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AboutGreat gauges in the static cockpits make learning to fly by instruments a real pleasure in this sim!

About"The Merlin Helicopter Challenge was developed for use by the Royal Navy for recruitment purposes. We gratefully acknowledge their permission to release Merlin to the general public. If you would like further details on careers in the Royal Navy, please contact your local recruitment office."

AboutA few notes about the campaign from 1998.

AboutI had great fun with the fast paced missions some 20 years after initial contact. Here is a gallery of some highlights.

AboutMiGMan thanks Fausto Romeo for this review which was actually one of the first additions to the Flight Sim Museum.

AboutMiGMan's Combat diary sent PC into deep space to write this Strategy guide for Homeworld.

AboutAs published in PC PowerPlay magazine.

AboutCome one punk, Mech my day!

AboutYou clearly see "everything" in the city below you from the vantage point of your own cockpit - right down to individual rooftops and individual trees on golf courses.

AboutA VFR pilot's dream.

AboutI have always loved the original Falcon 1.0 by Spectrum Holobyte released in 1987. I would play the black bandit mission over and over trying to see how many MiGs I could down before the bingo fuel warning appeared. Unfortunately it is not playable on todays PC's. However, I have been playing around inside the assembly language code of Falcon for over a decade and, feeling real nostalgic, I decided to try and fix it so it could be played on todays PC's. My current PC is a Pentium II 266 and it now works fine on it. Hopefully others will benefit from this enhancement as well. - Mark Hermonat

About"I stopped flying computer sims in the early 90's when I became an actual airline pilot. For me, desktop sims launched me in to this career. There were 2 versions. Came with maps and a pretty good manual. You would fly routes and be graded and given a "salary". At the time, I enjoyed this as well as A320 which I see you have already." - Tom Beiser

AboutThe AA radar allows real intercepts to be made, commonplace in combat sims but a first for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.

AboutAAA, vehicles, buildings, ships... moose! This list was provided for those who wanted to use the mission creator.

About1. Touch
2. Vision
3. Sound
4. Taste (Not important in flight sims)
5. Smell (Not important in flight sims)
6. Proprioception is the sense of where your body parts are in 3D space.
7. Kineaesthetic Perception is your sense of movement.

Senses 6 and 7 are crucial to our sense of self and of what is reality, especially when combined with touch.

About"Hey... who needs texture mapping? Who needs colour, come to that!"

AboutI hesitate to criticise a product which has probabably been a labour of love for the developers, and am are especially loath to discourage work on the classic '50's jets, but once a product starts competing for your sim-allowance then it has to measure up. Unfortunately in Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2 the Vulcan seems a fish out of water.