Reviews (by John)

I bought this last night, after seeing one of the other reviews and umming and ahhing for a long time. Glad I did, I buy the military jets for airshow stuff mainly, and this excels there, looks like an F18, feels the way it looks like it should, and generally just a dream to fly. The F/A 18 in it's various guises has long been a favourite of mine, and a plane that nobody seems to get right. It always seems to either break too easily or the roll-rate is too slow. Not this lady, she lives up to the 18. The first 2 aircraft I ever flew over the San Francisco bay in any simulator were the F16 and F18 in Interceptor on the Amiga, last night I came full circle, and flew both over the Bay area again, but this was the one I enjoyed as back then.

Okay I need to retract that last review, it was a little hasty and unfair. So here goes. I've had help from Michele Giandomenico to get it running, and tried it with the ATR 72 from Flight 1. It would seem a corrupt file download caused the initial problems I experienced and with Micheles kind help I re-downloaded and installed and presto, it works. One thing is though the buttons seem to be reversed, so Button 1 skips and button 2 activates the next item. Anyway it's very comprehensive. Even items that are totally unimportant to FS are included, and for the first time ever I even managed to use Hotel mode (Engine2 as APU) successfully. I've therefore now to keep my promise to Michele and publicly apologise for the review of earlier and revise it to show the true value of this add-on. I'm basing my rating on both it's value and support hence moved it up to 5/5. Many thanks Michele, this will do the FS community a favour, especially those who are not quite fully Au Fait with the complex aircraft yet. – John Bower, 10/06/2005 Frankly I can't get this to work, the one time it did anything at all it stepped from checklist to checklist without any items coming up. Most times all I got was FS turning black with the hourglass followed by the FS.exe needs to close message.

The amazing part of this is the framerates. It looks fantastic, you get a printable map of the taxiways which means no more annoying pink line. It looks superb overall. Well done FlyTampa.