Hope you make more content! Great channel

@18:20 That gauge was made to reflect a Delco Carousel system. There's a pretty legendary freeware version of that, in an "A" variant (Concorde spec if memory serves), incredibly, it's even been updated up to P3D version 4, x64 and presumably works in P3Dv5.

Please come back we miss you!

FS2004 is what got me into flight simulators, I can't believe how good FS2020 is and can't wait for FS2024. 20 years after first playing MSFS as a kid. 😳

Amazing content! Brought me so many good memories 👏🏻👏🏻 from Brazil

I always thought im crazy, having moved on from FS2004 to x-plane from about 2014, Its been 10 years i still have the more then 100GB FS2004 files saved, with all the terrain mesh, aircraft and airport addons, i just cant get rid of my childhoom memories.

Love FS 2004 and still fly with it! 🙏 Thank you for sharing this.

I hope to see more videos from you soon. I'm loving these.

There's nothing that pumps me up more and gives me that want for the zest of life than hearing someone talk about the niche hobby that gets them up in the morning. Simulators are a recent addition to my list of hobbies but I totally see where this love comes from. It seems like the perfect outlet for creativity for a young kid in the late 2000s. Fantastic video. Your frankness is refreshing.

Looking forward to a Love Letter to FSX. I grew up playing that version.

Such an inspiring story.

I'd love to see an addon retrospective for FSPassengers EDIT: finished watching all your videos and they're top tier quality. This is the perfect niche for me, though I do prefer and still use FSX compared to FS9

Mate, I just shed a tear over this beautiful nostalgia trip of yours. I also struggled with FSX on a Toshiba laptop until I got FS2004 and fell in love. Perhaps our stories are only different in regards to the amount of time spent there. Still, I managed to create texture mods for every airplane I could find that the mexican air force had at the time, as well as their old war birds and whatnot. Sadly, those projects are now lost to time, as the HDD containing those hours of work died around 8 years ago. I never had a chance to publish them. There is a silver lining here, however. A couple months ago I was finally able to visit the recently opened aviation museum in the outskirts of Mexico City and there I finally could see with my own eyes the exact P47 I had based my texture mod on. I cried, a lot. Thank you for sharing!

Coming from Michael MJD and I am stunned about how the video is well made. It is absolutely amazing how this video did not get a boom yet. It's really good! Keep up the good work!

Eu acho difícil fazer um download de aeronaves no fs2002 nela

Finally someone spoke out what’s inside me

Love your channel, hope this 747 you working at will also be compatible with FSX, it would be a pleasure to fly it

I hope they did the same level of optimisation in MSFS2020.

Update: I emailed Flight-1 and they said they don't have access to the AETI 747-200. Until someone can decompile the .exe (which I tried to no success), is this lost media?

That darn installer for the AETI...

Thankful their library is still up.

I wonder how this panel fit on our 17' screen and was still readable. I remember flying this with the 3D panel - at least in cruise.

Incredible and so touching. Thank you.

What a beautiful video… I too owe my love for aviation to FS2004. But it did so much more for me beyond the flying aspect. This “game”, what I used to call it then, has helped me escape loneliness and cope with what I know now to be a bad case of social anxiety back when I was younger. It was far from a perfect simulator, yet its very flaws made room for my young mind to fill in the blanks and travel to places that I, then, could only dream of visiting. It taught me to be curious and thirsty for knowledge, it taught me resourcefulness when the limitations of the sim became apparent, it taught me to be confident and to trust that I was good enough to navigate difficult situations, and in many ways, it was the always present friend when things didn’t go as planned. This “game” has steered me towards the life I have always dreamed of and gave me the confidence to know that I could do it, no matter how hard it got. Today I’m a captain on a 767, have flown to the majority of the destinations I flew to in FS2004 but this time in real life. I’m yet to make my way to the old location of Meigs Field, where it all began for a lot of us. But every time I pass over it at 35K feet, I remember that insecure kid who was just looking for a connection with something. Thank you FS2004.

a underrated video from a underrated youtuber talking about a underrated simulator

Legend how's that classic 747 going your making for FSX ❤

Hey dude! If you're ever intrested to do videos on flight simulators outside of the Microsoft Flight Simulator brand in the future, I suggest taking a look at Microprose's Falcon 4.0, as I haven't seen any really good video discussing the orginal game itself. Looking forward to the upcoming videos!

I love this video so much. I picked up a copy of FS2004 from a Circuit City when it hit the shelves in late 2003. My 13-year-old brain couldn't comprehend how fun it was having the entire world in your computer. I played it religiously and, pretty soon, I started taking flying lessons in 2005. Fast forward to today and I am a First Officer on the Boeing 757 & 767 for a major U.S airline. Crazy how much this little 2.32GB game has shaped my life.

I learned a lot of things with my copy of MSFS2004 especially how to read those cockpit gauges.

Amazing video. Please make more when you can.

FS2004 (or FS9) was just a perfect simulation platform it just had the right amount of everything. It will always be my favorite FS. MSFS2020 is the only sim in my book that has gotten close to the experience of FS2004, but it can’t replace the GOAT.

Still have running fs9.1 with many add ons and improvements on my pc next to fs2020. And still love it. No stutters, no ctd, smooth fps, additional realistic atc, like sqawkbox and improved clouds and textures, better than fsx.

The editing and the Jazz music look and sound like a "cockpit casual" video. You even sound like Steve. Anyway very nice video !

Fantastic video mate - and very relatable. My journey started with MS Combat Flight Simulator 2 back in 2000 and was a randomly selected Xmas present too. Many fond memories of playing online on the MSN Gaming Zone and beyond, discovering Flight Simulator '00, '02 and '04. I still fly the same routes in MSFS now, over 20 years later. Thanks for putting this together.

I guessed the password to the family computer that held the fs2002 and fs2004 copy's in 2010. I immediately found the 747 my favourite aircraft, and through research and obsessive youtube-ing, I learned my first baby type rating for an airliner. If I had not guessed that password that day, I wouldn't be perusing a career in commercial aviation today. It is my single drive and a dream I will achieve at some point, I will not give up and I still use that 4 digit passcode in almost everything non important till this day. Now I look back at the sims of old and it hits me how raw they were. Its a real place for me, a place I think about visiting, and experience I desire to this day, to revisit my routes and fly that default 747 again, one last time.

RFP Was a Brilliant addon. I had it and loved it when most were flying the new PMDG software. Plus i loved the programming of the INS system.

The most emotionally charged flight sim. vid. I've seen in KZbin. Good job!

I found this channel just today and I regret not having done it sooner, as a fan of Flight Simulator for years this channel is pure gold, this particular issue of the attack on AVSIM hit me a lot in 2009, I remember that at that time when I entered the internet Before the news and the chat, where I went first was AVSIM to see what repaints had been uploaded, what a new plane for AI Trafic, for me and for many AVSIM was the bible of the FS, and it was never the same since it was attacked but I do highlight the titanic work of the community and the administrators to get AVSIM back on its feet. Mr Dawson: I hope you rot in hell. Greetings.

FS2004 always will have a place in my heart! I was more seriously introduced to aviation when my father worked in an area next to my city airport. When he was home, always told me about 747' DC8's and all kinds of aircaft that flown by. He started this fire, and i fueled with gasoline when with 14yo a visited a mall and bought my copy of FS2004. This was back in 2009, since then i never stopped. Later i used FSX, P3D and XP11 (the one i use now), bus always kept FS2004 installed and usable.For me it's more than a simple simulator, it's just more, so much more that i cant find words to destribe. Great video!

FS2004 was the sim that kickstarted my love for Aviation on my uncle's laptop that he gave to me for school use. It didn't run properly at first because I wasn't that good at computers but when Intel installed a graphics settings on the laptop (again I wasn't that good at computers back then) the sim ran smoothly and I was able to install scenery and aircraft. I always loved flying for United's Island Hopper flight from Hawaii to Guam via the Marshall Islands. It took me around 14 hours to complete mainly because it wasn't running that smoothly but I was satisfied with it. My last flight before it's hard drive died was on a Ryanair flight. An iFly 737-800 going to Shannon. I didn't even make the landing in Shannon when the hard drive crashed. Good memories regardless.

Its crazy how such a simple decision can affect ones entire life.i also got into flight sim around 2010 ish..got X as my 1st after watching so many youtube vids on it...needless to say it barely played on my trash pc..and i yet i still played it like nothing else..then i got 2004 and was inlove. Good vid man and stay safe

I agree that the POSKY model shape was much better than RFP

I loved this! Excellent story and video!