shooting, without the misery of diahorrea from castor oil fumes.
In hundreds of 'lives', I've only managed to survive the war once, just like real life. Knights of the Sky really isn't a 'game'. It's a pretty accurate immersion in an historical hotspot. "
glen pearce
Fri 17 Feb 2006
MiGMan: Steady on there lads !!! WINK !
Thanks for your comments glen - they have been added to the Knights of the Sky exhibit.
I fell in love with this sim the year it came out. I have an "vintage" 486DX2 @ 66 that I keep in the attic just so I can run this game. It is the perfect balance between "arcade" and "realistic simulation". Are you aware of any resources that enable this to be run from a USB thumbdrive or bootable CD?
I keep thinking I should get rid of the old computer, but nothing has ever met my expectations since F15III, and I refuse to part with my ability to run this game. Perhaps you can recommend a solution? I ran it successfully on Win98 but have since started using W2K for my main computer. I plan to "seek until I find" a way to make this work on new computers. I would sincerely appreciate your help."
Thanks again, James
James Teel
Mon 20 Feb 2006
Thanks James - maybe one of the Museum's readers can help you out. I agree - F15 Strike Eagle 3 was a replayable blend of fun and
action with seemingly infinite mission variety. Clever little Microprose!
Great Page! year: 2006 tags: Visitors Book description: Hi MiGMan, I enjoy your website it is really great so see all the good old games from the good old days!
I remember, one of my first Flight Sims was Strike Aces / Fighter Bomber (1989) on C64, and Falcon and F/A-18 Interceptor on AMIGA :)
Hope you will continue your work on this website and maybe you take a look on my Website www.AmigaJoker.de ; ) "
Greetz from Germany, Brork
Tues 21 Feb 2006
If you guys loved Homeworld... year: 2006 tags: Visitors Book description: If you guys loved Homeworld, especially the pilot view option, and you love flight sims, then you should LOVE these other space flight sim games:
BANG, Gunship Elite - almost arcade style space fighter sim, and quite challenging in difficulty.
Descent: Freespace 1 and 2 - they carry the earlier Descent series into fully 3D space, with rich graphics and scenery, in depth campaigns, and engrossing gameplay. The game engine is definitely more flight-sim than real, true space physics. You can customise your ships and play versus other fighters and gigantic capital ships of unimaginable size.
Independence War 1 and 2 - more realistic physics game engine, with an interesting storyline and unique ship that can pick up cargo and perform other tasks besides just shooting.
Tachyon: The Fringe - realistic space physics game engine, with anything from small fighters to larger capital ships. Awesome strafing and dogfighting, especially for it's time, circa 1999. Very, very underrated, and highly recommended game! You can even target individual parts of a ship.
Jumpgate - an MMOG monthly fee game, but you get to whip out your joystick and really enjoy some great space flight in a fully PvP and PvE game that also lets you try out different ships and customise them.
Vendetta Online - another MMOG, very similar, using a flight-sim first person perspective, different ships and customiseable weapons.
I've liked flight sims ever since Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer, back on my IBM PS2 286 with a whopping 640kb of RAM and no harddrive. :D
www.drunkenpirates.co.uk - stop by and see us, ARrr! "
[DP]Ghent96 (ghent96@hotmail.com)
Wed 26 Apr 2006
DC-10 sim? year: 2006 tags: Visitors Book description: Somewhere in my files I have a copy of the DC-10 manual for a PC sim ("DC-10" ?) with no graphics other than a character-based flat 'cockpit' of crude gauges.
It was for IBM PC and allowed flights from England to Holland. I do not find it mentioned in the relevant wikipedia articles or MSFS history pages I will try to dig the copy out - it was widely pirated in the mid-80's, I believe. The key-combinations were arcane ( I learned to fly by NDB with no manual ). If you landed, OK, your flight ended.
Most often I (reportedly) missed the runway. After this, seeing Flight Simulator on a Mac was quite an eye-opener ... I had planned to run it on a 256 Kb 'Hyperion' with a tiny amber CRT ( no hard drive ). I may have DC10 on a 5 1/4" floppy in storage.
To quote http://www.textfiles.com/games/REVIEWS/orbiter.rev "ORBITER is a space shuttle simulation from PC Services, Digital Illusions, and Spectrum HoloByte." As I recall, this and 'Falcon AT' were among the first PC games to detect and use the 287 chip for floating-point calculations at a time when those chips went into an optional socket ( if the socket was even present on the board) "
I started off with my first PC bought entirely in order to use Falcon AT,
Then the first Jetfighter. It didn't take too long and I was importing and selling Elite sims and carrying Thrustmaster in my buddy's store. I still have two sets of Thrustmaster Rudder Pedals new in boxes in the basement.
I remember all of this. What a trip.
I have at least two piles of old software in the basement office (which includes these classics): TFX, JetFighter III, F-15 by Janes Combat Simulations, F/A-18 by Janes, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, the OLD F-15 Strike Eagle IF-15 Strike Eagle I on 3.5" (I think').
Unreal.
I'm actually surprised how little of this type of simulation comes out anymore. It's like the entire genre died (or was bought by Mr Gates.) In fact, one of my favorite games that I still talk about today (and I hate myself for selling my last copy- I had more on backorder-never came) was Bruce Artwick's 'Tower'. That was awesome!!
Bruce Artwick, programmer of Flight Simulator I and Flight Simulator II.
Bruce Artwick
Anyway, by the late 90's, there was so little 'good' stuff coming, I sort of lost interest in it. model They were buggy; the PC speeds were constantly changing; people just couldn't keep up with the ever changing demands and; if you had a 'Uber PC', the results were often mediocre.
I'd love to see it all come back. In fact, the cool way to work the sims would be to have it all transfer to Playstation or Xbox since sims are all about the graphics / flight modeling. then we need good rudders and HOTAS for the PS3 and/or Xbox. Games exist for them but very 'arcade'.
Thanks for the memory trip. Keep it up. Let me know if there is anything coming that will rekindle my 'flight fever'. When I sort through the pile of stuff, I'll shoot you a list to see if there is anything you want. "
Rob Gibney
Sat 24 Feb 2007
My first flight simulator, in 1986. year: 2007 tags: Visitors Book description: Super Huey has been my first flight simulator in 1986 and I have a gorgeus memory of it. I congratulate with you for your nice website.
Ace
Tue 16 Jan 2007
B-24, a decent sim for it's time. year: tags: Visitors Book description: This was a decent sim for the time. You basically are flting missions from Africa to Ploesti.
You select realism and start with your aircraft. You fuel up, bomb up and then it is take off time.
Flaps gear, all have to be right to get off the ground. Tioo much fuel and bombs make it tough.
You are given a bombing coordinates and escort and form up coordinates and must make each one.
Once altitude is reached you fly to target. Once in target zone and even before there are fighters and then flak. You select the realism and it can get hectic much like a B-24 was.
You must monitor engines and not feathering a damaged engine can spell disaster. Once you are over target you can be affected by wind. Open bomb bay doors and try to drop bombs on determined coordinates.
Then fly back through same flak and fighters. Once you land you are given a bomb damage assessment.
You must destroy the facilities within so much time. All lost aircraft take away from next mission. Select other targets and keep trying.
Ii never could destroy it all. It was not the best graphics but, entertaining and a challenge.
Dan
August, 2007
Cockpit Collection year: tags: Visitors Book description: hi, where can i buy those keyboard cover for flight simulators? "
delor lauchang
MiGMan: These? - Cockpit Collection's Keyboard Control Covers? - Look on google, but as far as I know they are not made anymore.
Sims with nukes? year: tags: Visitors Book description: Good day,
I have been absorbed in flight sims, both civilian and military since about 1984. I have played and still own many of the titles featured on the Flight Sim Museum. I have an unusual little personal goal for my flight-sim collection. I say 'unusual', because to my amazement, I can find no other individual who has tried what I am trying with solid information online. Anyway, let me get straight to it....
I am trying to gather a complete list of combat flight simulators which include the use of nuclear weapons. I only became interested in this about 4 years ago when I was playing Nova-Logic's 'Lightning-III'. One of that game's unusual features was the inclusion of high-drag, unguided nuclear bombs. I decided to start collecting games which feature such weapons. I was very surprised to find that there just aren't that many sims out there which share this feature. I went back and dug up armour-geddon which featured a high-yield weapon as one of the main goals of the game. I also grabbed another copy of starglider-2 which featured a neutron emission weapon, but I am really not interested in the space-based sims, just the combat air sims.
I thought back to the Jane's series which included no nuclear weapons and I really must say I was surprised that such was the case considering the cold-war setting of some of those games. I was likewise surprised at other cold-war sims which seem to completely avoid the nuclear option such as: Strike Eagle series, Project Stealth Fighter and Nighthawk F-117 from Microprose, Falcon 3.0, Megafortress (jeez! no nukes in a b-52? that ain't right),
I thought maybe the idea of nuclear weapons in those games I just mentioned was seen as 'hypothetical' and were avoided for authenticity. I next turned my attention to another period/theatre setting...
"OK now," I said to myself, "let's look at the World War 2 historical sims. Must be many sims that focus on the Pacific and climax with the atomic raids on Japan. Its historical fact, no hypothetical situation there at all. Well... let's just say big disappointment. I couldn't believe games like Aces of the Pacific, Combat Flight Sim 1 and 2(Microsoft), Pacific Air War, and so on didn't include the atomic raids. I thought to myself, 'Is it avoided out of a sense of political correctness?' Then I thought 'Can't be... there are all kinds of other things that would have been cut as well if P.C.ness was the culprit.'
At any rate, have you ever compiled a list of flight sims with nukes? I would love to see such a list, or at least to have some such games named for me and brought to my attention. Can you help me???
I absolutely loved the Voodoo cards. I never had the high dollar cards but I always tried to stay with the big name brands. My last card was a Creative Labs Banshee. I never really took to the Nvidia graphics. I thought the 16-bit color depth was enough and was perfect for reflective textures for Need 4 Speed: Hot Pursuit. No jaggies at all.
I started flying flight simulators back in 1982 with Jumbo Jet Pilot on the Atari 800. I chose to dedicate to PCs in 1992 when I was in Flight School. MS was discontinuing their product after FS 4.0 Mac and I went with the PC.
I have 1423 hrs actual and type rated for Beech King Air 350, Saab 340. I really wanted to get my check ride in an ATR but, I was stricken with Multiple-Sclerosis in 1997. I can still live out my dream with the simulators.
FYI: in my opinion, for VFR conditions, flight simulators are more difficult than RL due to the lack of sensory information.
R. Lee Wicker
A trip down memory lane. year: 2001 tags: Visitors Book description: "Just to say a Thank You for the great work you do MiGMan. The museum is a trip down memory lane for us old dogs and a joy every visit. Special thanks too for the EXCELLENT Saitek pages. You obviously put a lot of work into them and it's a credit to you."
Thanks to MiGMan year: 2001 tags: Visitors Book description: Yep, I would also say Thanx to MigMan.
I remember my first Sim was Sub Logic Jet and I thought it was the $hit running on my high tech 10MHz XT Clone's amber monitor.
Look where we are now.
I do miss what I call the "Flight Sim Renaissance though. Remember when Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (1998), European Air War, World War 2 Fighters, Longbow 2, F-15 by Janes Combat Simulations were all still new games.
That was an excellent year for Sims and I hardly had enough spare cash to buy them all
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At least now I can occasionally go back and buy an older one that I do not yet own like RB3D etc. Just wish the damn newer OSs would support these games properly.
Answer:
I only keep copies I have purchased for my personal use and research for the Museum. If there is an old sim you want, email the publisher - if enough people request them they may reissue the sim! Doing a Google search for "abandonware" may turn up some results too.
Links to sim publisher's websites can be found under the Organisations menu at left
Answer:
If you have lost the keycard or manual, contact the manufacturer. I'm sure you have a legal copy of the sim, but believe it or not there are some folks who don't care to support the industry and actively distribute pirated games. Most manufacturers can supply replacement manuals if you provide proof of purchase.
Also, use Google!
Links to sim publisher's websites can be found under the Organisations menu at left
Answer:
It's good for friends to share an interest. Show your support for your friends in the gaming industry by purchasing a copy of the game for yourself and the industry can continue to grow. Who knows, maybe one day you can work as a game programmer!
Most games have free demos you can download and try before you buy.
Links to sim publisher's websites can be found under the Organisations menu at left.
Answer:
DOS games used to be very hard to set up in many cases. Under windows 95 and 98 the older games will often run nicely in a DOS window. On the other hand they may not run without extensive tweaking, or not at all! Windows XP is pretty good at running older games. Also, use Google!
Answer:
Google is your best bet. You might have some luck at www.ebay.com as well.
JETFIGHTER I and II year: tags: description: I remember really enjoying this early sim. Are there any copies left for download? James Fabert
Answer: Google is your best bet. You might have some luck at www.ebay.com as well.
Su-27 2.5 training missions year: tags: description: Very very nice flight sim! I remember when SU-27 came out. Totally wicked.
Anyway would like to ask a question please. Do you know where I can download this 2.5 training missions. Iv'e searched all over and can't find the flanker 2.0 site is no longer there and cant find on the new sight either.
Jetfighter I year: tags: description: Question:
Hello Migman,
My name is Ben, and I have a copy of the original Jetfighter I game. I remember playing this game when I was younger and it was a lot of fun. I recently found a disk I have with a copy of this game on it. I managed to get all the files off of the disk and tried to play it, but the disk was damaged and some of the files are corrupted, the jf.exe executable file is one that is corrupted.
I have searched the internet but can find almost no info on this game. I ran across your page and recognized the game image you have on your website. I was wondering if there was anyway you could help me restore my copy to working order by sending me good copies of game files to replace my bad ones. I would really appreciate it if you could help me out. Let me know if you can help!
-Ben
Answer:
Google is your best bet. You might have some luck at www.ebay.com as well.
I recently got a new computer with Win XP Media Center Edition. When I tried to install Flt Sim 98, the Install CD stopped the installation --- stating that I must first choose to install Direct X 5. When I selected to install that Direct X 5, it shut down the installation.
EF2000 year: tags: description: Hey mit navn er Niklas, jeg er selv helt vild med ef2000. Mit problem er dog bare at jeg ikke kan køre min gamle version af ef2000 i xp, og jeg aner ikke hvordan jeg skal få fat i ef2000 v 2.0. Kan du hjælpe mig med hvor jeg evt kan opstøve den henne eller få en kopi?
MVH
Niklas
nikli81@hotmail.com
Read the Museum article: "F-22 Total Air War Reassembled".
I figured that you would probably be the best person to ask about this:
Do you know of any console games that are dedicated to Helicopter Combat?
(Like something that offers you several vehicles to choose from?)Â I know that planes have Ace Combat and Crimson Skies in their name, but is there something that's dedicated solely to choppers?
I'd be happy even if was modeled after Twisted Metal.
Sincerely, Karl Gruehn.
Fighters Anthology year: tags: description: hi Migman.. i hope you can help me. i ve been looking for fighters anthology over the net for a while now ... no where to purchase the original game. Do they still have a site? where can I buy it from?
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Thanx bro ashraf
Answer: Google is your best bet. You might have some luck at www.ebay.com as well.
Hello, I'm the Lead/Commander of the 2009 FSX Thunderbirds. I tripped on your website today and was very surprised in seeing a website that I actually enjoyed looking at. I would just like to say very nice website, and if you would like to know more about the FSX Thunderbirds, our website is: www.FSXThunderbird.com Thanks alot and I attached a few of pictures in this message for you also.
Saitek X36 analog in Win XP year: tags: description: Hi there I have a Saitek X36 analog combo. Can you tell me if there is a driver for Windows XP for this system? If there is can you point me in the direction of a download site?
I am Henk Koelewijn from the Netherlands, and my home email address is: hever@casema.com
The reaseon that i mailt is, i saw on a website from Len "Viking 1" Hjalmarson, and he had very cool skins for Rowan's Battle of Britain.
I wanted these kins, but unfortently, i can't download them they are blocked, and couldn't email hime because his email doesn't exist anymore.
Could you help me with those skins on his site, he had them for all planes.
And does he probaly has them for Mig Alley, and Flying Corps as well.
I am looking for all the skins that i can get for the Rowan Software Games.
I have an RC controller with a gameport cable on it and I am trying to figureout what sim it acually worked with. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks.
A long time ago since I purchased this game! 1996? I'm not sure.
I enjoyed the game, and loved the music. 12 tracks which I backed up and recently ran into again. The CD must be somewhere, but I cannot find it anymore.
Do You know which artist(s) wrote this music?
is it possible to play "Sabre Ace" under Windows XP? I try with Compatibility Mode - but have Error in Cockpit View
Sorry to ask you - but i cant find nowhere else Support. (I think i'm the last on Earth who likes to play this old fart of 3Dfx Game)
Thank You
Marwal
If we can find out how to, then I might even fire it up up myself! I enjoyed this sim, it was the first 3dFX sim I bought and my first sight of those "3-D" planes is indelibly etched into my memory.
MiGMan
Fighters Anthology, USAF year: tags: description: I used to be an avid gamer with FA and some USAF in 2001-2002.
My call sign was Airbiscuit (yes, very nice). It seemed fitting at the time. I flew with other gamers like CasperR and Lexus. I have pulled the games out and reloaded them on my computer to just fiddle around with them. Having a great time and wondering if there is anyone left out there to play with. I’ve read in a few forums that some are still playing some newer games (Lock-On). Anyway, just wondering if there were any FA people still around.
Dave Hiller
The “Original†Airbiscuit
Any FA or USAF multiplayers still out there?
MiGMan
Janes WWII Fighters missions year: tags: description: MIGMAN , Call me a dummy but please tell me where your missions/campaigns for Janes WWII Fighters are 'hid' on your site!
Which, by the way, is wonderfully fascinating. I have managed to spend the entire rainy morning navigating the Flight Sim Museum.
I have search the web but many sites are no longer active, any assistance is appreciated.
Danny Smith
HERE - Don't get too excited, I think I only finished authoring the one mission....
your website is awesome, reminds me of the old days if you know what I mean ;)
Well I never had problems running old sims except of Jane's Israeli Air Force now... with excactly the same issues you described on your website. The next issue is that parts of the menues are not accessible like Graphics, Gameplay and so on...
Isn't there really a chance to get them running? (maybe with the help of a tool..) I remember the great time I had with IAF... it's just too bad that it crashes for some stupid reasons.
Greetings,
Cab
Hey, I know youre not a tech support or anything but I was hoping you might know how to run Jane's IAF in win XP. It keeps crashing on me.
amitkatz@gmail.com
Cool site man !!!! year: tags: description: Cool site man!!!! It is a blast from the past.
I just built a 95/98/dos machine in a sea of XP's that I game on in my home lan. I started out with an Amstrad that had the keyboard and puter all in one. Gaming has been my life, especially SIMs.
Thanks for the great museum!!!! I just got ATF gold, and US navy fighters running again on that old time puter. They were sims before their time. I have many of the sims listed on your site !!!!
Take care, Bob
Thanks Bob, I agree about ATF and all the USNF series!
MiGMan
Orbiter: flying on a 287 chip year: tags: description: "ORBITER is a space shuttle simulation from PC Services, Digital Illusions, and
Spectrum HoloByte."
As I recall, this and 'Falcon AT' were among the first PC games to detect and use the 287 chip for floating-point calculations at a time when those chips went into an optional socket ( if the socket was even present on the board).
Robert Shiplett
Good info, thanks Robert.
MiGMan
Combat Flight Sim 2 - chase plane year: tags: description: I have cfs 2 and would like to know if there is any way to stay locked onto the chase view of the plane while manuvering? (That is to say directly in back of the plane at all times.) Any help would be helpful. Thank You.
John Parente
There is a chase plane view - look in the help file from the main sim interface.
MiGMan
David C. Maschino of Duosoft year: tags: description: I have been looking for a way to reach the old Duosoft people. I have always enjoyed Janes Fighters Anthology even today.
Unfortunately I did not purchase the sim until after I had upgraded to Windows 98 and by the time I found out about Duosoft and their "tool kit". Since their warning stated it wouldn't work under Windows 98 I never bothered to install the tool kit. Fast forward to today and I have upgraded my PC Windows XP and found a way to run the old programs. I installed the tool kit and then discovered that I need a code to gain full access. I would like to pay some one for the code, but I can't seem to find a way to contact David C. Maschino of Duosoft. Would you have some way of contacting him?
i'm a fan of US Navy Fighters, the EA game issued in 1994. It's the most user friendly flight sim i ever played, and it's a pity it can't be played in XP environment. I have two questions for you. 1st, which game playable in XP environment is similar to this one, with similar game play and comparable user friendlines? 2nd: Do you know if and where the official game patches are available? I'm thinking of suiting up an old pentium to play the game, maybe even build it in a mock flight cabin..
Tally'oh, mate
Chris
callsign Moose
MS Flight Sim on a Mac? year: tags: description: Do you know where I can get an (older) version of MS flight sim that runs on a mac?
We have also done some work for Nevada RED Flag training grounds and experimental larger Korean theater. We have just now beefing up the site and plan on release new and improved versions of the theaters this year.
I think your site visitors might find it very essential part of Falcon 4.0 history to have the one and only theater addon site listed as links :)
Thank you for your contribution to Flight Sims, much appreciated!
PMC Tactical
Snake Man, PMC.
The site is now listed under Developers
MiGMan description: Hello.
I have read your Flight Sim Museum site, its great.
As I'm expert on Falcon 4.0 scene I thought I share some information with you so you can update your site. I'm the guy behind most of Falcon 4.0 theater (terrain) creation, I started the stuff on hmm 2000 with Codec who is now to my understanding the leading programmer on Allied Force.
Super Huey year: tags: description: Comments: Super Huey has been my first flight simulator in 1986 and I have a gorgeous memory of it.
Great site you have there! I have been looking high and low for this CFS2 add-on, but neither company seems to carry it anymore. Would you happen to know where I could purchase this great product?? I have been trying to devise my own missions with the freeware out there, but would just assume buy the real thing so I can fly some great missions!
Can you help please, I've installed Flight Unlimited 3 onto my computer
with the first disc and it detected that I have windows 2000 installed.
There are three discs in the box and when I've tried to install the second
disc the programme has locked up all the flights when run are on a crash
course.
I've tried to uninstall this programme but was unable to because a message
came up saying "The log 'C:\program files\Flight3\flight3v.log'is not valid
or the data has been corrupted. uninstallation will not continue," I don't
know what to do now, I can't use this Flight Simulator as it is. and I can't
uninstall either can you please help?
yours sincerely W McCartney.
Fighter Squadron,SDOE in XP Pro year: tags: description: Hi, this want play good with XP Pro. The planes just hang in the air and want move. would a patch or joystick help?
I have a copy of this software that I bought a number of years ago and installed
on my old computer. Trying to install it on my new computer I got a message
telling me that I should check out WWW.LGLASS.com because my version of windows
was not around when the software came out. The old computer had Windows
98 on it and now I have XP.
When I tried to load it, it got so far on disc one and stopped telling me
put disc 2 in. I did this but it didn't recognise the disc. I then got
a message saying I should go to http:// indeo.ligos.com but this site has
confused me further.
Can you tell me how I can get the software to install and run on my XP computer?
I had the Amstrad version of this game. I spent hours and hours flying that choppers.
One of may favourite games…
Best Regards,
Juan
Flying Corp Gold in XP year: tags: description: I purchased Flying Corp Gold many years ago and absolutely love it. Still.
I have an old Win95 Gateway that we played on, but it is taking valuable space in my tiny computor room and my wife cannot justify keeping the old Gateway just to fly. Our Dell has WinXP and will not run Flying Corp.
I've put DOSBox on, or at least I think I have, but when trying to load, an error message comes up stating I haven't enough memory. I haven't even used a third of my memory!
If you can help at all, I would appreciate it. I am fairly illiterate when it comes to any PC, and now my eleven year old has fallen in love with Flying Corp.
Jacques
F-117A Stealth Fighter manual year: tags: description: I am writing to inquire whether you may know where to find the original manual for F-117A Stealth Fighter, as i have looked for a few months with no success to locate it.. If you have any information on where i can acquire the manual i would be most grateful if you emailed it to me or a link to it.
WOW !! year: tags: description: I’m actually surprised how little of this type of simulation comes out anymore. It’s like the entire genre died (or was bought by Mr Gates.) In fact, one of my favorite games that I still talk about today (and I hate myself for selling my last copy- I had more on backorder-never came) was Bruce Artwick’s “Towerâ€. That was awesome!!
Anyway, by the late 90’s, there was so little “good†stuff coming, I sort of lost interest in it. They were buggy; the PC speeds were constantly changing; people just couldn’t keep up with the ever changing demands and even if you had a “Uber PCâ€, the results were often mediocre.
I’d love to see it all come back. In fact, the cool way to work the sims would be to have it all transfer to Playstation or Xbox since sims are all about the graphics/flight modeling. then we need good rudders and HOTAS for the PS3 and/or Xbox. Games exist for them but very “arcadeâ€.
Thanks for the memory trip. Keep it up.
Let me know if there is anything coming that will rekindle my “flight feverâ€. When I sort through the pile of stuff, I’ll shoot you a list to see if there is anything you want.
Rob Gibney
Thanks indeed for the encouraging words Rob! This sort of feedback does keep me going.
MiGManI accidentally stumbled across your site and I’m now completely overcome by the memories this site stirred up. I started off with my first PC bought entirely in order to use Falcon AT. Then the first Jetfighter.
It didn’t take too long and I was importing and selling Elite sims and carrying Thrustmaster in my buddy’s store. I still have two sets of Thrustmaster Rudders new in boxes in the basement. I remember all of this. What a trip. I have at least two piles of old software in the basement office. TFX, JF3, Janes F15; F18, Yeager; the OLD F15 Eagle on 3.5†(I think?). Unreal.