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Has anyone here used their flight sim program to fly into the WTC or Pentagon?
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Please feel free to answer this thread honestly, everybody. Those muted whirring noises are not CIA anti-terror investigator department recording devices, so speak as loudly as you wish. :)
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Lagmonster wrote:Please feel free to answer this thread honestly, everybody. Those muted whirring noises are not CIA anti-terror investigator department recording devices, so speak as loudly as you wish. :)
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Don't have a flight sim program, but if I did, by now I can't see how I couldn't have done it.
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Was it the latest version of Microsoft Flight Sim that had the WTC removed? Or was that another sim?

And personally, I don't own any flight sims.
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No, though I would if I had played it since then. But I will admit to trying to fly my plane between the gap multiple times, and succeded too.
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Lord Poe wrote: You've just made the LIST, mister!
No he didn't :wtf:

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And I can honestly say that I never, ever, used my flight sim program to fly into the WTC or Pentagon.



No such thing in X-Wing:Alliance, and I have no other flight sim :P
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When i get a flight sim i`ll fly under the Eiffel tower. :wink:

and as for crashing into building,What The Hell is wrong with you.
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If I found them interesting, yeah I guess I would try it out of morbid curiosity, though I doubt any flight sim has the level of building damage modelling to make such an exercise fun.

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1. No Flight Sims (I wanna fix that)
2. No Joystick (I wanna fix that too)
3. I'd rather kamikaze into something else like Saddam's palace...
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OOOH!! ME!

I did at the store, made a video of it, replaced it with the start-up video, and promptly escaped the store.

EDIT: Holy shit, I just typed that, and now I can hear sirens! :shock:
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Soontir wrote:Bet a cookie YT is now in jail.~Jason
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Post by Mitth`raw`nuruodo »

I have. I've also crashed into what was supposed to be my neighborhood, the Microsoft headquarters, my school, and the Atlantic Ocean. Yes, the Atlantic Ocean (running out of fuel while over the ocean is a BAD THING, I now know :P)
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Best I did was crash into the Statue of Liberty in one of the DOS based Microsoft Flightsims (before the decent texturing). Never did find the Twin Towers. Course this was a LONG time ago computer wise. Hell, the first WTC bombing hadn't occured yet.
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Neither exists in IL 2.

But if I ever get my act togheter and buy X-Plane I might try it out.
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Well if you want a free flightsim try flightgear.

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YT300000 wrote:
Soontir wrote:Bet a cookie YT is now in jail.~Jason
No, after a brief trip to the washroom, and the kitchen, I'm once again sitting in front of my computer. Now give me that cookie.
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*sarcasm abound* oh yes! so much fun in MS flightsimulator ... fly into WTC, bounce off WTC
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Never have...only sims I have are European Air War and Jane's Fighter Anthology, and neither includes DC or NYC. I have crashed into an M3 tank (darn Me262 throttle stuck open while I was diving), a bridge (forgot to figure in the F-4's tail when checking clearance), and a Kiev-class carrier (got hit with a trio of SAMs while trying to pull out of a bombing run in an A-10).
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I accidently crashed into a building in downtown Chicago taking off from Meigs when I was first trying out MSFS. Flying with the keyboard is hard as shit.
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I used to try to take off from the WTC helopad in a 737 and fly between them with the Sopwith in MS Flight Sim 98.
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Post by Seggybop »

I don't have any games with the WTC or Pentagon, but any game with destructible buildings will have them all leveled. Either ram everything at full speed untill I run out of lives, or if I have weapons, carpet bomb everything. I usually do such things when it's more fun to destroy random things than to complete the mission.
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If I had a flight sim, Id crash into everything.

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