I've stated this over and over again.
Since a few subscribers feel the same way I do, I thought I'd show my
opinion once again.
I'll try pretty much anything that instress me.
1. to see if I would enjoy it.
2. to see how much adaptation it would need.
3. to see if the designers would work with a blind person if the product
isn't blind friendly in the first place.
In a nutshell.
I want something that is as real as possible at all times.
Secondly, I want something as close as possible to a even playing field as
if a sighted person were to own the pforduct.
For example.
I still need to give Zero shight another test flight since I down loaded and
installed the demo once again just now.
But the flight simulator that is blind friendlyand is as real as you'll ever
get is Three D Velocity by BPCBPC Programs.
Their web site address is
www.bpcpfograms.com
Then go to the demo section and down load the demo.
Here's what I enjoy about the product.
In short, between a combination of both the keyboard and a USB handheld
unit.
Like a sighted military pilot would have.
You have everything you would ever need at your fingertips.
The second best flight simulator out on the market, is Jim Kitchen's Puppy
One flight simulator.
Jim's address is
www.kitchensinc.net
I think it's on the first link of games but I don't remember.
Puppy one is a ww 2 dog fighting game.
It doesn't have all of the bells and whistles that tdv has written into it.
But I think you'll enjoy puppy one.
My last pick for a flight simulator for the blind pilot.
This is on the civilian side of the flying coin.
Check out Microsoft's flight simulator for about $45 to $50 USD.
It's majorally for the sighted, but it has several keyboard shortcut
keystrokes that we can take advantage of and there's just a couple of
features that we can't use.
But to take advantage of all of Microsoft's fs we blind pilots will need a
third party voice input program.
Two comes to mind.
It's Your Plane from Canada.
Their web address is
www.itsyourplane.com
they have several interesting you tube videos and there's a demo that runs
roughly two weeks.
Program number two is Multi Crew Experience.
I don't remember which country this program comes from.
But their address is
www.multicrewxp.com
Both have a demo to play with before buying it so that a blind person can
fly.
Both have some you tube videos to help you out with.
It looks like MCE though you can use a USB controller and it looks like it
has keyboard commands for we blind pilots to take advantage of as well.
It dose look like MCE is a little tougher to use from a blind person's
opinion.
I would love it if a blind pilot could make a few demo of using MCE so that
we could learn how to use it.
That's my two cents on this thread.
Ron who if wre sighted would have had a career in the air and just might
have made the right stuff for that space shuttle CDR or commander seat or
that PLT or pilot seat.
Well, we can fly via our computers at least.
Ron and current Leader Dog boz who states "that a service dog beats a cane
hands down any day of the week."
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