~Flight Sim 5.1

REVIEWED BY ADRIANO GRISANTI 1995.

This  is a newer version of Microsofts  great flight  simulator, were
you can control any of the four planes :-

1.) CESSNA SKY LANE RG R182
2.) LEARJET 35A
3.) SCHWEIZER 2-32 SAILPLANE
4.) SOPWITH CAMEL

Besides being able to choose from  the four planes you have the choice
of diffenet sceneries, i.e crop dusting, flight sim 5 scenery and add
on disks for Flight Sim 5, or some of Flight Sim 4's old scenery.  You
can also set the weather, detail and time, depending on your  personal
requirments.

  This game is quite good once you get into it, and if you find it 
hard to get used to, you can use the built in flight instructor to 
help you learn how to fly.

  This version of flight sim has various  improvements  over  its 5.0
cousin, ie instead of being on 2  disks it is  now on 4  and supports
faster computers, such as pentiums and supports more sound cards and 
video cards, ect than before.

  Overall I give this game 85% as a flight simulator,  because  it is
very realistic, however  this means  that it becomes  boring  to most
people after a while, especially if you don't like flight sims or you
like  shooting enemy  planes down instead.  As a  game this game only
scores 70%.

  It would be nice to see Flight  Sim 5.1 on cd with all  the scenery
disks included, with a host of different planes to choose  from, with
a military/arcade option like TFX thrown in for good measure,  and a
modem or network option added for good  measure.  Come  on Microsoft,
it'll sell like hot cakes.