Who would not want to know what it is like to fly the world's biggest airplane. You can find out exactly what it would be like if you have Pro Flight Simulator. Even though the Ukrainian built Antonov An-225 "Mriya" took its maiden flight in 1989, it is still the world's largest airplane by just about any measure. Given that there are only two of these airplanes in existence, flying it, even has an aircraft simulation, is quite a unique experience.
The Antonov An-225 is just one of over 120 Pro Flight Simulator planes available and is just one of many things about this software that is large. It has world-wide scenery available and over 20,000 airports for you to land at. Night time flying is an entirely new experience with Pro Flight Simulator. It even simulates accurate ground lights from cities and towns all over the world, right down to automobile headlights along major highways.
Pro Flight Simulator is probably one of the most detailed and complete plane flying games that you will find available to the public. Here are some examples of why it is often the choice for teaching flying in pilot schools. Of all the PC flight simulator games, Pro Flight Simulator has the most detail about airports. For instance, each of the airports does not just have accurate runway markings, they also have very accurate altitude and slope information for those airports. Because this aircraft simulation has details like runway slope, it makes landing on them a very realistic challenge.
The airplanes included also have an almost obsessive level of detail. If you haven't played with a flight simulator recently, you can expect that when you select the type of plane, the simulation of that airplane will behave the same as the real one under those conditions. However, with Pro Flight Simulator you also see a realistic instrument panel for that plane type. However, this goes beyond just the appearance. If the readings on an instrument on the real airplane lag behind the controls, the simulated instrument will also show the same amount of lag time. It will even accurately simulate systems and instrument failures that can occur.
The features of this program are really too many to include it in a single Pro Flight Simulator review. There are probably thousands of plane flying games out there that very few rise to the level of this one. The ability to land and take off from an aircraft carrier, the ability to link multiple instances of the program together, the ability to change the weather and simulate air-to-air refueling are among the additional features of this software that I haven't delved into. The bottom line is this: if you are the least bit serious about aircraft simulation you need to take a long look at what is arguably the most authentic of all PC flight simulator games.
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