Flight sim fans?

[AztecWarrior]

Who here plays flight sims?

I'm currently into Pacific Fighters (I've installed FB+AEP+PF, not just the wusses with standalone PF.) I'd like to dogfight someone here.

And yes, people who somehow derive enjoyment from MS Flight Simulator 2004 can post. But no landlubbers.

http://thm-br1r2.search.vip.re2.yahoo.com/image/1604593689

[martyr]

ms flightsim is leet

[AztecWarrior]

ms flightsim is leet
The only thing leet about it was crashing.

And now you can't even do that. It's good for pilot training (it can be hella realistic), not much else.

[martyr]

hehe, some people are into that kind of thing.

a friend of mine is finishing up construction of a full-scale 737 sim powered by fs2002/2004 on a cluster.

[Smaug]

I like the more arcade style flight games, like the Ace Combat series. Sims are kind of boring to me though. I guess I would like them more if my joystick would fucking calibrate correctly :mad:.

[OfaLoaf]

I still have old Flight Sim 98 laying around here somewhere... I managed to download some planes for it that go beyond what the spedometer can read.

[Baneblade]

flight simulator 95 biatch!

[OfaLoaf]

Duh-uh! Those are dem OLD grafics, yo! Dese new '98 'un has got the grafic powah to pwn dem all!

[Triggar]

ms flightsim is leet

:nod:

So's our school for letting us install it for free.

[Sputty]

Best slight sim ever:
Birds of Prey for DOS
Let's go do some supply drop missions(there's troop drop, bomb, intercept, dogfight, and supply drop, super old but indepth sim that I haven't played in 10 years)

[JetRaiden]

IL-2 Sturmovik is the best combat flight sim ever. I need Pacific Fighters so bad.

[FearTheAtlas]

How is PF/IL2? Screenshots look good, and I tried it at a friends house...I think...it was quiite a bit ago. Can I hook up my joystick and fly around relativly easy? And are there "training" missions + campaign?

[Smaug]

How is PF/IL2? Screenshots look good, and I tried it at a friends house...I think...it was quiite a bit ago. Can I hook up my joystick and fly around relativly easy? And are there "training" missions + campaign?

IL2 is anything but easy to fly around in.

[Febnon]

I am getting PF tommorow, have IL-2 and its EXP packs, it is much harder to fly than most flight sims or arcadey types.

[FearTheAtlas]

IL2 is anything but easy to fly around in.

Ok, well, is there missions you learn to fly?

[AztecWarrior]

I know that IL2 came with missions that instructed you. PF probably does as well. In any case, I'd recommend first just learning to take off, then land, then attack friendly stationery objects like houses, etc.

The best lessons to learn are to do ground-attack missions before you try air-to-air. Even for a flight vet, the learning curve is high.

Once you're confident in the air, try landing aircraft on carriers. That's hard as fuck.

For the last test of airmanship, land a fast fighter (Corsair or Hellcat) on an escort carrier.

[Infernus]

IL-2 Sturmovik is the best combat flight sim ever. I need Pacific Fighters so bad.

I liked IL-2 for the short time I played it when I visited... it was pretty good... shooting parachutes is fun.

[AztecWarrior]

I liked IL-2 for the short time I played it when I visited... it was pretty good... shooting parachutes is fun.
How unhonorable of you. What are you, a Russian?

[Infernus]

How unhonorable of you. What are you, a Russian?

Meh, I try...

[JetRaiden]

You can turn down all the realism settings and its easy as fuck to play. But stalling/blacking out in midflight is too fun.

[AztecWarrior]

Even more fun is to get into an IL-2, spawn at 10,000m, and then shoot your tail off and fall all the way down.

Add bonus points if you use the VAP-100 incendiary ball dropper.