Various components are installed in either the main FS9 folder, 'Modules', or its own 'Active Camera' folder. (Make sure you also apply the separate update if you are using the patched version of FS2004). The download can be accessed from the Anticyclone site. The Options menu that allows you to configure ActiveCamera, or to register it For many of the features, it's worthwhile having a 3-button mouse or a mouse wheel. You can check out a trial version that's fully-functional, in a limited geographical area. You don't even need to spend any money at this stage. It's a product that, once you've tried it, you may well find yourself addicted to. It lets you look at those places that the basic FS2004 'doesn't reach'. Originally developed as a freeware offering for FS2002 by a small company operating from Belgium, it has now been enhanced as a commercial product for FS2004. These limitations provide the opening that Active Camera 2004 addresses.
And the cabin interiors are difficult to move around, unless, like the forthcoming Flight 1 ATR 72-500, there is a special facility provided.
Virtual cockpits can be as crammed with switches and dials as the real thing, yet the View commands have their limitations, and myopic pilots like myself often have a problem reading the gauges. It is, however, awkward to use when we want to get up close or check out an unusual angle. We do have the 'Spot View' to allow us to look at the outside of our plane. The basic FS9 product, however, doesn't really allow us to see this 'eye candy' in its full glorious detail. Even larger aircraft are coming with cabins full of passenger seats or cargo pallets. Fully-clickable virtual cockpits are becoming the norm, the most recent versions matching 2D cockpits in terms of visual clarity. Even close up, airline liveries such as the PSS 'Gulf Air' Airbus A330 shown above look as good as the real thing. The smallest components of undercarriage, door and control surface are reproduced in the finest detail. Īs our hobby develops and grows, one of the improvements is in the visual detail of aircraft. A 4-Star rating requires the product be good enough to reset that current notion of what is 'best' and the rare 5-Star rating reserved for those exceptional products which mark a quantum leap in the thinking and technology of the genre.Ĭomplete details of the rating system may be found here. As a general rule, a 3-Star rating indicates the product matches the best technology currently available in that genre. The AVSIM Commercial Rating System: 1-Star to 5 Stars in one-half star increments. Reviewed by: Paul Middleton - Staff Reviewer Microsoft Flight Simulator - View Management softwareįS2004 (There was an FS2002 version that had less function and was freeware)
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