It's quite fun at first, but it CAN get dull fairly quickly. If you do buy it, I suggest getting the FSX version; much more goodies to play around with since FSX has a much higher ceiling. It's not too harsh on the frame-rates (512mb RAM, ATI Radeon 9550 Video card (256mb), P4 3.2ghz single core with FSX SP1 installed; I got around 20FPS the whole approach to land).

The only downside I can think of is the fact that it cannot take off by itself; Only fly glide and land.

Stubbedtoe18 wrote on Jul 19^th, 2007 at 7:34pm:


That's why I corrected myself

The engines don't work as normal engines do. What Captain Sim did though, is actually very inventive. Instead of the Throttle controlling thrust, it controls the spoiler... Giving you a great deal of speed control on the last few minutes of landing. Full throttle means no spoiler, and when you close it completely, the spoilers come out.

The graphics on the model are downright amazing, and the Shuttle itself is quite functional. If you do buy it, I highly recommend that you do read all three manuals before even trying to land it. It works just like the real shuttle in terms of Aerodynamics, and does require some practice to get that perfect landing (I only had about 2 good landings out of over 20. The rest were all Gear-Failure due to landing too hard. You really have to try and get it under a -100 foot per second descent rate. 500 or so is a Gear Failure).