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imuTech
Corporation's Rescue Air 911 provides a variety of flying
scenarios and challenges your abilities as an FS aviator.It Includes:
You have 40 minutes to fly around to various locations/rescue areas of Simville, pick up patients, and safely return them to MMH. The object is to pick up as many patients as you can before your meter expires...or the patients, for that matter. You measure your success by the amount of money you accumulate during the 40 minutes, as you are paid a varying amount for each rescue. Make sure to watch the clock! If you're still airborne after 40 minutes, your airplane becomes a glider!
In the stable, you have a choice of a C-182, C-414 twin, and a Dash
8-300. The condition of these birds can vary during the rescue
mission as their reliability will degrade in proportion to your
performance.
You will be vectored by ATC to the rescue areas, each varying in character and difficulty. Upon arrival, you must find a suitable place to land, taxi to an awaiting ambulance, pick up your patient, return to the sky, and determine if you will continue on to another rescue or perform a cowardly retreat back to MMH.
You will encounter a diverse variety of approaches, everything from the ILS 18 at Simville Int'l to the close quarters landings at the airstrips buried deep in the valleys of the Simulayan Mountains. You may also encounter serious changes in the weather, including IMC and nasty winds!
Included in the package are:
Simutech calls for a hardware configuration of:
Overall, I find RA911 to be a good product and an excellent value.
The ATC provides a reasonable workload, while being quite realistic
and even providing a touch of levity. The Simville area offers
several interesting locations for flight ops. You can cruise around
and enjoy a diverse variety of scenery, (mountains, rivers, roads,
lakes, fields and a reasonably dense urban population center). Also
included are all of the main navaid types (a VOR, several NDBs and
a couple of ILSs). This makes Simville a decent practice area!
If you only have about an hour or so to fly, and would like constant activity, I recommend Rescue Air 911. You will be quite busy, as you're vectored to the rescue areas (each being 10 nm or so in distances from MMH). You will be given instructions by ATC and expected to follow them with a good degree of accuracy. You will need to make safe landings or you will cause varying amounts of damage to your bus. If this happens, you'll hear about it!
If you can rise to the challenge! you will be well compensated. Screw up, and you will be penalized for your buffoonery. I was able to gather $6800 and make it back to MMH with a minute to spare.
If you are relatively new to Flight Sim, and are growing a little tired of flying around the default areas, I would strongly consider buying a copy of Rescue Air 911. Not only will you get new aircraft and interesting scenery that's easy on your frame rate, you will be challenged in a way not possible with just FS5.
"May your tanks never run dry!"
Robert Maciel
Private SEL
rmaciel@shore.net
SimuTech can be reached at 813-933-0610 or Compuserve 70404,550 or telsim@ix.netcom.com.