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Microsoft's FlightSimulator
2002.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 is the new edition of
Microsoft's highly realistic, graphically advanced flight simulator, the
best-selling PC flight simulation game ever. Flight Simulator 2002
is a revolutionary release in the history of the Flight Simulator franchise.
It includes real-time, interactive Air Traffic Control (ATC), stunning new
scenery and visual effects using Microsoft's new "AutoGen" technology
and new airplanes - including the Boeing 747-400 and Cessna's highly successful
Caravan in both land and amphibious configurations.
Available: Fall 2001
Format: CD-ROM for Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0, or Windows
2000 operating system
Flight Simulator 2002
Features:
 | Interactive Air Traffic Control (ATC). For the first time, FS includes
realistic, detailed air traffic control. Through pop-up menus and key
commands, you ask for permission for taxi, takeoff, en route clearances,
approach, and landing, and you hear ATC's instructions.
|  | Auto-Generated Scenery. As you fly above cities, towns, farmland, and
landscapes, FS automatically adds buildings and vegetation appropriate to
the scenery below. These objects smoothly blend in at the horizon and fill
the area with detail that adds unprecedented depth and reality to the
scenery in FS.
|  | Crowded Skies. While autogen fills in the ground details, the new AI
system generates air traffic around and between airports. You're no longer
the only plane in the sky.
|  | Stunning Aircraft Models and Effects. The detail and special effects you
saw in CFS2 now appear in FS. High-detailed aircraft models with subtle
lighting effects and more animated parts, puffs of smoke from the tires at
touchdown, splashes from floats, and improved clouds and weather add to the
realism and immersion.
|  | New Aircraft. The most popular and asked for planes in Flight Simulator
history are now at your control. Now you can pilot the Cessna Caravan on
amphibious floats, the Boeing 747-400, and the Cessna 172S Skyhawk.
|  | Improved Virtual Cockpits. If you have a 3D graphics card, you can enjoy
FS from a new perspective- 3D cockpits with working instruments.
|  | Flight Analysis. Pilots working to improve their skills and enthusiasts
looking for new challenges and bragging rights can check the precision of
their flying against a detailed record of their flights that uses a map and
graphs to show how well they maintained course, altitude, and speed.
|  | New Lessons and Challenging Flights. The addition of the floatplane and
other aircraft opens new possibilities for engaging activities. You can be a
bush pilot in Alaska, fly a 747, or earn an instrument rating in the Skyhawk.
We've added many new lessons and adventures that help new users get into FS
for the first time and challenge experienced FS pilots.
|  | Tools for add-on developers. We're including gMax, a 3-D modeling tool
from Discreet. Add-on developers can create scenery objects using an
industry-standard format. We've also included a vastly improved Flight
Dynamics Editor that makes modifying and creating FS aircraft much easier. |
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