This was actually a vast improvement over the 8-bit version. It actually had a tolerable frame-rate, and the cool camera window feature. Plus mouse control meant you didn't have to memorze keyboard functions
The year was actually 1986 - late.
The first flight simulator I saw in my life. I always crashed the plane after a minute aloft.
The mouse control is very bad.
There was even an analogue addon joystick which plugged into teh mosue port and emulate a mouse.