# Please recommend a modern military-flightsim and a bonus Falcon 4 question

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [April 24, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-modern-military-flightsim-and-a-bonus-falcon-4-question/718448 "2015-04-24T15:47:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-modern-military-flightsim-and-a-bonus-falcon-4-question/718448/1 "2015-04-24T15:47:05Z")

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Well my old PC has finally bought the farm, augured in, went to the great airport in the sky. Anyway, I’m going to but a brand spanking new bells-and-whistles variety and as I’m a bit behind the curve I was wondering what relatively modern military flight sims do people recommend? I say ‘relatively’ because the last flight-sim I bought was Falcon 4: Allied Force.

Preferably post-WW2 but I’m not going to turn my nose up at other recommendations, also please not one of the massively multiplayer ones like War Thunder, I’m sure they’re excellent but I don’t have the spare time to sink into one.

And regarding Falcon 4 I’m aware that new add-ons etc have come out to keep it going but the more I look into those available the more confused I get. What do people recommend to breath life back into the old jet?

Tanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-modern-military-flightsim-and-a-bonus-falcon-4-question/718448/2 "2015-04-24T16:21:35Z")

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Haven’t played it myself, but I understand the current king of modern military flight sims is [Digital Combat Simulator](http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/). DCS World is free but only gives you two planes to fly: the SU-25 ground attack plain, and a TF-51 trainer variant of the Mustang. From there you can buy various modules and planes to add more. Flaming Cliff 3 adds campaigns a half-dozen planes and is supposed to be relatively newbie-friendly, so the planes probably aren’t quite modeled to the standard of Falcon 4. But if that’s not enough, you can get individual planes which have been made with a much higher standard of detail and realism.

If you want to save a fair amount and are patient enough to wait a few months, all of the DCS modules regularly go on sale for pretty steep discounts. For example, Flaming Cliffs is $40 normally but has sold for $12-$14 during recent Steam sales. [isthereanydeal.com](http://isthereanydeal.com) lets you track prices and set alerts to automatically email you about price drops for games you’re interested in.

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**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-modern-military-flightsim-and-a-bonus-falcon-4-question/718448/3 "2015-04-24T17:48:38Z")

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That does sound interesting, thanks. 🙂