Finding the Best Flight Simulator Software

By James Smith


The best PC flight simulator is quite possibly going to be one you have never heard about. Flight sim packages are rather a specialist bit of software. As a result you may regularly find that most of the finest flight sims are only available online instead of as a shrink wrapped product to be purchased in your nearby computer shop. So you have got to do a little bit of reading to find out what is out there.

Flight sim programmers have to strike a equilibrium between making the software fun and feeling like a computer game and being real enough to feel enough like you are flying a real aeroplane. The issue with making things too lifelike is you can abandon the enjoyment element and the simulation can be boring for all but the most enthusiastic flyers.

The steep learning curve often linked with flight simulators tends to limit their appeal to people apart from those who are terribly enthusiastic about recreating the piloting experience as accurately as possible. Many flight simulators available will do nothing apart from make you curse with disappointment at their difficulty. You need to find the correct balance of realism and pleasure. For this reason I think Pro Flight Simulator to be the best PC flight simulator available. It's is both stunningly realistic and is superb fun too.

It's all very well having a realistic flight simulation but if the visuals are unrealistic then you are not going to get much pleasure from admiring the views. For me the best computer flight simulation is all about exploring as much as it is about flight. I like to feel like I have the liberty to travel where I like and explore the landscape of the earth from the air. I love to fly over realistic landscapes, and if they are based totally on real world geography then so much the better.

A good flight sim should be created with a gentle learning process that rewards you for your progression instead of penalising you for your lack of it. Variety is important. Pro Flight Simulator for instance has over 120 aircraft and over 20,000 airfields. There's no end of varied flying experiences and locations to fly to.

It's important for a simulator package to include a comprehensive manual, demos and help texts. The best flight simulations are expandable with additional add-ons that can be bought that add yet further variety to the simulation experience.

In order to select the best personal computer flight sim for your requirements you want to decide on whether or not it is entertainment you are after or realism. The other thing to go looking for is whether you simply want to fly or do you need to get involved in combat by flying combat aircraft. Some flight sims such as Pro Flight Simulator even allow you to fly 'copters.




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