What was the first simulator you flew?

Question

What were the capabilities and/or restrictions? Could it ricochet?

Answer 1

That was good ol' Top Gun :)

Answer 2

The nav simulator at UNT.  Not a bad sim for teaching procedures.  Pretty ancient; actually incorporated parts from B58's for the astrotracker.

I'm old, but not THAT old that my time started in a Link trainer :)

Answer 3

hahaha. The first was the "Blue Canoe" in the army. Awful thing simulated nothing. The first level C sim was a Lear 20 series at Flight Safety International.

Answer 4

Good Ole Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.  Other than that, I don't know, some cardboard boxes when I was just a wee lad.

Answer 5

It was one of the original MS flight simulators way back in the mid 1980's. I believe it was the "Flight Simulator 2".

Green lines and blue background on basic computers. I think it might have been in 8 colors, but it seemed to run only 3 or 4 on my computer. I seem to remember running it on a B&W monitor....

Big floppy discs were used to load that into my PC.

I may still have that program somwhere in my stored archives.

The oddest thing about this program, for me, was, with much practice, being able to land on Liberty Island, safely. Taking off from such a small space was also possible but much harder.

Answer 6

i had flight simulator 2002 but,it got deleted

Answer 7

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Answer 8

The first sim I flew? 1993 maybe? It was on this really old 286 computer... When the computer and monitor was just one box, when the term "Pentium" didn't even exist yet... Windows didn't exist yet... Had to run it from DOS. The planes were all squarish, Meigs Field was really the only airport; Midway and O'Hare was around but they were just grass with white lines indicating the runways. All the planes were really basic shapes, and you could never really land main wheels first... you'd try to, but as soon as you got close to the ground the program just popped you straight level with a high pitched ring to note that you're on the ground... The computer planes would pass right through you because collisions hadn't been programed in, same thing with buildings if you could find any. Yup... that's when I first discovered I love to fly, around 7-8 years old. If I remember correctly the game fit on a single floppy disk (for those who don't remember, the floppy A:\ drive came before CDs, and would hold all but 2.4megs if you had a good one). I remember installing the game onto my 486 into Windows 3.1. Windows 95 and Flight Sim 95 revolutionized just about everything a few years later...

(Sorry to anyone who was born before computers even existed and suddenly feels really old!)

Oh wait... did you mean like training sim? Cuz there's this 172 sim at my flight school...