Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight

Customer Reviews:

unsure of cause
I have F/S 2000 installed and it works beautifully. When I upgraded to F/S 2004 I noticed the smoothness of 2002 was not there. On take off the aircraft lurches down the runway insead of rolling smoothly. Turns are jerky and over controlled making it very difficlult to make approach corrections smoothly and not over correct. I don't understand why this happens other than 2004 requires the #4 disk to be in the CDrom drive all the time, where 2002 does not. It plays with the installed components only. If anyone can offer an explaination or instruction I would appreciate an email at theozman
Thanks
--2006-11-27

REALLY HARD
its a very confusing game...the graphics on my computer pretty good.. i gave it about 3 hours 2 learn and couldnt do it....but it could just be me...plus i havent played it since so to me it was a waste of money
--2006-11-21

Not just a game!!
It is not only fun playing the 'game', I learn the skills to fly a plane - for real and that makes every minute of my time spent on it worthwhile. It has helped me a long way to practice my manuvers (to improve the skills and become more proficient) before and after my actual flight lessons. Without this software, I would have to take extra hours of flying lessons by spending a lot more bucks. Its a game that is really useful and makes your play time to be productive, to all ages alike. Well, I should say its not just a game, its a Flight Simulator!!
--2006-11-06

No Concorde!
Having found FS2002 to be quite a novelty despite its rather poor landscapes I bought FS2004 for my son. I have found some of the graphics improved on, runways, airport installations, planes ... but others just as horrible as previously.
As far as choice of planes goes, it is unbelievable that "100 years of flight" omits the Concorde! A lot of the stuff is repeated from FS2002, including the sailplane (glider) that just sits stupidly on the ground with no explanation as to how to get it towed. Some more interesting models are visible as figuration ; ATR42, Dash8, though they are not controlable by the user. We quite enjoy the DC3-cargo as they still fly around our part of the world.
Lack of "real world" liveries is also a disappointment.
Representation of monuments is fine but if they are surrounded by washed-out computer generated emptiness it's not really worth having them (you cannot land a Cessna or anything else next to the Eiffel tower - on a wide open prairy flecked with an occasional building!)
Displacement of planes seems odd at times, you can fly out 5 or 10nm from an airport at an acceptable speed but returning can take ridiculously long.
The computer also occasionally freezes or turns itself off during FS2004 for no apparent reason, problem we never have with FS2002. The problem is difficult to identify as it does not always happen even though we sometimes run FS2004 for 2 or 3 hours, other times it can occur every 20 minutes or so.
We will be purchasing regional-commuter and Concorde add-ons. Would like to find a repainting add-on that recreates real-life airline liveries.

--2006-09-04

Need a joystick
I am thoroughly enjoying Flight Simulator 2004 now that I have a joystick (Logitech Extreme 3D Pro). The simulator ran poorly on my laptop from the keyboard (no numbers pad, sluggish and uneven response). Performance was better but still disappointing using the full keyboard of my desktop PC. In spite of the claim to be keyboard friendly, the flying lessons are far better suited for use of the joystick.
The Logitech joystick installed without any problem whatsoever and all functions work very well.
--2006-09-02

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