
Simulator 5.0 that was a Windows 3.X - based program. My first experience with this concept was with Flight "Photorealistic" scenery generating engines for many years No matter how realistic they are) from Microsoft have used The B-26, you can get whoever is in one of the other positions toįlight Sim games (I can hear some of the readers out thereīristle at my calling these "games" but that's what they are, Too, if two or more participants agree - if you're tired of flying People to take different stations on the same plane, you can manĪny of the positions in a B-26 while your buddies are in other You and your on-line warbird buddies want to, and you can get Of a base in the Mediterranean - forget that it would be aĭifferent Air Force and other such logistical problems.Īnother added point of realism is availale for theįirst time in any CFS program to come out of Microsoft. Similarly, youĬouldn't fly a mission with the same planes and pilots out of EastĪnglia one day, and the next day expect them to fly a mission out In your losing 75% of your planes and pilots. In that you could not be expected to fly a follow-up combat missionĪgainst your enemy if the mission immediately preceding it resulted

This is more realistic from a battle-plan standpoint Missions, based on the outcome of the previous missionsįlown. Software that I've seen out there is the generation of new Me-262 in two variants on the German side.Īnother big departure from any other combat flight simulator Havilland Vampire I on the Allied team, and the Messerschmitt Too: the US Lockheed P-80A Shooting Star and the British de The Allied and German side, but there are combat jets available I was told that this would be trimmed down to around 1 GigabyteĪfter compression algorithms have been established.Ĭompression algorithms aside, the big improvements are centeredĪround the aircraft. Space to store all of the files associated with the program. Itself: currently it takes about 3 Gigabytes of hard drive One of them is the actual size of the program I spent perhaps 30 minutes withĭarryl Saunders of Microsoft, and I was told that the CFS 3 is notĮven in beta testing yet. I wasĪble to participate in a one-on-one introduction and I was greatly

Version, which will be on shelves everywhere this fall. Microsoft sent a team of personnel to Oshkosh to announce the new Prototype for CFS 3, also known as "Battle for Europe." On July 23rd at AirVenture, I was given a "tour" of the Good as any combat flight software, and better than most. The current CFSĢ002 program is very popular and provides combat realism that is as The Combat Flight Simulator (CFS) program. Your regular, everyday Flight Simulator programs, and then there is System, the Microsoft Office suite of programs and its Flight It is a foregoneĬonclusion that the Bill Gates software giant will never sit stillĪnd rest on its laurels - this pertains to the Windows operating Microsoft is about to out-do themselves again in
