It's sunday night before another work week. I'm spending the last few hours of the day playing around with the "Sound, Graphics & Aircraft Upgrade" for Microsoft's Flight Simulator 4.0. This definitely looks like a serious upgrade... FS4 in 800 x 600 SVGA. Astonishing!
Thanks again to @Telev for his generous upload! 
https://archive.org/details/sound-graphics-aircraft-upgrade-for-microsoft-flight-simulator
Ten years ago a friend and me spent some time in 373 simulator. I „flew“ from Munich to Innsbruck and that was a humbling and at the same time awesome experience. After much sweating (and a great coaching form the instructor) I actually made a touchdoen at Innsbruck. The virtual cows on the hills would have been impressed, at times I only had several hundered feet to the terrain. 
Ein Regenbogen im Flugsimulator. 
Dazu gleich mal eine Frage in die spielende Runde: Lohnt sich der Umstieg vom 2020er auf den 2024er mittlerweile? Hat einer von euch zur neuen Version schon persönliche Erfahrungen sammeln können? Karrieremodus oder Herausforderungen interessieren mich dabei nur sekundär. Meist fliege ich irgendwo auf der Welt von A nach B, oder schaue mir die Gegend und Sehenswürdigkeiten aus der Luft an.
@dfx I only have the floppy disk, so I started looking for the manual. While searching for a reference on mobygames, I finally found an eBay ad for what seemed to be the correct manual. The ad clearly states that it's just the manual and shows some pictures of the cover as well as 2-3 pages from the beginning. $120, but with a 25% discount, the manual is selling for $90. The price is substantial. I made an offer of $60, and it was accepted. With shipping and VAT, it's still over $100...
Today I received this manual. At the end of the manual, an envelope containing a floppy disk with, for the second time, version 2.13 of Flight Simulator.
#RetroGaming #FlightSimulator #Microsoft
Das Sim Update 16 bringt den Microsoft #FlightSimulator 2020 technisch auf den Stand seines Nachfolgers. Die fünf Jahre alte Software erhält modernisierte Kartendaten und zahlreiche Bugfixes. https://winfuture.de/news,152748.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
Monday Morning #Simstarr Stream happening in one hour.
Flying the #flightsimulator to tackle Community Goals and Powerplay in #EliteDangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/live/an8JAwkGjNk?si=Bb9uBfioROiIK3HL
That time I was interdicted on my way to Babylon 5. #elitedangerous #babylon5 #flightsimulator
Fun fact... Microsoft's Flight Simulator v2.13 is actually bootable straight from BIOS, but you can also run it though DOS. It doesn't have a full FAT12 file system, but uses a small 59 Bytes pseudo executable. Such a precious artifact!
Tonight, thanks to @Telev, I finally got to take a look at a truly ancient release of Microsoft's Flight Simulator for the IBM PC. This is version 2.13 from 1985. It comes on a copy protected, single sided 5.25inch floppy disk. Let's just say it looks stunning! 
P.S. Here it is on the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/microsoft-flight-simulator-v-2.13-1984-microsoft-kfx-160kcp
Have fun!
What Will It Take to Restore a Serious Flight Simulator? - [Jared] managed to find a professional FAA-certified flight simulator at an auctio... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/what-will-it-take-to-restore-a-serious-flight-simulator/ #transportationhacks #flightsimulator #repairhacks #rebuild
What Will It Take to Restore a Serious Flight Simulator? https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/what-will-it-take-to-restore-a-serious-flight-simulator/ #TransportationHacks #flightsimulator #RepairHacks #rebuild
Learn to create and interface for a real-time flight simulator on a Raspberry Pi running Linux with a custom I2C card and a small power supply
https://www.makerspace-online.com/i2c-flight-simulator-interface-on-a-raspberry-pi/?utm_source=mms
#RaspberryPi #Linux #I2C #PowerSupply #FlightSimulator #makers #projects
Second lesson was more annoying. Trying to concentrate on too many controls and the instructor kept giving the same three instructions and I kept fixating on the first two. 
It took me a while to figure out how useful setting the trim was. I’d used it before in other sims, but I was getting twitchy results using a wired Nintendo Switch controller (the right stick has drift, but seemingly only on one axis, leaving the other usable for yaw/rudder—yay).
Using trim makes flying so much more precise! After my long struggle, I decided to keep flying, but I didn’t have a whole lot of fuel and ran out on one of my attempts to line up on the runway (yeah, I jumped ahead of my lesson). I managed to mostly land without crashing (I was slightly shy of the start of the runway and hit some instrumentation/lights on the ground, but did not trigger the crash state 
).
My next challenge after the small prop plane was of course to take off from a 737 at my local airport. 
I’m looking forward to future lessons (it’s great that it comes with a pretty decent tutorial).
I found myself relying a lot on the instruments to avoid inverting or other anomalous conditions. After watching so many air crash investigations, I know the importance of instruments. That said, I did not have vestibular input to confuse me.
I finally went for it. I purchased X-Plane 12.
It was pretty fun just doing the tutorial. Felt much more engaging than games I tried on the Switch. Oh, and what I thought was Joycon drift? Turns out planes may naturally drift to the physics of air flow from the prop.
Anyway, I crashed on my first lesson because I didn’t have a key set to release the brakes and therefore had to find the brake release visually, then use the trackpad (yes, it’s on a laptop) and them try to quickly jump into the right control scheme for steering. Somehow I wound up upside down, I think.
It was still very neat, though. Probably best to play in air conditioning. It was nice to have aerial joy with minimal environmental footprint.
Doing a happy dance!!
I've just completed a flight in an Airbus A380 From Changi in Singapore to Sydney Australia
A few things needed quick action to avoid problems, but managed a full ILS capture and smooth landing 
Gerard Butler revealed his intense pilot training for Plane. Find out how flight simulators shaped his role in the high-flying action film!
#GerardButler #PlaneMovie #ActionFilm #PilotTraining #FlightSimulator #BehindTheScenes #Plane #Movies #MovieNews #Entertainment #EntertainmentNews #Celebrities #Celebrity #CelebrityNews #CelebrityInterviews
Today i got the two mission disks for the #flightsimulator Falcon for the #amiga500 . As young guy i played this gem often - i didn't have an amiga computer, but a friend!
Ohhh, i really loved this game .....
I had this game, but not the Mission Disks, and they make the game more playable .... :)
Every time I fly the Pilatus PC-24 I learn something new
Second attempt at a flight from Perth to Sydney in a Pilatus PC-24. Crashed last time (think I may have run out of fuel).
