A simNovel provides an intriguing story in an e-book format. At critical points in the story, you will take the controls of an aircraft and "become" one of the characters, flying a challenging FSX mission. The story brings background, substance and meaning to the missions…the missions forward the plot of the story. You will find it intriguing, challenging and most of all, immersive.
Pilate’s Ghost - A Techno-thriller set in the Swiss Alps
For Chuck, it started off as a routine charter flight…that was anything but routine. After that, one more flight to help his old boss couldn’t hurt…or could it? Then planes started to fall out of the sky…including one in which Chuck was a passenger. How was this happening? Who was behind it? It will take all of Chuck’s skills as an aviator, along with those of two Swiss Air Force companions, to to discover what secrets are hiding on the mist swept summit of Mount Pilatus…the legendary haunted ground of Pontis Pilate’s ghost.
Inside Pilate’s Ghost you get:
An intriguing 144 page Techno Thriller novel
simNovel in 3 formats compatible with most eReaders/eReader apps
9 exciting FSX missions flying jets, helicopters and even a glider.
8 flyable default FSX aircraft with detailed liveries:
exéJet Lear 45 (fictional)
Alpine Condor Bell B206 (fictional)
Swiss Air Force FA-18C (non fictional - Fliegerstaffel 17)
Adriatic Airways A321 (fictional)
Swiss Air Force EH-101 (fictional)
Swiss Registred DG-808S Glider (fictional)
Einsatzgruppe TIGRIS Robinson R22 BETA II (fictional - look for the bullet hole)
Norske Air A321 (fictional - used as AI but flyable)
Full Mission Briefs and detailed in Mission Kneeboards
5 enhanced airfields with custom scenery and additional FSX objects
Enhanced town and countryside locations (FSX objects)
Detailed custom made scenery of the Mount Pilatus summit complex
Much of the scenery remains available in Free Flight mode as long as Pilate’s Ghost is loaded
Requis
- CPU & Memory: Intel® Pentium® G630 2x CPU
at 27.70 Ghz each, 4 Gb of RAM.
- Graphics: Intel® HD Graphics Family.
- OS: Windows Home Premium with SP1
- 167.2 Mb free disc / storage space
- FSX with Acceleration is required.
Great book, nice story, very cool missions to fly.
It's a lot of fun to read the story and then fly the missions. It's almost like a story mode in one of those ego-shooter, or RPG-Games.
But there is one thing why I have to only give it four stars. One of the missions was not playable. I have done everything I could, but wasn't able to bring it to live... And my request to support remained unanswered since more than one year...
But besides that, it's definitely a good buy.
This package contains no less than nine missions, so good value for money. Some of the missions are quite difficult to master, but you get rewards when you succeed.
What makes this pack different from all other missions is that it comes with an e-book that gives you the story behind the missions. This is a brilliant new concept, but even if you don't care to read the stories, the missions will keep you occupied for quite some time.