Yes, it's another flight simulator program. This one's a little bit different being 'view' orientated - this means that you're supposed to be able to tell where you are from the view out of the cockpit window. The landscape is shown using the presently popular wire-frame graphics, looking remarkably similar to the successful Aviator program on the BBC micro.

The first problem you're likely to have with this game is the need for two potentiometer joysticks. The rationale behind this is that having throttle/rudder on the left stick and elevators/ailerons on the right stick aids realism.

This is all very well if you can find two joysticks, but wouldn't optional keyboard controls have been better?

The area through which you can fly your single-seater push-prop plane is quite expansive, consisting of nine 'worlds' in a 3 x 3 grid. Each world has a different type of landscape such as mountains, Panama City (hardly any buildings), Arabian Gulf and the Practice Field.

At the start of the simulation, and whenever you crash, you may alter the weather conditions and choose the world from which you'd like to take off - useful in case you can't keep the aircraft aloft long enough to get from one world to the next,

The traditional screen layout shows your cockpit view at the top, and some instruments at the bottom. Again, these could have been improved by being proper gauges instead of numerical readouts - this from somebody who still thinks digital watches are a pretty neat idea!

The wire-frame graphics forming the panoramic view out of the cockpit tend to be very jerky, but are nevertheless very impressive. Use of the cursor keys also allows you to look up, down and sideways, so you needn't worry about missing those important landscape features.

Though leaving scope for improvement, this is an extremely good flight simulation, and is well worth considering.

It offers all the normal features plus many extras. And now, if you would care to look to your left, we are passing the Dahlgren Tower...