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Serious simulators--they can teach you to fly
Combat flight simulators have long been an industry mainstay. Most seem to have been optimized for excitement, with perhaps more attention paid to...
Flight Journal, 08/01/01 by Lert, Peter S · More from publication -
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
Poor, beleaguered Microsoft. By the time you read this, it may still be business as usual in Redmond-or the Justice Dept. may have insisted that...
Flight Journal, 04/01/00 by Lert, Peter · More from publication -
Terminal Reality Inc.'s FLY! The making of a simulator
I need to begin this "Virtual Pilot" with a disclaimer and an explanation: in my role as a reviewer of flightsimulation programs and similar...
Flight Journal, 02/01/00 by Lert, Peter · More from publication -
Serious simulators: X-plane and 747-400 precision simulator
Desktop computer-flight simulation packages continue to proliferate in almost bewildering variety. As I've mentioned before, they range from...
Flight Journal, 10/01/99 by Lert, Peter · More from publication -
So near, and yet so far...
As I write this in January, it looks as if the highly competitive market for desktop PC flight simulations is not only undergoing a period of...
Flight Journal, 06/01/99 by Lert, Peter · More from publication -
Proteus: Rutan's low-orbit chameleon
Rutan's low-orbit chameleon Consider a number of scenes that could take place within the next four or five years: In an urban area, someone...
Flight Journal, 02/01/99 by Lert, Peter · More from publication -
Virtual pilot: NovaLogic updates Comanche 3
The role of the helicopter in combat continues to evolve. In Vietnam, the helicopter was primarily a transport (although, of course, both regular...
Flight Journal, 10/01/98 by Lert, Peter · More from publication -
B-17F technical orders on CD-ROM
Those of you who are faithful fans of this column-and you both know who you are-have often seen me decry some of my computer-smitten colleagues as...
Flight Journal, 08/01/98 by Lert, Peter · More from publication -
Dynamix/Sierra Red Baron II
I've never been lucky enough to fly a real WW I aircraft, although I've flown a couple of close reproductions; and when you look at what WW I...
Flight Journal, 06/01/98 by Lert, Peter · More from publication -
Unusual agplanes: Bug bombers
Today, those of us who live in civilized countries tend to take things like adequate food and freedom from insect pests for granted. This hasn't...
Flight Journal, 06/01/98 by Lert, Peter · More from publication
