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Nicely done. Someday, I'll really appreciate the effort.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Why does Microsoft release a game with options that can't be selected with todays technology?
I've flown this sim on several high-end (P4 2.4 to 3.2) computers, and nobody has been able to use the highest details simultaneously without the sim turning into a slide-show.

Still, when you back off the detail settings, the sim can run smoothly. I like the idea of interaction with ATC, and having flown real aircraft for the past 14 years, the calls are close to accurate.

This is one of those games/sims that you'll really appreciate sometime in the fall of 2004, when you've upgraded to the next faster machine. For now, at playable settings, it won't look much different than what you've flown before.

If you like planes and PCs, buy this -

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I want to start off by saying that MS Flight Simulator 2004 is not just a game. It's a simulator, and it is begining to go to the level of realism of some of the software FAA authorizes for instruction. Not to say that it's very difficult to play, but it does need practice and some understanding of airplane systems. The more you know, the more you will enjoy.

MS Flight Sim 2002 introduced some big steps in flight sim: live and interactive ATC. FS-2004 builds on that, and adds dynamic, live-updated weather (over the internet). It's just amazing what this program does, and the open architecture means that the aircraft, paint schemes, scenary, sounds can all be updated by independant developers. I am hooked, and if you like airplanes as much as I do, you would be to!

- Neeraj

good graphics limited options

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: August 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was somewhat disappointed after having used Flight Sim 2000 and then upgrading to 2004. The graphics are better and the upgrades are good but the options for aircraft are too limited for what I expected. Mooney Bravo is the only light single retract. There are lots of speicality and unique aircraft but just too few "general aviation" types.

excellent simulator

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Not a game at all ,but ,if you want to learn about everything that you need to know to fly a plane short of taking flight lessons, this is a good way to start. Graphics are excellent and the ability to change from one aircraft to another is a plus, also available add ons keep things interesting..

Another great release!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: May 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Although certain modes and adventures, notably the military modes and adventures of past versions, have been taken out, this version provides all the basics of the civil and general aviation of the previous, and new craft including the DC-3 and Wright flier. It is first-rate.

The DC-3 is easy to fly although if you have specialized in general aviation in previous releases, you need to realize that it's heavier and its inertia will punish you for overenthusiasm. The control panel is cool, since it's all scratched up and lacks only a simulated bottle of Jack Daniels and a pack of Camels to truly simulate the Air America feel.

One (minor) limitation: my district in Westen Shenzen is still in the data base as rural which means that up close it looks like rice paddies, but the only rice paddy I've seen here in Guangdong province was a grand total of one, on the train south of Dongguan, which is building a mall larger than The Mall of America.

There is in other words an almost-necessary colonialism of the map, in which the cartographer or Flight Simulator designer necessarily shows bias, for example by showing "landmarks" such as the Statue of Liberty accurately while ignoring landmarks in non-metropolitan lands.

Which is not to say that "cartography and Flight Simulator are tools of Western oppression!" That would be stupid, and is indeed a misrepresentation of post-colonial theory, which proposes only the direction in which Flight Simulator is ALREADY proceeding: a globalized direction in which it is marketed based on increasingly accurate images of lands that are, from the Orientalizing viewpoint of course, "far away".

Indeed as I fly my simulated DC-3 over a jungle which turns out on investigation to be almost adequate to the real thing, I reflect upon the triadic undecidability of flight, with its triad of luxury and comfort (as provided for the first time on board the DC-3), versus horror (as in the use of aircraft to bomb recalcitrant jungly men), versus mercy (as in the way flights can aid and succor people in trouble).

Now only if I could land my simulated DC-3 at Kai Tak, the old simulated aerodrome of Hong Kong, a landing which necessarily involves a turn that when I execute has my simulated passengers throwing up and screaming.

First time users need to be aware that the default is that your plane never crashes but is instead a dream of childhood which bounces off things. Even when the default to crash is set on, crashes are tasteful and strangely restrained, rather like the "crash" of a plane into the Pentagon on September 11, in which no plane appears in surviving photographs and in which the hole supposedly made by an aircraft appears like a cruise missile strike.

September 11 is the scandal of Flight Simulator, for it knocked down a metropolitan monument long part of its database of things we accept as being worthy of notice from the simulated air, and because Flight Simulator could have well been used by the terrorists, or military operatives who planned the operation: basically, it doesn't occur to a pilot in real space to crash into a building, whereas the brutalism of simulation, which among other things removes us from human spaces of compassion, puts the idea of crashing into buildings, and getting away with it, into the mind.

Despite these misgivings, I recommend Flight Simulator to the fearful flyer, for it illustrates the physics and the reality of flight in a way that takes the fearful flyer out-of-body, and makes him realize the long years of professionalism and responsible innovation...which make flight so very safe in fact that the steepest bank is far less steep than the tyro makes when trying to land.

After using earlier versions I was able to fly without fear in a small commuter craft into Key West having been over the ground and understanding things such as the need to fly to the apparent right of the airstrip, on approach from the east, in order to compensate for a north wind.

Flight simulator helped me to understand that a flight is not an abstract tube into which one is mindlessly inserted by the gods but an artifact operated by responsible and morally serious human beings who share my concern about safety, and, it turns out, a rather Fun bunch of individuals who like to Party at the inexpensive hotels they share with me, such as La Hacienda near LAX, the official dive of Spirit Airlines.

Unless they are replaced, of course, by terrorists, or, their craft is taken over by unspecified ways by anonymous parties for geopolitical ends.

Bruce Artwick and Microsoft are to be congratulated.

Not for everybody.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: January 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is not a game. It is a SIMULATOR used mostly by pilots and student pilots. If you are looking for a game of great adventure or excitment get combat flight simulator. But if you are a pilot, student pilot, or looking for a challange this the thing for you.
This does not have the best graphics but this is more about the handling of the aircraft rather than the looks, but it does have very good graphics just not the best.

Thank you for your time. Ryan Kroll

Really FANTASTIC!g Twenty Stars!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: April 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Why did I buy the newest Flight Simulator from Microsoft? I already had FS2002 Pro and loved it. I bought my first FS software to fly the number one freeware aircraft simulator on the Internet - The TR-3B Flying Triangle.

I flew fighters for the Air Force in late Vietnam, specifically the F-111 and am rated commercial also. The TR-3B Flight Simulator for Microsoft's Flight Sim, is based on the writings, lectures, and TV interviews of Edgar Fouche who wrote "Alien Rapture." (See amazon)

Why? This is what the genius who developed it wrote: "For the experienced flight simmer on FS2002 PRO, I have developed this complete exotic amphibian TR-3B package, which is now available as freeware for download. It includes 3 models - the purple Astra, blue Locust and white Hellas - and as an extra 4th model the TR-3X with its own speedy attacker flight dynamics. The package includes TR-3B panel & gauges, noise cancellation sounds, fsuipc and special lights effects.

This TR-3B is a heavy tactical reconnaissance aircraft equipped with a magnetic field disruptor that reduces the weight by 89 percent (it is not the same as anti-gravity, though). It has been created for Microsoft Flight Simulator. All gauges are included.

The TR-3B can float like a speedboat at Mach 1.5 over water, fly like a heavy helicopter, like a bush plane, a business jet, like a military jet and lift like a rocket. Cruise speed is approx Mach 4.7 at FL340 and above, and approx Mach 2 at sea level. Service ceiling approx 69,000 feet ASL. Super stable. FSFREEWARE, SURCLARO, FSPLANET aircraft simulator sites have reported as many as 5000 downloads in one week!

I searched and read many many web pages about his book and the author, Edgar Fouche including; startfinish(put in the dot com.)biz/wise Click on links for Fouche and Flying Triangle. You will find his full presentation, and the download links for the TR-3B. Great Top Secret aircraft simulator which I recommend, and fantastic details on it. Buy MS FS 2004 and learn to fly the Flying Triangle. Really FANTASTIC!

ITS GREAT AND FUN AND EASY TO USE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a Great game. It Takes a while To learn to fly, but when you learn, its a great game. You can Fly Where ever, when ever, in what ever, and how ever. The Weather is very interactive, and very detailted. But, there is a catch. You can Play with your keybord or a Joystick. The keybord is much harder to use, so if you want the absaloute best preformance go get a Joystick, any one will do. This Game Is Great and very fun. BUY IT!

As expected - a great flight sim

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought the game for my sons (and myself, I won't lie). I really like the flight lessons, the instructor is easy to understand and even injects humor.

My sons love the game as well. They skipped the lessons and just went flying. My youngest had a buddy show him how to download other planes - which I didn't even know was an option.

So now I terrorize the skies in a P-51 Mustang. I've died and gone to heaven.

Great game. Weather options are outstanding and the choice of where I can fly is mind-boggling. I went with the 2004 version as my computer was purchased in '03 and I wanted to stay away from the memory demands of the newest MS flight sim. I have no regrets with what we got.

A Super Sim but......

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A super flight sim, though sometimes it takes forever to load, even on a machine with a Pentium 4 processor and 512 MB RAM. But, once you get going, the flying experience is an improvement over previous Microsoft Filght Sims. As with their other products, users are actively creating new sceneries and planes as shareware or freeware, which will help insure the ultimate success of this realistic product.

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