After Hours – PC Based Flight Simulators

PC Based Flight Simulators – Are They Real?

The modem personal computer now has the firepower of many mainframes of just a decade ago. Indeed, the computing power of the latest range of 386 and 486 machines is now so significant that even the most demanding software can easily and readily be used to its fullest advantage. An ideal application for this rapidly improving technology is of course home video games, and in particular those allied to aviation. Whether you wish to fly pulse raising combat missions in anF-22 or just hone up on your instrument procedures there is an inexpensive software programme for you. To examine this rapidly growing capability and to advise just what is on offer, our computer whiz, ex-Mirage pilot Chris Mills, fires up his megabytes in our new series appropriately entitled -After Hours. Now, sit back and enjoy as Chris asks . . .

So far, the mission has been boringly routine.

For variety, you slide the F-16 Fighting Falcon from port to starboard combat echelon on the B-52 you have been assigned to escort on a bombing raid deep into Kuwait. Looking sideways, your wingman adjusts position as you manoeuvre.

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