Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Gold Edition

This is a really nice software. I stopped trying to play MSFS way back - my last one was the "98" version. Last year I started playing "Microsoft Flight" and really enjoyed the good sceneries and missions. It was a civil flight simulator with goals and a purpose. I bought the extra sceneries and planes. Then MS quit development for the game...way to go, Microsoft. Flight Simulator X does not have the same nice graphics of it's younger sibling. However, it's a much more complete experience than the one provided by Flight. There are some very good stock sceneries, and a nice collection of small prop-driven planes. The missions included are great to get the feel of the thing, and some of them feature even nice dialogs like the ones from Flight. FSX has the same "traditional way" that the MSFS Series kept since the classic 5.0 version, but includes some nice improvements, and the missions give it a purpose for the goal-driven "player", like me. The virtual cockpits of the planes are very nice. You can play it with an XBox Controller, just like Flight - although it's harder to get a good view around, since the "view" control, in the right stick, is self-centering and there's no way to change that. But, being a much "greater" simulator than Flight, I'm very compelled to get a set of pedals and play it with my old CH Flightstick that's been kept stored for years with no use. If your computer is good enough (and I mean REALLY good, especially in the CPU department), and you got deep pockets, some add-on sceneries and graphic enhancements are really great and can take the overall looks of the game even ahead of those provided by Flight. This review may seem too focused in the "graphics" of FSX. Of course a good simulator is not simply good graphics. But since I play FSX because I would really like to be a real pilot of small planes, I really don't care too much about the planes themselves - to me, it's much more about the airports, airstrips, beautiful places to fly through and everything. Flying warbirds and jets is really not for me - so, to me, the sceneries are what matter the most. I'll always miss the nice Hawaii I had in Microsoft Flight. Overall, a great bargain and a very good software that can hook you up for hours each time you play it. And, for players like me, who use FSX to actually try to learn to fly and get a real feel out of it instead of just picking up countless warplanes for simply taking off and landing and gazing at the fine cockpits, I recommend buying one of the various books about "how to fly" available in Amazon or in your preferred bookstore, and playing a bit everyday.

I went up in a Citabria with a former U2 pilot. He described flying as hours of boredom punctuated by a few minutes of absolute terror. Flight Simulators are fun when there is an objective, something to do, something to learn beyond the hours of eyecandy scenery to view. Combat gives you an enemy to shoot, strafe or bomb. Civilian flight is a different challenge. Flight Simulator X has become just about the only game in town for civilian flight simulations. It's a great title, and the X Gold version is cheap, it includes all the service packs and the accelerator upgrade. It is still well supported by flight sim third party software. FSX has a better engine for flight and graphics than the older FS 2000/ FS2002/ and FS2004. Together with third party software to upgrade sounds, missions, environment, and scenery make it still fun. It is one of the best non competition games ever. You play against yourself and your personal learning curve. So the challenge is always there. The real fun is when you work at figuring out flight. Speaking as a gamer who loves Skyrim and Elder Scrolls, it is fun to play a game where you aren't looking for a cheat, or a glitch. Just take on the challenge of learning. I'm 65 now, and these old eyes and reflexes are still enjoying the challenge of flight. YOU WANT THIS VERSION; AND YOU WILL WANT ABACUS EZGPS NAVIGATION AS AN ADDON TO HELP YOU FLY ANYWHERE IN THE FSX WORLD. I used to love to play Flight Unlimited ii and iii; I kept a computer with xp just to keep those old games alive. So many of the flight sims ran on Windows 95 and 98 and did not transfer to the XP operating system. Flight Simulator X Gold won't install on my Windows 7 64 bit machine. Over the years I have collected the titles from Janes and other flight sims. How I loved Jetfighter 3 and ATF. Microsoft Combat Simulator is still alive and playable. FSX is the best title surviving the genre of years gone by.

Had to purchase this classic flight simulation from Microsoft even though they have stopped the development of this program. Easy to set up and start flying and I recommend this program. Another program you might want to consider is XPlane 10 by Laminar Research. It's a program heavily supported by user groups and although not as polished a user interface as Microsoft it offers some very realistic flying, worth a look and you can download a free demo to try it for yourself.

La cosa piu bella e che ce tutto come se Fosse nuovo davvero in ottime condizioni Bellissimo grazie

Loaded ok but runs for half hour then crashes does any one have ideas on how to get round this problem. I am running on windows 10

日本語版と迷いましたが、こちらを購入して正解でした。 使われる英語は決まった言葉が多く、英語の分からない私でも慣れてきて、分かる様になりました。 しかも中学一年生の息子でも、難なくフライト出来ています。 ただしマニュアルが無いので【旅客機で飛ぶ Microsoft Flight Simulator X コース攻略テクニック】という本の購入をお勧めします。 この本が分かりやすく最高です！(と言うか、この本が無いと難しいかも) 本代を入れても日本語版より安いです。 今では世界中のフライトを楽しんでます！

Ｈ26.3月に購入しました。 このシリーズのシミュレーターは 2000 が最後の購入でした。 youtubeのレビュー等で 映像の綺麗さが非常に気になり、この輸入版を見つけて購入しました。 当初は日本語版を探していましたが、余りの価格の違いで、駄目もとで購入しました。 購入額は2599円でイギリスからの発送でした。 現在はwindows10（64bit） GTX960 サイドワインダーフォースフィードバック2 で稼働中 サイドワインダーは古いジョイスティックですが、USB接続だけで使用できています。 当方の環境では、ACCELERATIONのインストール時にアクティベーション不能のメッセージが表示されましたが、ネットの情報を基にレジストリの一時的な書き換えでクリアできています。 現在問題なく動作中です。 すべて英語ですが、他のMicrosoft製の日本語版フライトシミュレータを使い込んだことがある方なら 操作面ではそこまで気にすることはないと思います。 ミッションイベントは、何とかかんとか出来ています。 １点だけ、ヘリコプターと戦闘機のエンジン始動に苦戦しています。 それを差し引いても、 水の質感、バーチャルコクピットの操作感（以前のFSは凸レンズのような感じでしたが、この製品ではとてもリアルです)、全体の仕上がりは一流です。本物のような感覚に浸りながら、毎晩空の旅をたのしんでいます。 追記： エンジン始動は Ctrl+E でおおむね可能。 その他のやり方は、ミッションの初期画面中に ボタンの説明があるので それを参考にすれば大体理解できてきます。 ヘリでのスリング（荷吊り）ミッションは。。。。。難しいです。 現在３画面で運用中。5画面ぐらいにするとリアル感が凄くなるでしょうね