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Jul 27^th, 2005 at 4:07pm

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I really only took pics of the flight sim stuff, as everything else is pretty useless to me right now... Wink

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The Microsoft Booth...

X-plane put in a showing...

Flight 1 decided to concentrate on the proffesional side of the business offering a simulator based on FS2004 to flight schools. Runs around $6500, I believe...

C & H was there with there products for sale...

But this one beat them all. This is a $150,000 simulator based on 1 meter resolution for the terrain. In some situations, it even went down to 1/2 meter! The 'plane' is a Diamond Katana and when I tried this out, it was the most incredible simulator I had ever sat in. I got a little woozy from jostling around. Incredible! It uses three projectors that overlap each other to give the curved screen the image. I swear, it was almost exactly like flying a real plane...

Of course I pumped the guys at the FS booth for info about FS 2006 and I did get two interesting things from them. They basically told me "You know we can't talk about it" with a grin.

They did admit however, the the backwards compatibility issue was the main killer of CFS3 and it would most certainly NOT (their emphasis, not mine) be an issue with FS2006. When I asked about the possibility of reviving the CFS series, they gave a BIG grin and said 'it is extremely possible." Read what you want to into that...

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Reply #1 - Jul 27^th, 2005 at 4:54pm

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They basically told me "You know we can't talk about it" with a grin.

They did admit however, the the backwards compatibility issue was the main killer of CFS3 and it would most certainly NOT (their emphasis, not mine) be an issue with FS2006. When I asked about the possibility of reviving the CFS series, they gave a BIG grin and said 'it is extremely possible." Read what you want to into that...

You got slightly more out of them than I did at Blackpool.

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Reply #2 - Jul 27^th, 2005 at 5:20pm

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Interesting, now which room at home is becoming your simulator room?

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #3 - Jul 27^th, 2005 at 5:28pm

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There is no doing that last simulator justice. It simply has to be sat in to be believed... Roll Eyes

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BTW, the X-plane guys were not mum about X-plane 9. They said the scenery is going to be on par or better than FS.

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Reply #4 - Jul 27^th, 2005 at 5:36pm

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That's awsome, i was expecting that they would answer the question that you asked about fs2006 with a good answer. Well interesting Kevin. Grin

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Reply #5 - Jul 28^th, 2005 at 2:59pm

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Interesting, now which room at home is becoming your simulator room?

The garage, I guess.

I'm surprised more people aren't interested in that little tidbit about CFS3. The way he said it, it sounded very possible...

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Reply #6 - Jul 28^th, 2005 at 3:32pm

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I would hope that the CFS series gets "back on track" with FS ... i.e - each one is a bit of an improvement over the other and cross.

I firmly believe that if MS provides "dual control" (and I think a facsimile of it CAN be done with CFS3 now) it would help flight instruction both in the FS world and as low cost RL practice

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Reply #7 - Jul 28^th, 2005 at 6:17pm

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If they did somehow get guided missile technology in there, whilst sticking with a close to WW2 theater and the open architecture then I'm sure CFS4 or whatever could become one of my fav games.

But they really have to include a bloody tower view and the ability to do screen in screen views like FS or I won't buy it.

Cool pics and info by the way.

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Reply #8 - Jul 28^th, 2005 at 6:23pm

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So you want spitfires with guided missiles?
Or something set in the vietnam time?

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Reply #9 - Jul 28^th, 2005 at 7:17pm

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Haha, cool stuff, I loved the Flight1 sim they had. Today I was over there talking to one of the guys. He was from Dublin, a real cool guy. And they were selling some payware for pretty cheap. PC-12 for $20, hmmmm, maybe I'll pick it up tommorrow... Wink

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Reply #10 - Jul 29^th, 2005 at 11:07pm

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Wow, they didn't have any of their payware stuff out when I was there... Sad

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Reply #11 - Jul 30^th, 2005 at 9:16am

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Well I bought the PC-12 for $20 yesterday, a good buy I must say... Wink

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They also had the Conquest, ATR, and 172 for purchase... 8)

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Reply #12 - Aug 1^st, 2005 at 2:42am

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Who the hell is Flight 1 and what is Microsoft flight Simulator 2004??? just kidding Wink

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Anyway great pics, I rember when I saw FS 2002 at oshkosh for the first time, and thats all I could talk about, that is until my father let me fly the club C-172 home.

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Reply #13 - Aug 1^st, 2005 at 9:49am

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So, did anyone else get to try that Flight1 system? I did 8)

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Reply #14 - Aug 1^st, 2005 at 9:50am

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I offered to write them a check. Somehow, I think they knew it would bounce.

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