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There are a couple of flight sims out there:
1). Microsoft Flight Simulator X Gold/aka FSX. (all my pictures are with this program) $180 on Ebay I bought for a hundred on sale, or $20 on Steam spyware service which I won't use. It is 32bit, old gen, buggy, and simply awful right out of the box without extensive modification. It covered the entire world reasonably well though and was a great program for the time. I have spent many months of fixing and tweaking and am still not done. Aftermarket photo-scenery and aircraft can get quite expensive fast but there is still a lot of nice freeware. I am loving this program. A2A especially and Milviz Carenado make some high quality and accurate aircraft. My go-to flyer these days is the Milviz P-38 with her beautiful turbocharger whine and that sensual cascade of reflections caressing across the field of rivets.
2). PREPARED P3D addon from Lockheed Martin "for professional use only, not for entertainment or gaming" looks nice but restricted I think. I got scared after reading all the legalese and ran away.
Requires online.
3). OrbX addon from Google which I also know nothing about but looks nice.
Requires online.
4). X-Plane11 $60 (which I should have bought) looks very nice.
X-Plane is less expensive than FSX, it is 64bit so it's able to utilize more than one CPU core and more than 4MB RAM, the autogen looks quite decent out of the box, and most of all the photo-scenery is free using the Ortho4XP down-loader.
Requires online.
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