Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)This add-on would be worth it for the B-29 alone."Doc's Deadly Dose" is so meticulously modeled, both visually and flight-model wise, that I simply don't know how it could have been done any better on a PC.As a bonus, you also get a Lancaster, two different models of Flying Fortress in 2 paint schemes, a Liberator, a PBY4 patrol plane, and some exotic German jets, all modeled with fanatical perfection in every area.
As a real pilot, I'm looking for flight simulation, not gaming.The ultimate in PC simulation is as follows:
FS2004 "A Century of Flight" plus
"Wings of Power" plus
"Simcharts" from Jeppesen Sandersen.
Together, the 3 titles will set you back about $130 or so, but imagine this:
File IFR and blast off into the rainy overcast in the B-29 Superfortress.Climb into the sunshine on top. Cruise in the stratosphere making contrails from big radial engines.Descend back down into the muck, and test your skills shooting an ILS down to minimums, using the printed-out approach plate on your kneeboard.Break out over the REIL's, and grease the landing in a rainshower, and then pull onto the ramp and shut her down.Don't forget to shut the cowl flaps to keep the birds out.It's literally all that realistic.For more challenge, repeat the above but on a pitch-black night.
The whole time, you participate in fully-interactive ATC communications, and the entire IFR environment right down to every last SID, STAR, ILS, VOR, NDB, outer, middle and inner marker along with runway lights is fully and completely modeled for your flying pleasure.The Simcharts CD from Jeppesen is designed to work with the nav data in FS2004, and all you need for a completely all-inclusive IFR flight simulation, is high and low altitude enroute charts which you can order from them as well.
The combination of these three software apps, gives any Instrument rated pilot the perfect way to maintain and increase his/her skills at an extremely low cost; since $130 equals about 1 hour of dual instruction in a new Skyhawk.
Of course, if you just want to blast around the sky, you can do that too, and it's fun.But the more you ask of FS2004, the more you shall receive; and for simulating the IFR flight environment while flying some truly righteous airplanes, this is simply as good as it gets.
Now, how about an "Age of Propliners" add-on, with the DC-7, Boeing Stratoliner, Yankee Clipper and Constellation?Huh? Huh?I'm salivating just thinking about it...We can only hope.
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Product Description:
Wings of Power: WWII Heavy Bombers And Jets adds a number of meticulously detailed military aircraft to Flight Simulator 2004. Enjoy one of the most acclaimed flight simulators around, with bombers and aircraft taken straight from the actual blueprints and performance ratings of the time.Includes 100-page manual filled with pilot reports, authentic flight manual diagrams, rare factory blue prints, and other hard-to-find information
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