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A flight simulator program written in Basic. You are the pilot of a light aircraft. You have been cleared for take off and can either fly a circuit to land back at the same airfield or fly to another airport to land. A radio beacon will guide you on either flight.

At the start you can opt to use a joystick but I found that this was not beneficial. You also choose the wind strength which varies from zero to hurricane. You must also decide how much fuel you wish to carry. At the beginning you can look at a map which shows relative positions.

Written instructions are included, and the main ones, together with some extras, are also given on screen.

Once of the first things to do is to increase the power to 3,000 rpm. I very nearly abandoned this program at this stage because after 10 minutes I had failed to increase revs at all. I had switched on the engine but the specified key failed to produce the desired results.

Never one to give up easily I decided to try various other keys and discovered that the full stop was the correct key. To decrease revs had a similar problem.

I discovered it was fairly easy to take off but even easier to crash which I did with monotonous regularity every time I tried to land.

J.M.