Not exactly a simulator but does anyone remember Sopwith?  Side scrolling WW1 game where you had to take out enemy buildings, fuel tanks etc (and the occasional unfortunate cow) while dodging ground fire and birds.  So much fun on a CGA monitor!

This put me in the mood to reminisce so this afternoon I fired up my Replica C64 https://retrogames.biz/thec64

and downloaded some 80’s flight sims from here https://legacy.c64g.com/games.php?q=F

I did a circuit in solo flight but stalled and crashed during the flair , a common mishap as I remember.

I had a quick go on chock’s spitfire sim, which seemed familiar so I must have had that one in the day.

I did a short flight with Jump jet, which I remember buying with my pocket money when I was about 14, it’s not bad but I remember it being hard to land back on the carrier so quit before I got to that stage.

Sublogic flight sim 2 wouldn’t load up so not tried that , which is a shame.

The highlight of the afternoon though , and the most sim like was Super Huey , I actually did a better job flying it than I did in the 80’s, probably because I found a copy of the instructions on the internet where as I think I lost or didn’t read my original manual at the time so didn’t know half the functions.

I think at the time because they were all we had they kept your interest and imagination, but now going back to them it’s hard to last more than a few minutes before you’re losing interest.