New Games?

[high speed exit]

Anyone know if flightsim will ever make another game, or any other flying games (apart from x-plane, i've already got that)

Also, any good ATC games out there?

HSE

[Changes in Latitudes]

Microsoft "Flight" is underway at the moment.

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

[high speed exit]

I know Microsoft has released a few screenshots but its hardly anything new. X-plane keeps updating but I was hoping to find something new, apart from ad-ons.

PMDG has some add-on a/c for flightsim, and apparently they were working on a tower simulator, which would be cool, but nothing yet!

HSE

[Highflyinpilot]

here is a tower sim. http://www.atcsuite.com/

Its pretty decent, although a top down view, it really works well, and is quite entertaining.


As for Microsoft,they are releasing flight as mentioned above, but its anylnes guest when.

Also i heard rumour a while back that aerosoft were planning a release of a flight sim platform, true or not i have no idea.

If you are running fs9, look into IFLY's 737 that was just released. it is a benchmark IMhO on fs9 platform, yes, I am a nerdy flight sim guy. . but for what its worth im also a licensed pilot also, so not 100% nerd LOL

[high speed exit]

Highflyinpilot,

Thanks for the link. I think that's a Wilco product - I remember using one of there 767 sims years ago. Great product.

Looks like they have a tower sim only right now. Graphics look pretty good but navigating through the site looks complex??? Also it's about 2-3 times as expensive as Radar Chaos, by Big Fat Simulations.

Check it out here: http://www.bigfatsimulations.com/produc ... Chaos.html

Has anyone tried the ATC Suite yet?

[co-joe]

Looks like Terminal Reality hasn't done anything in 10 years. Too bad. Fly was a pretty good game.

[Trematode]

hey guys,

I can't recommend the IL-2 Sturmovik series enough. I think they just put out a new version for the PC. The previous version had been actively updated for almost 10 years and had a pretty loyal following. It's not a civil aviation sim (it's all about ww2 warbirds), but the flight dynamics and overall attention to detail are very impressive.

[Highflyinpilot]

[quote="high speed exit"]Highflyinpilot,

Thanks for the link. I think that's a Wilco product - I remember using one of there 767 sims years ago. Great product.

Looks like they have a tower sim only right now. Graphics look pretty good but navigating through the site looks complex??? Also it's about 2-3 times as expensive as Radar Chaos, by Big Fat Simulations.

Check it out here: http://www.bigfatsimulations.com/produc ... Chaos.html

Has anyone tried the ATC Suite yet?[/quote]

i never heard of radar chaos, how realistic is it?

the tower sim i linked is expensive, bit it really is quite entertaining, and it is the bet piece of software when it comes to voice recognition that I have tried, its safe to say that it has a 99% succes when using voice, obviously i have no facts to back that up but i rarely RARELY have to repeat anything when using voice recognition.



Thanks for mentioning radar chaos, will have to research this program.

[high speed exit]

I didn't realize it was voice activated. That is a very interesting concept and something that reliable could have commercial uses also.

I'll look at it again.

[bombardierfixer]

Hmmmm good thing I put the wife on notice "yeah its time to upgrade the computer soon...."

[high speed exit]

That's hilarious! Now you just have to convince her that it's her great idea to upgrade the computer!

Best of luck!

[kenco]

If you like to and wished you could blow shit up I recommend:

DCS A-10C. or
KA50

http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/e ... s/warthog/

take a look at some youtube videos for in game footage.

[high speed exit]

That look awesome!!!

Is it a stand-alone or does it run of Flightsim?

[kenco]

It's a stand alone game.

[moocow]

Free Falcon.
http://www.freefalcon.com/forum/content.php

[FICU]

If you like to and wished you could blow shit up I recommend:

DCS A-10C. or
KA50

http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/e ... s/warthog/

I strongly second the above! The A-10C has even more depth of aircraft systems modeling than M$ Flight Sim and the highest depth of weapons systems modeling and flight modeling ever seen on a PC.

[Highflyinpilot]

looks like an aweome sim, although it seems like it would be to taxing on my computer.

[moocow]

That's a main problem with PC gaming. You have to fiddle around with graphics setting to balance looks and performance. Even a mid-tier graphics card runs at least $200 before tax. Factoring in CPU, RAM, power supply that would be at least $600. If your harddrive is the old IDE, you probably need to toss that for a new one. All the motherboards today can a best support 2 x IDE devices. Want a good joystick to go with the game? That's another $200 at least. See link:

http://www.thrustmaster.com/product.asp ... atformID=5

[kenco]

hehe...Try ~$600.00 for that Joystick. It is insane though. (no I don't own one)

[coreydotcom]

http://www.atc-sim.com/

very basic atc sim with 8 free airports. I can only play in 30 minutes sessions because I get bored after half an hour. It is fun for that half hour though.

if you pay $10 more you get a bunch of other airports.