Reviews (by Eskil)

Predictable is the word for summing up this new set of missions. Like all the previous mission packs from Perfect Flight, the missions are all very much like another, and contain no surprises - in fact they mostly resemble Free Flights from point A to point B. As usual, there are check lists to aid you in setting up for flying, a good point. However, this pack seems to have been compiled in somewhat of a hurry, and there are some out of place texts in at least one of the briefings. There is no dialogue under way, and no Mission Compass to guide you (but the GPS flight plan is adequate for that). The inclusion of an aircraft repaint is nice, too. In summary, not really worth the price, especially if you've tried Perfect Flight mission packs before.

This mission pack contains no less than 24 missions, so they're cheap at € 0.50 each, but they are very much alike, and in essence they are Free Flights, although with briefings, checklists and so on. There are no rewards. The pack has an auto-installer, but for those who (like me) dislike that, it is relatively simple to unpack at a location of your choice. So far, this could be an inexpensive way of getting to fly with minimal effort. Unfortunately the missions contain quite a few faults and glitches, some of them important. In two of the missions (Garda's Lake Windsurf Trophy, and California Dreams), an incorrect airport designator (LOPX instead of LIPX; LSJC instead of KSJC)) is used, making the missions impossible to finish. To correct this, you have to decompile the two mission files and change the designator. There is a sprinkling of typos in the briefings and elsewhere, one of whish will confuse pilots. In the descent check list, one item is "Review the Landing Gear" instead of "Review the Landing Data". The spoken comment, however, is correct. During descent, you are told to reset altimeters already when above 30,000 ft instead of at 18,000. The intro to the Curacao mission is wrong, spoken of as Belgrade to Innsbruck. In another of the missions, Brussels is said to be in Luxembourg! Also in the Curacao mission, the wrong cruising altitude is set in the Flight Plan (33,000 instead of 38,000 ft), so the "music en route" is never triggered. In summary, this mission pack is a bit of a disappointment.

Rescue Air 911 is good value for money - 11 missions for €17.50. The missions are in all categories from Beginner to Expert. All of them consist of flying from the hospital where you are based, to an accident site on the fictional Simville Island (which appears to be very accident-prone...), pick up casualties, and then take them to hospital. Therefore the missions are a bit monotonous, but when you go the Advanced and Expert missions, you will have to hone your flying skills some. All missions are flown in the trusty Cessna Grand Caravan, a special repaint of which is included. The mission makers (Zambian based NMG Simulations) have made a fantastic job of creating an entire island in the Indian Ocean, about 30 by 30 miles, highly detailed and complete with cities, buildings, industries, ports, terrain, and several airports! (The island does not show up on the GPS map, although the airports and navaids are there.) There are vehicles on the roads (left hand traffic!), and a lot of radio traffic. AI traffic is seen on the international airport, and static aircraft on the aprons of other airports. All missions will give you a reward on completion. A minor comment: all the missions take place on the same date, most even at the same time... This pack comes with an automatic installer, which deprives you of all control as to what is installed, and where. I prefer to install missions manually, but you may like it this way. As for rating this mission pack, the scenery would make it worth 5 stars. However, because of the way the story repeats itself, and because of the automatic installer, I will settle for 4 stars.

This is a very good, and varied, six-pack of missions taking you all over the world. You get rewards (for most of the missions, even two!), but it isn't easy to get them. I can really recommend this mission pack!

This five-mission pack is clearly made by skilled people. The thing I don't like about them is that you can't start them the normal way (from the FSX Missions page), but have to go through a special desktop icon. Maybe this is so that the pack's unlocking function works as intended. You must fly the missions in order, and when you've finished one you'll get the key to unlock the next one. If/when you save the missions under way (always a prudent thing to do), the saves will end up just anywhere in the missions list. That said, the mission are very good and extremely varied. You fly mostly in the Piper Cub, with one Beech Baron mission. I would easily have awarded five stars, hadn't it been for the cumbersome installation and start-up process, but it still is reasonably good value for money (approx. 17€).

It is difficult not to like a free scenery add-on. This will update the FSX scenery picture in Oresund, between Copenhagen and Malmoe, a lot. Obviously it will be of interest chiefly to Scandinavian simmers, but I can see no reason not to add it to your scenery bank.

This is one essential item for every simmer. There is a free version as well, but this one gives you so much more. Never leave home without it!

In this mission pack you get to fly final ILS approaches at six different airports, starting out some 15-20 nm from the threshold. Obviously you could set up the corresponding flights for yourself, but here you get them set up for you. At the beginning of each mission, you are on autopilot, but at a certain point (different for the six missions), the autopilot is forced off and you have to finish the landing by flying manually. In my opinion this point is often too far out, compared to reality, but at least it means that you have to show your skills at keeping on the glide slope... At a low price of EUR 6.24, this is reasonably good value for money.