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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 Exhibit Index

747
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.
1981
Civil

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"This sim may look primitive today , but bear in mind the the CPU speeds in 1989 were 8MHz, computers had 640k of RAM and there was no dedicated video hardware. To put it in perspective, a standard PC only 10 years later ran at 3,000 MHz with 1,000,000 k of RAM and a video card that is probably more powerful than the host PC!."
1980
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
FlyMex

1942 The Pacific Air War
1942 The Pacific Air War was a World War II air and sea combat simulation from MicroProse -- you could regard it as the spiritual predecessor to the wonderful European Air War. It allowed you to fly in WWII for the US Navy or the Imperial Japanese Navy (an update also gave access to USAAF planes such as the P-40, P-38, and P-51).
1992
Sierra
Military World War II Pacific Theatre WWII Carrier

3-D Helicopter Simulator
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.
1987
Civil Rotary Wing

303 Squadron: Battle of Britain
"No. 303 Fighter Squadron was formed in Britain in July 1940 comprised of polish and other nations pilots. It fought alongside other RAF units in the Battle of Britain. The 303 Squdadron was well-known for its bravado, fearless attitude, precision and professionalism. During the WWII, they were one of the most effective units of Royal Air Force."
2018
Atomic Jelly Movie Games S.A.
Military World War II Battle of Britain

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

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

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

777 Professional

8-Bit Airwar

A-10 Attack
This Mac sim featured fabulous flight modelling and was the predecessor to 1996's A-10 Cuba. Ran fluidly on an average machine in 1996.
1995
Parsoft Interactive
Military

A-10 Cuba
A-10 Cuba by Eric "Hellcats" Parker is a fluid and exciting sim which ran well on modest PC's. This sim was one of that rare breed which begged to be flown! The handling from taxiing to landing is pure flight sim joy! The wealth of detail, smoothness and sense of speed added up to an addictive experience The handling from taxiing to landing is pure flight sim joy!
1996
Parsoft Interactive
Military

Aerosoft Offshore Landmarks: North Sea
Brilliant add-on which populates the North Sea with Oil Rigs, ships, wind farms and more. I never would have imagined that this area was so densely populated!
2022
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
Aerosoft
Add-on Scenery

A-10 Tank Killer
This sim may look primitive today , but bear in mind the the CPU speeds in 1989 were 8MHz, computers had 640k of RAM and there was no dedicated video hardware. To put it in perspective, a standard PC only 10 years later ran at 3,000 MHz with 1,000,000 k of RAM and a video card that is probably more powerful than the host PC!.
1989
Military

A-10 Tank Killer 2: Silent Thunder
One of the first Windows 95 flight sims and sequel to 1989's A-10 Tank Killer.
1996
Dynamix Sierra
Military

A-10 Warthog
The Flight Sim Museum sadly remembers Jane's A-10 Warthog, the best sim that never took flight. A-10 Warthog was the greatest sim that never took flight. The crack team at Janes Combat Simulations had the rug pulled out from under their feet just before the 'Hog flew. Sim fans worldwide were bitterly disappointed when, in July 1999, Jane's announced the cancellation of the project. All we are left with are these tantalising glimpses of what may have been.
1999
Janes Combat Simulations
Military

A320 Airbus
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."
1992
Civil Add-on

A320 Airbus
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."
1992
Civil Add-on

A320 Pilot in Command
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.
2002
Just Flight
Civil Add-on

Ace Combat 2
An arcade style air combat game played from a 3rd person perspective.
1997
Namco
Military

Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
The successor to Ace Combat 2. Third in a popular series of air combat oriented arcade style games.
1999
Namco
Military

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
High paced and great looking aerial action which could be a modern 'Strike Commander' if it supported HOTAS and TrackIR. It no doubt serves console players well but excludes itself from the running for those coming from the sim end of the field because of these issues. Bizarrely though, Bandai-Namco did a deal to support a specific Ace Combat model joystick from Thrustmaster. This left me looking forlornly at my top-of -the-range Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS and TRP rudder pedals and wondering why I couldn't join the party?
2019
Bandai Namco Entertainment
Military

Aces Collection
It also contained maps and a multimedia reference on Early Aviation pioneers. I have Aces: The Complete Collector's Edition. Except for A-10 Tank Killer 2: Silent Thunder, these sims all run in DOS.
1997
Sierra
Military World War II Battle of Britain Collection

Aces of the Pacific
Part of the most complex and popular World War II sim series of the early 1990s. It had detailed cockpits, different for each aircraft type and some of the most detailed ground objects seen at that time in a VGA sim.
1992
Dynamix Sierra
Military World War II Carrier

Aces over Europe
The most complex and popular World War II sim of 1992.
1993
Microprose
Military World War II Battle of Britain European Theatre WWII

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

Advanced Tactical Fighters
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 sat in my hom-buil cockpit and 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!
1996
Military NATO

Aero Elite: Combat Academy
"... last game in the AeroWings series, and was also considered the best: quality graphics, very detailed and animated 3D plane models, over 60 planes to fly (including Mig 29, SU27, Mirage2000, Harrier, A10, Tornado, etc.), challenging missions and new original features like the "scramble" mode - a random interception mission where a player must take off, intercept an unknown intruder plane, take pictures to identify it, then return to the base and land to finish the mission. " - Wikipedia
2002
SEGA
Military

Aero Fighters Assault
AeroFighters Assault was developed by Paradigm Entertainment and published by Video System Co. Ltd. for the Nintendo in 1997. It was released in Japan as Sonic Wings Assault.
1997
Video System Co. Ltd. Paradigm
Military

Aerofly FS 2
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.
2017
IPACS
Civil

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

Afterburner
The PC port of this game didn't look as good as the arcade machines, but bear in mind that these were the days of 386 25 Mhz processors and 2 MEG RAM! Although this was definitely an arcade game rather than a sim, it is worth a mention because it had a pretty good moving cockpit in the arcades and probably got many people interested the flight sim genre. Anyway the fact remains that if you tell someone that you're into Flight Simulators there is a pretty good chance they'll say "Oh, yeah, you mean like: Afterburner!". It is an iconic game.
1988
SEGA Activision
Military

Air Combat

Air Combat Classics
Air Combat Classics is a collection of absolute classic flight sims from LucasArts released in 1993. It contained: Battlehawks 1942 | Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe | Their Finest Hour (Battle of Britain).
1993
Military

Air Combat Yugekioh II
Air Combat Yugeki-oh II was developed by SystemSoft for the NEC PC-9801 series of PC's in Japan. The player is a mercenary pilot working for the Asian Pacific Economic Network (APEN).
1990
Military

Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers
Arcade flight sim: Become immersed in the exploits of famous aircraft carriers. Choose the side you want to play on: the US Navy or the Imperial Japanese Navy.'
2012
3Division Games Farm
Military Pacific Theatre WWII

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars
Arcade flight simulation set in a world war I + II scenario. During the 7 campaigns the player has to fly and fight through 49 missions.'
2011
3Division Games Farm
Military

Air Conflicts: Vietnam
You are Joe Thompson, an intrepid and patriotic pilot fighting to uphold the values of his country. '
2013
Games Farm
Military Vietnam War

Air Fighters
Mobile sim featuring air combat in jet fighters.
2014
Rortos
Military Mobile

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

Air Missions: HIND
"Action combat flight simulator based on the Russian Mi-24 Hind assault helicopter."
2016
3Division
Military Rotary Wing

Air Navy Fighters
Mobile sim featuring air combat in carrier based jet fighters.
2012
Rortos
Military Mobile

Air Power
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!
1995
Rowan
Military

Air Power Cold War
These themed add-ons from Just Flight always had compelling box art. I bought a spare copy just to sit on the bookshelf! The package contained 29 aircraft, scenery and missions for Microsoft Flight Sim 2002 and Microsoft Combat Flight Sim. I found it to be great value and it provided me with many hours of fun.
2000
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
Alphasim Just Flight
Military Add-on Cold War

Air Strike USA
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 grew one of the giants in air combat sim development.
1985
Digital Integration Digital Integration
Military

Air Support
"Don't be misled by its title and the illustration of twin Tornado ADVs soaring across the cover of Psygnosis' latest battle-in-a-box. Air Support is not a screaming, seat-of-the-pants combat flight simulator, It's more like a tedious, and less enjoyable version of their own previous release Armour-Geddon."
1992
Psygnosis
Military

Air Warrior (Public Domain)
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.
1990
Military World War II

Air Warrior III
Air Warrior 3, released in 1998 is a popular on-line World War 2 Air Combat sim running in Windows '95 and '98.
1998
Military World War II

Air-Sea Battle
A scrolling game from the 1970's.
1977
Military

Airbus Collection
"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)
2006
Commercial Level Simulations Just Flight
Civil Add-on

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

Aircraft and Adventure Factory
"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.
1992
Mallard
Civil Add-on

Aircraft Animator
It took aircraft from Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 and added moving parts such as landing gear and propellor blades.
2000
Abacus
Civil Add-on

Airfix Dogfighter
Who as a child didn't use their plastic model aircraft to stage furious dogfights? Airfix Dogfighter recreates that simple and joyful world!
2000
Paradox Entertainment
Military

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

Airport Scenery Designer 2.0
1995

ARMA
ARMA may be described as a military | physics | AI sandbox. It supports air, land and sea operations as infantry and in all sorts of vehicles and has a massive user base.
2001
Bohemia Interactive
Military

ARMA 3
"Combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploying a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, over 20 vehicles and 40 weapons, and limitless opportunities for content creation"
2013
Bohemia Interactive
Military Sandbox

ARMA 3 Helicopters
"'Arma 3 Helicopters, the second premium DLC for Arma 3, features the highly detailed CH-67 Huron and Mi-290 Taru heavy-lift helicopters, a Sling Loading showcase scenario, and four exclusive helicopter Time Trial challenges. The DLC is complemented by a major free platform update for Arma 3, which lands the new Support MP mode, sling loading, RotorLib, firing from vehicles, and more."
2014
Bohemia Interactive
Military Sandbox Rotary Wing

ARMA 3 Jets
"Fly brand new air-superiority jets and use advanced targeting systems to shoot down the enemy in the Arma 3 Jets DLC."
2017
Bohemia Interactive
Military Sandbox

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

ATAC: The Secret War against Drugs
ATAC (Advanced Tactical Air Command) puts you in the position of group leader of a mixed squadron of F-22's and AH-64's deployed to Colombia by the United States. It required you to plan and fly the missions, thus adding a tactical depth rarely seen in flight sims to that time.
1992
Argonaut Microprose

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

Avenger A-10
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.
1991
Spectrum Holobyte
Military

Aviator - Bush Pilot
"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."
2014
UIG Entertainment Netmin Games
Civil

Avro Vulcan for CFS2
A classic marque which deserves a rich sim environment in which to stretch it's legs, Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2 merely muzzles it. The developer acknowledges this and I concur that the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 version looks like the way to go for full Vulcan enjoyment.
2002
FlightCraft Simulations
Military Add-on

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

B-17 Flying Fortress
A classic DOS sim, and complex for it's time!
1992
Microprose
Military Bomber World War II European Theatre WWII

B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty Eighth
B-17 The Mighty Eighth is a single or multiplayer simulation of the B17 Flying Fortress Bomber. You can also fly the escort fighter planes or Luftwaffe interceptors. The design, and some of the team members originate from the classic 1992 sim from Microprose "B17 Flying Fortress.
2000
Wayward Design Microprose
Military Bomber World War II European Theatre WWII

B-24
1988
Military Bomber World War II European Theatre WWII

Back to Baghdad
Back to Baghdad was an F-16 simulation set in the Gulf War (1991) . It was a DOS sim with claims to high fidelity of flight model and weapons systems modelling and was priced about 30% higher than other PC sims at the time. The publishers Military Simulations Inc. went on to specialise in military sims and released no more products for the home market. It was unique in that it supported a second monitor for the radar display - and this while running in DOS !
1996
Military Simulations Inc.
Military

Battle for Midway
Adds aircraft and missions, also adds 10 new aircraft designed by Terry Hill.
2000
Military Add-on Pacific Theatre WWII

Battle of Britain (Rowan)
Expectations were high at Xmas 2000. Rowan, the makers of 'Flight of the Intruder' Operation Overlord, Navy Strike and more recently the smash hit 'MiG Alley', released a simulation of the 6 weeks that altered history, when the Royal Air Force fended off the might of the Luftwaffe.
2000
Rowan
Military World War II European Theatre WWII

Battle of Britain 2: Wings of Victory
It features an enhanced graphics engine based on the classic Battle of Britain by Rowan (2000).
2005
Military World War II European Theatre WWII

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
The product is presented as a tribute to the BOBMF and a high standard of production is apparent throughout, from the full colour manual to the recreation of RAF Coningsby and the individual aircraft of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
2001
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator
Blue Arrow Just Flight
Military Add-on World War II European Theatre WWII

Battle over Europe
Dynamic campaign add-on for IL-2 Forgotten Battles.
2004
Military World War II European Theatre WWII

Battlestations: Midway
"Action game that drops players into massive air, sea, and undersea battles from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Players command massive fleet attacks and take direct, real-time, control of every plane, battleship, and submarine in the battle."
2007
Eidos Square Enix
Military World War II Pacific Theatre WWII

Battlestations: Pacific
"Feel the power of the historically authentic and decisive battles of the Pacific War."
2009
Military World War II Pacific Theatre WWII

Beseige
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.
2020
Spiderling Studios
Civil

Birds of Prey
In 1992 16 bit processors had just arrived and we were plunged into an exciting world of flying polygons! The weapons were destructive to any object, no matter what the device or target. I have witnessed a Forger get hit AFTER launching from a carrier by a Mk83 slick released by a B-1B Lancer." Pretty good for a sim that came on ONE floppy disk - 720K !
1992
Activision
Military

Black Knight Marine Strike Fighter
First impressions (1998): "Black Knight Marine Strike Fighter SE was distributed as a shareware demo in 1995 with some functions disabled. The graphics were VGA (300 x 200). The publisher was FormGen. The flight recorder played back your flight from various angles. It runs very fast on a 486 and is worth a look at as an introduction to jet combat sims." MiGMan
1998
Military Cold War

Bush Trip Injector
BushTripInjector is an add-on for creating Bush Trips in Microsoft Flightsimulator. Create fantastic Bush Trips in high quality with BushTripInjector. It allows you to create them without having any knowledge about xml files, programming or other advanced IT skills. And because no SDK or other development environment is needed.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
BuffyGC
Utility Mission Planning

Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space
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?
1992
Civil

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

Cargo Pilot
"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.
2006
Just Flight
Civil Add-on

Carrier Command
One of the earliest and most addictive real time strategy games, it also had a flight simulation element. A classic sim in it's time which integrated many of the elements of addictive gameplay.
1988
Realtime Games Software Rainbird Software
Military Carrier Amphibious

Carrier Deck
"Carrier Deck is a fast paced time management game where you will play as the Air Officer on board a CVN-76 in the midst of active war."
2017
Every Single Soldier
Military Carrier

Carrier Landings
Mobile sim focussed on carrier landings.
2015
Rortos
Military Mobile Carrier

Check Six
Check Six was the first flight simulation from Pegasus Japan on the NEC PC-9801 Series. In this game the player is a mercenary pilot who gets rewarded for successful missions and can buy aircraft. Screen resolution is 640 x 400 pixels and 16 colors. It gives a similar impression to Air Combat III.
1993
Pegasus Japan
Military

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

Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat
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. The sim is a historical fulcrum between the living history embodied in Chuck Yeager and the younger generation trying to understand the experience of air combat in three wars and codify that.
1990
Electronic Arts
Military World War II Korean War Vietnam War

Cityscape Sydney
2020

Close Combat Series
This was the first game to really factor in morale for your troops, which added a lot of uncertainty to the gameplay. The whole series is undemanding on hardware and an ideal choice for whiling away time on a laptop.
1996
Atomic Microsoft
Military World War II European Theatre WWII

Comanche
The graphics engine used "Voxel" technology which was a novel way of treating pixels to gain more detail and speed. Rather than applying bitmaps to 3D terrain, each pixel actually contained it's own altitude data. The result was the most exciting terrain seen on a PC to that point in time. It excelled at producing a sensation of low altitude flight.
1992
Novalogic THQ Nordic
Military Rotary Wing

Comanche 3
It was one of the last sims to run in DOS.
1997
Novalogic
Military Rotary Wing

Comanche 4
"The best-selling Comanche series returns with this fast-paced action game that places you at the controls of a Comanche RAH-66 helicopter."
2001
Novalogic
Military Rotary Wing

Comanche: Maximum Overkill

Combat Air Patrol
"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."
1993
Psygnosis
Military European Theatre WWII

Combat Air Patrol 2
2016 simulation of the AV-8B Harrier. This sim could pick up where SVGA Harrier Assault left off in 1992, with a flyable AV-8B Harrier and a dynamic campaign!
2017
Military

Combat Helo
"Since 1996, crazed rotor-heads have wanted more of that paranoid, heavy metal, hi-tech thrill-ride that is Longbow 2. FIVE years on and the uber simulation of helicopter combat is still as exciting as it ever was, unfortunately our desktop computers and operating systems have moved on making it difficult at best, impossible at worst, to fly our favourite sim."
Richard "Flexman" Hawley, October 15, 2001
2001
Military Rotary Wing

Combat Jet Trainer
Originally the software was sold by download from Captain Sim as TLK-39 Albatros.
2002
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
Captain Sim Just Flight
Military Add-on

Combat Lynx
Allowed you to fly the Westland Lynx in a ground Attack role and may have been the first sim to feature 3D terrain with rolling hills?
1984
Durell Software
Military Rotary Wing

Combat Squadron
Adds aircraft designed by Terry Hill to Microsoft Combat Flight Sim, Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000.
2001
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator
Abacus
Military European Theatre WWII

Combat Wings
"It’s the 4th of June, 1942, and Japanese bombs are raining down on Midway – and you. This lethal assault is a prelude to an invasion whose success gives the enemy control over the Pacific. You are one of the American airmen who hold the outcome of this decisive battle in their hands."
2008
CI Games
Military World War II Pacific Theatre WWII

Combat Wings: Battle of Britain
"As the Luftwaffe launches its aerial offensive, the outnumbered Royal Air Force is scrambling to bring into combat new planes that will ensure victory over a stronger foe. Will they succeed? It’s up to you, and your Hurricane or Spitfire."
2009
CI Games
Military World War II Battle of Britain

Conquer the Skies
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.
1997
Microprose
Civil Add-on

Constellation Professional
"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."
2009
Aeroplane Heaven Just Flight
Civil Add-on

Corporate Pilot
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.
2000
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
Abacus
Civil Add-on

Crimson Skies
Set in a parallel universe in 1937, the game sets up a world where the USA is divided into small nations and Air Power rules the day. Jordan Weisner has combined elements of the swashbuckling 1930's pulp fiction hero with, in his words "Air Combat with everything taken out except the fun!".
2000
Zipper Microsoft
Military

D-Day: Operation Overlord
Released in 1994, this was one of the very first flight sims to make use of the brand new S3 graphics chipset. This chipset enabled a doubling of the screen resolution from 300x200 pixels to an amazing 600x400 pixels. It was quite difficult to get running as I recall, requiring many hours of struggling with the graphics drivers. I remember clearly seeing a looping demo of it running in the local games shop. A Spitfire approached a German radar post and attacked. I couldn't believe my eyes at the graphical detail with trees, fences andd irt pathways. I would stand there for hours watching this thing until I splurged the couple of hundred dollars to upgrade my graphics card. I had only bought my first PC 2 months before and it already needed upgrading. That's progress!
1994
Rowan Virgin Interactive
Military World War II

Dam Busters
Total content. One mission. But an important one.
1984
Military World War II Add-on European Theatre WWII

Dam Busters (2002)
The Dam Busters opens the bomb bay door to a new experience in - Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2 - that of the bomber pilot. You need a different mindset than when flying the fighters - accurate station keeping is everything on the final bomb run.
2002
Blue Arrow Just Flight
Military Add-on European Theatre WWII

Dangerous Airports
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.
1998
Civil Add-on

Dawn of Aces
World War I air combat sim optimised for online play.
1998
Interactive Entertainment Networks iMagic
Military World War I

Dawn Patrol
"Flying Corps Gold is a better game." - Dave Whiteside
1995
Rowan
Military World War I

DCS (Digital Combat Simulator World)
Successor to Flanker 1.5, Su-27 2.0, LOMAC and others, this sim continues the mission of presenting a high quality combat flight sim environment. " DCS is a true "sandbox" simulation that is also designed to cover multiple time periods of interest such as WWII, Korean War, Vietnam, Gulf War and others."
2017
Eagle Dynamics
Military Cold War

Delta Wing
Delta Wing by Creative Sparks was released in 1984 for the Sinclair Spectrum. It included a special two player version that you play with two Spectrums, two interfaces and two TVs.
1984
Military

dgVoodoo
Copy it into the sim directory and it emulates legacy Glide and DirectX graphics cards.

Dogfight
I bought the Atari version and was blown away by the smooth and "complex" graphics and variety of gameplay, even though the graphics looked nothing at all like the splash screen, the gameplay being instead state of the art early 1990's shaded polygon models. One outstanding innovation for the time was the inclusion of virtual cockpits with padlock view.
Military

Dogfight 1942
"Pilot a wide range of aircraft, engage in aerial dogfights and dangerous fighter missions across the major theaters of war during WWII."
2012
CI Games
Military World War II

DOSBox
DOSBox, an x86 emulator with DOS

E-Z Landmark
#N/A

EF 2000
EF 2000 first saw the light of day (a gloomy Scandinavian day at that! ) in 1995. It's roots lay in F-29 Retaliator and TFX but it went much, much further, breaking new ground in combat flight fidelity. From engine start, sorry, I mean TWO engine starts, you knew this was a new kind of flight sim experience. Taxiing quickened the pulse as the Eurofighter bobbed and bounced on its suspension. Sunlight glinted through the canopy, wheel brakes on, engine spooled up and the beast was straining at the leash.

"Brakes off and the tyres rumble, 120 knots and the dragon leaps into the air."
- an ode to EF 2000 - MiGMan, 1999
1995
Digital Image Design
Military

Enemy Engaged 2
This sim has the finest of pedigrees, based as it is on the best helicopter dynamic campaign engine ever built.
2007
Razorworks Empire
Military Rotary Wing NATO Dynamic Campaign

Enemy Engaged Apache vs. Havoc
Enemy Engaged: Apache vs. Havoc had arguably the most successful modelling of dynamic battle environments ever seen on a PC in the 1990's. It featured not one, but two of the premier Helicopter Gunships, created in stunning detail and placed in dynamic combat environments. The world of EECvH is so dynamic and interesting that it invites you to get in there and look around, beyond the attraction of flying missions. It really set a gold standard for this kind of sim environment that has still not been matched some 20 years later.
1998
Razorworks Empire
Military Rotary Wing NATO Dynamic Campaign

Enemy Engaged Comanche vs. Hokum
It was early April 2000... and two of the world's most fearsome helicopter gunships landed on home PCs worldwide. One of the best pieces of news to me was that 'Enemy Engaged: Comanche vs Hokum' is backward-compatible with Enemy Engaged - Apache vs Havoc, meaning you still have access to the campaigns and flyable helos from AvH. That of course is if you have AvH installed - if you don't, and you have a PC 300 Mhz or faster and a 3D graphics card, then run out and get it!
2000
Razorworks Empire
Military Rotary Wing NATO

Eurofighter (Alphasim)
The AA radar allows real intercepts to be made, commonplace in combat sims but a first for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.
Military

Eurofighter (Alphasim)
The AA radar allows real intercepts to be made, commonplace in combat sims but a first for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.
Military

Eurofighter Typhoon
In 2001 Digital Image Design (DID) released Eurofighter Typhoon, an accessible and immersive simulation of tactical jet combat.
2001
Digital Image Design Rage
Military NATO

Eurofighter Typhoon: Operation Icebreaker
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. The Eurofighter Typhoon - Operation Icebreaker CD contains the original Eurofighter Typhoon and a new scenario set immediately after the original campaign. It also adds rain, snow, lightning, Carrier Operations, Windows WP compatibility, New multiplayer games, Enhanced declutter HUD mode, Stealth radar mode. The new scenario starts after the Eurofighter Typhoon campaign and assumes that you lost Iceland to the Russians. Based on an aircraft at the North West tip of Iceland you are thrown in the deep end with frantic air combat from the first mission. I think the difficulty level is way too high to begin a campaign. After struggling through the first 4 missions, and aided by the excellent strategy guide, I decided to replay the original campaign first.
2002
Digital Image Design Rage
Military NATO

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

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

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

European Air War
With this flight sim classic Microprose continued their tradition of creating sims which you could live in for months or even years, never getting bored. European Air War recreated the epic west European air battles which helped change the course of World History 1939 - 1945. Every aspect of this sim was superb, from the graphics and sounds to the atmospheric interfaces.
1999
Microprose Microprose
Military World War II European Theatre WWII Dynamic Campaign

Evasive Action
The Software Toolworks is an established developer of games: board, simulation, adventure. They needed a flight sim in their catalog, and Particle Systems did for them. The game was called Evasive Action, a curious choice in 1994, when flight sims were on the rage. Evasive Action proposed four different scenarios: 1917: The Great War, 1942:WWII, The Air Dominance Era, 2064: Space Combat.
Military

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

F-1 Tornado
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.
1990
Civil

F-117A Stealth Fighter (add-on)
A lot of fun to fly in MSFS 2004. The fantastic cockpit made me feel like Microprose's legacy F-117 had been brought into the 21st century.
2006
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
Commercial Level Simulations Just Flight
Military

F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0
F-117A Stealth Fighter has been referred to as "the mother of all sims" due to the many innovations it presented and the atmospheric way the sim is presented. It set standards of game-play which have probably never been exceeded.The sim was a major enhancement and re-release of F-19 (1988) by Sid Meier. F-117A runs very well on a 386 and is a "thinking person's sim" emphasising tactical thinking over reflexes.
1993
Microprose
Military NATO Stealth

F-14 Tomcat
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.
1990
Activision
Military

F-15 | Janes Combat Simulations
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!
1998
Janes Combat Simulations
Military

F-15 Strike Eagle I
The original code for this flight sim weighs in at a hefty 53 K. That is NOT a misprint, not 53Mb or 53 Gb. To put it in perspective, that is the size of an email. This was one of the first sims published by Microprose and launched many a lif-long fascination with flight and flight simulation.
1985
Microprose
Military

F-15 Strike Eagle II
In 1989 F-15 Strike Eagle II had one of the richest and most interactive sim environments ever seen.The world was full of activity from enemy fighters and ships. Who can forget "Director Mode", which let you sit back and watch as the sim followed the action. Pour a cup of coffee, grab a donut and watch the action unfold!
1989
Microprose
Military

F-15 Strike Eagle III
F-15 Strike Eagle III was a ground breaking simulation of the premier Strike Fighter and one of Microprose's greatest achievements. It was also one of the few sims that enabled two people to fly in the same aircraft over a network, in this case as pilot and Weapons Systems Operator.
1992
Microprose
Military

F-16 Aggressor
Boasting one of the most advanced flight models seen in a consumer flight sim. F-16 Aggressor unfortunately had it's development cut short.
1999
Military

F-16 Combat Pilot
The simple graphics of this sim belie the amount of information it presented to the pilot in real time, a milestone achievement for flight sims of the era. I first played it in the 1980's on an Atari ST. I used to fly on instruments most of the time and play with the comprehensive information available on the 3 Multi-Function Displays. It was the first flight sim with a dynamic battlefield.
1989
Microprose
Military

F-16 Fighting Falcon
An obscure sim, this was Gilman Louie's Falcon project before the 'original' Falcon.
1985
Nexa SEGA
Military

F-16 Fighting Falcon (Digital Integration)
This sim continued the legendary legacy of Tornado and brought it into the age of 3DFX graphics. Also released as iF-16.
1998
Military

F-16 Fighting Falcon (Mastertronics)
The box art shows an F-16, unlike the splash screen which shows an imaginary AV-8B with twin tails!
1990
Military

F-16 Multirole Fighter
F-16 Multi Role Fighter by Novalogic combined a lightning quick graphics engine with accessible gameplay.
1998
Bethesda
Military

F-18 Carrier Landing
Mobile sim focussed on carrier landings.
2012
Rortos
Military Mobile Carrier

F-19 Stealth Fighter
F-19 Stealth Fighter was the first version of the wildly successful release "F-117A Stealth Fighter". The smoothly profiled aircraft you can see on the box was based on aerospace industry observer's best guesses about what the mysterious 'Stealth Fighter' actually looked like. Bear in mind that the F-117 was flying in secrecy for about 10 years before the general public got a look at it! Quite a remarkable achievement. The Atari version had digitised sounds, I distinctly remember the "click" of the recon camera. The manual was probably the largest and most informative we had ever seen for a flight sim. Playing this sim on my Atari ST prompted me to get back into scale modelling, so I went out and bought a 1/72 scale F-117 model, which although more accurate in general shape than the F-19 guesses, still wasn't quite right, being too short and stubby.
1988
Military

F-22 Air Dominance Fighter
F22 Air Dominance Fighter by Digital Image Design was the most extensive attempt to recreate the modern air combat environment seen on a PC.
1997
Digital Image Design
Military

F-22 Interceptor
Notable Features Edward Lerner also wrote Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer.
1991
SEGA Electronic Arts
Military

F-22 Lightning 3
Follow up to Novalogic's best selling F-22 Lightning II.
1998
Novalogic
Military

F-22 Lightning II
First in Novalogic's successful and fast paced F-22 series.
1997
Novalogic
Military

F-22 Raptor
Novalogic's first F-22 sim from the era of DOS and pre-3DFX.
1996
Novalogic
Military

F-22 Total Air War
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. In addition to a detailed simulation of the F-22 fighter, TAW simulates a near-future war in the Red Sea region (northeast Africa and Saudi Arabia). It does so many things so well, that the player could easily concentrate on any of several single aspects of the sim and still find a lot of depth and fun.
1998
Digital Image Design
Military Dynamic Campaign

F-29 Retaliator
The graphics were detailed by the standards of the day, with cities, bridges, roads, islands, mountains and moving vehicles.
1991
Digital Image Design Ocean
Military

F-Sim | Space Shuttle
Land the Space Shuttle on your iPhone or Android device. Great fun. FlyingSinger put me on to this 10 years ago and I'm still enjoying doing a dead stick landing in the world's most expensive glider!
2005
Space Mobile

F/A-18 | Janes Combat Simulations
Jane's F/A-18 (JF18) is the successor to their magnificent F-15 simulation. It models the US Navy's next-generation F/A-18E Super Hornet in great detail. As the F/A designation suggests, the Super Hornet is built for both Fighter (Air-to-Air) and Attack (Air-to-Ground) missions. In this sim, you operate your F/A-18 from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the Arctic Sea, flying missions over Russia's North Cape area.
2000
Military Carrier

F/A-18 3.0
Graphic Simulation's F/A-18 3.0 sim set new standards of fidelity and was playable on an average PC! It was actually released on Mac first, unusual for flight sim nowadays but back then Mac's had better graphics capabilities than PC's.
1996
Graphic Simulations Corporation
Military Carrier

F/A-18 Hornet | IOS
IOS sim from the makers of a long line of PC and Mac F/A-18 sims. Based on F/A-18 Korea
2016
Graphsim Entertainment
Military Carrier

F/A-18 Interceptor
Released in 1988 by Electronic Arts, F/A-18 Interceptor was written by Bob Dinnerman who founded the enormously successful Jetfighter series.
1988
Electronic Arts
Military Carrier

F/A-18 Korea
Korea was one of the most realistic flight sims around 1n 1997 and it ran very well on a modest (Pentium) system. Royal Australian Air Force pilots regard this sim as a very accurate portrayal of the Hornet flight model. The flight model was one of the most fluid around and energy management in a dogfight became a desperate necessity! This sim was worth buying just for the in-game training tutorials. The Hornet was conceived from the word go as a dual-role aircraft, hence the designation F/A-18, which means Fighter-Attack. It was meant to supplement the role of the F-14 Tomcat, providing shorter range Air defense and to totally replace the A-7 Corsair and A-6 Intruder.

This sim reflects the dual role with an incredible array of Air-to-Ground weapons and systems. It was an updated and 3DFX enabled version of F/A-18 3.0.
1997
Graphsim Entertainment
Military Carrier

F/A-18 Operation Iraqi Freedom
Enhanced version of F/A-18 Korea, which was originally developed by Graphsim and released in 1998.
2003
Graphsim Entertainment Xicat Interactive
Military Carrier

F/A-18 Precision Strike Fighter
Enhanced version of F/A-18 Korea, which was originally developed by Graphsim and released in 1998.
2001
Graphsim Entertainment Xicat Interactive
Military Carrier

F/A-18E Super Hornet
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!
1999
Digital Integration Titus
Military Carrier

Falcon
Falcon was created for the Atari ST, IBM PC and Commodore Amiga and Apple Mac by Gilman Louie's Spectrum Holobyte team in 1987. In Falcon you piloted the F-16A Falcon on 12 preset missions. Falcon was my initiation into hard-core simming and like many others, I've only looked back since to check six.
1987
Spectrum Holobyte Spectrum Holobyte
Military NATO

Falcon 3.0
An iconic flight simulator, Falcon 3.0 pushed the boundaries of air combat sims. It had all the features anyone could dream of at the time and the gameplay was riveting, with dynamically generated missions. It was also demanding on hardware, needing a 486 with a maths co-processor to run the "High-Fidelity Flight Model".
1991
Sphere Inc. Spectrum Holobyte
Military NATO Dynamic Campaign

Falcon 4.0
Falcon 4.0 was probably the most ambitious air combat sim ever attempted, with a full scale war on the Korean peninsula being modelled. From a problematic beginning - with several patches released before the development team was disbanded by Hasbro to a glorious maturity with user supported development, Falcon remains an iconic sim.
1998
Spectrum Holobyte Microprose
Military NATO Dynamic Campaign

Falcon 4.0: Allied Force
Under the stewardship of sim veterans Graphsim and Falcon 4.0 experts Lead Pursuit, Falcon 4.0: Allied Force keeps alive the seminal combat flight sim dynasty which originated in the late 1980's.
2005
Lead Pursuit Graphic Simulations Corporation
Military NATO Dynamic Campaign

Falcon BMS
Flag bearer of flight simulation's most distinguished dynasty, this release is a heavily modded version of 1998's Falcon 4.0.
2015
Falcon 4.0
Benchmark Sims
Military NATO

Falcon: Operation Infinite Resolve
Falcon: Operation Infinite Resolve was developed by Force 12 Studios and was due to be published by G2 Interactive in 2002.
2002
Force 12 Studios

Fighter Ace 3.5
An attractive WW2 sim geared to online playing, with well organised arenas, training and special events.
2002
Jaleco Ketsujin
Military European Theatre WWII

Fighter Bomber | Strike Aces
Strike Aces was also titled 'Fighter Bomber' was released in 1990 on the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and PC. It was published by Activision and Accolade. 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.
1990
Activision Accolade
Military NATO

Fighter Pilot (Digital Integration)
Fighter Pilot was the first combat flight simulation from the British developer Digital Integration. The game earned the distinction of being the first attempt at simulating the undoubtedly complex F-15 Eagle interceptor. Not a very impressive attempt by today’s standards, but in 1983 the coding was fairly complex and the result quite respectable. There were a number of successive versions created for several platforms over a period of a few years, which makes it harder to determine the release date of the original, but it was probably in 1983. - MiGMan thanks Marc Pajak for the overview.
1983
Digital Integration
Military

Fighter Wing
One of the very first Russian authored sims to reach the western market. The sim had good scenarios, a variety of aircraft and was oriented towards multiplayer. The graphics requirements proved too much for my hardware (this was pre 3DFX) and my copy ended life as a hangar queen.
1994
Gemsoft Merit
Military

Fighters Anthology
Fighters Anthology brought the DOS sims US Navy Fighters, Marine Fighters, Advanced Tactical Fighters, NATO Fighters and the Windows sim USNF '97 into one collection under Windows. It gave you over 100 different aircraft types to fly! It was the culmination of an ambitious series which bought hours of fun to flight sim fans the world over. 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.
1998
Electronic Arts
Military Carrier NATO

Final Flight
" This is a real-time flight and landing simulator for a small plane similar to a Cessna. You're approaching the air strip, and must use your instruments and the view from your cockpit to land safely. You control pitch (angle with the ground), yaw (angle about the plane's vertical axis), and power with your joystick. You may choose flying conditions and decide whether or not to use your instruments. Overall, this is an excellent and convincing simulation." - courtes of Digital Antic Project .
1983
Military

Fleet Command
A high fidelity sim of Naval and Navy Air Operations set in the early 2000's.
Military Carrier NATO

Fleet Defender
Fleet Defender, released in 1994 by Microprose, was the most thorough treatment of Carrier Fleet Defense ever seen to that date on a personal computer. The graphics were VGA 320 x 200 and based on the F15 Strike Eagle III graphics engine. This sim gets about as much detail as it's possible to get out of VGA.
1994
Microprose
Military Carrier NATO

Flight Commander 2
Flight Commander 2 (FC2) is not really a flight simulator at all ... but rather a turn-based, tactical, jet-age air combat war game. So what is FC2 doing in the Flight Sim Museum? It's here because it shares many of the elements of combat flight simulators, and appeals to many of the same people who enjoy flight sims.
Military World War II

Flight Gear
"The FlightGear Flight Simulator project is a free, open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight sim development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License. The FlightGear project is working to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for the development and pursuit of interesting flight simulator ideas. We are developing a solid, basic sim that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing. "
Military

Flight of the Intruder
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! 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.
1990
Spectrum Holobyte Rowan
Military Carrier External Views Cold War

Flight Sim Toolkit
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.
1993
Civil

Flight Simulator 1
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!
1981
SuBLogic
Civil

Flight Simulator II
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."
1983
SuBLogic
Civil

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

FLY
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.
1999
Terminal Reality
Civil

Fly the Grand Canyon
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.
1991
Hyacinth
Civil Scenery

Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China
"Air-combat action game based on the true events of America’s secret volunteer squadrons that defended China against Japan in the China-Burma-India theatre of World War 2."
2015
ACE MADDOX
Military World War II

FreePIE
Allows you to use TrackIR in some games which don't have TrackIR support.
"FreePIE (Programmable Input Emulator) is a application for bridging and emulating input devices."
Utility TrackIR View Emulation

Front Line Fighters
Collection containing four titles by Digital Integration: F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-16 Fighting Falcon Afghanistan Campaign, Hind, Apache Longbow.
1998
Military Collection

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

G-Loc

Gamesave Manager
Manage all your saved games. www.gamesave-manager.com

Global Sorties
Scanned "21 Awesome adventures for Microsoft Flight Simulator"
1998
Microsoft Flight Simulator 98

Google Sheets

Grand Canyon
Scenery of this famous landmark for Microsoft Flight Sim 4.
1992
Microsoft Flight Simulator 4
Mallard
Scenery

Gunship
In Gunship there were no external views available, just a cockpit with a bedazzling array of engine sensors and weapons displays. Engine start left, Engine start right then drop the clutch to start the rotors spinning. Collective up and the rotor blades bite savagely into the air. With a leap and whoops, you're airborne! 1987 had never been more exciting!
1987
Military Rotary Wing NATO

Gunship (pub 2000)
One of the last great sims from Microprose, this reprised their 1988 and 1991 AH-64 Apache simulations and took full advantage of the relatively new technology of 3D graphics acceleration.
2000
Microprose
Military Rotary Wing NATO

Gunship 2000
Gunship 2000 was an Apache Gunship sim released in 1991 by Microprose. As usual with their products, a strong sense of atmosphere was maintained by seamless menu screens and music. You could also fly the A H-1 Cobra, OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, MD 530MG, UH-60 Blackhawk, RAH-66 Comanche and AH-64B Apache Longbow. 1998: "If you only have a 386 and want some exciting chopper action then get this!"
1991
Microprose
Military Rotary Wing NATO

Harrier Jump Jet
"You'll never get closer to the real thing. Your only other option would be to join the Air Force". So sayeth the box blurb from Microprose's 1992 Harrier Jump Jet sim. In the early 90's PC's had finally come into their own as games machines, with Sound Cards and powerful CPU's of the 386 variety! Harrier Jump Jet pushed the machines of the day with it's smooth rolling terrain. Those were the days! A 270 page manual printed on glossy stock and well bound in a size ideal for throne room reading. As well as heaps of tables detailing air-to-ground weapon effectiveness there was diagram after diagram on air combat manoeuvres. Not to mention the 3 full - colour maps!
1992
Microprose
Military NATO S/VTOL

Harrier Jump Jet (pub 2002)
Harrier Jump Jet 2002 adds 20 aircraft including Harriers, Skyhawks, Mirage and Pucara to Microsoft Combat and Civil flight sims. It also contains a 20 mission campaign for Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 1 and 2. The lack of 3 essential elements in the Harrier dogfight - VIFFING, IR and Radar guided missiles and appropriate countermeasures makes you wonder why bother trying to recreate this scenario? Having said that, I nonetheless had a lot of fun with this package. This sxhibit serves as a good snapshot of the state of graphics in 2001 within the world of Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002.
2002
Just Flight
Military Add-on S/VTOL

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

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

Helicopter Simulator
Mobile sim focussed on military rotary wing operations.
2015
Rortos
Military Mobile Rotary Wing

Helicopter Simulator 2014: Search and Rescue
"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."
2014
VipaGames Ultimate Games
Civil Rotary Wing

Hind
Hind campaigns were based in Korea, Afghanistan and Kazakhstan. The flight model felt very smooth and responsive. All in all, Hind is one of the shining lights in the firmament of combat flight sims.
1996
Military Rotary Wing

Hind Apache Twinpack
Part of Digital Integration's impressive stable, this release collectively presented the 'red and blue' forces of late 20c helicopter warfare.
1997
Digital Integration

Historical Landings
Mobile sim focussed on WWII aircraft, in particular landing and carrier operations.
2013
Rortos
Military Mobile Carrier

Iceland Scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator FSW95 or FS98
One of the more unique products I've seen in terms of presentation. This product is housed in a ring binder (232 x 200 x 42 mm) with about 40 single and double sided pages of documentation.
1997
Microsoft Flight Simulator 95
Aeronautic Conceptor’s Team
Scenery Mission Add-on

iF-16
iF-16 by Digital Integration (1997) iF-16 was developed by Digital Integration and published by Interactive Magic in 1997. The fact that this sim was also released as F-16 Fighting Falcon had me confused for quite a while. But that's just me!
1997
Military

iF/A-18E Carrier Strike Fighter
The graphics were of the first generation of sims that used 3DFX cards and satellite mapping techniques.
1998
Military Carrier

IFR
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.
1983
Civil Multiplayer

IL-2
This much anticipated sim recreated the efforts of the Soviet Airforce on the Eastern front in World War 2 from June 22nd, 1941.
2002
1C Maddox
Military World War II Multiplayer

IL-2 Eastern Thunder
28 new missions and new skins for IL-2 based on the aircraft of legendary aces Erich Hartmann and Adolf Galland.
2002
IL-2
Just Flight
Military World War II Multiplayer

IL-2 Forgotten Battles
The sensation of speed at low level is the best yet in a flight sim. I enjoyed whizzing past excellent ground textures, individual trees, small stands of trees and whole forests of trees, vast cities (Moscow alone has 500,000 buildings in the sim), flying through clouds, fog, rain and snow, and all with a smooth frame rated with no s-s-stuttering at all on the test system. All this would be an impressive achievement for a civil flight sim, to create a world in such detail and still enjoy a sedate and fluid sensation of flight. But IL-2 is a combat sim and once you add multiple aircraft manoeuvering vigorously, tanks, trucks and ships, bombers, anti-aircraft fire you would expect the sim performance to take a severe hit. Not so. Without a doubt the most outstanding World War 2 flight sim of the 2000's.
2003
1C Maddox
Military World War II European Theatre WWII Multiplayer

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
"Il-2 1946 includes all of the original IL-2 series content: IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles, Ace Expansion Pack, Pacific Fighters and alternate history campaigns of year 1946. What was years ago began as a one-aircraft study sim is now an astonishing anthology, with a whopping 229 flyable aircraft and over 300 aircraft total!"
2007
1C Maddox 1C Entertainment
Military World War II European Theatre WWII Multiplayer

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946: Battlefield Airborne Tactical
The biggest MOD pack for the IL-2 series. In fact I'd go so far as to say it is the biggest mod EVER! The World at War pack covers WWII, others cover WWI, Korea and Vietnam. All in all you are looking at 10,000 plus missions, 400 plus maps, more than 1200 aircraft types and about 7,000 object types.
2020
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Military World War II European Theatre WWII Multiplayer

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946: Rebirth of Honor
"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."
2008
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
PlusWave Expansions
Military World War II European Theatre WWII Multiplayer

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946: The Fires Above
"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."
2007
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
PlusWave Expansions
Military World War II European Theatre WWII Multiplayer

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946: Wings over Citadel
Luftwaffe fighters over the biggest tank battle in history.
2007
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
PlusWave Expansions
Military World War II European Theatre WWII Multiplayer

IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad
" the most famous air battles of World War II" - Steam
2014
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
1C Game Studios
Military World War II Russian Front Multiplayer

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover BLITZ
An action filled and gloriously good looking Battle of Britain sim, 7 years in the making and based on 2010's 'IL-2: Cliffs of Dover'. At this point I only have about 6 hours in this sim, which puts me 3 missions into the RAF campaign. The MiGPit Mk.VI is running it like a dream at 3840 x 2160, and if the frame rates hold up in more complex missions I can only give this my highest recommendation to anybody hankering after intense BOB action!
2017
1C Maddox Team Fusion Simulations
Military World War II European Theatre WWII Multiplayer

IL-2 Sturmovik: Wings over Jungles
Wings over Jungles is a campaign pack containing four separate campaigns for the flight simulator PACIFIC FIGHTERS (PF). 1. ’Monkey’ (US3) where you take the role of a WWII US Navy Fighter pilot flying from aircraft carriers. 2: ’Angel’ (US4) in which you are flying for the US Marine Corps as a dive bomber and later as a fighter pilot. 3: ’Kyuden’ (IJ3) which lets you fly as a Japanese Navy fighter pilot from aircraft carriers. 4: 'Katana’ (IJ4) which leads you as a Japanese Navy fighter pilot to various assignments.
2008
IL-2
PlusWave Expansions
Military World War II Multiplayer

IL-2 Sturmovik: Wings over Waves
" 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."
2008
IL-2
PlusWave Expansions
Military World War II Multiplayer

Incoming
An arcade style game which looked spectacular in 3DFX. The Harrier featured prominently throughout.
1998
Rage Xicat Interactive
Military Arcade

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.
2020
Infinite Flight
Civil Mobile Multiplayer

Instrument Flight
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!"
1987
SPITE Software
Civil

Intercepteur Cobalt
The program was entirely written in Spectrum's BASIC.
1983
Military

Interdictor
"Interdictor marked the studios first release in 1989 and is credited as the first flight simulator to be released for the Acorn Archimedes. Interdictor put you at the controls of a fighter plane heading towards enemy lines, your mission was to push the enemy away from their location by taking over its airfields one by one and eventually destroying their headquarters. Beyond rewarding the player for their mastery of the flight controls, strategic elements were included involving details like demolishing bridges to prevent supply trucks from crossing and keeping an eye out for ships moving up-river with supplies to repair them. The depth of the game was unparalleled at the time and was critically acclaimed for being ‘as near to the real thing as you could get’. British publication The Micro User stated ‘The realism is stunning’." - from guildford.games/developers/simis
1989
Simis
Military

Interdictor 2
"... one of the first flight simulators to ever feature 3D terrain, utilising the powerful new ARM processors of the day. Interdictor 2 was built with a complete set of proprietary object and world building tools, which later went on to find a life of their own as Flight Sim Toolkit.’" - from guildford.games/developers/simis
1990
Simis
Military

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

Israeli Air Force
IAF is an utter blast with just the right balance of accessibility and challenge. The ability to change aircraft during a mission turned out to be a real fun factor accelerator. Highly recommended.
1998
Pixel Janes Combat Simulations
Military

Jagdverband 44: Screaming Eagles
"It is hard for me to be as negative as I'm being with the (to my knowledge) only flight sim made in Spain, but the love for air combat and good gameplay prevails over patriotic feelings. Let's say J44SE is a good idea badly done, that died of sheer ambition: its 3D engine would work well for sports or racing games, but it's not suitable for an 'serious' flight sim." - Francisco J. Campos
1999
Hammer Technologies Blackstar Interactive
Military World War II

Janes Advanced Strike Fighters
If EA/Janes had literally rebooted the mission content of their own US Navy Fighters sims into this game engine they would have had a blockbuster. Instead we are left with arcade style scenarios with swarms of enemies and unlimited fictitious weapons. What a missed opportunity. The PC sim crowd expects more, especially from a sim with the Janes name attached. Undoubtably a good contender in the console arena, but I found it a disappointing end to the Janes Combat Simulations legacy.
2011
Trickstar Games Maximum Games
Military

Janes Attack Squadron
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.
2001
Xicat Interactive Janes Combat Simulations
Military

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

Jet
Michael Woodley developed the scenery for Flight Simulator II. He recalls: "The game 'Jet' was developed by Charles Guy using Bruce Artwick's technology. He adapted it for the IBM-PC. I don't recall any version of it for any other platform but that was years ago so it may have slipped my memory. It had the interesting feature of being able to run Scenery Disks developed for Flight Simulator." My readers found several cross-platform editions, check out the exhibit for more info.
1985
SuBLogic
Military Carrier

Jet-Pilot
"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." Jet Pilot was a high fidelity air combat sim developed and published in 1996 by Vulcan Software for the Commodore Amiga platforms.
1996
Vulcan Software
Military Cold War

Jetfighter Full Burn
Jetfighter FullBurn was a standalone expansion of Jetfighter III. It had Russian and U.N. Forces, and you could fly for either side. It continued the Jefighter tradition of fast and furious action within a storyline. Four CD's with lots of full-motion video in the campaigns added to the atmosphere and sense of a storyline. Campaigns were set in the Nordic states and the terrain corresponded impressively closely to real-life operational navigation charts (ONC). Verdict: very atmospheric and a lot of fun.
1997
Mission Studios RD Technologies
Military Carrier

Jetfighter II
Fluid flight modellling and carrier landings combined with dogfighting in the F-22 and YF-23 made Jetfighter II an incredibly popular combat flight sim.
1990
Velocity RD Technologies
Military Carrier

Jetfighter II: Advanced Mission Disk: Operation Lightning Storm
This expansion pack was presented in what is surely the apogee of retail packaging design. Besides being eye-catching and taking up little shelf space, opening it was an adventure in of itself!
1997
Velocity RD Technologies
Military Add-on

Jetfighter III
JetFighter III, released in 1997 was probably the last of the great DOS Combat Flight Sims. It was one of the first to support the 3DFX chipset and portrayed very detailed terrain... but still ran at a playable speed! The Navigation and Weapon systems were simple in operation so you could concentrate on turnin' and burnin'.
1997
Mission Studios RD Technologies
Military Carrier

JetFighter IV: Fortress America
Fourth in line of one of the most popular combat flight sim dynasties, JetFighter IV returned to the San Francisco scenarios of 1988's "Jetfighter: The Adventure" and thus provided a neat summation of where graphics had evolved to by the end of the 20th century.
2000
Mission Studios Talonsoft
Military Carrier

JetFighter V
JetFighter V was released in 2003 under the title of "Jetfighter". It is a stunning looking sim which still serves the purpose of providing an action arena for neophytes to the genre, but old hands will be frustrated by the lack of controls and options.Unfortunately the Jetfighter dynasty seems to end not with a bang but a whimper. It's as if there were two design teams - one who set out to make a fully functioning virtual cockpit and one who vetoed the implementation - the whole sim is like that. Heaps of potential but nothing much is finished.
2003
Mission Studios Interactive Vision
Military Carrier

JetFighter: The Adventure
First in a long line of popular combat flight sims on the PC.
1988
Velocity RD Technologies
Military Carrier

Joint Strike Fighter
Probably the first sim to feature the F-35 as the main player aircraft.
1997
Eidos Innerloop
Military

Joy to Key
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.
Free Colors Ltd
Utility Device Configuration

Jump Jet
Harrier sim from 1987.
1987
Anco Software
Military S/VTOL

Jet Warrior Vietnam
"September 8, 1998. KESMAI'S JET WARRIOR - VIETNAM, the latest installment in the legendary Air Warrior flight simulator series will recreate the aircraft and campaigns of the Vietnam Conflict."
1998
Kesmai
Military

Ka-50 Hokum
Belonging to a small group of flight sims that gave you real-time tactical control of a campaign, the sim used the same graphics engine as AV-8B Harrier Assault except that it only ran in 320 x 300 resolution. This was hard to understand as the campaign system and other features were pretty much the same.
1995
Simis Virgin Interactive
Military Rotary Wing

Ka-52 Team Alligator
Sporting what was probably the most detailed low level environment ever seen in a flight sim, the sim looks fantastic and should have been a flagship product for the publisher. Sadly it was released without fanfare and at a budget price in April 2000. Unfortunately an early build of the code appears to be the one shipped to consumers.
1999
Simis GT Interactive
Military Rotary Wing

Korean War
Korean War is a series of campaigns for Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (1998) created by Mike Eustace and Doug Attrell. Download all the packs at www.simviation.com.
2002
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator
Military Korean War

Korean Combat Pilot
Korean Combat Pilot recreates aerial encounters during the Korean conflict 1950 - 51. There are two campaigns, I flew the North Korean Campaign in the year 2000. TIPSelect unlimited fuel in the menu to avoid problems with warping and with your wingman's fuel supply.
2001
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2
Blue Arrow Just Flight
Military Korean War

Lago F-16
Lago's F-16 Falcon Collection gives you the choice of several different variants including a few 2 seaters (D model) and some of the most recognisable and colourful paint schemes.
2004
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002
Lago
Military Add-on

LHX Attack Chopper
The cockpit is simple looking now, but in 1990 it was state of the art! You could configure the MFD's to your taste as well. You could fly the Apache, Blackhawk, Osprey or the LHX. The Boeing Osprey VTOL which was featured in the novel "Hammerheads" by Dale Brown . This was the only simulation of the Osprey until the year 2000.
1990
Electronic Arts
Military Rotary Wing

Little Navmap
Possibly the most useful utility the flight sim community has ever seen, Little Navmap brings flight planning, real time navigation and much more to the most popular flight sims.
2016
Mod Utility Navigation

Lock On: Modern Air Combat
The sequel to the acclaimed air combat sims: Su-27 Flanker 1.5, Su-27 Flanker 2.0 and Su-27 Flanker 2.5.
2003
Eagle Dynamics Ubisoft
Military

M-1 Tank Platoon

MACE
MACE(Modern Air Combat Environment)is a physics-based, full spectrum Computer Generated/Semi-Automated Forces (CGF/SAF) application with a large and user-extensible order of battle, capable of many-on-many simulation yet having very high fidelity at the engagement level.
Military

Marina Militare
Mobile sim focussed on operations of the Italian Navy, including fixed and rotary wing operations.
2016
Rortos
Military Mobile Carrier

Marine Fighters
Marine Fighters was an add-on pack to US Navy Fighters. It added 4 new player aircraft and a campaign set in the Kurile Islands. Marine Fighters was an add-on pack to US Navy Fighters. It added 4 new player aircraft and a campaign set in the Kurile Islands.
Military NATO

Mech Commander
Based on the popular Sci Fi mech warrior board game franchise this first foray into PC games was a challenging RTS style implementation.
1998
Microprose
Military

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

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

Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator
"Microsoft's first foray into combat flight sims is a class act. This sim combines the famous attention to detail seen in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 with photo-realistic scenery generation and challenging missions. The missions are full of action and the photo-realistic scenery adds to the adrenaline rush whether you're in a dogfight at 5,000 feet or strafing a train at 50 feet! By designing an open architecture sim Microsoft have encouraged 3rd party developers and there are already custom aircraft and missions proliferating on the net.
1998
Microsoft
Military World War II European Theatre WWII

Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2
Sequel to Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (1998). Set in the Pacific Theatre WWII, it significantly upgraded the graphics and fidelity of the series.
2000
Microsoft
Military World War II

Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3
The third in the series from Microsoft, the sim raised the bar again with a detailed and fast low altitude environment suitable for ground attack missions, and a dynamic campaign. On September 18th 2002 I interviewed Scott Lee, product manager from Microsoft's Aces Studio, and checked out the beta version of Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 3.
2002
Microsoft
Military World War II Dynamic Campaign

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002
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.
2002
Microsoft
Civil Rotary Wing

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
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.
2004
Microsoft
Civil Rotary Wing

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
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!
2020
Microsoft Asobo
Civil

MiG Alley
MiG Alley is a simulation of Air Combat operation in the Korean War June 1950 to January 1951. MiG Alley achieved very close to a perfect blend of action and graphical realism as a simulation of the air war in the Korean conflict. In November 2001 Rowan released the source code, so expect the sim to keep developing in the hands of dedicated fans.
1999
Rowan
Military

MiG-29 Fulcrum (Domark)
In 1990 the MiG-29 had only just been revealed to the west at the Farnborough Airshow. It seemed to be a sexy mystery machine which could perform spectacular manoeuvers such as the "tailslide" and "cobra". Despite only having 6 missions, this sim bought countless hours of fun to flight sim fans on multiple platforms.
1990
Military

MiG-29: Deadly Adversary of Falcon 3.0
Add-on to Falcon 3.0 which enabled you to fly head to head MiG-29 vs. F-16 as well as containing full campaigns for the MiG-29. A good snapshot of 3-D modelling in the early 1990s.
1993
Falcon 3.0
Spectrum Holobyte
Military

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

OBS Studio

Orbiter
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.
2005
Civil Space

Pearl Harbor (2001)
Expansion for Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 that recreates the events and atmosphere at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
2001
Military Add-on

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

Pilots Power Tools
#N/A

Planetside

Prepar3D
Prepar3D kept the Microsoft Flight Sim flame alive after MS abandoned their flagship product in 2010. It expanded the base software into commercial and military markets while still allowing the personal user to keep the dream alive.
2010
Civil

Pro Pilot
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.
1997
Civil

Proflight
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).
1990
Civil

Project Wingman
An action-sim-lite which satisfies the need to turn and burn!
Just don't expect to land... or take off. But that's par for the course with this genre. HOTAS are easy to configure, this should be a role model to other developers in the combat-sim-light space. If TrackIR was supported natively it would be perfect in that regard. Project Wingman does what it sets out to do, providing a console oriented shooter with heaps of eye candy and a massive quantity of ordnance!
2020
Humble Games Sector D2
Military

PSION
"This is where it all started, looking at three dials and flying at night on a crummy TV !!!"
Military

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

Rise of Flight United
"Pilot legendary aircraft of the early years of aviation, French Spad 13, German Albatros D.Va and Russian built Nieuport 17, in the free-to-play Rise of Flight United! " - Steam
2013
1C Game Studios 777 Game Studios
Military World War I

Royal Air Force 2000
25 flyable aircraft for Microsoft Flight Simulator 98, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 and a campaign set in 1940 for Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (1998)
2000
Military Add-on European Theatre WWII

Sabre Ace
One of the first air combat flight sims to use the brand new 3DFX graphics accelerator technology.
1997
Military Korean War Cold War

SFS4

SFS4

ShareX
Screen capture, share, edit - and - so - much - more! not tested. Has OCR built in. Automate uploads... a ton of features.
Utility

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

SIM Dashboard
This software is an integral part of my MiGPit. It has a WYSIWYG interface which enables quick and customisable construction of aircraft instruments which display live data from Microsoft Flight Sim to Android devices.
Stryder IT
Utility

sim-space-shuttle
#N/A

Simple Planes
"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
2015
Jundroo
Civil

Skeleton
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).
Utility

SPAD.neXt
Simulation Panel Advanced Drivers: neXt Generation
SPAD.neXt was started as a replacement software for Saitek (now Logitech) panels. Now many other hardware devices are supported.
2016
Utility Device Configuration

Steam
Buy and run current and classic PC games and sims.

Strike Commander
Strike Commander was a revolutionary flight sim and one of the all-time best selling. The strong story line and role-playing elements meant that it's appeal extended far beyond that market segment whose main interest lay in the simulation aspects.
Military

Strike Fighters 2
Second release under the solo banner of Third Wire, led by seasoned developer Tsuyoshi Kawahito.
2006
Third Wire
Military Cold War

Strike Fighters 2: Complete Edition
"Strike Fighters 2 Complete Edition is a collection of the entire Strike Fighters 2 series (over $400+ value!) including 5 games, 2 expansion packs, and 29 DLCs all in one single, easy-to-install package!"
Third Wire
Military Cold War Vietnam War

Strike Fighters 2: Europe
"Hypothetical World War III scenarios - Cold War Gone Hot - where the Soviet Red Army invades West Germany."
Third Wire
Military Cold War

Strike Fighters 2: Expansion Pack 1
Expansion for Strike Fighters 2: Israel. Adds flyable Mystere IVA, Meteor F.8, and P-51D Mustang to a historical campaign set in the 1956 Suez Crisis.
Strike Fighters 2: Israel
Third Wire
Military

Strike Fighters 2: Expansion Pack 2
"Hypothetical campaign is set in the 1956 Cold War Europe - what if the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 lead to a full scale invasion of West Germany?"
Strike Fighters 2: Europe
Third Wire
Military Cold War

Strike Fighters 2: Israel
"Intense air combat experience in the skies over Middle East during three major historical conflicts - 1967 Six-Day War, 1973 Yom Kippur War, and 1982 Lebanon."
Third Wire
Military Cold War

Strike Fighters 2: North Atlantic
"1979 hypothetical "Cold War gone Hot" scenario - what if the Soviet Union had decided to invade West Germany in 1979? Join the US Navy and USS Nimitz Carrier Battle Group sent to reinforce the Iceland defense, protect the carrier from Soviet long-range bombers, and strike the Kiev battle group of the Soviet Northern Fleet!"
Third Wire
Military Cold War

Strike Fighters 2: Vietnam
"Join the United States Air Force, Navy or Marines, and fly historical missions from the Rolling Thunder campaign of 1964-68 and the hard-hitting Linebacker I and II campaigns of 1972."
Third Wire
Military Cold War Vietnam War

Strike Fighters Project 1
Third Wire Productions was formed by ex EA/Janes and Microprose programmer Tsuyoshi Kawahito. Their first sim was called 'Project 1' and focussed on the "classic" jets of the 1950's and '60's. After signing with a publisher in 2002 the sim was renamed to 'Strike Fighters Project 1'.
2001
Third Wire
Military

Su-27 Flanker
Su-27 Flanker was designed by a team of Russian programmers to run on 386 and low end 486 machines. The project was taken on by SSI and revised to SVGA graphics resolution. The Russian designers didn't have access to the faster PC's, and as a result their code was very efficient and it ran very smoothly despite being state of the art! The sim recreates the Crimean peninsula in great detail and pits you, in the Su-27 Flanker, against the latest Russian and NATO aircraft, armour, ships and SAMs. All control surfaces move during flight and the attention to detail is extraordinary!
1995
Strategic Simulations Inc.
Military

Super Chopper
"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
2021
Webfoot Ziggurat
Civil Rotary Wing

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

SVGA Harrier
This was the first SVGA sim, which meant that instead of VGA graphics of 320 x 200 pixels, we now had 640 x 400. The visuals were similar to what we had previously only seen in military simulators and were rendered in a beautiful set of pastel colours. SVGA Harrier had immense replay value as the campaign never played the same twice, and it was entirely up to you as to how you won the ground war. Or didn't. SVGA Harrier had immense replay value as the campaign never played the same twice, and it was entirely up to you as to how you won the ground war. Or didn't. This was the first sim I connected to MiGMan's home-built cockpit, and I spend night after night flying it, in the dark and with a flight suit, helmet and nomex gloves!
1992
Domark
Military S/VTOL Dynamic Campaign

T.A.R.G.E.T.
Programming software for the Thrustmaster hardware. You can use the well designed Graphic User Interface (G.U.I.) or plunge into advanced scripting.
Thrustmaster
Utility Device Configuration

Take On Helicopters
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!
2011
Bohemia Interactive
Civil Combat Rotary Wing

Team Apache
Team Apache was a fun chopper sim which gave a real adrenaline rush as you flew nap-of-the-earth, (hopefully) avoiding enemy fire and pounding enemy locations with rockets. It was one of the earliest 3DFX sims and looked gorgeous. Brian Walker, a US Army helicopter pilot, was involved with the development.
1998
Military Rotary Wing

TFX
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.The later versions run straight from CD Rom and in a DOS box under Windows '98. It will run very smoothly on a '486 and is strongly recommended for beginners.
1993
Ocean
Military

Thunder Wolves
"Experience furious helicopter action in this relentless, adrenaline (and lead) pumped arcade shooter!" - Steam
2013
Most Wanted Entertainment Handy Games
Military Rotary Wing

Thunderhawk
A good representative of the state of DOS, AMIGA and ATARI flight sims at the beginning of the 1990’s.
1991
Military Rotary Wing

Tigers in the Snow

Top Gun: Fire at Will
Top Gun: Fire at Will was a light sim based on the movie starring Tom Cruise. It was originally released in 1995 then again in the Microprose "Powerplus" series in 1998. The sim introduces the player to basic concepts of Air Combat with plenty of commentary and advice coming from your back-seater and instructors.
Military Carrier

Tornado
One of the all-time classic flight sims. The training missions covered every aspect of operating the Tornado and you were wise to work your way through them... this sim gave you more opportunities to "buy the farm" than most! Player aircraft were Tornado IDS (Interdiction/Strike) and Tornado ADV (Air Defense Variant).
1993
Digital Integration
Military

UFS4

US Navy Fighters
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 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.
1993
Janes Combat Simulations Electronic Arts
Military Carrier

US Navy Fighters Gold
This CD ROM edition contained US Navy Fighters and the 1st official add-on, Marine Fighters.
1995
Janes Combat Simulations Electronic Arts
Military Carrier Collection

USAF
The sequel to Israeli Air Force and another popular sim from Janes Combat Simulations.
1999
Pixel Electronic Arts
Military

Vector Thrust
"Vector Thrust is a fast-paced single and mulltiplayer combat flight game, using a unique cel shaded art style." - Steam
2015
TimeSymmetry Iceberg Interactive
Military

Vertical Strike Endless Challenge
"A flight-based action game designed to be easy to pick up and enjoy right away, and be playable over short timeframes." - Steam
2017
Project ICKX PLAYISM
Military

Voice Attack
Flawless voice communication with the ATC in your sim and to control any aspect of the aircraft.
Utility Voice Control

Wacky Wallys Configuration Manager
Wacky Wally's Configuration Manager 1.0 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.
1993
Utility

War Thunder
"War Thunder is the most comprehensive free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military game dedicated to aviation, armoured vehicles, from the early 20th century to the most advanced modern combat units. " - Steam
Gaijin
Military

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

Windirstat
Hard drive and file structure analysis tool.
Utility

Wings
Remastered Edition
Military

Wings of Prey: Special Edition
Wings of Prey and the Wings of Luftwaffe add-on.
Gaijin
Military World War II Russian Front

WWII Fighters
Like most Janes sims this one pushed the PC hardware available at the time of it's release (1998) to the limits. A year and a half down the track it ran very well on the average new machine - provided you had a 3D accelerator fitted of course!
1998
Janes Combat Simulations Electronic Arts
Military World War II European Theatre WWII

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