Civilian Flight Simulation on the PC

I want every human being to experience the magic. Throttling up, cruising down the runway gaining speed, pulling back on the stick, getting light on the heels, and the pavement falling, falling out from under them as they do the seemingly impossible.

No matter how well I develop a cognitive understanding of how these machines manage to get and stay off the ground for awhile, there will always be that part of my brain that thinks it's a miracle. It's that beautiful experience that for a second brings back the child in me that I think everyone would like.

Civilian flight simulators are a subset of all games and simulators that involve flying some sort of aircraft. Features that distinguish civilian flight simulators from other games that merely involve flying are a focus on realistic flight dynamics, unstructured gameplay, and all of the globe including airports, cities, terrain, buildings, etc.

Many games where the player flies some sort of craft are a lot more about big explosions and getting a high score, a premium is usually not placed by the programmers on the accuracy of the effect gravity and other forces have on the craft and other objects in the virtual world. The point of flight simulation is to recreate as faithfully as possible the experience of flying an aircraft. To that extent it is important that the plane behave in the simulation as it would in those same circumstances in "real life."