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I've owned more legit copies of various versions of Microsoft's flight-simulator over the years than any other paid for software I use. I'm no Bill Gates fan, its just that their flight-sim has always been a GREAT product and I'm picking it always will. The really killer thing about it is the open architecture which allows 3rd parties to create addons for the game, many of them free.
New Planes
After playing FS2002 out of the box you quickly tire of trying to use the Cessnas as sports-planes (which they're not) and get sick of crash landing 747's (coz they're so massive). When the desire to ruin other aircraft hits you, and it will, like some drug-addict, then head off to places like http://www.flightsim.com and http://www.fsfield.com for free aircraft downloads painted in nearly any airline livery you can imagine.
If you're a kiwi you'll definately wanna get along to http://www.flightsim.co.nz/ which has loads of NZ used aircraft in local liveries. I love the canary-yellow Freedom Air 737, have done loads of shuttle flights in that beauty.
Cool Scenery
After playing about in a few new aircraft you'll definately want to start downloading scenery packs of cities you fancy flying about in. The base FS2002 scenery isnt bad but there's loads more detail in the add-ons. Kiwis will definately want to suck down the wickedly detailed landclass files and scenery mesh for NZ from Geo Graphx
I've got loads of other Flightsim Links to both free and commercial sites. You may have to register at some but its well worthwhile. There are an amazing array of aircraft, skins, scenery packs and airports to suck down. I've downloaded literally hundreds over the last year or so.
One of the real cool improvments to FS2002 was to the way AI aircraft behave in the simulator. For some AI plane enlightenment you really need to have a quick read of John Woodside's Intro to FS2002 AI aircraft and related config files.
DeeKnow's Hangar
If you want to see the sort of crates I've been blasting around in then check out my collection of Photos of flights in various stages. View the index images at the top first for an overview. All these planes are fully operational and typically available skinned in liveries of various airlines. And if you're desperate for entertainment you could check out my Flight Journal where I chronocile the exciting adventures of Boreli Airways.
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