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Flight Unlimited

Moby ID: 806

DOS version

One of the best sims ever!

The Good
Compared to other flight-sims, this game calculates the movement of the plane much more realistic than any of it's contemporaries.

The terrain was breathtaking and quite unique, as it was based upon aerial photographs.

The Bad
There are occasional hick-ups in the graphics department... The ground perspective sometimes get wrong and straight lines bend. It may look weird, but do not degrade the overall experience in my opinion.

The Bottom Line
It's a simulation of civil airplanes. But it is still major fun because the whole idea is to do aerobatics.

There are lots of lessons which teach you how to do all the stunts.

It's said that the developers struggled with one of the featured planes; the Sukhoi. Something were wrong, as it didn't properly enter a spin. The solution was provided by a real Sukhoi pilot. It was nothing wrong with the 3-D model of the plane, nor with the math calculating the planes movement. It was simply a pilot error: The powerful ailerons of the Sukhoi should not be deployed at maximum deflection, but only half way. They tried this, and the Sukhoi entered the spins like never before...

Get hold of this sim, even if it is the DOS-only version!

by Henning Haraldsen (2) on August 13, 2001

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