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- Review of Solo Flight Update
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- Reviewed by: Franusich 10629
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- MicroProse is offering an update
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- for it's SOLO FLIGHT simulator
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- program for $12.50 plus your old SOLO
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- FLIGHT disk. I'm sorry to say it is
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- not really an improvement. The
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- instrumentation was changed and the
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- instrument dials have so few numbers
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- that it's confusing which is which or
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- how fast or high one is flying, etc.
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- For example, the altimeter has
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- one 0 on top and a few graduation
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- lines, similar to a modern looking
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- timepiece without any numerals. The
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- other instruments are as bad. The
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- compass is now marked N,S,E and W.
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- Any bearing such as 190 degrees is an
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- "estimated guess".
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- Some voice instructions are in
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- the program, but there is no longer
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- the thump or squeal of the tires when
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- landing. The sound alarm, signaling
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- a drop in air speed and/or a stall is
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- also eliminated.
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- There are other bad points, but
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- enough has been mentioned. Since the
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- advertising promotion is tied in with
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- a MicroProse/Cessna "Learn To Fly A
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- Real Airplane" contest, it seems that
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- this simulation should be more
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- accurate.
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