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On 20 January 1992, Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111 registered as F-GGED, crashed into a high ridge near Mount Sainte-Odile in the Vosges mountains while on final approach to Strasbourg at the end of a scheduled flight from Lyon. This accident resulted in the deaths of 87 of the aircraft's 96 occupants (six crew members, 90 passengers).
A320 Airbus is an amateur flight simulation video game released in 1991 in which the player pilots an Airbus A320. The game was developed over three years with cooperation from Lufthansa, Deutsche Airbus, and Jeppesen. The game was written by Rainer Bopf for the Amiga [1] and converted to the Atari ST by Christian Jungen. [2]
It is the first release in the Microsoft Flight Simulator series. [3] [4] [5] Flight Simulator II: Discontinued 1983–1987 Sublogic: Sublogic: Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, PC-98, Amiga, Atari ST, Tandy Color Computer 3: Single-player: Flight Simulator II is a video game written by Bruce Artwick and published by Sublogic as the sequel ...
Sublogic also produced software other than flight simulators, including children's educational software, [2] 3D graphics software for CP/M, [4] the A2-3D1 animation library for the Apple II, [5] the X-1 video card and 3D graphics software for IBM PC compatibles, [6] and Night Mission Pinball (1982) which was originally for the Apple II and ...
Microsoft Flight Simulator, within PC as well as Xbox Series X and Series S, received "universal acclaim" from video game critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic. [88] [105] Within the site, the game is rated the third-best PC game of 2020, behind Half-Life: Alyx and Hades, [126] as well as the tenth most discussed game.
Flight simulator software is largely on PC, however mobile flight simulators are also increasingly popular, with Infinite Flight, X-Plane Mobile competing with the PC simulators. Some PC flight simulators can use mobile devices or additional PCs as additional interfaces for display and control, including the touch interfaces on smartphones .
The Airbus A320 is a low-wing airliner with twin turbofans and a conventional tail. The Airbus A320 family are narrow-body (single-aisle) aircraft with a retractable tricycle landing gear and powered by two wing pylon-mounted turbofan engines. After the oil price rises of the 1970s, Airbus needed to minimise the trip fuel costs of the A320.
The term "flight simulator" may carry slightly different meaning in general language and technical documents. In past regulations, it referred specifically to devices which can closely mimic the behavior of aircraft throughout various procedures and flight conditions. [2] In more recent definitions, this has been named "full flight simulator". [3]