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Flight Simulator 2004
- Thread starter GTac02
- Start date
- Joined
- Dec 24, 2001
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
This game is really CPU dependant more than anything. If you can get your CPU speeds up a bit higher you might notice a bit more performance than just a videocard OC.
- Joined
- Dec 24, 2001
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
Ever try landing a plane in fog?
- Joined
- Nov 30, 2003
Or a strong side wind, with a wet runway.
With zero visibility, forcing you into an ILS approach.
With other traffic to watch out for.
Don't just fly around, make it a challenge.
Find a real flight and try to fly it on time.
I like flying in nice places, alaska, the desert, etc..
With zero visibility, forcing you into an ILS approach.
With other traffic to watch out for.
Don't just fly around, make it a challenge.
Find a real flight and try to fly it on time.
I like flying in nice places, alaska, the desert, etc..
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- Dec 24, 2001
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
Exactly what Quattro said. If you just fly around with no real purpose, of course youre gonna get bored. Try flying some of the tuturials to learn some of the skills in flight and navigation.
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- Feb 3, 2004
- Location
- Honolulu, HI
I like visiting exotic locales. It's amazing how they got a lot of details. I like going from philly to New York, or fly around las vegas, and visiting Puerto Rico. My aunt is a flight attendent and I showed her this game and she was pretty impressed. I never did any of the tutorials, or missions or anything. I think I might install it again too.
- Joined
- Dec 24, 2001
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
Hehe N1vek215, I was flying around your area the other day when Hurricane Charlie came through. Forgot to mention you can download current weather anywhere in the world and fly in the current conditions at that place, and I must say that flying in a hurricane in a simulation is tough.
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- Dec 24, 2001
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
Heres a nice place to find approach plates and the like for when you guys are flying IFR and have to land in limited visibility. Just type in the airports four letter identifier (e.g. Sacramento International = KSMF, all mainland US airports start with a K followed by three others such as SFO for San Francisco Intl or SAN for San Diego) and it should give you a list of the "maps" for that given airport for you to use in Flight Sim.
http://www.aeroplanner.com/flightplanning/approachplates.cfm
http://www.aeroplanner.com/flightplanning/approachplates.cfm
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- Aug 20, 2002
- Location
- California
N1vek215 said:
yes... I love flying around Las Vegas.
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- Dec 24, 2001
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
If you love flying around Las Vegas, theres a freeware scenery that makes the default Las Vegas scenery a lot better.
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- Feb 15, 2004
Not meaning to crash the party (I can just hear people firing up their flamethrowers) but the real thing, mm, much more difficult. Can't say I've been all around the world, though...
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- Feb 15, 2003
- Location
- College Park, MD
Avg said:
Who said you can't fly into a river or the ground?
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- Dec 24, 2001
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
Thats part of the fun of flight simming. Im not saying that its fun for everyone or anything, just certain people, but when you really get into it sometimes, its quite rewarding. You learn about the basics of flight and navigation, and to me its very interesting.
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- Mar 21, 2004
- Location
- EL PASO TX
Try flying to where i live (kelp) or el paso international airport,at night and landing on runway 22 coming from the west. Its hard to avoid the mountains. Many of my passengers have died because you cant see the mountains until you crash. Too bad i cant play because i lost disk 4 and cant install.
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- Dec 24, 2001
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
Have you tried doing the Microsoft Freebies in the Cyberdeals section? If you get enough points, you can get FS9 for free. BTW, flew the KELP NDB approach last night and it was pretty challenging.
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- Dec 24, 2001
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
How about leaning your body to one side or the other when you turn.
