New to Flight Sims

I recently bought IL2 Sturmovik and realised that to be better at it I should probably play some more begginer freindly Flight Sims, hopefully near the end of the year I should have a joystick.

So what are some great flight sims for begginers.

IL2 is HAAAARD! Very good game, but yeah... as stated before, turn down the realism settings till you get the hand of it. Great game.Blazings Angels are rather cool, more arcade like though...

Joystick would help, or if money isn't a issue... get a HOTAS.

Well, the easyest arcade style flight simulator is H.A.W.X. Personally I didn't give it much attention, but it could be a good place for you to start. Airfix dogfighter is fun to play too. And you could try Blazing Angels ;)

I would go with Lock on. There are many great tutorials out there for it and its not that hard. After you get the hang of that I wouldd go with DCS Ka 50 and DCS A10c. These are Hardcore sims but has the option to lower the realism.

Stay away from DCS:BlackShark KA-50 and their new A-10 warthog unless you plan to spend many many hours learning a sim. These games were not designed for the casual gamer. KA-50 can take you 2 hours alone just to learn how to start it in Realistic Mode. Yes, as the previous poster stated there is a game mode but you will only be able to play that in Single player as none of the multiplayer servers are set to game mode and are all on Realistic mode. Don't get me wrong, they are both fantastic SIMULATIONS and I can not stress that word enough. I have KA-50 and enjoy it in single player and sometimes host multiplayer for friends only in game mode. If you are a beginer then first what kind of flying do you want to do? Combat? Commercial? Historic?

Combat: IL-2, MS Combat Simulator 3, Wings of Prey, Rise of Flight (this is WWI planes), H.A.W.X (more arcade then sim)

Commercial: Flight Sim X, Xplane-9 (Xplane has a bigger learning curve)

Historical: MS FlightSim 2004:A History of Flight (as it has historical flights like the first mail route)

Hope this helps! :D

Agrees with Levrar on VATSIM, although I have never used them as I am not that good at remembering all the radio call backs and stuff but they are well organized and proffesional. I Have hundreds of hours in flight sim using Saitek Pro Flight Yoke, Switch panel and Throttle Quadrant. Someday I will get the guts to sign up with them :)

Agrees with Levrar on VATSIM, although I have never used them as I am not that good at remembering all the radio call backs and stuff but they are well organized and proffesional. I Have hundreds of hours in flight sim using Saitek Pro Flight Yoke, Switch panel and Throttle Quadrant. Someday I will get the guts to sign up with them :)

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