20 What new products are available or are expected? (PC-Based Flight Simulators)
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This article is from the Flight Simulators FAQ, by with numerous contributions by Bob Wittick rwittick@msu.edu others.
20 What new products are available or are expected? (PC-Based Flight Simulators)
The latest version of the Microsoft Flight Simulator is
version 5.1. There is both a disk version and a CD-ROM version. This
version includes better ground texturing, a visibility weather
option, a scenery management system, and better autopilot capabilities.
The CD-ROM version includes close to 200 additional airports as well as
major mountains around the world. A scenery designer for FS5 was also
alluded to in the readme file for FS5.0, but this product has yet to be
officially announced. The latest scenery set for FS5.1 is the
Microsoft Hawaii scenery.
BAO released Flight Shop late in 1995. It allows you to design new
aircraft for FS5. It also will convert FS4 aircraft to FS5, provided
you have the original crated file. It has adventure capabilities
similar to but more extensive than those offered in AAF for FS4. There
are now several hundred Flight Shop aircraft and adventures available
at the various FS archive sites.
BAO also released Tower toward the end of 1995. This is described in
section C6.
AMTEX has released ATP Companion: 3-D Advanced Graphics System. 3DAGS,
as it is called, is an addon to ATP and it changes the scenery to 256
color, gives new instrument panels for all the A/C including high tech,
glass cockpits for the A320/B767, realistic day/night visual transition,
gradual visibility changes while going into/out of clouds, a new
auto pilot for the A320/767 and 3D viewing with special glasses.
Flight Unlimited has been released by Looking Glass Technologies. It is
a high resolution, aerobatic flight simulator. It models five aircraft:
Bellanca Decathlon, Pitts Special S-2B, Grob G-103A Twin II Avro
Sailplane, Sukhoi SU31, and an Exta 300S. It requires a lot of computer
power for the higher graphic resolutions, but it appears to have
excellent flight models.
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