F-104G Starfighter for FSX/FS2004

It easily became one of the most popular aircraft of the team, slowly being phased out of service in the late 1960s. However, at this point it was being used as interceptors and training aircraft for the German, Italian and Canadian forces. The last fighter retired from active service in Italy in 2004.

This remake manages to capture its beauty and its quality perfectly, giving you the absolutely most impressive range of additions possible as well as ensuring that the aircraft handled, controlled and managed itself in the right way. It ensures that the Starfighter offers some genuinely useful solutions when using a simulator.

What's Included?

• 5 loadout variations with 3 detailed texture sets
• F-104G, Luftwaffe Air-to-Air (Sidewinders)
• F-104G, Luftwaffe long range (wing tanks and tip tanks)
• F-104G, German Navy, strike (tip tanks and Bullpups)
• F-104G, German Navy, interceptor (Sidewinders and wing tanks)
• F-104S, Italian AF (Sidewinders and Sparrows)

Key Features

• This aircraft is designed to carry four separate flight models, all of which are designed to the very highest levels and specifications. When it's all put together and it looks the part, you are left with one of the easiest and most effective ways to start managing and looking after your flight thanks to the unique handling, range and style on each of the models. It's not just four re-shuffles that all have the same attributes; these changes will make a tangible difference to the way that you fly and the things you'll try when using each model

• The FSX version of this mod also comes with an awesome new radar system, which has been enabled and made fully functional. This is capable of tracking an unlimited range of targets whilst giving you an ID, aircraft type, heading and altitude reading. This lets you stay on target of what you are doing and what may be up ahead, minimizing the risk that you are taking when flying around. Likewise, it comes with various profile settings that allow you to change things like the range. This can be edited on the 2D panels via a specific pop-up panel

• This latest model takes after the rest of the features in that it includes full FSX graphical features. This includes things like bump mapping, self-shadowing and also bloom flashing. This all looks excellent and, when it's all joined together, provides a truly stunning atmosphere to take to the skies with

• This comes with a completely professional and fantastically well simulated F-104 soundset. This ensures that it also comes with the unique "howling" Nosie that this aircraft can make, which naturally gives you an extra bit of strength and credibility when you are up in the skies, making it sound even more fantastic

• The virtual cockpit has been built from scratch to ensure that it delivers on all of the best features and styles. The virtual cockpit is naturally a very important tool in a simulator and this is no more easy to spot than it is when you use this. With mousable controls and stunning animations all built up from scratch you can get the help that you need in making all of this come together and actually look great. The provided level of functionality, though, is one of the most impressive parts of the whole thing as it makes it much easier to start flying without any real problems

• More or less entirely XML 2D panels are included in here. Each of the sections comes with a unique range of features and customized pop-ups made from scratch for things like using autopilot and the radio features that are included

• An automatic, on-throttle- animated afterburner effect will kick in when you are flying around. It creates a specific level of performance, too, as it speeds you up and ensures that you will start to produce the signature smoke trail that an aircraft of this profile and power is capable of doing

• The wing surface has vapor flash and wing-top vortices included, and the effects provided form this very specific design is one of the most impressive features of the whole thing. Makes it much easier to see the unique nature and design of the wings when compared to other, similar, aircraft

• Awesome animations have been made from scratch here, with many hours of hard work and preparation being put in along the way to ensure that the animations that are being used are of the most stunning style possible. Each of them uses animated tailhooks, speedbrakes and the like to ensure that the whole thing can be as well animated as it possibly can be. It also comes with a selectable pilot figure who makes it very easy to fly around and feel like you aren't piloting some kind of evil ghost ship! The perfect solution for anyone who needs a bit of extra realism thrown in there. Animated canopies are also included to add another nice little layer of detail

• The crew figure is incredibly well animated, capturing the depth and style of his look as best as possible. The uniform and the general design of the figure has been taken extremely seriously with a range of features and additions being put in place to make him stand out as much as possible

• The realistic, awesome rain effects that drop down on the aircraft windows will look awesome, giving FS9 users a chance for an extra layer of realism