Flight Sim?

[gottaluvlasers]

Hey-

anyone have any good recommendations for a good, realistic combat flight simulator for PC's? All i seem to find any useful info for is Microsoft flight sim X which seems ok. But im looking for more of the flight sims for combat fighters.

Regular flight simulators are ok. But definitely prefer combat fighting.

Any ideas?

-Marc

[platinum]

This is something I've been interested in for a while. It sure would be nice to at least be able to make an educated guess as to how to land the plane, if needed.

There's this: http://www.x-plane.com/desktop/meet_x-plane/

- Jonathan

[mixedgas]

X-Plane for a realistic flight model for everything except rotorcraft. I was involved for a short while in creating 180' wrap around displays for a commercial sim, and X-Plane came the closest to a real aircraft in the under 1000$ category. We used it for development work

Downside, you need a maxed out proccessor and maxed out memory for it to run smoothly. Think dual core or quad-core.

Downside Two, unless they have changed it in the past 2 years, combat is not a function unless you find a Plugin.

Upside, when I flew my friend's Tomahawk and a Sierra as part of the development process, X-Plane was far more of a accurate learning aid then Microsoft.

Get a GOOD 10- 12 bit (not the standard 8 bit ) USB Joystick. It really helps to feed the sim good control position data.

Steve

[Picasso]

More for the guy who wants a true sim, took me 30mins to learn just to start the thing and taxi. http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/

[White-Light]

Never used it but Microsoft do a Combat Flight sim as well:

http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs3/

Just added this because on Amazon.co.uk Microsoft CF3 gets bad reviews.

There's also Tom Clancy's Hawx 2. Review here:

http://uk.gamespot.com/tom-clancys-h...review-6275563

[gottaluvlasers]

Thanks everyone!

That hawx2 and digitalcombatsimulator look good. gonna try those!

Thanks everyone.

-Marc

[mixedgas]

[QUOTE=White-Light;218645]Never used it but Microsoft do a Combat Flight sim as well:

http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs3/


Combat FS is horrid. "Stutters" in flight even on a hot machine.

Steve

[norty303]

But you can fly Snoopy on his dog house in CFS which makes it all worthwhile

[Doc]

FSX, not combat but it's available as a plugin, shows the graphics well though.

Shoot forward a couple of minutes.

[Stuka]

Microsoft CFS III definitely had issues, but CFS I and II (have 'em all) are still pretty nice combat sims, especially if you're looking for WWII-era fighters.

The IL-2 Sturmovik WWII series is pretty cool on the PS-3, but never tried the PC version.

MS Flight Simulator X ** (have it), and from what I've heard, the X-Plane series are good if you want to practice some real-world instrument work, approaches, etc., or just want to do some simulated airborne sight-seeing...

PS -

** As demonstrated in Doc's post just previous to this one!!!