FSX Acceleration

摘要

Perhaps an evaluation of an airplane is less about the plane than it is about its maturation. No aircraft is perfect out of the gate. The Chance Vought F4U Corsair, the General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark and the Boeing F/A-18 Hornet are but a few examples of designs that suffered teething problems before refinements helped them reach their true potential.Flight simulations lack the longevity of a production aircraft, and therefore are unlikely to see the revisions that can keep them on a path of improvement. Their lives are ephemeral, and only rare exceptions live multiple years. The leading exception is Microsoft's Flight Simulator. The title is approaching 27 years as a successful software product, longer even than Windows, the company's flagship offering. Flight Simulator continues to see improvements to its core features of graphics, flight modeling and world modeling. The tenth version, Flight Simulator X (FSX), brings the usual incremental enhancements to all the product's features, but is most notable for the work put into improving scripted missions. The latest revision does more for the intangibles of simulation than previous revisions. Things like mission awards add excitement and give the virtual pilot incentives to play.