I want to fly...

**Husar** · 02-10-2008, 04:56

Good points from Beirut, here is the IL2 demo.
There's also Strike Fighters or one of it's newer incarnations but they have no demo as far as I'm aware.

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 02-10-2008, 06:24

Is this your first flight sim? If so, start a little simpler - Wings Over Europe is great, and you can up the difficulty settings gradually for a much more challenging game as you grow more experienced. You can get a ton of freeware add-ons as well.

After you're sick of that (which will take a long time), Lock On is a great way to go. It's pretty much the same thing, but a little more complex, I suppose.

Otherwise, go with IL2. It's another great sim for sure.

**Rodion Romanovich** · 02-10-2008, 09:14

Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars

Is this your first flight sim?

I've played some old Ms Flight simulator (non-combat) and various arcade-ish flight games

**Beirut** · 02-10-2008, 13:42

There are several flightsims out there, but, as mentioned, nothing compares to IL2-46.

Dogfights. Ground attack. Naval action with carrier landings. You can simulate anything from WWI biplane action to post-WWII jets. The mission editor will let you set up a simple one-on-one dogfight over the desert to recreating massive (and historically realistic) battles over Stalingrad, Pearl Harbour, Normandy, and dozens of other places. You can attack shipping convoys in the frozen Russian north, fly bombing runs over Japan, pound Panzer columns in France, attack huge bomber formations over Germany. It's endless.

The sim quality is very good, nice planes, good flight models and cockpits, but the mission builder is incredible. Hundreds of interactive kinds of planes, trains, tanks, artillery, vehicles, ships, submarines, and close to a thousand ground objects (including special effects) available to build anything you can possibly imagine. One of the coolest things is to recreate a night bombing run over a burning city. Searchlights will look for you and lock on, the flak pounds you, air raid sirens are screaming, and huge columns of smoke obscure the view. It's quite spectacular.

Now stop wasting valuable flying time! Spend the twenty or thirty bucks and get airborne.

**Rodion Romanovich** · 02-10-2008, 13:56

That's a roger, sir!

**Beirut** · 02-10-2008, 14:00

Check these out. These are both IL2-46.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wpdn6Y65WOU&feature=related

This one would require a very heavy rig, but it's pretty cool and shows what's possible with the sim.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x0mMhkMWR7A&feature=related

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 02-10-2008, 16:21

Originally Posted by Beirut

This one would require a very heavy rig, but it's pretty cool and shows what's possible with the sim.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x0mMhkMWR7A&feature=related

Dear Lord...

That's just awesome.