"Neither is she," the boy said, patting the Carenado panel. "But she's beautiful. Don't you remember the first time you saw a real screw head modeled in a simulator? Don't you remember thinking that if you just zoomed in close enough, you could climb into the screen and fly away forever?"
The Aurora outside the canopy flashed. Alex felt the real world—his wife calling him for dinner, the radiator hissing in his apartment—pulling at his consciousness. FS2004 - Carenado Aircrafts
In the world of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight, the default aircraft were blocky, their textures smeared like wet watercolors. But Alex had discovered Carenado. "Neither is she," the boy said, patting the Carenado panel