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Jawawithagun wrote:*sarcasm abound* oh yes! so much fun in MS flightsimulator ... fly into WTC, bounce off WTC

Could it be that was what the terrorists actually expected?

Slartibartfast wrote:

Jawawithagun wrote:*sarcasm abound* oh yes! so much fun in MS flightsimulator ... fly into WTC, bounce off WTC

Could it be that was what the terrorists actually expected?

Possibly.

I did it all the time. About 50% of the time not meaning to (hey, it ain't easy flying a 737 on it's side between the gap!)

Though oddly enough, that was the only building ever on an intentional hitlist...beyond the times I stalled out and slammed into some buildings in Chicago during a heavy fog with high winds.

I don't have a flight sim, but I did play the demo of Battlefield 1942 and I crashed quite a few planes into the Japanese carrier. I'd bail out right before it hit and then mine the carrier deck so that nobody could take off. Then I usually tried to sink it with TNT and leave in one of the landing boats.

I wish you could destroy buildings in BF1942. I would place explosives in every building on the map and then blow them up all at once, or maybe saturation bomb the French villages.

A year before 9/11, I always tried to fly between the two towers with a Cessna or just do weird steering while flying between a bunch of skyscrapers, its wonderful to watch your plane almost hit the skyscraper but just miss it.

I also rammed into the Sears Tower a lot, it was as if my plane was being guided there magically, before it hits it and breaks into pieces and falls to the ground.

I also taxied a 737 in Manhattan, weirdest thing you ever did see.

Rammed into a blimp in Chicago

Chased after other planes that were taking off from the airport

Go head on into storm clouds

I've done a lot of weird things with that simulator

No but I have sunk my own carrier in a couple of mil or sci-fi flight sims... (BTW) any one else do that?

A while before 9/11, I used to play building-ramming a fair bit, though more to see the bits of the plane slowly falling down to the ground than anything else. Of course, I got bored of that pretty soon, and my lack of a decent joystick (even to this day) was rather annoying.

Yuri Prime wrote:I don't have a flight sim, but I did play the demo of Battlefield 1942 and I crashed quite a few planes into the Japanese carrier. I'd bail out right before it hit and then mine the carrier deck so that nobody could take off. Then I usually tried to sink it with TNT and leave in one of the landing boats.

Unfortunately that doesn't damage the carrier much (and in the case of TNT, it doesn't do squat). Try to glide your fighter onto their flightdeck to block the way. Since the 12 year olds that play are so stupid, they'd rather ram it and lose their plane than wait for it to get removed.

FaxModem1 wrote:I also taxied a 737 in Manhattan, weirdest thing you ever did see.

Ever seen a Boeing land and taxi on the USS Constellation?

Rammed into a blimp in Chicago

I like taking out the blimp...but it never goes down with me.

Chased after other planes that were taking off from the airport

That was always fun. Kept losing them though (damn Learjets and my damn Cessna can't keep up)

Go head on into storm clouds

What version? I could never actually get into them in 95.

I've done a lot of weird things with that simulator

Hasn't everyone? "As Real as it Gets" my ass.

I have FS 2002 Pro, very fun. ALso, almost ANY aircraft can be imported into the game (even those meant for other games, like MS Combat Flight Simulator). I downloaded some nice jet (unnamed, but looked based off the F-16) and had fun flying around. I also loved launching the space shuttle from KSC (I used slew mode to get it to the actual launch pad, and went from there) You can get to ~120,000 ft before the game dies, i think (haven't done it in awhile).

RI: In FS 2002 you can fly through the clouds and all that, and it is very fun.

Faram wrote:Neither exists in IL 2.

But if I ever get my act togheter and buy X-Plane I might try it out.

Don't buy X-plane! It sucks. I bought it and it was totally useless. Graphics sucks in that program.

Lord Poe wrote:Has anyone here used their flight sim program to fly into the WTC or Pentagon?

No because I use X-plane and it sucks. Useless damage effects. Crash and it'll either bounce off the ground or when it hits the game restarts to the last airport I'm in. There are no real cities except badly rendered rectangular prisms(?), and they are sparsely spread about.

But I did have fun redesigning current planes. I gave a fighter four rockets (the type used by the space shuttles) and tried to fly it. All it did was fly straight up into the atmosphere and beyond. Once in the upper atmosphere it ran out of fuel and the fighter fell for about five minutes before hitting the ground.