AWESOME!! That truly blew me away.. It was Pixar quality.. :)

What? no Swotl Video till yet?!

Fall on you knees and pray for forgiveness!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eosVhMLr1A

Oh, and: [Maybe 1c should hire the cover artists]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfzfd1-ft34

LOL there were a lot that i did play but didn't remember until you guys started posting them my apologies to the developers for my terrible memory :)
man if i could tally up all the hours i played flight sims during my whole life i wonder what it would actually be :) very scary.

I've played Battle of Britain on my old IBM PS2 8086... on a FLOPPY :) Wow what a trip back memory lane...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhO94FPfb0w

At that time I was also playing Flight of the Intruder. This was so cool back then, One coulb fly a A-6 while a friend flew an F-4 for cover... talk about massively mutiplier...

Wow... found it here

Must of been in 88 or 89 when I flew these...

What, this is the Cliffs of Dover forums combat sim remembrance thread and nobody posted this so far?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpv7dPTxLj0

This is what I started with. The circle comes to a close :D

Pah! Call this nostalgia? I've still got my first air combat sims - and the computer to play them on (Amstrad CPC 464) - from the mid 1980s:

Fighter Pilot (1985)from Digital Integration (1985). F-15 sim.
Tomahawk (1986) also from Digital Integration. AH-64 sim.

They both worked (or at least loaded) when I tried a year or so back. If I get the chance, I'll try them out again, and take some photos.

From the Fighter Pilot instruction leaflet:

No complex engine management in those days... ;)

My favorite sim of all time was Pacific Air War because not only did you get to fly the missions, you also controled the fleet.

PAW/Gold
Aces over Europe
Red Baron, RBII and 3d
EAW
Jane WWII fighter
MS Combat sim II and 3
IL-2, Pacific Fighter, Forgotten Battles and 1946
Rise of Flight

Still waiting for Cliffs of Dover

Il2 has come a long way since the demo and was light years ahead of anything else at that time.
I don't recall the flight sim you are talking about but I started on my Commodore 64 with original combat flight simulator for MSFS. You know, the one that had the screen refresh after about every second or so :)
I think I must have bought just about every single combat flight sim since then.
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe was great for 1990!
There were just so many that I had a great time with.
Since Il2 was introduced I have enjoyed this one by far the most.

TFH was very good and I enjoyed countless hours on the Amiga...with 1 Meg of ram...a big deal back then.

Pah! Another mere newcomer, who doesn't know what real computers were like. The first computer I ever actually got to touch: Acorn Atom "The 12 KB of RAM was divided between 5 KB available for programs, 1 KB for the page zero and 6 KB for the high resolution graphics". The first computer I programmed was a BBC Micro, with an astonishing 32 Kb of RAM...