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Virtual Challengers for Microsoft Flight Simulator I have probably logged a thousand hours in the Microsoft Flight Simulator and have been with the product since the early 80's when it became available on the Commodore 64. It has come along ways since those first versions with their jittery images and barely flyable aircraft. Today, it is a reasonable facsimile for those IFR days when you can't fly your real Challenger! Today, the weather and terrain approach reality and it is normal to look outside in the real world and see raindrops hitting your windows, while on your PC, at the same location, the real-time Jeppesen download over the internet enables rain drops on your virtual windshield. My virtual cockpit has the essential yoke, control stick, rudder pedals, and a high power PC. I've downloaded literally 10s of gigabytes of add-on scenery and aircraft models to enhance the virtual flying experience. Imagine my delight to find virtual Challengers as well! I highly recommend several of the add-on payware sceneries such as Ultimate Terrain: Canada and Alaska and Holger Sandman's awesome freeware mesh sceneries for the Canadian Rockies. You can find all these cool things at http://www.flightsim.com. For those of you who really want to push the fringes where the boundaries between real and virtual get very blurred, join a virtual airline and fly under realtime ATC on VATSIM using VOIP and Roger Wilco and Squawkbox. Again, information on on this exciting part of the aviation hobby can be found at Flightsim.com. Flight Simulator Challenger Models I downloaded these a while ago. They seem to be constantly moving around on the web. I've given up trying to keep up, but if you just Google: "flightsim challenger II", you'll eventually find them, and they seem to be more or less shareware these days. I have several different Challengers I've bought off the internet over the years - some are better than others, but they all have their strengths and weaknesses. These are fun while you're building your real Challenger, or for those days when VFR just isn't an option. They feature lovely representations of Challengers with acceptable flight models for simulator flying, flaperon controls, realistic sounds, opening doors, reflections, etc. They are NOT, however, any kind of substitute for proper training in a real Challenger, so please don't think you can fly these in the simulator and then go launch in a real Challenger.
The package also came with a great little ultra light airport that features lots of Challengers in the pattern.
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