| Get access to an on line flight simulator for instant, | | | | ride in your favorite aircraft, not some variation of an |
| repeatable, and radically variable flying experiences. It | | | | old, boring combat game. |
| sounds amazing when you put it like that, especially to | | | | A number of the better available on line flight |
| someone who remembers installing aircraft sims on a | | | | simulators are used by pilots or would-be pilots as flight |
| PC way back when. But it's true. | | | | training devices. They can try out different scenarios |
| You can now download and get instant access to an | | | | and maneuvers that would be impossible or too |
| on line flight simulator. There are quite a few available | | | | dangerous in a real aircraft. And so can you. You are |
| online so you need to be watchful, as usual. You want | | | | getting more than just a game. You are getting a true |
| to get all the latest features possible and not just a | | | | simulation of what it is like to fly a plane. |
| rehash of an old CD version of some defunct game. | | | | You can also program the weather so you can test |
| The first obvious criterion is to find an on line flight | | | | yourself in a hurricane or landing in the same airport in |
| simulator provider that allows you to download their | | | | good and then snowy conditions. In the best on line |
| game directly on to your system, not play it off their | | | | flight simulator you can even synchronize your flight |
| server or having to wait for a CD. Some great | | | | with the actual, real weather at the airport you are |
| advantages of online delivery are that you are | | | | landing in or flying over. Good flight simulation games let |
| connected to the supplier for instant notification of | | | | you experience the changes of weather while you |
| upgrades, improvements, tips & tricks, newsletters, | | | | travel from one destination to another and the |
| forums, etc. | | | | aircraft's reactions to environmental movements. |
| A decent supplier will be offering free lifetime | | | | And, of course, scenery needs to be realistic and |
| upgrades, some kind of newsletter, and a forum for | | | | mobile. This means that the landscape changes with |
| questions and additional information about the game. In | | | | you as you progress on your flight. Night lighting is |
| other words they will have a real, continuing, web | | | | concentrated in urban areas, car lights are visible on |
| presence. | | | | major highways, lakes and rivers are visible. In addition |
| On the website of the on line flight simulator you should | | | | the astronomy should adjust to the plane's position so |
| be finding a wide range of aircraft available for you to | | | | that sun, moon, and stars are where they would be if it |
| navigate and maneuver; not only fighter planes but | | | | were a real flight. |
| helicopters and other aircraft models too. There should | | | | All this detail is variable and changing, which makes it |
| be newer versions of the aircraft to fly. You should | | | | important to have access to a source that keeps you |
| also be completely unlimited in choice of destination | | | | updated. A good on line flight simulator provider will do |
| and weather so you are getting a more adventurous | | | | that for you. |