Airline Flights 2 is a series of adventures (23 of them actually) which cover many different airline flights in Europe and the Far East. In addition, the package includes some basic scenery locations, and several aircraft.

Documentation
The program comes with several Jeppesen charts for the airports which are involved in the adventures. The maps include airport diagrams, STARs, SIDs, and so forth, and are very helpful and necessary. Some basic knowledge in reading these maps is required.

In addition, the package includes all of the flight plans (see picture to the right) for the flights included and this is very helpful and necessary as well, but also requires a basic knowledge of how to read them.

Installation
The installation is quite straight forward. I liked the fact that one does not have to install all of the adventures, but can choose which ones to install.

The requirements for this program, as written on the box are:
Flight Simulator 98, 95 or 5.1 with Flight Shop, a CD Rom drive, and Windows 95. That’s all it says.

The Adventures
This is the highlight of the program, which includes, as I said before, 23 adventures. The adventures are:

Paris - Vienna Paris - Zurich Paris - Rotterdam Paris - Oslo Paris - Palama De Mallorca London - Copenhagen London - Basle London - Dublin London - Glasgow London - Moscow London - Stockholm London - New Castle

Tokio - Bangkok Tokio - Hiroshima Tokio - Hong Kong (Kai Tak Airport) Tokio - Sydney Munich - Athens Munich - Cairo Munich - Innsbruck Munich - Istanbul Munich - Warsaw Frankfurt - Brussels Frankfurt - Maastricht

Most flights are a few hours long, but there is a flight as short as 20 minutes (Munich to Innsbruck), and one as long as 18:25 hours (Tokio to Sydney).

Messages from Air Traffic Control can be received in either text, voice or both text and voice. The user is prompted with this choice before beginning the flight. The flights themselves are very complete, and they begin with the aircraft positioned in front of the terminal with engines shut off. One has to receive clearence for the flight, speak with the Ramp Control for push-back and engine start, followed by Ground clearence to the runway, and then request the Tower's permission for take off. The departure procedures involve the SIDs as they are described in the charts, and I liked this very much, and found that it was truly realistic, in that aspect. On arrival, expect to be put in a holding pattern as well, before given clearence for approach or landing.
A very nice option included in the adventures is the ability to use a co-pilot. If one chooses to use such a co-pilot, he will do all of the frequency changes of both radio and navigation, which is very helpful.

I did notice some glitches, however. I didn't hear any background chatter on the COM, even though I had that option turned on. Also, I chose to both be able to hear and read my instructions, and such was the case at the beginning of the adventure. But, just after departure, I paused the adventure for a while, and when I unpaused it to continue, I couldn’t hear ATC anymore. All I had was the text messages.

Another thing I noticed, was the lack in artificial intelligence for the controllers. Sure, they'll tell you if you're deviating off course, but nothing happened when I broke the holding pattern, or changed my altitude in it (by 1000 feet).

The Scenery
All of the airports one needs in order to fly the adventures are included. However, they are very basic, and include only runways, taxiways and the default terminal buildings. This was quite dissapointing, but since this isn't a scenery program, it doesn't really require they add any scenery at all.

Still, if you don't like landing and departing using default-like airports, I strongly recommend downloading the scenery you wish to fly to, before making the flight.

The Aircraft
The box states that the aircraft included are:
B747-500 of ASIA (actually, that seems like an error on the box, because the plane is a B747-300 of Japan-Asia), B747-100 (Delta) B747-400 (British Airways) and the B767-300 (SpanAir (see picture) + American Airlines). Unfortunately, they do not come with their own panels, but utilise the default panels instead. The planes' outer looks are quite good, and include nice flaps and spoilers.

As to their flight model, I don't know how accurate it is, but they are pretty easy to fly. A corresponding aircraft is loaded automatically with the adventure, but it can be changed if one has a preferred aircraft other than the one loaded.

All in all this is a very nice product which includes several airline flights, that are quite fun to fly, and quite realistic (as far as I could tell). It is well documented with all of the flight plans included, and most importantly, the maps as well. It comes with the planes and sceneries that one needs in order to fly the adventures, (even though they are basic sceneries only). For those of you who like to fly adventures throughout Europe or the Far East, I would recommend this product, since it really helps "tune up" the flight sim experience.