Customer Reviews

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight: Official Strategies & Secrets

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While this book may be good for an absolute first timer, it is a total waste of money for a familiar user. I purchased it in hopes of learning how to properly use the instruments for approaches/landing and the control tower. All of the lessons in the book refer you back to the "Learning Center" (on your computer) - why even bother using this book. For someone looking to have a paper reference to coach them through something, this book is not it! I wanted a step by step lesson and it gave me "try the Learning Center." It also skips over a lot of the key steps and assumes you already know how to do certain things. What makes this book even worse is that it doesnt even provide a list of common commands. My advice: Don't Bother.

Nearly everything in the book is just a re-hash of information that is in the learning center section of Flight Simulator. More depth and breadth of information is needed to merit purchasing this book.

You can play Fs2004 without this, but if you really want to get the most of the simulator you should have it because have a lot of extra information. and If you like to fly and all concerned with aviation it is a good idea for your collection. 200 and more pages.

This is a really good companion book for the game. It compiles all important data into one place, and includes fun challenges that are instructional. I give it an A-.

This book contains tens of pages about aircraft information which is easily obtainable from the internet. It does have some useful FS usage information, but even that can be obtained from the online manual.

It is not a total waste though.

Although there are some interesting excercises in this book, it didn't have the extensive, detailed "nuts & bolts" information I was looking for. Each subject is a basic overview followed by "see the learning center for more information".

I was hoping for detailed information on all controls and instruments, the information that's NOT found in the FS2004 learning center.

In short, don't waste your money.

I purchased this book after I read the other reviews. Some of them were not as good as others. I have long been a fan of Flight Simulator and I have purchased all the hints book to go along with each one. I found this book to be a great resource and I have used it daily.

Great little book!
Can't imagine starting out playing FS2004 without this handy book. Has many, many tips to help the novice to begin using and understanding the flight simulator. Recommend it highly.

Great book. Goes real well with flightsim 2004. Very informative and highly detailed. The only downside is they don't have specs for add-on aircraft. Duh! I learned so much about the default aircraft and their settings for flying just from reading this book. Who knew? Great job!!

I recently purchased the 2004 Flight Sim as my introductory software into the flight sim world. As one who has always loved flight, and with a few hours logged in a Cessna 172, I can vouch for this software's authenticity. I was somewhat concerned about the ability of my computer to handle the needed size and speed requirements, but its doing great. After purchasing a yoke, my five yr old son is also very excited about learning more about the aviation world. Its a great start.