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Product Description
Flight Acceleration X-pack enables gamers to play head to head against their friends or others in exciting racing missions, in addition to 20 new missions and new content. Looks better than ever with enhanced DX10 graphics!
Product Details
- Choose from more than 80 missions that will show you the world with fun assignments from around the globe
- Race alone or against friends online
- Experience the day change from afternoon sun to evening dusk while flying at 32,000 feet
- Keep track of how you¿ve done on each mission and improve your skill levels until your ready for the next challenge
- Fly from your local airport during the winter and then experience the change as you fly from the same airport in summer
Customer Reviews
 Well-refined leader of the genre |
| Review Date: March 20, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Jon L. Albee, Houston, TX |
| Flight simulation for your PC just doesn't get any better than this. Microsoft has been at this for a long time, and they make it better with every release.
A few things seasoned flight simmers will know that new users will certainly WANT to know are: The system requirements to really make this software work well are dauntingly advanced. You'll need something approaching a top-level gaming machine, with a huge video card, to get the full benefit of the entire visual, audible, advanced controls experience. Got a laptop you think is pretty smokin'? Forget it. Microsoft follows every release of this product with massive service packs you must download and install, and each one takes a huge chunk out of your hard drive. Be prepared with LOTS of disk space. This particular release (meaning, the "Gold Edition") includes service packs one and two, so you won't need to download them. An internet connection is required to register the product. A note to real pilots (I am also a pilot): Keep in mind that this is a $30 product for a home computer, not a Flight Safety training machine. The flight model is basic and stable, and is not intended to simulate extreme attitudes and emergency procedures. If you're looking for a realistic spin trainer, or a procedural instrument trainer there are expensive add-ons that will get you CLOSE, but you should generally be looking elsewhere. Bottom line is that this is, hands down, the best of the lot, but you really DO need vast hardware resources to run it. If you own those resources, be prepared for a real-time, audio-visual feast. |
| First time for Flight Simulator [Played Three Days Straight] |
| Review Date: January 3, 2009 |
| Reviewer: David C. Richey, Anderson, SC USA |
| Fun once you've downloaded the three disks. There are over 5,000 Airports, 30 planes plus three if you buy The Gold Version, and Loads of Missions to fly. My Favorite Feature is Free Play. You can take off from your Hometown Airport or any other and vist landmarks like The Egyption Pyramids, The Leaning Tower of Pisa, and Niagra Falls. You can download any plane you want online like UFO's, Futureristic Fliying Cars, and my favorite, a Thunder Bird version F-16. I love this game. Make sure you buy a controler like A Saitek X52 joystick and throttle. This game is unplay able witout one. |
| Training aid for pilots! |
| Review Date: March 13, 2009 |
| Reviewer: J. Cardenas, |
| If you are a student pilot you are going to love this game! It helped me on my VFR pilot training. Now that I'm thinking about getting my instrument rating, I know this software is going to help me a lot as well! You have to have a very good graphics card on your system to fully enjoy it. |
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