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On Line Flight Simulator Games Show Your Kids Amazing Things

By: Po Mohone


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I didn’t recognize the promise of my on line flight simulator game to expand my children’s horizons until I discovered my child tinkering around with it one day. He was already absorbed into designing his own plane when I came along and excited about what else he was going to accomplish. “Hey, look Dad. You can make your own plane. And you can construct your own airport, which is what I want to do after this”.

When my eldest youngster heard you could design your own stuff in the on line flight simulator game he became involved. He does not like too many rules, likes to try things for himself. So the chance to do his own thing got him interested in the game.

So there they were, tinkering around with my on line flight simulator game, working on aircraft design, airport architecture, and planning to move on to some engineering in the systems and controls. If I had wanted to chat to them about design or engineering or architecture they might have listened but only from a sense of duty. But now they were occupied in both off their own bat.

And I found myself in the situation of encouraging them to play a computer game instead of the typical monitoring of time, content, and noise level. The on line flight simulator game does not come with the biff, bang, wallop special effects standard in nearly all computer games these days. It is almost sound-free although you can introduce your own sound effects if you desire. The special effects are really special but completely natural, not human mediated. And yet the children were fully occupied.

It was a flash of revelation for me. Before this I had only used the on line flight simulator for my own enjoyment. Because it was my game the children assumed it would be too boring for them. I had too. But now here they were busy in areas I could only have hoped to interest them in prior to this.

And then I thought of the other aspects of the on line flight simulator that are intrinsically educational, although I had not looked at it like that in the past. You can travel to over 20,000 airports worldwide. Simply knowing where they are is a geographical accomplishment. The scenery is photo-realistic thanks to developments in computer graphics so you get to see the famous natural features of the world and go to see any out of the ordinary place you can think of.

Developments in animation mean that the astronomy is precise and reactive – you see the sun, moon, and stars moving with you as you fly around the world. My on line flight simulator game also has lifelike lighting features, both beacons and take off/landing lights, which are essential in terms of aerodynamics. My children would perhaps move into these areas as well.

For a moment I felt I had found the holy grail of learning. Here they were getting engrossed in many of the areas I would wish them to but discovering it on their own, which is always the most successful way. It was a benefit of my on line flight simulator that I had never dreamed of but was delighted by.

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