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Flight Pro Sim - Flight Simulators Download

BY Mieracle loe | 03-16-2010 | 10:55 PM
This blog is written by a member of our blogging community and expresses that member's views alone.

FlightProSim is software that allows a pilot to fly over a hundred different aircraft, to any one of over 20,000 airports located around the world. It also allows the pilot to hook up over a network and fly in formation with other pilots. What it does not do is allow pilots to indulge in air-to-air combat. But that doesn’t mean that it isn’t a good military flight simulator.

Let's begin my Flight Pro Sim review with the list of features:

Flight Pro Sim opens with a series of screens that allows the pilot to select the desired aircraft, and then the airport and runway. The next screen allows the user to select features such as horizon effect, enhanced runway lighting, and specular effect (necessary for the 3D graphic cockpits). On this same screen, the user can select the time of day, and the current weather and even the season. Also on this screen, the player can choose the Multiplayer option - playing over the internet with other Flight Pro Sim users, to fly in formation. In addition, the player can choose to have the game be full screen or not.

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Using advanced features (opened with the mere click of the mouse) the pilot can set what equipment he or she wants to use - the keyboard only, or joystick (yoke and rudder pedals are also supported), or mouse. Also on these screens, the player can set altitude, if he or she prefers to start in the air instead of on the ground, latitude and longitude, airspeed, heading, roll and pitch. This is also where the player will set up network connections.

After making selections, the pilot hits the Run button, and the aircraft engines start, the cockpit view comes up, and the player is ready to roll. These screens are easy to open and to read - especially after one has read the PDF instructions that are also downloadable from the Members section.

As I mentioned earlier, the base install package contains scenery for a small area around San Francisco. However, the whole world is available as a separate, and modest purchase. One downloads self-installation packs that have 10 degree by 10 degree chunks of scenery. This scenery is accurate and realistic, because it's based on vmap0 (a vector-based collection of Geographic information system (GIS) data about Earth. Level 0 is relatively low resolution coverage of lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, cities, towns, and land cover.

But what's the scenery and the features, if you don't have good aircraft to fly? To close my Flight Pro Sim review, I will say that over 100 aircraft are provided (although 80 of them have to be downloaded - a simple process). Overall there are so many fun aircraft to fly here that I was quite pleased.

Because FlightProSim is open source software, qualified developers can add new aircraft and new scenery at any time, so that it is possible for the armchair pilot to enjoy hours and hours of fascinating journeys over every-changing scenery.  You are going to love Flight Pro Sim!

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