10 Tips on Purchasing a Flight Game Simulator

To get a flight game simulator that won’t dissatisfy you or whoever you are buying for follow these 10 tips. (For full disclosure I should say that it took me quite a few rounds of trying out comparatively pricey, low-priced, and free flight simulator games before I crafted this list and a flight game simulator I would recommend).

1. Check the range of aircraft before you buy. A flight game simulator, if it is good quality, will have a extensive array to pick from – from trade to armed forces planes to helicopters to gliders to some goofy stuff like zeppelins and sleighs.

2. Realistic graphics are a key pointer of the value of a flight game simulator. Everything - from topography, aircraft reactions, to planetary alignments and movements - should be as accurate as possible. Airports and runways should appear the same as in real life.
Check out the game’s sky depiction and the shadow and light . On the most fundamental level check out the rendering of the planes themselves; if this is not good quality… move on…. do not buy this flight game simulator!

3. You should be able to choose your weather setting - hurricanes, rain, snow or even lightning - or tie in to real-life weather at the airport closest you at any position in the game.
Different weather conditions create different challenges, for instance hot and cold can have striking differences on a trip into the same airport. A broad collection of destinations should be accessible from your flight game simulator. Pilots and planes fly to various places in different weather conditions and the flying experience will never be identical for different places, so your game should reflect this.

4. To get a flight game simulator that enables you to experience the pressures of real conditions – both physical and mental – the physics need to be real-time and precise.
Speeding up and pauses, runway bow, air friction, effect of gravity – all should be present in a flight game simulator precisely as they come about in real life. The game player should go through pretty much everything a professional flyer does, with a multitude of separate inputs each having their own significance and meaning.

5. Control is another key factor in distinguishing quality flight simulation games from cheap rubbish. A good quality flight game simulator allows you to choose everything from where you take off and land to the aircraft and time of day.
You should also be able to redesign features like the cockpit and even be able to design and redesign aircraft and airports should you want to.

6. Time, whether zones or seasons, should be accessible} and modifiable virtually or real-time. Night flying should have lifelike ground lighting and correct airstrip markings on take-off and approach.
Precise time modeling should accurately position the sun, the moon, the stars, and the planets. If it is midnight in Macau now it should be when you are approaching it in the flight game simulator.

7. A multiple display capacity enables you to connect multiple instances of the program together to display distinct views of the simulation. This, for example, enables you to display the control panel on a screen right in front of you, while displaying the view forward on a different screen or a projector.

8. Scenery should include as normal all lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, cities, towns and land cover (based on real maps). Night light should take account of ground lighting concentrated in metropolitan areas and headlights visible on main highways.

9. Cockpit instrument simulation should mimic accurately the lags and glitches found in an actual plane and update at the identical rate that your out-the-window view updates. The portrayal should be accurate enough that a game user would be able to sit comfortably at the controls of a real airplane.

10. There should be at least three playing views offered, for example, first person, third person and a cockpit view.

Of course there are a large number of factors to take into account when you purchase a flight game simulator. Every person has their own unique requirements. This checklist is the 80 side of the 80:20 rule for factors to bear in mind.

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Click the link for more tips on buying a flight game simulator. See my website Flight Simulator Planes for more recommendations, reviews, and free stuff to make your flying more fun. - Michael

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