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Flight Simulator

[The last renewal of this page: January 4, 1997]

1. Fantastic world of Microsoft FLIGHT SIMULATOR

I've been enjyoing the great Microsoft Flight Simulator since its version 4.0. I set flight control yoke and rudder pedal unit to the computer, and also a big stero speakerset with a powerful Hi-Fi amplifire. With this setup, I am trainning and practicing myself seriously wishing that someday I could be a real pilot in my future.

Fortunatly,I have a chance to get on a airplane on my business for maybe ten times in a year. Evertime I get on aboard, I bring an enrute map, accurate magnetic-compass, alitmeter(Air pressure in airplane is controled to be varied almost in proporion to the outside atmospheric pressure, that I can tell the altitude roughly with this. ), and also a scanning receiver in my pocket monitoring all the comunications between pilot and ground controler in secret with the earphone being set in the ear of the window side. I keep recording heading direction, altitude, air-speed (Ask it pilot via stewardess), wind direction, wind speed, by using these stuff and calculating data. Of course, my seat should be on the window side, just behind of the wing, so that I can observe all the movement of aileron flaps, and spoilers. Estimating exact postion, real flying direction, ground speed from the data which I'm getting keeps me busy, and there is no time for me to take a sleep an aboard. In all flights, I got a record of my tracking data in the three dimension space from its takeoff to landing.

What I do after I got back from the air trip, is to select the same airplane's data, and repeat and simulate the flight that I came from just a while ago exactly the same way, with the Flight Simulator. I can never forget how much I excited getting gooseflesh on my body, when I had flew for 2 hours from Tokyo International Airport directing Fuoka Airport above the cloud using many VORs and NDBs all the way, descending down in a thick cloud, and finaly I found the runway-16 of the Fukuoka Airport was aligned in front of me!

2. The Newest Informations for Microsoft FLIGHT SIMULATOR

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