| If you would like to fly an airplane but you lack | | | | skills. Ideally, weather and time can be customized |
| the license, the funds and the time, you should | | | | or synchronized with real world conditions. |
| take a look at the flight simulator games out | | | | 4. Realistic cockpit and controls: Make sure your |
| there. | | | | flight sim offers a cockpit view that is modeled |
| Several flight simulations compete for your | | | | correctly after the real plane. |
| attention and your money. There are some free | | | | 5. Additional features and add-ons available: If the |
| flight simulators that give you a basic idea of | | | | flight sim has an active developer team or |
| what flying could be like. The graphics are | | | | community, you will find add-ons and additional |
| sometimes quite good but unfortunately they are | | | | features being published regularly. This will help if |
| not very realistic. | | | | you ever get bored. |
| 6 features you should look out for when you | | | | 6. Aircraft Carriers: If you find a flight sim with |
| choose a flight simulator: | | | | integrated aircraft carriers, you might have a |
| 1. Graphics and scenery: A state of the art flight | | | | great time. Its challenging to start and land your |
| sim will have decent looking video animations and, | | | | airplane on a carrier, especially at night, but it's a |
| very important, a realistic map of the world. | | | | great experience and it will glue you to the screen |
| Wherever you fly, the flight sim should have | | | | until you have mastered it. |
| correctly mapped scenery and landscape. | | | | I have long searched for a good flight simulator |
| 2. Selection of planes: How many different planes | | | | that includes as many of the above mentioned |
| are available to fly? Check for military and | | | | features as possible. Unfortunately, most modern |
| passenger airplanes, turboprop and jet stream, | | | | flight games focus solely on military conflicts, |
| helicopters and carrier airplanes. | | | | arcade flying experience and multiplayer battles. |
| 3. Weather and time: A flight simulation should | | | | While there is nothing wrong with that, it is not |
| offer realistic weather that challenges your pilot | | | | what I was looking for: a realistic flight experience. |