Early in my Flight beta testing experience I made a post about how Flight could make me feel like I was in a real airplane rather than sitting at a computer. The Flight team posted my comments on the official Flight site:

 

https://news.microsoftflight.com/blogs/news/archive/2012/03/26/favorite-flight-moment.aspx

 

I was just doing a short flight in Alaska and realized I was still getting this feeling fairly often in Flight. There is something about Flight, even now after it's been cancelled, that evokes the magic.

 

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,

I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air....

 

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue

I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.

Where never lark, or even eagle flew —

And, while with silent lifting mind I have trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

- Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

 

Or, after the FAA got hold of it: http://www.jumbojoke.com/high_flight_with_faa_supplement.html

 

I'm off to grab an aerocache.

 

Hook

Great post Hook,

 

I'll soon join you, because although I installed FSX, MS FLIGHT is installed as well, and I miss that sensation.... somehow I miss it :-)

Yes, if you want to imagine you are really flying, Flight will get you there every time.

 

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I picked up the Mendenhall Glacier AC this morning and for a lark, landed further up and had a walk around. Very neat.

 

I guess that wasn't enough for me though. I just had to go for the "Mountaineering" award. Landed on a ridge at +- 16.5K on Mt. McKinley. Not only did I get that award, I also got the landing backwards award as the cub was sliding backwards. I was trying to get it turned around to take off but wasn't successful. Much fun.

 

And for even more fun, I flew down the Yukon from KAK to St. Mary's. Nice country.

I was trying to get it turned around to take off but wasn't successful.

 

If you're stuck in a situation like that, exit the plane, walk to where you want to take off from and face the proper direction, go to the map and to the Hangar, and select your plane. When you return to the game, you'll be in the plane where you were standing and facing the proper direction.

 

I landed near the summit when I flew there a few days ago, but didn't have to worry about taking off again... plane bounced around for a while then crashed. 20230 feet, about 90 feet short.

 

Hook

Try waterskiing ( just getting low enough for the tundra tyres to skim the surface). It counted as a another landing for me.

 

Oh and it is possible in real life, I`ve seen it on YouTube. There`s even a display team using Cubs and one of their tricks is doing synchronized waterskiing. Awesome!

Yeah Hook, I could have done that but where's the challenge? :lol: Anyhoo, it helped me get the landing backwards achievement without even trying. The cub was bouncing so badly it must have registered as a landing. I'll take it.

Hook I really enjoyed reading your post months ago and today again. There is truly a magical feeling of flying with FLIGHT. I can never get enough of it! Now with Alaska it's even better. Took off this morning from Kenai to Seward through the mountains and then explored the Kenai Fjords National Park and the view is amazing! Flying at dusk with clear skies and inside the cockpit I actually feel I'm there. Maybe it's a combination of the movement of the aircraft, the colors in the sky and the sounds of the engine. Anyway, this has been by far my best experience with flight simulators and there aren't enough words to describe how much I enjoy playing it

I miss that sensation too......

 

But what exactly, is it that I miss?

 

I have been thinking about why another sim still feels..... wrong to me, in some undefinable combination of ways, and why flight feels.... right(er)

 

Most of the pat answers don't hold up fully under the light of scrutiny, but it seems that In my case there is some subliminal combination in Flight that adds up to attraction. I just wish it was more amenable to objective quantification.

 

Coke or Pepsi?

Hook I really enjoyed reading your post months ago and today again.

 

Thanks, Omar. I still can't figure out exactly what it is about Flight. It's just... magic, somehow.

 

The cub was bouncing so badly it must have registered as a landing.

 

I was bouncing all over the summit of McKinley when I was on the ground. Dunno what was going on there, but I'll take the mountaineer award anyway. :)

 

Hook

Thinking more on it, I believe the soundstage also has something to do with it. In flight, especially with my subwoofers vibrating the windows, you are bombarded by an envelop of undoubtedly professionally recorded and mastered sounds of the type only usually available from the best 3pd.

I enjoy Flight and if that is the way real planes react I should have been a pilot years ago. Here's hoping we get one last plane , and if this was one of them:

https://dl.dropbox.c...9-59-12-449.BMP

 

I wouldn,t mind