2004 Realism

Today I was at my local airport (KDYB) with my wife and grandson. We were
sitting at one of the picnic tables they have along side of the office
watching the planes. I commented to my wife how impressed I am with this new
software I bought, FS 2004. I told her that what amazed me is how accurately
things were located in it. I had my Garmin 12 GPS with me and I told her, I
bet the location on this GPS will match the location in the software. So I
wrote it down to see. From our sitting point directly across the airport
there was this white house on the edge of the airport facing us. She ask me
who lives there? I told I that I had no idea but they sure have a great view
of the airport. Then we seen this yellow plane taking off and my wife said,
"There something wrong that plane is going so slow it's going to fall
(stall) or something." I said no, "that is and old J3 cub". It takes off at
60 mph and is it heading into the wind, that is why it looks like it is
going so slow, it's not going to stall.

When we got home I went to the computer and checked the location of KDYB.
The parking area on FS 2004 was the exact reading I got on my hand held GPS.
I called my wife into the room and said look at this, "except for no parked
planes this is actually what we seen today for real". I said "see the signs
by the taxi way pointing which way to go and the painted markings on taxi
ways". The layout was flawless. Scanning around, there it was, "the white
house". I know that it was a pure coincidence that the house would be there
but I could not help teasing my wife. I said see how accurate this thing is
they even have the house where it belongs. She said, "How did they know
that?" I said, "I don't know but they are pretty smart." Then I asked
her, "Do you want to fly a J3 cub just like the one you seen today". I said
"You can even take off from the same runway (6)." So when I put the cub on
the runway she said " WOW, it's even the same color, yellow". I think she
was impressed too.

Seriously. I don't seen how Microsoft (or anyone else) could write a piece
of software like this and only sell it for $50.00. I am running it on a Dell
2.5 Gig P4, 1 gig Ram, 128 video card and a 21" monitor. I runs good with
this system.