Great addition to the series and I agree with everything in the review. I do wish there was more modern aircraft included - things like the Spirit of St Louis and the Wright Flyer were fun for me for about five minutes, mostly because they were too challenging and when you did get them airborne, not much fun to fly. My only complaint is the very frustrating flight school. The instructor is very impatient and often cancels the entire training flight if you don't follow his instructions in a very short time frame.. and then you have to start the whole lesson over. Many of the lesson techniques are can be difficult to get right the first couple of times. Even though you're trying your best to say, perform a 20 degree turn maintaining 4000 feet, he only gives you a few seconds to get it right before saying "You're obviously distracted so we're ending the lesson now". Makes me want to scream at him to LOOSEN UP AND GIVE ME A CHANCE HERE! It gets even more frustrating when you're training on a 747-300 and there's about 100 things going on at once - and you feel you're doing good 15 minutes into the lesson, until you realize you're 2 degrees off the heading he wants you to go in, and cancels the entire lesson. I had to read up on all the ground school items and make up my own training flights to "practice" before heading into 75% of the training lessons!
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