As Christmas draws ever closer, why not buy someone that Flight Sim gift that they have always wanted! A Joystick, a pair of 3D glasses, Flight Simulation software - we have listed it all here; the number one Flight Sim christmas gifts. Check out the list now to make your Christmas shopping that little bit easier, and order online - direct to your door. Click here to see the products, or click on Read More.
Joysticks
Joysticks are always great, well appreciated presents for a Flight Simmer. They are the essentials of flight!
Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 Joystick
This popular joystick from Microsoft is one of the industrys well know and trusted joystick - high quality with great compatability for all types of flying packages. Selling price: $59.64 View our feature of the joystick here. Buy the joystick here.
Thrustmaster Cougar Hotas Joystick
This joystick and throttle package from Thrustmaster is sure to add that extra level of realism to flight simmin'. With a seperate throttle control, and a high quality construction, the Thrustmaster Hotas Joystick is certainly going be a great gift. Selling price: $299.84 View our feature of the joystick here. Buy the joystick here.
Yokes
Yokes are a great way to add the most realistic flight possible to sim packages - very appreciated presents for a Flight Simmer.
CH Products Flight Sim Yoke USB
Command the skies with the king of flight simulator controls, the Flight Sim Yoke USB. This one of a kind yoke offers features that will allow you to fly with the realism you've come to expect from CH Products. For Windows 98, 2000, XP, Me and Mac 8.6+. Selling price: $109.99. Buy the yoke here.
Software
Certainly the first way to get someone into Flight Simmin' is to buy them the software! Surprise them with some of the sofware from below.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
The most popular Flight Simulation package on the planet.
Drawing on 20 years of experience developing award-winning software, the Microsoft Flight Simulator team commemorates both the centennial and its own aviation milestone with the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight.
Buy Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 here
View screenshots here
Lock on: Modern Air Combat (LOMAC)
The mighty air combat simulation, once one of PC gaming's trendsetting genres, went into a nosedive a few years back. Changes in the game market have made it tough for highly skilled fans who demand the highest levels of realism to find any new modern combat flight sims on the store shelves, let alone those with modern combat aircraft. However, there are a few developers keeping this marvelously intricate discipline alive, most notably Moscow-based Eagle Dynamics. Debuting in 1995 with Flanker, the Russian studio has continued to advance the series through 1999's superb (and superbly difficult) Flanker 2 and last year's worthy upgrade, Flanker 2.5. Later this year, Eagle will add one more game to this impressive list: Lock On: Modern Air Combat. Buy LOMAC here. View LOMAC screenshots here.
Hardware
Hardware addons for flight simulators - make FS more realistic. Great Gifts.
EDimensional 3D Glasses
As most of today’s games are supposed to be 3D, it’s pretty funny to think that our real perception of them is two dimensional; That is, at least, if you don’t have one of those expensive ($1500+) 3D monitors that will supposedly be the future of viewing graphics on a PC. With all this in mind, when the eDimensional package successfully landed here (just two days after shipping), I was eagerly awaiting to see if they really could offer another dimension to gaming. Click here to read the full feature on these eDimensional 3D glasses. Buy them here.
TrackIR2 Headtracking system
Bring flightsim headtracking to the next level with the TrackIR2 which is now available from eDimensional. With the TrackIR2 flightsimmers can use natural head movements to look around their flightsim environment, freeing hands up for flying the plane. Learn more about the new TrackIR2 here. But them here.
New from eDimensional is Voice Buddy, an interactive voice control system designed specifically for Microsoft Flight Simulator. With Voice Buddy you command your aircraft using your voice instead of confusing key combinations, and get realistic responses back just as if you were working with a co-pilot. Voice Buddy will be available in time for Christmas delivery. Click here for full article. Buy here.
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