must have been an early version of Flight simulator.
The one that has the best memories for me though must be ‘The battle of Britain’
I loved the BF109, pilot name was ‘Heinrich’ if I recall correctly… man, takes me back.
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Oh Man… Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat was amazing… I remember that one.
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I remember that one vividly as well. I played that after the Battle of Britian. Loved the Corsair in that one.
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What a great thread, i think i first came across the flight simulator in 1998
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My first flight sim was MSFS 2002 but didn’t like it and get addicted to it for several reasons (real life problems being one of them). It was MSFS 2004 (a century of flight) that got me hooked to not only flight sim but also aviation in general.
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I’ve had every FS since Fs 1 or 2 on my 8088 clone xt. Finally upgraded to an AT and a color monitor in the 80’s and later to a hard disk.
My favorite fighting sim was Red Baron…I loved close in dogfighting and I belonged to an online squadron.
I do think Falcon 4.0 took simming to a new reality level
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Pilotwings on the SNES. Played it to death went through a few controllers. Was too poor to have a PC growing up.
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In 1979 I went to the Computerland in Federal Way Washington with my father, a retired air force navigator, so that he could look at some business software for the Apple ][. I tagged along with the intention of buying a game for the machine and offering my father some advice if I could since I had been writing software on the Apple ][ for a few years by then.
He picked out the software he wanted - Whatsit, a database app. I bought a copy of a game called Akalabeth and my father picked up a copy of FS1. I spent more hours with FS1 with my father than any other application I had used on the machine at that point. After that I bought every subsequent update untill the 2004 version. Then I got distracted into starting my own biz and left it behind until this year and FS2020.
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For me it was the MS Flight Simulator 98, when I was a child.
A friend played it, although he was quit too young for understanding a simulator.
Then I bought the FSX as a teenager.
But just played it every now and then.
Now, the MSFS is the first flight simulator I join from the beginning.
Especially recognising all the places where I have already been, is fascinating.
It could even be, that MSFS brings me to real flying someday.
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Fighter Pilot (released in 1985) and Tomahawk (1986) for the Amstrad CPC 464. I think I’ve still got both on cassette tape. I’ve still got the CPC 464, and it was working last time I tried it a couple of years ago.
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I think it was Falcon 4 that I found inpenetrable - I remember bringing it back to the shop because I didn’t have the time and motivation to learn how to use it 
Well, not sure anymore whether it as my first flight simulator - if you allow helicopters here as well - but it was definitively one of my first: Gunship on the good ol’ C64:
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Oh my, oh my, oh my
Their Finest Hour - that one was by Lucasfilm Games, back in 1989! I remember having first seen this on the 286 of the older brother of a school friend of mine. What a blast! I think it was one of the first games to not only use (filled) polygon graphics, but also bitmap graphics, which gave the game this “extra realistic look”. Especially the flames and clouds looked gorgeous.
But there was so much more to games of the era: the handbook (the term “user guide” would not do justice)! It was full of historical information about the Battle of Britain - in fact, in history class my subject was the Battle of Britain of one of my presentations we had to prepare, and I quoted this handbook as source as well 
UPDATE: Great thread by the way - I am falling into Nostalgia right now
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Yep I never got through falcon 4.0 either, but I appreciated it’s realism and I toyed with the systems.
Sinclair ZX81. A whopping 16 MBs of RAM. Circa 1980s. It was state of the art then.
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That’d be 16kB, not MB
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??? … I don’t remember! Tried, but I really don’t. 