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a underrated video from a underrated youtuber talking about a underrated simulator

Legend how's that classic 747 going your making for FSX ❤

Hey dude! If you're ever intrested to do videos on flight simulators outside of the Microsoft Flight Simulator brand in the future, I suggest taking a look at Microprose's Falcon 4.0, as I haven't seen any really good video discussing the orginal game itself. Looking forward to the upcoming videos!

I love this video so much. I picked up a copy of FS2004 from a Circuit City when it hit the shelves in late 2003. My 13-year-old brain couldn't comprehend how fun it was having the entire world in your computer. I played it religiously and, pretty soon, I started taking flying lessons in 2005. Fast forward to today and I am a First Officer on the Boeing 757 & 767 for a major U.S airline. Crazy how much this little 2.32GB game has shaped my life.

I learned a lot of things with my copy of MSFS2004 especially how to read those cockpit gauges.

Amazing video. Please make more when you can.

FS2004 (or FS9) was just a perfect simulation platform it just had the right amount of everything. It will always be my favorite FS. MSFS2020 is the only sim in my book that has gotten close to the experience of FS2004, but it can’t replace the GOAT.

Still have running fs9.1 with many add ons and improvements on my pc next to fs2020. And still love it. No stutters, no ctd, smooth fps, additional realistic atc, like sqawkbox and improved clouds and textures, better than fsx.

The editing and the Jazz music look and sound like a "cockpit casual" video. You even sound like Steve. Anyway very nice video !

Fantastic video mate - and very relatable. My journey started with MS Combat Flight Simulator 2 back in 2000 and was a randomly selected Xmas present too. Many fond memories of playing online on the MSN Gaming Zone and beyond, discovering Flight Simulator '00, '02 and '04. I still fly the same routes in MSFS now, over 20 years later. Thanks for putting this together.

I guessed the password to the family computer that held the fs2002 and fs2004 copy's in 2010. I immediately found the 747 my favourite aircraft, and through research and obsessive youtube-ing, I learned my first baby type rating for an airliner. If I had not guessed that password that day, I wouldn't be perusing a career in commercial aviation today. It is my single drive and a dream I will achieve at some point, I will not give up and I still use that 4 digit passcode in almost everything non important till this day. Now I look back at the sims of old and it hits me how raw they were. Its a real place for me, a place I think about visiting, and experience I desire to this day, to revisit my routes and fly that default 747 again, one last time.

RFP Was a Brilliant addon. I had it and loved it when most were flying the new PMDG software. Plus i loved the programming of the INS system.

The most emotionally charged flight sim. vid. I've seen in TH-cam. Good job!

I found this channel just today and I regret not having done it sooner, as a fan of Flight Simulator for years this channel is pure gold, this particular issue of the attack on AVSIM hit me a lot in 2009, I remember that at that time when I entered the internet Before the news and the chat, where I went first was AVSIM to see what repaints had been uploaded, what a new plane for AI Trafic, for me and for many AVSIM was the bible of the FS, and it was never the same since it was attacked but I do highlight the titanic work of the community and the administrators to get AVSIM back on its feet. Mr Dawson: I hope you rot in hell. Greetings.

FS2004 always will have a place in my heart! I was more seriously introduced to aviation when my father worked in an area next to my city airport. When he was home, always told me about 747' DC8's and all kinds of aircaft that flown by. He started this fire, and i fueled with gasoline when with 14yo a visited a mall and bought my copy of FS2004. This was back in 2009, since then i never stopped. Later i used FSX, P3D and XP11 (the one i use now), bus always kept FS2004 installed and usable.For me it's more than a simple simulator, it's just more, so much more that i cant find words to destribe. Great video!

FS2004 was the sim that kickstarted my love for Aviation on my uncle's laptop that he gave to me for school use. It didn't run properly at first because I wasn't that good at computers but when Intel installed a graphics settings on the laptop (again I wasn't that good at computers back then) the sim ran smoothly and I was able to install scenery and aircraft. I always loved flying for United's Island Hopper flight from Hawaii to Guam via the Marshall Islands. It took me around 14 hours to complete mainly because it wasn't running that smoothly but I was satisfied with it. My last flight before it's hard drive died was on a Ryanair flight. An iFly 737-800 going to Shannon. I didn't even make the landing in Shannon when the hard drive crashed. Good memories regardless.

Its crazy how such a simple decision can affect ones entire life.i also got into flight sim around 2010 ish..got X as my 1st after watching so many youtube vids on it...needless to say it barely played on my trash pc..and i yet i still played it like nothing else..then i got 2004 and was inlove. Good vid man and stay safe

I agree that the POSKY model shape was much better than RFP

I loved this! Excellent story and video!

These videos are honestly fantastic. If you read this, please make more! They not only take me back but are incredibly informative and make for a relaxing watch.

Nice video! Ever thought about reviewing Aerowinx PSX (or PS1.3 to keep it retro😉)? And how is it going with your 747 classic, I'm really looking forward to it :).

This was one of the most wholesome flight simulator videos I've seen. I have FS2004, but I coincidentally received FSX on Christmas of 2008 and became obsessed. I started with FS2002, however, and played both games for over a decade. I would play every day, flying my favorites, such as the PMDG or Project Opensky Boeing 747-400 or Airbus A340-300 add-on made by Thomas Ruth, from short to long hauls, even taking to the extremes by leaving them on autopilot throughout the night and sleeping through the whole flight and land when I would wake up. It was also a form of escape from a dire reality, which I can relate to. Flying was and is one of those things I deeply cherish ever since I was a kid. Thank you for sharing this excellent video. Much peace to you!

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I'm glad to know I'm not the only one with a huge soft spot for FS2004. It's definitely not a primary sim of mine anymore, but every now and then I get the itch to play it specifically. As you describe, it was uniquely impactful in a way few other games, simulators included, rarely are. Some of that is just that I, like you, was exposed to it at a very formative time, but there's more to it than that. There's something about the way the game looks and feels that I can't get enough of. It's got this painterly, picture-book style that, for lack of a better description, "looks like my imagination". It's a steadfast reminder of what flying means to me. It's kind of similar to my relationship with Kiki's Delivery Service, or Jonathan Livingston Seagull. In any case, thanks for covering it and getting into how some of it works. As a game developer now, the art of it means even more to me.

Hello everyone, this channel is abandon?

I think 2004 century of flight does work on W11 22h2 it automatically installs directplay which is needed to install this. Will this add on work for century of flight version of fs2004?

I wish i can be on those times.

FS2004 was my first sim, I'll never forget the fun I had with it, I loved it <3

FS2004 absolutely sparked a lifelong interest and enthusiasm for aviation and flight simming for me, likely the only way I could have lived out the dream of being a pilot since my eyesight is poor, but this was a great retrospective and it resonated with me. I remember starting probably two dozen circumnavigation attempts in FS2004 and I never made it too far, mostly because I would choose planes that weren't suitable for long flight legs, but finally last year I finished that task I'd tried to start a long time ago in the DC-3. Stories like yours make it apparent just how much even a relatively simple and rudimentary (compared to today's offerings) game can have a ripple effect and I hope the developers of FS2004 see this and know that they changed people's lives for the better. Everyone's always clamoring for the newest and "best" simulators now but I'm still booting up FS2004 and FSX (when it feels like running properly on a modern system) when I feel like flying somewhere. Something I enjoy in particular about FS2004 is the number of truly historical planes on offer and learning about the legendary aviators throughout history that piloted them and pushed the boundaries. There's always something new to look at and always new add-on planes to get familiar with and in general flightsimming for me has been a meditative but fun and challenging experience. Thanks for sharing.

2023 and 20 years later I still fly only FS9 as no hardware hassles and plenty of software available. I wished simmers will create new planes like 300 neo and others for the 2004 even if its paid.

How emotional! I used FS2002 for the longest time when I was young. I still do today, along with FS2004 and FSX.

Which traffic addon do you have at 2:42?

How do I get the INS to work without crashing?

Thank you! I don't understand some in video because english not my language(and sory for mistakes!), but I feel love of people, who likes flights and sky like me! From Russia with love.

I'm about your age, 25 now in 2023, started with a slightly older and at a younger age, before I knew my abc's, my grandfather installed a few games on the family desktop, a Windows 98 machine, originally with an even older system, such games were Need For Speed, the original trilogy and Flight Simulator 98. I was in awe, as much as a 4 or 5 year old could, mesmerized by the world in the big crt box, he installed the islands pack we live in, the Azores, along with the aircraft of our regional airline, absolute things of beauty even by today's standards. It was well into the mid 00's when one summer he handed me a few copies he had but never cared for much, FS2000 and FS2004/FS9, and I still vividly remember how clean 2000 was, graphically wise with the default aircraft but a lot of the scenery felt directly ported over from 98, within a few days I was trying out FS9 and it was another world to go through. Much more detail but more jagged than FS2000 yet it felt as comforting as FS98 and luckily it ran very smoothly on my grandpa's Vista laptop, another topic I could go on about. That same year, when summer was over and school about to start, my dad got us a Windows XP machine, must have been around 2006 or 2007, the same games carried over and I switched back and forth between FS98 and FS9 constantly, with the occasional NFS 2 and 3 sessions in between. No internet at home so defaults were the only option and honestly plenty for me. Next year, summer of 2007 or 2008, I found the world of the internet at my grandparents home, I had seen the internet from afar, with my dad at work or my aunt playing flash games but never cared for it until that year, I remember old TH-cam and accidentally finding out about FSX, it was the shit back then, the amazing trailers, that one video of I get knocked down by Chumbawamba playing in the background of FSX footage. It didn't take long or maybe it did, memory gets fuzzy around this time and maybe a year after my grandad made me a copy of his legally bought one, not so sure about the acceleration pack one lol. Installed it on his Vista laptop, it was a hog, beautiful and elegant, with all the features I couldn't imagine yet the performance kept me spinning FS9 up a bunch more, this was also the year I found out about addons and modifications which led me down a rabbit hole... Turns out my grandpa already knew of such, he was an active user in Surclaro. When I got home from summer stay with my grandparents my dad splurged some cash on a better machine for the family and a printer too, came with Vista, ran like a champ, and I loved it all, I was finally learning some basic computer skills and got some of the simulators installed, had to get a new joystick as the new computer didn't have a parallel port for my still working one which had lasted me for almost a decade. Also, this was also around the time I got a couple other games I still play to this day. There was one thing I missed when I started shifting to FSX, Meigs field, the default I had grown with, drilled the sight into my brain, gone, for good, even with addons It wasn't the same. So for the sake of getting a thing or two like that and better performance I still got FS9 running. Unfortunately, in late middle school, priorities change, I moved over to a different platform for a long time, flight simming was never the same. It's been well over 10 years and whenever possible, whenever I get the bug, I find a way to install and run FS9 or FSX, a couple years ago I got Prepar3d and whilst it's clearly what FSX should've been from the start in many aspects, the spark of intrigue and wonder is gone, chalk it up to getting older. Maybe I should try FS9 and FSX again. It's 2023, 2024 almost upon us, my grandfather passed away a couple years ago, the setups we used to enjoy either gone or stored away for good, but the memories remain and the feelings albeit it washed out from the waves of time still remain in our hearts. On a positive note, the 98 machine is still around but not sure if it works, the XP machine too (btw I only used it for a year so going from 98 to Vista felt like going from the NX-01 to the NCC-1701-D), I just finished restoring my first laptop which my grandpa helped with before he passed, and I'm about wrapped up with my first contract in the aviation business. It's weird how time flies looking back and yet we still feel the same.

found this video love it I saw this and I dug out my 2004 again just to play and bring back memories I had years ago when i first got it.

WOW! Bravo! Brought tears to my eyes. Thanks from an seasoned flight simmmer!

I recently discovered that there was a freeware port of the RFP 747-200 to FSX, and well i flew it badly lol.

FS2004 and FSX are some of, if not the most influential pieces of software ever released, this is what FSX is for me, i got into it during steam edition's release, and i can't see myself leaving it.

I started with FSX and well, still am on FSX but id love to get into using FS2004 someday, if not just to see the changes between the two. Some of the payware got ported over as freeware, and it's a shame this 72 didn't as its one of my favorite aircraft and i would love to try this out

Still fly FS2004 from day one 😀 and nice to see a remembrance of "Opa" the mighty helper of us all

Recently running a modern RTX 3080 PC, and my god this flight sim without any widescreen patch can run in 4k...The only game I knew that can run 16:9 resolution out of the box is Half-Life 2 (the earliest version from November 2004). I still run it occasionally, but unlike you I now use FSX as daily driver since their are more modern addons offered, though I do admit that the fps sucks.

Fantastic story bro. This vid should be getting at least 1 Million views on it. Plus if u havent already, next Flight Sim Expo. You should present this.

i just got FS2004 of ebay The Flight Simulation Museum

I remember the California classics site! I was struggling to figure out how to install the scenery and addons while flying around with bare minimum graphics because of my poor computer. I didn't think I'd ever get fly planes. Now I have my private and coordinate FedEx flights in Memphis. It all started with that slow, poor looking flight simulator, on a CRT screen in 2006. Thanks for sharing your story, man. It's cool being able to relate. Flight Sim has a beautiful community, just like real aviation.

ah those were the days, who used to hunt add ons at FSDome and AVSIM library?

@The Flight Simulation Museum any more videos coming up? Miss your videos! They are so awesome and bring back nostalgia!

This is a beautiful story, thanks for telling it. Keep on flying!

Beautiful!

Any teaser on what the next video is going to talk about?