Just found another FST game called Baron Bossetti's Way of Flying. Even though it appears to be a parody of sorts, it's quite nice-looking and the map appears detailed enough.
Yesterday I looked through the search results for FLY.EXE at DiscMaster, and found three FST-powered simulations on a CD called Warplanes: Modern Fighting Aircraft. These appear to be part of a single multimedia programme on the CD, and thus contain no instructions, mission objectives or author information. The main programme is for Win3.x, so I have not the idea what they are about, except that the planes in question are SU-27, A-10 and C-130, judging by the folder names.
UPD: The back of the CD case says: "Simulations created by Simis using the Flight Sim Toolkit which is available from Domark Software Ltd". If true, this makes these levels "official" Simis missions specifically created for this project. I guess this is not very surprising, considering the company's background.
I also found this odd little thing called FSTCOVER.EXE, which appears like it could be an official demo? Again, no text or explanation apart from an obviously third-party FILE_ID.DIZ.
A user in another forum happens to own this CD and provided some details about it:
wrote:Cool find; I have a number of these encyclopedic titles, and this (Warplanes: Modern Fighting Aircraft) is in my collection; I n […]
Cool find; I have a number of these encyclopedic titles, and this (Warplanes: Modern Fighting Aircraft) is in my collection; I never ran it, didn't know there was something flyable inside. It seems to run on Windows/Mac/PowerMac according to the manual.
The flight missions are run by spawning a DOS session from the encyclopedia; this does not work from XP, but the encyclopedia itself works fine.
The mission descriptions and keyboard control instructions are printed in the manual, which may not be part of the ISO on archive.org?
I tested running the mission programs in DOSBox directly from the CD, and this worked ok.The game has three flyable planes with one mission each: an A-10 tankbusting mission in Iraq during the Gulf War, an Israeli C-130 resupply mission during the 1st Lebanon War, and a Cold War Soviet Su-27 testpilot on a training mission with MiG-21 drones as targets.
(I also checked the other lot I have, but they only had video clips&images with text info like a normal encyclopedia)
