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Back in 1975 the world of flight simulation for plain vanilla civilians began when Bruce Artwick made his engineering thesis with a 3D graphical demonstration of a simulated flight on an Apple II computer. Later in life he founded a company named SubLOGIC and eventually his flight simulator was licensed by Microsoft corporation. The arm-chair pilots have already becomed accustomed to better and more exciting releases of the Microsoft Flight Simulator over the years (currently at version 10). Needless to say, as there is usually a long period of time between new releases of the PC flight simulator, the users need to get their hands on new gadgets and add-ons to make their simulation experience more rewarding. That is how virtual aviation was born. First software add-ons began to appear with a variety of functions, new improved sceneries by third parties, etc. As PC pilots become more proficient in mastering the ins and outs of flying their virtual aircraft, there comes the time when they want to have a simulated aircraft that has a more realistic behaviour. Nowadays there are plenty of more realistic aircrafts for the flight simulator. WHAT IS VIRTUAL AVIATION Just as in the world of aviation, virtual aviation is the virtual (non-real) counterpart of real aviation. Virtual aviation comprises a whole world -or perhaps a society- of aviation enthusiasts that want to make their experience more realistic. Therefore it might not come as a shock to read that there is a myriad of virtual airlines out there. A virtual airline is just like a real one, except it is comprised by PC pilots "flying" fictitious (simulated) aircrafts on the same routes a real airline would flight. This virtual world is also enhanced by virtual air traffic controllers which coordinate between themselves to control simulated flights in an online flight simulation server. EXTERNAL LINKS
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