Hi, Yes, while something like a standard flight sim might be considered boring by some there are certainly aspects that make them interesting to play. Besides the real world challenges you mentioned below like real life weather conditions a lot of sighted players enjoy the background scenery and visual effects offered by Microsoft Flight Simulator. While no spoken feedback can quite convey the same thing as seeing it I could see an accessible flight sim have a co-pilot that ocationally describes where you are and what is on the ground.
"Attention, ladies and gentlemen, if you look off to the right you can see the Statue of Liberty come into view as we make our way to John F. Kenidy Airport. She stands 100 feet tall, and is still holding the torch of freedom up high for all to see." Something like that would make a flight simulator interesting and add some of the feedback sighted pilots see when flying FSX and other flight simulators. It merely means the developer has to get creative and attempt to convert the visual into something accessible we can enjoy as well. I personally don't think it would be boring if a game had such a feature as my co-pilot could describe things as we passed them in flight. toss in a few historical facts or trivia as well and the game might even be educational too. Cheers! On 12/23/11, Dallas O'Brien <dallas-obr...@bigpond.com> wrote: > hi, yes, it could be boring, ... to some. and yes, pilots don't have a > lot of things to do during the flight usually, but they are there to > keep an eye on things. and you could set up a sim to randomly throw > things at you to deal with during the flight. so an hour in to the > flight, you might have and elecrical alarm go off, and you have to > decide if your going to just ignore it, and keep flying, or land to have > it checked out, in which case, you will have to divert, and reset your > flight plans. > also, it might be boring to some, but some, like myself, would actually > enjoy this kind of game. > also, if its realisticly based, perhaps even drawing info from real > world weather like fs flight sims can, this could make things > interesting during a flight to. > such as having to divert around a storm cell, divert ot a new airport > nearby if the runway is unusable at your destination, and many many > other things that a real pilot has to deal with. > > dallas --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
