Originally posted by Gixer
I'd really like to know where the fun is in flight sims where you just fly from one place to the other, especially in something as unexciting as a small plane. It always seems like watching paint dry to me.
Or am I missing some exciting hidden feature? Surely not IFR and taxing? lol
...-Gixer
Well, simming WWII combat in game form, is pretty much fun and exciting, the paint don't dry before you get 5 kills and die 3 more times. It's hardly realistic, regardless of the flight model though. Some people like simming ‘reality’, meaning it's real, and I can't think of any combat sim software that models the long boring missions where you actually have to navigate. They provide a game based on reality, but sacrifice the real story for fun. And they should.
That said, FS9 is what it is. It's a commercial aviation sim catered to realism, and pure to its genre mind you, as boring as it may be to you.
Certainly people that fly 172's for lotsa money in real life find a thrill in real life flying. Pry not because the sights and experience it provides, that wears off. There is a lot of challenge in the navigation and VOR tracking etc…FS9 is just a means to do what any computer software does. Simulate that. And it does, in spades, with good new video cards I found out for the visuals, and the instrument base is expertly done.
I’m using it as a learning tool. Pilots may have auto throttle gripes, which are easy per computer based manuals to troubleshoot, but it’s nice to see the glass cockpit work in say modern airliners on VOR deviations/Navigation as a whole. To see what they see is cool. Computers can do that now to a certain extent, very well.
Is it Counterstrike? Naw, but I dig it.
