Flight Simulator

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Is there anyone else here who likes Flight Sims, in particular MS Flight Sim X?

I LOVE Flight Simulator. I have the 2004 Century of Flight Edition.

Tim

That's the one I missed unfortunately, am kicking myself for it, had some nice aircraft.
Do you have many add-ons for it? I've got 2002 and FSX here with a tonne of freeware planes. Be warned though, you need an insanely high-spec rig to run X at a decent framerate and quality. I make big compromises on texture quality and stuff like that. Apparently it'll run much better under Vista thanks to DirectX 10....seems like a convenient fact for Microsoft

I'm looking for a proper control setup for it, as piloting a 747-400 with one of these....



....doesn't quite seem right. Those yokes look good, do you know if you can get ones with force-feedback?

I do IL2 Sturmovik/Ace Expansion/Pacific Fighters.
I've flown MSFS versions 1-10 but they all left me kinda cold... no guns, no bombs, no missiles. I love a lot of the feature set (user-added terrain, etc etc) but the lack of combat makes it a no-go for me.
Tried Lock-On:Modern Air Combat for a while but... the lack of ability to fly a/c I'm interested in killed it for me.
I think flight (combat) sim makers need to have the same wakeup that racing-sim makers need, and that is that we want to fly/drive whatever we want, whenever we want, where-ever we want and under any conditions that we can think of.
Just off the top of my head, I'd love to recreate the Battle of Britain with modern aircraft.

I have Flight Sim X on my PC, but i don't have a joystick to play it with