Or the mission where you fly a secret agent to a remote island and then follow the plane you're tailing to land on a secret airstrip. Love that one. And I didn't even know about the secret agent twist until well into the mission!

Oh yeah..that one was a good one. In doing the review I reflew (after 5 years) the drug interdiction mission too.. Where you follow the DC-3 with the helicopter. That one is pretty fun too..

This has inspired me to re-install FSX. It should run pretty well on my new rig.

Follow the F/A-18 through the scud and land on the boat...

that's a challenge!

Also enjoyed the Vomit Comet quite a bit, great sound and visuals out over Edwards.

Even the soaring adventures are pretty cool.

I tell ya'..the first soaring adventure really got my blood pumping. After releasing from the tow plane I managed to circle up a few thousand feet.. Then I got the directions to head (west?) toward some fields. Well, in transit I lost lots of altitude searching to get back in the thermal. For a few minutes I was really, really low and starting to wonder where I could land. Suddenly I reached the proper point over the fields and started rising and was totally stoked because it took me high enough to reach that gate that you see me go through in the video. Then I headed over to do the ridge lift gates. Very fun mission that I had not fully experienced 5 years ago..but really enjoyed when doing the "research" for this article..



BeachAV8R

Good article, made me go and buy the digital downlaod Gold version. I was playing MS Flight after its release but later on lost interest as I was waiting for Alaska DLC (didn't bother with the cockpitless warbirds, although the RV-6 and Maule were fun to fly).

I have the FSX Gold but it's been off my hard drive for awhile. Did the community ever make a lot of downloadable new missions?

Excellent and totally accurate article, Beach. But I must say, I even enjoyed the FS2004 missions. FS2004 is also vastly superior as a "game" to Flight. And it is a sim, too, unlike Flight.

Bullseye, dead centre! A great review. FSX is still my favourite civil flightsim, for me it's the Falcon 4.0 of civil aviation (and the second best is FS2004). It was a sad day when MS pulled the plug. Perhaps if Flight falls on its face, they will think again about FSXI. I could never get on with X-plane, but I haven't looked at it for a while

For those interested - there are some after market mission add-ons for FSX that will also extend your entertainment value. I can't vouch for the quality of these packs. The only one I've played was the Rescue pack one..and it was pretty entertaining, but the price tag seems too steep still. Caveat emptor..

Missions!

Lots more!

More!

More!

Anyway..you get the idea..

BeachAV8R