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Old January 5th 07, 07:15 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
gpsman
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Default Confusion about when it's my navigation, and when it's ATC

Nomen Nescio wrote: brevity snip/groups adjusted
Falcon 4.0 is like that for me. Does it actually behave like a F-16?
I dunno. It behaves like a PLANE and that's important to me, although
there are a few things I've noticed that I would bet are quite
different in a real F-16. But I don't care because I am trying to learn
the GAME and be good at the GAME. Since I'll probably never get
a chance to fly, or even fly in, an F-16, the differences just don't matter
to me (although I did get to sit in one and embarrass my wife by making
jet noises and shouting "Fox one").
I enjoy it for what it is and have no delusions that I really know
how to fly an F-16. And if a REAL F-16 pilot told me about what it was like to
fly a REAL F-16, I wouldn't be arguing about the differences in the
Falcon 4.0 flight models..........I'd STFU and take notes.


Now that's funny!

Falcon 3.0 was advertised as the declassified version of the software
used to train NG pilots. I have no idea how realistic it remained, but
it was real enough to make me sweat and hold my breath as I struggled
to not have my ass shot out of the sky.

I don't remember exactly what year I purchased it, but the machine I
first ran it on was a 486/25 (in DOS).

THAT... was one kickass game!
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- gpsman