Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator
-
Game Pak I
(1991) -
HeadStart Fun Pac
(1989)
Description official descriptions
In Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer you have the chance to test pilot 14 different airplanes, such as the Bell X-1 and the Lockheed SR-71. It features 10 different viewpoints both inside and outside of the plane, with a zoom of up to 256x, and different aerodynamics for each plane.
You can do different things with the planes, from racing against a computer opponent, to practising formation and stunt flights. You can follow the testing and development programme through its evolution.
There is a "black box recorder" to replay your flights, and analysis of your performance compared to an ideal one.
Spellings
- 上級 フライト･トレーナー - Japanese spelling
Groups +
Screenshots
Promos
Credits (DOS version)
15 People (13 developers, 2 thanks)
| Software Design Implementation | |
| Aerodynamic Model | |
| Technical Consultant | |
| Producer | |
| Associate Producer | |
| Assistant Producers | |
| Technical Director | |
| Program Art | |
| Product Manager | |
| Art Director | |
| Package Photography |
|
| Special thanks to |
|
Reviews
Critics
Average score: 83% (based on 17 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 37 ratings with 1 reviews)
State of the art PC flight sim, back then.
The Good
I enjoyed the variety of the aircraft available to fly. You could fly the sopwith camel, fokker triplane, P-51, cessna, SR-71, and some wild 1950s and 1960s x-series jets!
There were a couple of remote 'airports' to land and take off from, so you could practice from other locations than your home airport. You could land anywhere, really.
It was also fun to play the air races game, although I never was able to outfly the computer opponents.
Crashing was even fun. You got a pixellated view of Chuck Yeager telling you what a screw up you were :)
The Bad
The colors were absolutely monotonous, and the ground features for mountains were simple pyramids, cones, and cylinders.
Flight physics were pretty simple.
The jet engine howl got old and you had to turn the volume off.
The Bottom Line
A fun game to hop on the computer and try your hand at several types of aircraft. Easy on a beginner.
DOS · by ex_navynuke! (42) · 2005
Trivia
Aircraft
One of the planes is the SR-71 Blackbird and one of its test flight scenarios is trying to best Yaeger's altitude record.
Copy protection
The game was not playable from the original disk since it was write protected and the game required the ability to write to the disk during play. However, the original disk was still required to be handy for the key disk copy protection.
Sales
It was EA's top selling game of 1987; 11% of their total sales in that year.
Awards
- ACE
- October 1988 (issue #13) - Included in the Top-100 list of 1987/1988 (editorial staff selection)* Commodore Format
- February 1991 (Issue 5) - listed in the A to Z of Classic Games article (Great)
- Power Play
- 1987 - #2 Best MS-DOS Game '87
Information also contributed by Edward Lerner and Terok Nor.
Analytics
Upgrade to MobyPro to view research rankings and price history! (when applicable)
Related Games
Released 1989 on DOS, 1990 on Amiga, Atari ST
Released 1984 on Commodore 64, 1985 on ZX Spectrum, 1988 on Amiga...
Released 1993 on Genesis, Amiga, SEGA CD...
Released 1991 on DOS, 1993 on Macintosh
Released 1984 on TRS-80 CoCo, Dragon 32/64, 1985 on Sinclair QL
Released 1996 on DOS
Released 2020 on Windows, Windows Apps, 2021 on Xbox Series
Released 2007 on Windows
Released 2018 on iPad, Android, 2020 on Nintendo Switch
Identifiers +
Contribute
Are you familiar with this game? Help document and preserve this entry in video game history! If your contribution is approved, you will earn points and be credited as a contributor.
Contributors to this Entry
Game added by Servo.
Commodore 64 added by Quapil. ZX Spectrum added by Kabushi. Amstrad CPC added by Martin Smith. Apple II added by Edward Lerner. Macintosh, MSX, PC-98 added by Terok Nor.
Additional contributors: Trixter, Kasey Chang, Cantillon, Patrick Bregger, Rik Hideto, Jo ST, FatherJack.
Game added August 20, 2001. Last modified December 15, 2024.