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747
1981
747 was a civil flight sim created for the Atom computer, running in 12K of RAM ( !!!) in 1981. To give you an idea, 12k is about the size of a small web page these days. Or a few pages of text.
Civil

3-D Helicopter Simulator
1987
Released in 1987, this sim must have been one of the first to support head to head play via a modem. For it's time it looked outstanding with 3 dimensional polygon choppers and scenery.
Civil Rotary Wing

421C Golden Eagle
2002
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002
Flight One
Adds the Cessna 421C Golden Eagle to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002.
Civil Add-on

727 Professional
2003
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
727-100/200 in one of four versions with a total of 29 different liveries.
Civil Add-on

757 Captain
2008
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
Captain Sim Just Flight
200, 300 and freighter variants with an impressive selection of different airline liveries and different engine variants.
Civil Add-on

A320 Airbus
1992
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."
Civil Add-on

A320 Airbus
1992
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."
Civil Add-on

A320 Pilot in Command
2002
Just Flight
A320 Pilot in Command was published by Just Flight in 2002. It added the A-320 Airbus to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 and a much more extensive avionics suite.
Civil Add-on

Acrojet
1985
Microprose
Acro Jet was released in 1985 on the Sinclair Spectrum.
Civil

Aerofly FS 2
2017
IPACS
A cross platform sim with gorgeous graphics and a fluid flight model. The sim ran totally fluidly on my i7 and Nvidia 1060 graphics card. Helicopter flight modelling seems well supported. A great variety of aircraft are provided in the standard fleet. The interface and load times are a marvel to behold (they are fast!). My only question remains as to the flight planning, which I found quite obscure. I'll return to that.
Civil

African Safari Scenery
2000
Abacus
Adds aircraft, scenery and ANIMALS to Microsoft Flight Simulator 98.
Civil Add-on

Air Manager
"Air Manager is an application which allows you to create your own 2D flight simulator panels. You can run it on the same computer as your flight simulator, or on a seperate computer. It will automatically connect to your X-plane, FSX or Prepar3d flight simulator on your local network."
Civil Add-on

Airbus Collection
2006
Commercial Level Simulations Just Flight
"A collection of Airbus' heavies from the "F-Lite" series, for those who want to get straight into the left seat and fly." (pub. info)
Civil Add-on

Airbus Series Vol. 1
2007
Just Flight
The A318, A319, A320 and A321 are operated by airlines across the globe.
Civil Add-on

Aircraft and Adventure Factory
1992
Mallard
"In my opinion this is what made Flight simming really interesting - designing visually accurate (in a relative sense, or at least for the time) aircraft, that flew close to what the real planes did. And if they didn't, you tweaked it until it did. If this had not happened, I don't believe that the hobby would have gone to where it is today. " - Thomas Long.
Civil Add-on

Aircraft Animator
2000

It took aircraft from Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 and added moving parts such as landing gear and propellor blades.
Civil Add-on

Airline Commander
2021
Rortos
Mobile airline management and career pilot sim.
Civil Mobile

Around the World
1999
Abacus
Adds Amelia Aerhart's aircraft - the Lockeed Electra - and scenery all along the route of her last, unfinished flight of 1937.
Civil Add-on

Australia Special Edition 98
1998
Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Australian scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator 98. | Scans to process
Civil Add-on

Aviator - Bush Pilot
2014
UIG Entertainment Netmin Games
"As the busy operator of a hangar and runway in the heart of a region like the Serengeti, there are countless ways to earn a living. As an ‘old school’ bush pilot, you must undertake challenging jobs to make the lives of both tourists and locals a lot easier. Fight bush fires, transport goods, find missing people & items, serve as a first responder & wildlife preservationist, or simply take some snapshots of archaeological finds."
Civil

Azores & Madeira
1996
Microsoft Flight Simulator 95
Apollo
Scenery add-on for Microsoft Flight Sim 95 and Microsoft Flight Sim 98.
Civil Add-on

Beseige
2020
Spiderling Studios
Adds many aircraft and physics based flight models to 'Beseiged'. "The game allows players to build outlandish medieval siege engines to pit against castles or armies."
It has also been used to create flight sim experiences.
Civil

Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space
1992
Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space offers twenty different approaches to the moon. Do you follow history or do you cut your own path to glory? Will the United States land on the moon first? Or will the Russians continue to dominate space and plant the red flag on lunar soil first?
Civil

C-5M Super Galaxy
2009
"Built for FSX engine, very high detail exterior and interior, photoreal textures, detailed doors and cargo bays."
Civil Add-on

Cargo Pilot
2006

"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.
Civil Add-on

Chuck Yeager’s Advanced Flight Trainer
1987
Electronic Arts
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.
Civil

Conquer the Skies
1997
Microprose
This collection was published by Microprose in 1997. It contains four of Microprose's best DOS combat flight sims: 1942: Pacific Air War, Falcon 3.0, Fleet Defender and Gunship 2000.
Civil Add-on

Constellation Professional
2009
Aeroplane Heaven Just Flight
"The Constellation is a true aviation pioneer and thanks to its distinctive shape it is one of the most easily recognised airliners ever to grace the skies. The C69 Military transport, C69/L049A and the L049A production versions are included in Constellation Professional and span a range of 11 different aircraft."
Civil Add-on

Corporate Pilot
2000
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
Abacus
Adds these flyable aircraft to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000: Beechcraft Starship, Rockwell Twin Commander, Cessna Citation X, Dassault FalconJet 2000, Cessna 441 Conquest and the BeechJet 400A.
Civil Add-on

Dangerous Airports
1998
Enables you to fly into new airports in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98. What makes these airports so dangerous? These airports are all located hundreds or thousands of miles apart. But in a word - what makes these airports dangerous is the surrounding terrain. Weather, high altitude, narrow approaches and hidden runways all add to the challenge. And designers Jim Rhoads and Tim Dickens are carefully detailing each airport to bring you an authentic flight experience.
Airports: Dutch Harbor - Aleutian Islands | Funchal, Madiera Island (Portugal) | Innsbruck, Austria | Kathmandu, Nepal | Guatemala City, Guatemala | Aspen, Colorado | Kodiak, Alaska | Akureyri, Iceland | Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland | Templehoff Berlin, Germany.
Civil Add-on

Europe 1
1997
Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1
Playsoft
Scenery add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 98. Package included a manual and Jeppesen chart.
Civil Add-on Scenery

Europe 2
1997
Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1
Playsoft
Scenery add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 98. Package included a manual and Jeppesen chart.
Civil Add-on Scenery

Europe 3
1997
Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1
Playsoft
Scenery add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 98. Package included a manual and Jeppesen chart.
Civil Add-on Scenery

Extreme Landings
2015
Rortos
Mobile sim focussed on exciting landing scenarios.
Civil Mobile

F-1 Tornado
1990
F1Tornado was released in 1990 for the Sinclair Spectrum. Once of the intro screens, curiously, shows a profile view of an F-4 Phantom II.
Civil

Flight Sim Toolkit
1993
Flight Sim Toolkit was a unique concept, putting creative power in the hands of the flight sim enthusiast. Please contact me if you have videos of the series in action.
Civil

Flight Simulator 1
1981
SuBLogic
Flight Simulator 1 was one of the first flight sims released for personal computers. A whole generation of flight sim fans were hooked for life on the wire frame graphics and the "dogfighting" in the Sopwith Camel. The graphical splendour rested mainly in the mind of the player - but it was a beginning! This was my very first exposure to flying on a personal computer and I was hooked!
Civil

Flight Simulator II
1983
SuBLogic
Michael Woodley reported: "At the time, there were three 6502 versions of FSII. There was one for the Apple II, one for the Commodore 64 and one for the Atari 800. When the the Atari ST and Amiga were introduced (which ran the Motorolla 68000 processor), new versions were released for those machines, for the Tandy and for the MacIntosh through Microsoft. The versions of FSII for the 6502 processor DID have solid filled graphics not just wireframe."
Civil

Flight Unlimited II
1997
Looking Glass
Stunning landscape and weather complemented by ATC and realistic physics made this a high watermanrk in civil flight sims.
Civil

FLY
1999
Terminal Reality
A detailed civil flight sim which needs a fairly powerful machine to run at full graphic settings and should see a lot of expansion with added scenery packs.
Civil

Fly the Grand Canyon
1991
Hyacinth
Possibly the first ever 'VR' sim released for home PC? It was a 3D wire mesh model of the Grand Canyon which you viewed with 3D glasses.
Civil Scenery

FS Scenery Enhancer
2002
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002
Lago
It added the ability to add and manipulate objects within Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002, creating your own scenery enhancements.
Civil

GS NWE
Civil

GS NWE
Civil

Hawaii
1992
Microsoft Flight Simulator 4
Scenery of this famous landmark for Microsoft Flight Sim 4.
Civil Add-on

Helicopter Flight Simulator
2018
Simulators Live
"Become a professional pilot and rescuer. Control different helicopters, protect the city and be a part of the rescue team!"
Civil Rotary Wing

Helicopter Simulator 2014: Search and Rescue
2014
VipaGames Ultimate Games
"Become an emergency pilot and test your skills to their limits, as you sit in the cockpit of an emergency helicopter, across more than 40 challenging missions. Choose from 8 models of 'copter, each varying in size, ability and specs."
Civil Rotary Wing

IFR
1983
IFR was a flight sim released on the Commodore 64 in 1983 "I think you could say it turned a liability into a virtue when it called itself an IFR simulator, since it had no out the window graphics at all! It's about as IFR as you can get. It's been a long time since I flew it but I still recall it was a rather strange experience. You followed yourself on a grid, and controlled your position by taking different headings. The idea was to fly at different altitudes, slip through narrow openings, make 90 degree turns to snake your way through, and land at different "airports" (which were just locations on the grid) by landing completely blind, with descent rate at touchdown determining whether it was a landing or a crash." - Ed Brooks.
Civil Multiplayer

Infinite Flight
2020
Infinite Flight
A serious contender in the relatively new area of mobile platform based flight sims. Features satellite terrain imagery, dozens of aircraft, adjustable weather, Fore Flight connections and multiplayer servers with human ATC.
Civil Mobile Multiplayer

Instrument Flight
1987
SPITE Software
The first talking ATC in a sim? Jim Bailey, Yellow Springs, Ohio wrote and published a sim for CP/M back in 1987 called "Instrument Flight". "There was also an interpreter which you could create your own scripts for to provide ATC guidance. Not a canned script, but rather the ability to request vectors on the fly and get an intercept to the localizer or request the full approach on your own. It hollered at you if you were off your altitude!"
Civil

Island Flight Simulator
2015
Caipirinha Games Libredia
"Touch down in the tropics and transport freight between twelve exotic islands in more than a hundred exciting missions."
Civil Transport

Japan
1993
Microsoft Flight Simulator 4
Mallard
Scenery enhancement for MSFS 4.
Civil Add-on

MegaScenery USA 2004
2004
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
PC Aviator
Large satellite imagery based scenery enhancement for MSFS 2004.
Civil Add-on Add-on Scenery

Mexico Scenery Gold
1998
Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
FlyMex
Scenery addon for Microsoft Flight Simulator 98.
Civil Add-on Scenery

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002
2002
Microsoft
The sequel to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000, this sim added interactive ATC, dynamic 'auto-gen' scenery, terrain mesh mapped for the entire planet and all with much smoother frame rates than it's predecessor.
Civil Rotary Wing

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
2004
Microsoft
Also titled "A Century of Flight""or FS-9, the sim recreates important historical aircraft and flights, as well as modelling the entire globe, 20,000 airports and flight tuition. Without a doubt the most sophisticated flight simulation on the market in the first decade of the 21st century.
Civil Rotary Wing

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
2020
Microsoft Asobo
After a 14 year hiatus Microsoft re-envisioned their flagship IP. A combination of Bing satellite mapping, cloud storage, Azure cloud computing, photogrammetry, atmospheric physics modelling and many other bespoke software technologies have delivered a quantum leap in the flight sim experience. The next decade looks to be the best yet for flight sim fans!
Civil

MiGMan’s World Tour
2021
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
MiGMans Flight Sim Museum
Easy sight-seeing flights which take you all over the world in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Civil Mission MiGMan: Missions Add-on 2020

Orbiter
2005
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.
Civil Space

Perfect Flight Deluxe Ireland
Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Irish scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator 98. | Scans to process
Civil Add-on

Pro Pilot
1997
Pro Pilot was a civil aviation sim released in 1997 by Sierra. I bought a copy in 2000. In 2001 I finally got around to trying it out for the museum and scanned the box contents, admired the manual and checklists then realised there was no CDROM in the box! .. no wonder it was on sale! You win some, you lose some.
Civil

Proflight
1990
Proflight was one of the first flight sims I saw on a personal computer. I had bought an Atari ST to arrange and print music for my string quartet and included in the package was a demo of this amazingly fluid sim, running at 600 x 400 pixels (in monochrome).
Civil

Real Flight Simulator
2020
Rortos
One of the main contenders in the relatively new space of mobile platform based flight sims.
Civil Mobile Multiplayer

Silicon Graphics Flight Sim
"... we hunched around an old IRIS 2400 Turbo playing this amazing flight simulator game from Silicon Graphics, Inc.". Modern personal computers in the 90's (were) now as powerful as graphics workstations of the 80's."
Civil Combat

Simple Planes
2015
Jundroo
"BUILD AIRPLANES. You have the tools you'll need to bring any airplane to life. Snap parts together to build your airplane's body. Place engines to add thrust. Design and attach wings and then strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies." - Steam
Civil

Super Chopper
2021
Webfoot Ziggurat
"Climb into the cockpit of a military attack helicopter and take on five life or death scenarios, or make your own missions in the included level editor!" - Steam
Civil Rotary Wing

Super Huey III
Webfoot Ziggurat
Tribute to the classic 1985 Commodore sim.
Civil Rotary Wing

Take On Helicopters
2011
Bohemia Interactive
Take on Helicopters is a civil helo sim with campaign built in the ARMA 2 engine. This sim was released in 2011 and still looks great 10 years later. The fluid feel of the flight dynamics and the immersive campaign put it into my list of all time favourites. I can only hope that Bohemia Interactive release more titles like this, they don't need to update the engine - just give us more great stories to fly through!
Civil Combat Rotary Wing

Western European Tour Scenery Disk
1988
Flight Simulator 1
SuBLogic
Scenery for subLOGIC Flight Simulator.
Civil

X-Plane
Civil Host

ZX-81 Flight Sims
1980
Type in a flight sim from a magazine article? Yes, that was computer flight simulation in the early 1980s.
Civil