Well, I found my MS FS 4.0 disk a few days ago, but sadly, it doesn't work. When I put the disk in, it said the disk needed to be formatted. I got that sim when I was about 8 yrs. old and absolutely fell in love!! Man that takes me back. Just a little line separating a white sky from the crayola green ground. I thought that was the most awesome thing ever. I remember you could even change the color AND size of your plane. Anyone else have fond memories of their first sim?

My first sim was Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator. I also had the aircraft factory along with it, and spent many, many hours playing around designing my own aircraft.

I loved going into space with the SR-71 8)

The first MS sim I flew on was version 4. I got hooked on it at a friends house. Not too long after, We bought a computer and got FS5. Wasn't there a version between FS5 and FS98?

Yes first Sim I had was Chuck Yeagers. God I loved it. That F-4 mmm I still to this day want to play that. Still have the disk but I lost the book with the answeres  to the "security" questions. It asked me once what is the weight of the B-52. Googled it and the correct weight never worked damn it Yeager and your false book of education!  

Then I got cfs1 and FS98
FS2000<- never played much because by the time I got a computer good enugh to run it FS2002 was just about out.
Then of course fs2002 and cfs3 for a short time before that great game died.
Now fs2004 bring it on fs10 im ready!

My first was Psion Flight Simulator on the old rubber keyboard ZX Spectrum (48kb)
It took about 5 mins to load from tape and was two coloured (blue and black) wire framed graphics......

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LOL, I had one of those - I also seem to remember that we would just sit there patiently for 5-8 minutes whilst it was loading - imagine waiting that long now for a game to load, we'd be tearing our hair out!!!

Check out this site guys & scroll down to 'Flightsim History - A Video Snapshot': HERE

Cheers,

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My very first sim was... I can't remember.

I began very early with the simulated flight and I'm beginning to show my age.

The first sim ever I can remember using was called "F117 Stealth Fighter" on amiga. It was the first sim where I was able to land on the runway and using the gear. This is the reason I remember it. Before then... well... I was able to take-off, but the plane was doomed never to fly again.

Going back to FS, all the versions previous FS98 went abandonware some time ago. In fact I remember finding them on various abandonware sites and even downloaded them with the intention of try them out as soon I found a slow enough PC (I should have them burned somewhere, in fact).

If you want to try again the retro experience of flying on FS4 try serching the net.

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OMG! I had that! I used to like creating my own missions where all the 'targets' where in a straight line and god it was hard to dock with the tanker, memories. When you think of the pitifull power of the Atari ST, I thought the planes in it where pretty good. My fav was the F-111 I seem to remember, mainly because it could carry the most bombs!

I started out with 4.0 too. Ahhh, the memories. Green grass and painfully blue sky as far as the eye could see. Despite it's claim of "dynamic scenery"...

I've seen my disk a few times in passing while cleaning up around the house, it's probably long since become unreadable. No matter, I found a downloadable version of 4.0 at the Flight Simulator History website. It's not very fun by todays standards, but the brief surge of retro was pleasant.

My First FS was "FlightSimulator" for the Sinclair ZX81
Followed by the same title for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

Later, I bought a BBC Micro and played Acornsofts "Aviator" to death.

Here I am, still loving FS, albeit on a slightly better computer.... 

And I still crash on most landing attempts! 

ok here goes...showing my age I guess.
My first flight sim was actually for the appleII e. It wasI think Microsft Flight simulator 2.  not sure if microsoft actually published it.
Then I got a tiny comp called the Timex T1000.  The programs had to be loaded from tape and I only got it to work once.  It was painfully obvious that whoever programmed it had never flown an airplane hisself. 
went on to fs4 and chuck yeager's xplane game...fs4 was cool cause it had a tool to design and fly an aircraft...i wasted an entire year of data class plying those games while the teacher wasn't looking.  Jet fighter 2 was cool cause it had an f16 and f/a18...
Played falcon 2.0 a couple of times when i was in the military but got out of pc games for a few years...when i picked it back up it was yeagers combat flight sim whatever that was called... loved the dog fights...
my vote for best game ever though was Tornado... The mission building and toss bombing were my favorite parts.
Got out of pcs again for a few years.  Bought fs95 in 1999 bought fs 98 in 2001 bought fs2004 as soon as it came out.
I got LOMAC for christmas and havent opened it yet cause right now i'm hooked on strike fighters project 1...
oh yeah... i forgot x-plane, search and rescue 2, a huey simulator, a harrier sim, and probably about 5 or 10 other titles