Comments on: No more Microsoft Flight Simulator? http://lahso.megginson.com/2009/01/23/no-more-microsoft-flight-simulator/ Flying a small plane. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:36:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dave Rooney http://lahso.megginson.com/2009/01/23/no-more-microsoft-flight-simulator/#comment-1251 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:01:16 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/?p=265#comment-1251 Wow – just read this. I played with FS I in high school (’81 or ’82), loading it from a cassette, and bought FS II for my Apple ][ Plus in 1984. I fondly remember that FS II had both a manual for flying and a technical manual that described in quite a bit of detail how the application was written and worked. It almost seemed like Bruce Artwick was bragging, but in a good way! :) IIRC, he practically wrote a VM in which to run the program.

I remember learning back then (and in later versions) about instrument flying, and the concepts have helped me with real flying.

If it’s really gone, it is indeed the end of an era. Bummer.

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