To Dream, to fly - adventures in flight simming reviewed at MiGMan's Flight Sim Museum




To Dream, to fly - adventures in flight simming 1998 - Multiplayer MiGs Whoosh! Flying beneath treetops level (again) I steered the MiG between two hangars. Sweat trickled down my brow as I pumped out the chaff and flares. Glancing at the Heads Up Display (HUD) I could see the dots converging rapidly. Not good. I had about two seconds to break the lock of those missiles or I would be MiG-history! Time slowed as I checked my altitude. 50 feet! I had never flown this low before - and certainly not at this speed. I rolled left into a 90 degree bank and pulled hard, sliding behind the hangars. Whamm! Bamm! A massive explosion rock the MiG as saw the screen fill with the colour of earth. My heart popped into my mouth as I wrenched back on the stick. No time to think! OK - I was still flying . The missiles must have hit the buildings. The gambit had worked - but I couldn't do it again in a hurry. The bat-turn had bled off most of my airspeed. Even with the the engines in full afterburner it would take maybe 5 or 10 secobnds to get back up to maneiuvering speed and in this game that was an eternity. Here comes that blasted F-16! I didn't have an eternity. The F-16's were presumably still flying. Unless I'd gotten lucky and they had hit the ground. It happened... I always got a kick out of suckering a computer pilot into the ground. In the early days of flight sims the computer pilots would never make mistakes like that. When coders started adding some credibile looking "fallibility factor" to their Artificial piolots it was a major step forward in enjoyment.		Unfortunately for me on this day I wasn't flying against computer pilots. I was logged on to the internet and flying against a bunch of humans with names like "Doodz" "Grim Reaper" and so forth. I wasn't totally alone. their were about a dozen pilots on each side of this virtual air war, flying F-16 Falcons and MiG-29 Fulcrums. Their were also a few computer pilots manning the AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) aircraft and their F-15 Eagle escorts. READ ON Back to To Dream, to fly



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