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FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2004
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A CENTURY OF FLIGHT
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To learn more about terrain and scenery
objects, read the
Scenic Highlights
article in the Learning Center.
Flight Simulator offers the chance to
re-create not only history’s milestones,
but your own favorite travels and ights
as well. To get a sense for how real a
simulation can be, try this exercise:
Fly your Flight Simulator aircraft to a
place you know well, and see how the
experience brings memory to life.
Similarly, when you re-create the Vickers
Vimy’s rst transatlantic crossing in
Flight Simulator, you’ll get a sense of
the distance across the Atlantic Ocean
that no book or lm can truly convey. Or
try Amelia Earhart’s transatlantic ight
at the controls of her Vega, and look
down as you leave the Newfoundland
coast and set out across the dark north
Atlantic. In a way, Flight Simulator
encompasses history.
The Scenery Below
From aviation’s early days, ying has
changed the way pilots looked at the
world. Topographic features you’ve never
noticed—or needed to notice—from the
ground suddenly become all-important
from the air. If you’re following a river,
that river becomes part of your ight’s
navigational plan. Or perhaps you use
landmarks, such as small ponds, dirt
roads, or a stand of trees to gauge nal
approaches or estimate glide slopes. Again,
the scenery below has become an essential
part of your ight. And the array of scenery
that lies beneath your wings in Flight
Simulator can be amazing.
Have you ever wanted to y to a certain
airport or over particular terrain during
various seasons? It’s possible in Flight
Simulator. When you change the season,
you also change the ground texture: In
winter, snow cloaks the prairies; spring
turns the hills green. Changing the season
gives you a challenge, and a different feel
for a place you thought you knew so well.
To learn more, read the Time and Season
article in the Learning Center.
Island Airlines
Several decades after jet
aircraft rst took to the skies,
a small airline still ew a eet
of Ford 4–AT Tri-Motors for
their short-hop, short- eld
circuit from Port Clinton, Ohio,
to small islands in Lake Erie.
Island Airlines billed itself as
“The Shortest Airline in the
World.” The Ford Tri-Motors
served as school buses,
ying students from the
outer islands to high school
campuses. Some islands
were so close that when the
plane landed, its wheels were
still spinning from takeoff.
To read more about the Ford
Tri-Motor and to re-create
Island Airlines ights, click
Century of Flight
on the left
side of the main screen.
Wyoming in Summer
Wyoming in Winter
San Francisco at Dusk