Below are some of the best flight sims for the PC:
Flight Simulator X
Contains: Flight Simulator X Deluxe Edition Flight Simulator X Acceleration (Expansion Pack)
Flight Simulator X: Deluxe Edition
Flight Simulator X is the culmination of nearly 25 years of the landmark Flight Simulator franchise and its most significant addition to date. The 10th addition to the highly successful Flight Simulator franchise, Flight Simulator X will immerse players in a beautifully rich and realistic world, offering a completely new and innovative gaming experience with dozens of new aircraft to choose from, including the AirCreation 582SL Ultralight and Maule M7-260C Orion with wheels and skis. Gamers of all ages, types and skill levels will experience firsthand what it is like to be an aviator travelling the globe either alone or online with others.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Acceleration (Expansion Pack)
Flight Simulator X: Acceleration, is the action-packed expansion for Microsoft's amazingly successful and award-winning Flight Simulator X video game. With newly enhanced DX10 graphics, Flight Simulator X: Acceleration gamers of all ages, types and skill levels can race against friends in amazing, highly detailed locations around the world, test their skills and heroism in many new missions, fly three exciting new aircraft, and share rewards, photos and videos with friends and the broader flight community.
Flight Simulator 2004
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight is the next milestone in the award-winning Flight Simulator franchise. Celebrating 20 years of developing and perfecting computer flight simulation, A Century of Flight will allow aviation enthusiasts to experience history at the controls of historic aircraft, such as Charles Lindberghs Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis, the Douglas DC-3 and the worlds first successful powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer. New engaging features such as interactive multimedia provide a wealth of historical information on the planes that shaped aviation history and the pilots who flew them. Informed and insightful articles explain all there is to know about Microsofts Flight Simulator and the 24 aircraft included in the software. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight also introduces an updated, dynamic weather system, enhanced automatically generated scenery AutoGen and detailed visual effects, improved Air Traffic Control functions, and 3D interactive cockpits, as well as 15 modern aircraft, including the Beechcraft Baron and the Robinson R22 helicopter.Key Features:Dynamic weather system based on realistic atmospheric physics, with true three-dimensional clouds that form and dissipate, and automatic real-world weather updates when youre connected to the Internet. Weather othemes_ that generate a wide variety of stunningand challengingflying conditions with just a few clicks of a mouse Enhanced interactive air traffic control ATC, including traffic at all airports around the world including non-towered airports, altitude changes en route, pop-up IFR clearances, and precision and non-precision approaches to multiple runways Interactive 3D ovirtual_ cockpitstune radios and operate key aircraft controls and avionics by pointing and clicking in the virtual cockpit view. Scenery improvements, including taxiway and runway signs, enhanced auto-gen 3D objects, more high-detail airports, and improved lighting and sky effects Garmin
Flight Simulator Deluxe
Flight Simulator X offers players a rich and innovative gaming experience with new technological advancements, incredible graphics and added realism including weather, time of day and seasons. With the addition of new mission-based gameplay, players will have a specific purpose as their world comes alive for the first time with automobile traffic, moving boats and ships, and animal life. Flight Simulator X will enable pilots to fly the aircraft of their dreams, from the DeHavilland DHC-2 Beaver floatplane and Grumman G-21A Goose to the AirCreation 582SL Ultralight and Maule M7-260C Orion with wheels and skis. Through increased online gameplay capabilities, Flight Simulator X offers players a connected world where they can choose whom they want to be, from air-traffic controller to pilot or co-pilot, as they interact with other aviators from around the globe by chatting in real time via headset and keyboard. More than 24,000 airports feature AI-controlled jetways, fuel trucks and moving baggage carts, allowing players to explore their hometown or venture to a favourite far-off city.
Combat Flight Simulator 3
Ground-breaking graphics engine that allows players to lead exciting high-speed, low-altitude strafing runs to bomb strategic enemy targets Fly WWII's finest, fastest and edgiest aircraft. Each of them are realistically rendered in the tradition of the Combat Flight Simulator franchise Live the life of an authentic WWII pilot - Pilots manage new character role-playing attributes including G-force tolerance, vision and physical health Experience aerial action that never ends - With enhanced online cooperative multiplayer action, players coordinate with friends to influence how battles are fought Soar alongside friends - Players can create "campaign servers" allowing people from across the globe to play in an ongoing war theatre over the Internet Form squadrons and battle in a myriad of missions against other users online or coordinate to man a medium bomber, playing the role of either bombardier or gunner
Battle of Britain 2: Wings of Victory
Computer piloted airplanes fly with the same performance and flight characteristics the player flies with, for a precise, historically accurate offline experience. "RealPilot" Artificial Intelligence Technology means enemy aircraft have the same limitations the player has. Both the player and the enemy can use the clouds for safety and cover. Study and exploit the enemy's weaknesses with charts included in the printed pilot's manual. Enemy aircraft have the same characteristics and performance as the player's aircraft, including actual joystick movements.
IL-2 Sturmovik
IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey is based around large-scale aerial combat over the ground-based military operations of World War II. Participate in the war's most famous confrontations piloting fighters, battle planes or heavy bombers through a range of thrilling missions set over stunning landscapes - from the patchwork fields of Southern England to the smoking ruins of Stalingrad, all recreated with amazing detail.
As well as advanced environmental visuals IL-2 also boasts an all-new damage effects engine. Players can see real-time damage to the aircraft such as holes in the wings and trail lines during dog fights.
Engage in more 50 thrilling missions from famous historical battles over Eastern and Western Europe and fly historically accurate aircraft including the iconic Spitfire
Choose a difficulty level to match your experience, from adrenaline-fuelled arcade action to realistic simulations
Battle hundreds of enemy aces for control of the skies in intense multiplayer dogfights and bombing sorties
Enjoy detailed visuals including revolutionary real-time damage effects and an atmospheric audio experience featuring a stunning soundtrack by Jeremy Soule
Rise of Flight
The best known aircraft of 1917and 1918 are included (Albatros D.5, Fokker D.VII, DFW C.5, Brequet Bre.14, Nieuport Nie.17, Nieuport Nie.28, Spad S.13, Royal Air Factory SE.5) and each one modeled in great detail with highly realistic engines and weapons. The world around you is not a static backdrop to your flights. Over 100.000 km2 of highly realistic terrain (including Lille, Cambrai, Reims and Verdun) complemented with a sophisticated weather model, which creates a perfect environment from where you will engage the enemy. On the ground you will see the tanks rolling towards the enemy and the trains and trucks that supply to the front line. The front line is marked with trenches, explosions and with the inclusion of the anti-aircraft is not a safe area to fly in.
After completing the training flights you can also fly a single mission to perfect your skills. The career mode is the next logical step and you will join a squadron and participate in one of several campaigns. Of course an advanced mission builder is included so you can make your own mission and share them with your friends. If you so desire you can fight other pilots on the internet or join one of the many virtual squadrons.
Warbirds Extreme
Get the most accurate and realistic aircraft models possible for Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 and Flight Simulator 2002. Gain modern air superiority in the F-15 Strike Eagle, F-16 Falcon, A-10 Thunderbolt and Stealth Bomber!
