Gaming Microsoft Flight Simulator

sickmint79

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The last flight sim game I owned was ms flight sim 1.0.

Does that make me old?

https://youtu.be/27szyA9mZ8Q

i'm not sure what version my uncle was using but i thought it looked better that, maybe 2.0?

the only flight simulator i ever played was chuck yeager's, although i didn't play much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIs49lALMH0

did play this racing one more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEZ6tpXedog

we had a cga monitor and never got an ega one. iirc we had a 386/25 or something like that, and made a jump to a 486dx2 66 which maybe had an svga? i remember one christmas getting a sound blaster card for it and police quest 3. and that's when gaming got really awesome on the compy for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfKwEi6mXyM
 

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i'm not sure what version my uncle was using but i thought it looked better that, maybe 2.0?



the only flight simulator i ever played was chuck yeager's, although i didn't play much.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIs49lALMH0



did play this racing one more



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEZ6tpXedog



we had a cga monitor and never got an ega one. iirc we had a 386/25 or something like that, and made a jump to a 486dx2 66 which maybe had an svga? i remember one christmas getting a sound blaster card for it and police quest 3. and that's when gaming got really awesome on the compy for me



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfKwEi6mXyM



I still have a 5.25 floppy copy of Yeager for the Apple II e that my dad bought and I played a bunch. Still not worth anything too.
 

sickmint79

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I still have a 5.25 floppy copy of Yeager for the Apple II e that my dad bought and I played a bunch. Still not worth anything too.

i just put in storage 3 boxes full of games (mostly sierra) - which i can rationalize out as, well, it wasn't that much $ if i consider it just a part of the other bullshit i stored (this logic fails if you look at all the bullshit together, value it in dollars, and value it against the cost to store it a year...)

so i'm storying my police quest and my turbografx-16 etc etc, which after a year or two, is like yeah, could just sell all that now and buy it in the future if/when i want it again...

but this is MY genesis and MY copy of quest for glory 2, etc... so in to storage they went!
 

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this is no joke too... you can actually log training hours..

https://www.x-plane.com/pro/certified/

I'm pretty old school where I use the simulation but wouldn't want it to count towards my own seat time.. meanwhile [MENTION=16]PANDA[/MENTION] is living my dream and actually logging hours in the air.

Certification requires not only that the user have the certified X-Plane software, but also certified hardware (cockpit and flight controls) available through companies like Precision Flight Controls and Fidelity. This is because flight training systems can only be certified as a complete package (a software and hardware combination). The certified software is available for $500 to $1,000 per copy from PFC and Fidelity and the hardware runs from $5,000 to $500,000.

Well knowing the real costs this would only be worthwhile for a flight school IMO. That kinda money can buy alot of real flying time for a student.
 

Bruce Jibboo

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Changed my setup since this pic but this is what I was rolling.

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