I finally purchased FlightSim 2002 last Saturday (for $10!!!), haven't had a chance to install it yet.  But I wanted to ask, "What can I expect to have changed from FS 98, now that I have FS 2002?"

I use FS02 and I have no plans to upgrade to FS9 or FSX - but that's another matter for another day.

All of the graphics in FS02 are a huge improvement over 98.  In addition, you will now see and hear AI aircraft and ATC.  "You're not alone any more."

Apex wrote on Jan 16^th, 2007 at 4:06pm:


Which one is FS9?  Is that also known as FS2000, or what?  I have never quite gotten this straight.

I've done a couple of short flights.  Graphics look a whole lot better than 98.  Next question is, "While I am inflight, how do access all of the stuff that in FS98 was in the dropdown menus?"

??? how can I upgrade from FS2002 to FS9    ?

If you have a FS2002 installation and think about installing FS9 know beforehand that FS9 graphically doesn't really differ from FS2002. The real difference is under the hood (weather and flight dynamics, mostly). And remember to control that your installation is FS9.1, or apply the patch (helps A LOT).

By the way, if you plan to go from FS2002 to FS9, do yourself a favor and plan to find IMMEDIATELY substitutive water textures to use instead of the horrid smurf-piss colored default.

Non_Jetreader2 wrote on Feb 9^th, 2007 at 7:08am:


Why thank you, but really is so because I've time to think before writing. You'd really be astonished if you hear me trying speak english.

Yes, FS2002 was a big step forward from 98 (that I still have installed and like to use for IFR flights from time to time) and even the half-assed 2000, let's hope that FS11 will do the same. FS2004 (AKA FS9) has a more accurate weather system, 3D clouds (that are more beautiful than Fs2002's, but at the same time heavier on the videocard), some tweaks under the dynamics (necessary because of the more advanced weather) a marginally better ATC (that doesn't try to vector you in a mountainside, like happened in FS2002), a marginally bettered autogen (that though need the patch, because of a memory leak bug in the non patched V9.0) and other lesser odds and ends.

FSX is a simple graphic overhaul of FS9 with the only addiction of negative flaps under the point of view of the dynamics (necessary for the ground traffic to speed up without taking off), and a badly made one too. I like to call it FS2000 V1.5 (like I'm beginning to call Vista WinMe V1.5). Unless a really working performance patch is published (thing that I seriously doubt) that will make the damn thing really usable on current hardware (thing that I seriously doubt) instead of hardware that will be available 5 years from now (thing that I seriously doubt), better leave FSX among the forgotten softwares and wait on a hopefully really better FS11.

Non_Jetreader2 wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2007 at 7:36am:

Yes but I don't know why anyone would want to use them. The quality of FS2002 aircraft is far superior.

I understand your point, but there are several planes that I have for 98 that didn't come with 2002, like the Blackbird or the Space Shuttle.  So, since I have a dial-up internet connection, stuff ain't real fast, but I do have these files sitting around, I just wanted to be able to use them.

Non_Jetreader2 wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2007 at 7:16am:


I remember that in FS2002 and for a while (until I got bored of reaching 99.999 feet and being stopped there) I used a pair of Shuttle models (with and without boosters), and that shuttle work for FS9 too.

As for the blackbird, I've seen a lot of them in the past years that worked brilliantly for FS2002 and a little less than that for FS9. Don't really remember where said birds are though, not really my kind of planes, but like for the Shuttle above, it suffice I think to search on the major freeware sites for FS on the net to find them.

As for dial-up... I understand your problem all too well, but really can't help you there. Sorry.


Non_Jetreader2 wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2007 at 7:34am:


Some planes are modeled with a 3d system (Gmax) that works under both sims. Sure, the flight dynamics do not really behave the same way, but the planes themselves do work under both FS2002 and FS9.

Hagar, Gmax built planes work on both FS9 and FS2002 (and X too), always had. A Gmax plane might have incompatibilities only regarding some gauges crossing the borders from a sim version to another, and sometimes the dynamics too, but no more than that. The model shouldn't give problems, if Gmax.

At least AFAIK.