Customer Reviews

Fly!

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As a private pilot, I was amazed with the flight models and functionality of Fly!

Procedures in starting the aircraft and flying it are just like in real life.

Better yet, Fly! is open, this means that you can import and create new scenery and aircraft, just like its competitor, but with one difference: Fly! is realistic, real flight models, not just a game that gives you the Concorde with a hang glider caracteristics... (ie FS2000)...

Lot's of bugs, but there's patches available and being worked on. FLY! is loaded with realistic features and scenery. Every little switch and knob is functional on several different aircraft. Fly! will give you the "busy" feeling a pilot feels while commanding an aircraft. ATC, Mixture, Cabin Pressure, Lights, Sun Glare, Traffic (yes traffic), transponder, it's all there. Be patient with the bugs and you'll have many years of enjoyment. A great sim.

I have to say that Fly! Is a simply amazing simulator, with realistic flight models and some great features that others don't have. It's truly a joy to use - when it works. Unfortunately, that isn't often. From machine to machine results vary of course, but on my PII 300mhz, with 3d vid and 32mg memory, I found myself hitting the reset button about 3 times as often as completing a flight. Some I've spoken to have been unable to get the program to run at all. The patches that TRI have released have fixed some problems, but not nearly all, and they have a lot of technical work to do if they plan on getting Fly! Into the same league as FS 2000.

Though I started with Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2000 (FS2K) and Combat Flight Simulator, Fly! is my current favorite. Fly! doesn't have great beginner tutorials the way FS2K does, but it have the following advantages, in my opinion: 1) Fly's photo-realistic terrain beats FS2K at any altitude above 1000 ft. 2) Fly's cockpits and startup procedures are more realistic 3) FS2K doesn't have ATC, as others have pointed out. 4) Fly has a much better manual, though FS2K users can get similar quality by purchasing Ben Chiu's FS2K guidebook. 5) On my 500 MHz, ATA 66, Win98SE system at least, Fly! has better framerates and stability than FS2K. I can pull up as many secondary instrument, map, vector etc. windows in Fly as I want without stuttering.