Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer

Title screen

Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer is a 1988 flight simulator by Electronic Arts for the CPC. Aircrafts in the game include the Bell X-1, the SR-71 Blackbird, the P-51 Mustang, the Cessna 172 Skyhawk, the F-16, and the F/A-18.

Some people consider this the best—or at least most realistic—flight sim for the CPC.[1] The focus is completely on aerobatics, there are no weapons or battles in the game.

The sim has a nasty Speedlock copy protection mechanism that fails with some emulators, so it might be necessary to use a modified version.

How to fly

The manual is comparatively hefty at 50 pages, but there is a way to get airborne quickly: Hit Escape, and select e.g. "Location -> 10,000 ft" from the menu. You can also pick a different plane in the menu.

Location...
...and plane selection
Flying at 10,000 ft
An obstacle course

In the faster planes you also have to keep an eye on the g-meter in the bottom right corner of the screen. If g goes too high for too long, the pilot will black out (the screen goes dark for a while), if it goes below -2 or -3, you will get a red out (i.e. too much blood in the head; the screen will turn red).

There are also several outside views of the plane and a flight recorder that can play back your flight later.