I love fs2002 for realism. I have somewhere around 150 planes for it. I can take off from my street with an add on I found.

I like YSFlight because the core is only 11mb, it starts up fast, and it has a combat flight simulator mode. with the realism packs, I can flight sorties to WWII britain and germany with a B17, or I can fight MiG's in Korea.

Google Earth is nice (I just got the newest version), but the cockpit is only a HUD and there is no external view. The controls are also very touchy by default, but i found a setting to change that.

The online flight sim is nice, but it is SO slow! I wish they had a version to download, so it wouldn't have to constantly download data.

My friend plays Ace Combat (He has the whole series) and loves it, but i've never played it.

I think they still make Ace combat...

wow! that looks cool. which reminds me, I forgot IL2!

Yeah, however, IL2 was also a PC game. (i have it)

Yeah, however, IL2 was also a PC game. (i have it)

I remember those days many years ago when I'd spend hours shooting down nazis
I also recently bought the expansion pack which lets you fly the experimental fighter jets. And there's also another version of IL2 called Pacific Fighters (I think that was the name) which allowed you to takeoff and land on carriers. But IL2 is still my all time favorite combat sim because of its intense realism. I can recall specific missions where I'd be dodging flak, my plane riddled with bullets, my pilot injured, smoke coming from my plane, aileron controls damaged, all while shooting down nazi jets over Stalingrad 

That would actually be a good concept for a calc game

[offtopic]willrandship, base 3 is usually called ternary[/offtopic]

I've only really used Google Earth, and mostly at school because we are only allowed to use stuff installed on the computer . I should probably get Flight Gear now that I have a computer with enough disk space for it though Oh, and I like flying planes in Just Cause 2, landing them is a challenge, but the physics are too unrealistic for it to count as a sim

Yeah, IL2 was a pretty good game. It was very realistic on takeoff (I never knew it could be so hard to get a plane going straight down the runway!)

I've only really used Google Earth, and mostly at school because we are only allowed to use stuff installed on the computer . I should probably get Flight Gear now that I have a computer with enough disk space for it though Oh, and I like flying planes in Just Cause 2, landing them is a challenge, but the physics are too unrealistic for it to count as a sim

Flight Gear is only good if you have a gig or 2 of ram. otherwise, don't bother. YSFlight is a better choice if you have 512mb of RAM (like me). Just make sure you get realism packs for it!