Best way of starting simulator

There are many games which will be very interesting and useful for aeronautical engineers, though an engineer dont ever need to fly an aircraft its always useful that an engineer knows basics of flying. It will put you ahead of any others near to you. Often you end up in failure by starting higher end simulator without having basic experience, its not jus like an NFS or any other race games that you take on a car to road and drift. Simulator games are made to provide shear reality and sometime real controls. For almost all these games keyboard is alone enough you dont really need an joystick or yoke.I have mentioned an simple way that may help you to start flying simulators

Here are the first four games i started with,

• Microsoft Flight simulator 2004(FS 2004)

FS 2004 is an simulator dedicated game which is the best for starting, here you find flying lessons and flight plans. All you need to do is to takeoff and land. This will be really interesting if you proceed in a correct way

• Wings over Israel  (WOI)

WOI is an exciting game and is not an simulator dedicated( 30% as simulator and 70% as an game), the only problem is that you will be able to fly planes but you wont be able to control or even fire your weapons without a proper guidance(you need basic knowledge on radar, missile types and its variants). This game wont be having a great graphics as you see in ACE combat in PS2, but will relay more on realism,so after basics in FS if you want to be an Airforce pilot you can direstly start this (we will later provide you details on request)

• Wings over Europe(WOE)

This is similar thing to WOI but will have more missions and some legendary aircrafts, once you know WOI , conrols are too easy in WOE

• Lock on

This game is the best one for those who came this course, the game will be too tough and controls will be very complicated. This can be categorised as 70% simulator and 30 as game. This game is designed with training where you must be trained and only then you can survive in missions. Again this game wont have great graphics but excellent in realistic controls.

Here is an easy way to start this today,

• First of all download FS 2004 from Internet , there are many sites where you can download this for free( you can find this here http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3542624 )
• Once you install all you need is to make you free for at least two hours, once you start you will find many tabs, click on the getting started option where you will be guided through a video for using controls. Once you finish you will be knowing the basic controls of your flight through keyboard
• Then you go to flying lessons option, and select Student pilot, follow and Dedicate a couple of hours and you can then start it easy
• Once you finish then the next thing is when ever you select a flight you have to taxi it to runway and then takeoff, but the beginners will find this too though to take a plane to runway and will take-off from taxi way( i did this at first). So you can follow this Create flight > selected location > change location >  Runway/ starting position > active runway.This will always start your flight direct from runway.
• Initially dont start flying Boeing 737, start with cessna sky hawk
• In a period of two days or a week you can start flying one by one and try to coupe up with Flying lessons and fly the same category of aircraft as you proceed

Will post more about other games soon.......

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