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Re: Flight simulators for the Mac

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From: Mike Gilbert
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 17:21
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In article <2104@tellab5.TELLABS.COM> wiseman@tellab5.UUCP (Jeff Wiseman) writes:
>I have flown Microsoft's FS but I personally prefer CY. One thing that I forgot
>to mention in my earlier posting. For all you would - be radio control pilots,
>one thing that is fun with CY is to set the view to Tower and then watch the
>3-D plane fly around it while you control it. This is not easy with an F-18
>flying at 1.2Mach...
>-- 

Yes, this is DEFINITELY one of the best features of AFT.  I've never 
actually flown RC, but I really enjoy doing this.  Great to be able
to zoom in on the plane if it's far out, and you're in a little trouble,
is sometimes it's hard to pick up the orientation of the plane from a
distance (which way IS that pixel headed, anyway? :) ).

My only real qualm about AFT (it's been mentioned before) is that it
doesn't take care of the people who would like to do "real world" flying.
Hopefully SubLogic/Microsoft will fix that for us Mac II owners...

>Jeff Wiseman:	....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM

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From: gilbert@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mike Gilbert)
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Subject: Re: Flight simulators for the Mac
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Date: 14 Feb 90 17:21:01 GMT
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