| Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight | 
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| From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $16.89
You Save: $3.10 (16%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  161 reviews
Sales Rank: 488
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.3
MPN: g13-00079
Model: G13-00079
UPC: 805529390072
EAN: 0805529390072
ASIN: B000096L71
Release Date: January 13, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Jewel case or software is still shrink wrapped or sealed.
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| Features:
| • | Dynamic weather system based on realistic atmospheric physics, with true three-dimensional clouds that form and dissipate | | • | Worldwide scenery with accurate 3D terrain and auto-gen objects that fill in the world with appropriate buildings and vegetation | | • | Enhanced interactive air traffic control (ATC), including traffic at all airports around the world | | • | Improved support for 3D graphics hardware acceleration in multiple windows and across multiple monitors | | • | For 1 or more players over LAN or Internet |
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Product Description
Flight Simulator 2004: A Century Of Flight celebrates the world-altering invention of powered flight -- by taking you on a tour of great aircraft from the past and present! Complete set of historical and modern-day aircraft to fly, from the Wright Brothers' Flyer I to the Boeing 747-700
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| Customer Reviews: Read 156 more reviews...
 MSFS2004, The Simpit Heart January 6, 2009
Having been in Naval aviation for 21 years as an structural mechanic, and now retired, I wanted to keep my hand in the game so to speak. I started to build a generic simpit starting with a dedicated tower, powerful enough to run all the graphics of these new programs. In researching the Micro Soft programs for flight simulators, each review suggested MSFS2004 was the best, even better than the new FSX. I am still tweeking the simpit to become what I want, but the MSFS2004 has already proved to be an outstanding program.
Using an Acer 19" LCD monitor, coupled with a Fresnel lens (from 3DLens in China, lens F550) I have an outstanding visual for the flight. There is a real 3D look to the clouds and ground. I can take off from my home town municipal airport and pratice "Touch and Go's" or nip on down to Las Vegas. While the specifics of each town are not exact, the ability to suspend disbelife is very easy. The instamentation, I use a second screen to display cockpit instraments, makes it a lot of fun to pratice IFR approaches.
All in all this is an outstanding program, either to just "play" with or to run the heart of your simpit.
No simulator better than FS-9 December 17, 2008
I belong to VATSIM and have been for more than 4 years, and even living in Monterrey Mexico there is the VATMEX club (Mexico's branch for VATSIM as there is for almost all countries) we fly almost every day (I'm pensiones and retired) and every Wedenesday we have a Regio flight with Tower Control, wel almost avery day we have air traffic control.
But Flight Simultor is our best choise as FSX is stil under constant upgrades.
I highly recomend Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 a Century of flight.
MS Flight Simulator 2004 is perfect for older PCs December 2, 2008
I deliberately purchased FS 2004 instead of the newer version, Flight Simulator X. Why on earth would I buy an old version? Because I didn't want to have to replace my 4 year old computer with a "gaming machine". I downloaded the demo version of FS X and was very disappointed with its slow graphics and overall sluggishness, even with the refresh rate turned down. But FS 2004 works great on the PC I already have. Graphics are snappy, and I can even keep a bunch of browser sessions running in the background (helpful for looking up AirNav information).
Nice Sim and loads of fun to play ! September 3, 2008
I had bought this as an upgrade to an earlier version. It is fun to play with, though quite basic compared to what is available nowadays. It does not require too much of system resources and provides hours of entertainment and some flight learning.
fly high August 2, 2008
The flight simulator is a flexible product. It allows the use of keyboard flying, if you really want a challenge, or accessory flying with a joy stick or any of the many products on the market today. It is expandable by adding new aircraft. I find it to be a wonderful opportunity to take some time flying and get away from the every day office routine. Microsoft has done a wonderful job with the scenery and many other functions while flying the airplane.
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