I don't know of any way to eject in FS2k2.  I was simply trying to come up with a clever way to collect a pint, as offered by Tipster.

Will

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*Muttering something about how come this has now cost me a pint without anyone managing to complete the challenge.....mutter...mutter....mutter....*

I'm new at this game, but I've already gone over 100,000 feet.  I downloaded the "Firefox", which someone based on a movie of the same name about a Russian Mach-5 airplane (the film starred Clint Eastwood and came out in the 80's).  Well, to duplicate the speed, the designer gave the aircraft an outrageous amount of thrust.  I mean outrageous because I went over 100,000 feet by accident.  I had to shut down the engines to get back down to earth, but the thing went into an uncontrollable spin.  I think I must have peaked (apoapsis) somewhere around 120,000 feet+.  I don't like the plane too much because for some reason it loses all aileron effectiveness at Mach 3.

What happens is the altimiter basically "locks" at 100k, but you still have a positive climb on the VSI and are obviously going up.

By the way, to acheive orbit, all you have to do is reach a sustained velocity of nearly 15,000 knots.  It's hard to do that (atmosphere slows you down) unless you escape earth's atmosphere, which is pretty much petered out by 450,000 feet.

I've played the Orbiter game a lot.  It's challenging in learning the ins and outs of docking with a space station, "hitting" Mars from Earth, and de-orbiting, but all the fun is in the learning.  Once I learned how to do everything the game got old and I decided to buy fs2002.  What would be great if there was a way to combine the two (you can fly airplanes in Orbiter but as there is no elevated terrain and only one default runway it gets boring quick).  De-orbit the Space Shuttle then try to land at Edwards or maybe LAX.

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Well, it certainly didn't feel like the airplane his a brick wall in the sky.  When the altimeter locked at 100K, my airspeed was positive, VSI was positive, but the controls wouldn't work (happens when you go really fast while really high), so I cut fuel to the engines, they shut off, the airplane nosed over, fell into some sort of a nasty spin, or was at least totally out of control, I descended for a while, and when I got low enough the altimiter started moving downwards.

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No, this is just real life factual information, or at least the values I get in Orbiter (converted from Metric)

I just took a Zero Up to 100K. The game applied a jet engine sound file to it. Same as your cessna - had to fall quite a ways till it would let me restart the engine, even though the jet engine was at full throttle - funny stuff.   

This sounds exciting(!)......like a challenge for the FS2k2 "Chuck Yeager Award"......for the first person to break the 100K Altitude Barrier!

S/R-71 Blackbird... Mach 3.2.
I had it for FS 2000.

If I remember correctly the thing crashed my PC every time I would go 'above' 100 000 ft. The image would freeze and but my altimeter would go crazy.

The plane was beautifull, I cant seem to find it again. It was however very unrealistic. Flying Mach 3 at 3 000 ft....