Private Pilot (Add On for Flight Sim 2000) - PC Games

The manual includes a "flight school" section covering the basics and the Island Airpark scenery from FS2000 is installed automatically to provide you with an area in which you can practise take-offs and landings (unobstructed and obstructed), precision flying and navigation skills. Twelve aircraft descriptions form the next section of the manual, though with no mention of the amphibious Cessna 152 shown on the box; perhaps they decided 13 was too risky after all. Finally, checklists and procedures are given, though strangely these don't map exactly onto the aircraft previously described.

Graphics are good and additional features on the CD include an FAA pilot knowledge test, a Morse code tutor, VFR flight plans and approach plates. There's also a poster-sized chart of Chicago airspace in the box with which to alarm yourself. --Mark Whitehorn