Eight Meters of Documentation
It seems that the only thing keeping the modern combat flight-sim market alive these days is the possibility of military subsidy. Pilots love games, too, and the modern flight sims are so incredibly detailed they make excellent practice for the real thing.

But there is one problem a game company might not predict. And that is the staggering bureaucracy and extremely strange requirements of governments. Especially the government of a formerly communist country, which I guess was used to quotas on quantity rather than quality.

So you get a situation where you just have to produce:

Eight Meters of Documentation


(Hmm... I'm guessing the game company in question was Eagle Dynamics, the makers of Lock-On: Modern Air Combat. Maybe that's too obvious of a choice, but I believe they are in former Eastern Bloc territory and have one of the two most high-fidelity modern air combat sims out there.)

Man. I'm a fan of having good documentation, but YEESH!

Labels: Flight Sims

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