Ahoy_Issue_35_1986_Nov

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The^lying^tfrrtriotions

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Ohosen by Real Pil&ts

We regularly hear from military and commercial Air Traffic Controllers who rave about our Kennedy Approach simulation, and though we can't mention names

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(they're Federal employees), we can saythgMnany ofV

these professionals tell us Kennedy Approach is the most-

accurate depiction of airportconditions you can find \ short of a real control tower. The MicroProse Civilian Aviation Series includes Solo Flight, which teaches the basic flying skills asso

ciated with a^single-engine propeller aircraft. AcroJet s -

The toughesfevaluators of flying simulations aren't computer buffs. They're actual pilots and flight pro fessionals. And when these flyers talk

by these aviation games." Mr. Martin isn't the only pilot who's

is a former fighter jock with 3,000

spent many of hisrecent leisure hours with MicroProse simulations. Com pering his experience in training real flyers with the instrument layout found in Solo Flight, Cessna Flight instructor Mark Rice told us "the instrument flying segments ore very similar to the real thing -you're up in

flying hours in his logbook.

the clouds and using your readings

Take the evaluation of Senior Editor David Martin, in Private Pilot magazine's August 1986 issue. Martin. a former Navy aviator who has flown

to guide the aircraft."

authenticity and realism, one name

comes up again and again:, MicroProse Simulation Software.

We're used to this kind of stringent comparison; our company president

recreates the sensitive control characteristics of the world's hottest sportjet - the Bede BD-5J - and includes a wide range of multiplayer competition events. Kennedy Approach allows you to guide dozens of commercial aircraft into and out of the nation's busiest airports. From MicroProse: the flying simulators chosen not

only by computer enthusiasts, but also by real pilots... Solo Fughi is available lor Commodoie 64 7128 "".Apple 1! (amlly. Atari XL'Xt. IBM PC/PC Jf. and Tandy 1000 Kenwdy Approach is available lor Commodore 64/126 and Atari XL XE AcooJfT is available loi Commo

dore 64/126 All products hove a suggested retail price ol 524 95.

Available Irom your local retailer. II out ol slock, contact MiaoPiose direcllyior further inlormotiononour lull range of simulation soilwore, and to place MasteiCard. VTia orders.

Concorde pilot and former RAF jet flyer John Hutchinson reviewed Micro Prose' sport flight AcroJet for the British

almost everything with wings, re-

press. His conclusion: "this simulation

Viewed five MicroProse programs,

is one that really does live up to its

including the bestselling Solo Flight

real-life counterpart... I find AcroJet

primary flight simulator. "I'd not have

completely absorbing and very

believed it possible..." he wrote, "Pilots of all sorts will be fascinated

exciting." High praise, from the man

who flies the world's fastest airliner...

SIMULATION

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