Japanese Airline Sells Flight Sim On-Board

Thanks to GameSpot for their report that a Japanese airline are selling a PC flight sim on-board their domestic routes, allowing resourceful laptop owners to buy the game in mid-air, and then replicate the flight they're currently taking. According to the article, "This game, called 'A Flight with Skymark,' allows players to take control of a Skymark badged 767 and fly any of that airline's routes", and this PC budget software "will be featured in in-flight videos and the airline's magazine as being available for purchase during the flight."

Comments

Sounds like fun.

[WTFmonkey]

I was talking to an old-timer pilot a while ago who tells stories about getting into the bubble of the plane and taking sextant sightings to figure where to point the plane. It wasn't uncommon to be WAY off-course when you were out over the middle of the ocean, only to be corrected once overland. He was complaining that the new airbusses actually land the plane for you-- the pilot only has to land every 10 or 12 times to make sure he remembers how.

Somehow, autopiloting a plane for hours doesn't seem like a real fun game. "Okay, folks, we'll be cruising at this altitude for the next six hours, sit back and enjoy yourselves..." while the pilot does the same thing. Whee.