Flight Academy

Flight Academy

Console: Microsoft Xbox
TV Standard: Region Not Set
Developer(s): AquaSystem Co.
Publisher(s): AquaSystem
Release Date: 2002-08-29
Players: 1
Co-op: No
ESRB: Not Rated
Type: Flight Simulator

Flight sim, built on the advanced GIN-YOKU system. Instead of serving up airborne battle action, Flight Academy lets players experience what it's like to be a passenger jet pilot. Would-be pilots work their way up from a single-prop A36 plane all the way to a full-sized airliner. The game lets players explore take off and land from multiple Japanese airports and explore the airspace over several islands in the Pacific.

Flying games, while not carrying the same following they once did, are still a very popular genre and Japan-based developer AquaSystem hopes to expand the genre with Flight Academy for Xbox. Based loosely around AquaSystem’s PC flight-simulation series Gin-Yoku, Flight Academy puts players behind the wheel (so to speak) of the most powerful commercial aircrafts in the world. Using such planes as the 777 and Boeing 747 players can fly through flight certification of free-flight modes