flying trial software / shareware for mac

Requirements:
PowerPC, ATI RAGE or 3Dfx graphic card, 1152x870 supported monitor, 9MB of RAM.

Screenmate: Flying Earth is a semi-transparent rotating Earth moving on your screen.
You can catch it by mouse and drag and drop to change direction and speed of its move.
Variable rotation speed, image size and transparency.
Version restrictions:
- Reminder Screen.
Enhancements:
- Updated to universal binary to support Intel-based Macs.

Like glittering flying gems, Dragonflies are one of the most beautiful insects on Earth. Evidence of Dragonflies are found in fossils millions of years old, and in nearly every part of the world. There are over 500 species of various colors and sizes, in the United States alone.
The Dragonfly begins its life in water breathing with gills, somewhat like a fish. As an adult the insect will emerge from the water, and spread its beautiful iridescent wings to the sun.
Dragonflyz will give you several beautifully rendered Dragonflies. Based after actual specimens, their shape and textures were created from photographs of the real things!
Enhancements:
- Tweaked code for overall performance boost.
- Recompiled with Xcode 2 for enhanced Tiger performance.

The developers at Razorworks wanted to put you in as realistic a war situation as possible, both graphically and technically. The result is utterly superb. Not only will you need to master your chopper, starting at the ground school, youll also be expected to take part in incredibly realistic combats, fighting against other aircraft and ground defence, while supporting the infantry in a common effort to win this war.
Youre flying either the Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 "Comanche", the latest in US produced warfare technology, or the twin-rotored Kamov KA-52 Hokum B "Alligator", the jewel of Russian next-generation attack helicopters. Your chopper is loaded with tons of weapons ranging from Euromissile HOT II to the Longbow Hellfire and the laser guide Vikhr-M air-to-surface missile.
Youll take either the pilot or co-pilot seat, leaving the other to the computer or another player, if youre playing on a network or the Internet. If you choose to, you will have full responsibility for dodging missiles and flying to your target area as close to the ground as posible - appreciating in the process the complexity of all the in-flight physics involved. Otherwise you will be in charge of the guns and making sure the targets are down before they can lock their rockets on you.
In order to win a campaign, a number of key enemy installations must be either captured or destroyed. A successful strike against one of these key installations has just been carried out and, as a direct result of this, a group of Comanches are sent to evaluate the damage caused. When the Comanches are within range of target, reconnaissance data is transmitted. The information shows that the enemy installation has been sufficiently crippled, and so a flight of Blackhawk assault helicopters loaded with Marines are sent to capture the installation.
Flying back from the recon mission, the Comanches are attacked by enemy AAA. The Comanches can either retaliate themeselves, or the can request assistance from friendly aircrafts in the area. A nearby group of A-10s is just returning from a close air-support mission and is happy to oblige. The Comanches land back at base and re-arm, but the base is running low on ammo, and so a group of transport helicopters are tasked with flying to a nearby factory to pick up supplies to restock the airbase.
In the meantime, the Blackhawks are approaching the enemy installation that is to be captured.
However the enemy has pre-empted this assault and a flight of Havocs are patroling the base. fortunately, the Blackhawks brought along an escort of Apache Longbows and are also aided by a pair of F16s, which just so happened to be operating in the area. Pretty soon, the enemy is overpowered and the Blackhawks land within the perimeter of the installation, and friendly forces are one step closer to winning the war.
Main features:
- Truly dynamic campaigns?
- Oooh yes... The dynamic campaign system initiates a war between two sides with the complete range of ground, sea and air forces working together intelligently, making you part of a much wider scenario than the linear scripted "go there, do that" type of campaign.
- Not a single event in a battle has been pre-programmed or scripted. The behaviour of the units (troops, 60 different types of ground vehicles, plus other aircraft and ships) and the consequences of their actions are modelled, meaning the events unfold by themselves.
- Choose between 3 campaigns
- Each one of these is based on an international warfare situation.
- Outstanding graphics
- The graphics engine is the same as the one in Apache Havoc (Razorworks key technology), but with much improved textures and resolution, making the aircraft, cockpit, vehicle and battlefield views nothing short of stunning with attention to detail shining through. We ought to mention the quality of the sound as well - its really immersive and adds to the awesome athmosphere of the game.
- Realistic handling
- You dont have to be an expert chopper pilot in real life to realise that the handling of both choppers "feels" right.
- If you have experience in other chopper sims you will find the control and cockpit layout extremely user friendly. This said, Enemy Engaged is everything but a simple sim. Its actually quite complex, like all good sims, but its also extremely accessible and you can find yourself flying in the middle of a battlefield in no time. The balance between complexity and fun is quite remarkable.
- Anyone looking for their first flight sim will make an extremely wise choice by picking Enemy Engaged. The game has a lot of options that will make it easier for complete newbies to get used to what the hell is going on, while still getting the feeling that theyre actually doing something in the game...
- The impressive list of keyboard commands will delight the hard-core flight sim addicts, but hardly anyone will be able to master in one day (or even in a week) all there is within Enemy Engaged.

X-Plane is a really comprehensive and powerful flight simulator, and has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers.
Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier.
X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie. X-Plane comes with about 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet.
X-Plane scenery is world-wide, with scenery for the entire planet Earth AND MARS! (thanks to the Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter, which mapped that planets elevation) You can land at any of over 18,000 airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs.
Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and microbursts!
Rain, snow and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge, and thermals are available for the gliders! Real weather conditions can be downloaded from the internet, allowing you to fly in the actual weather that currently exists!
X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with 35 systems that can be failed manually or randomly, when you least expect it! You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any moment.
While X-Plane is the worlds most COMPREHENSIVE flight sim, your purchase also comes with Plane-Maker (to create your own airplanes) World-Maker (to create your own scenery), and Weather Briefer (to get a weather briefing before the flight if you use real weather conditions downloaded from the net).
X-Plane is also extremely customizable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds, and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design or the planes that come with the sim.
X-Planes accuracy (in flight model), scope (in aircraft and terrain coverage), versatility (in aircraft type and weather conditions), add-on programs (in aircraft and scenery editors), user-customizability, downloadable aircraft, and downloadable scenery makes it the ULTIMATE flight simulation experience for Macintosh AND Windows platforms.
X-Planes flight model can handle flying wings and fly-by-wire systems, as needed for a B-2 simulation.
Version restrictions:
- If you do NOT have an X-Plane 8.00 DVD, these downloads act as a demo... they will stop the joystick after 6 minutes.