Jet Pilot
Released: 1996
Company: Vulcan
JetPilot is by far the most complex, hard and realistic flight sim for the Amiga. Actually, it claims to have a flight model so accurate that is 10% or less of the real thing, and it's true. And why can I say this? Because I've played almost all fl
It is the only Amiga flight sim that enables the player to enterin a flat spin, the engine can "flame out" at high angle of attack (due to insufficient flux in the air intakes), or you can pull too many G's and break
the airframe limit, if you pull back too hard at take off, your tail can drag on the tarmac... notice that any of these detailed features in the simulation are enough to scary the casual player. And now, I must say: this game is NOT for the casual player
hard game, just made for the hard-core flight sim audience.
This hard-core flight sim audience will also like the 2 airplanes found in Jet Pilot: the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, the English Electric Lightning, great and classic jet fighters from the early '60s. The F-104 Starfighter was a fast american fighter, on
but its short wings makes it hard to fly in low speed turns (i.e. you can spin out of control sometimes). The English Electric Lightning has similar specs, and has entered service around the same time (early '60s too), but the curiously shaped wings of th
The graphics are not impressive by today standards, obviously, and in the end of 1996 (when JetPilot was released), perhaps people were expecting at least some Gourad-shading and some other nice graphical features, 'cos at that time, some flight sims o
but, as I've said before, it's not much different from the graphics in Tornado for example, just a bit more detailed.
But, if you have a fast AGA Amiga, you can play JetPilot in 640x512 resolution. With this resolution, JetPilot looks very nice, resembling the PC flight sim Su27 Flanker (this one is dubbed to have the most realistic flight model in a flight sim...Su27 pl
in flight model, and it is way harder! ;-)
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