Hello Captains, and welcome back! Now that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has officially celebrated its first birthday, some might be wondering: is MSFS 2020 obsolete? My short answer — absolutely not. Or more accurately, it doesn’t have to be. Let’s not forget, there are still die-hard simmers squeezing every last drop out of FSX, and…
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Reader Question – Christmas Hardware Add-ons
Hello Captains and welcome back. I recently received an email from JP who is looking to add a few hardware add-ons to his simulator setup. Let’s review his email and dive right in with my opinions. Hello Jerry, I’m an avid reader of your blog and find your content to be honest. I started flight…
Billiards – My New Cue
Hello Captains and welcome back. Another off-topic post. I promise I’m not going to flood the blog with these types of posts as most of you who “tune in” to this space do so to read my flight sim content. But as I had posted a few weeks ago about my renewing my love of…
The New King of Aircraft Developers
Hello Captains, and welcome back! For over two decades, PMDG has reigned supreme as the undisputed titan of third-party payware aircraft development. Their legendary lineup—including the Boeing 737, 747, 777, and the Douglas DC-6—set the benchmark for study-level realism across platforms like FS2004 (FS9), FSX, Prepar3D, and Microsoft Flight Simulator. Like many of you, I’ve…
Reader Question – Decisions, Decisions
Hello Captains and welcome back. We have another reader question which I would like to share with you. The question comes from Doug. Hello Jerry, I recently discovered your blog site and see that you frequently help answer questions from the community. I’d like to get your opinion please. Many years ago I was a…
The Jealously of MSFS 2020
Hello Captains, and welcome back. From mid-August through mid-October, I flew exclusively in MSFS 2024, charting an around-the-world adventure in the A2A Piper Comanche. Early on, I’d speculated in one of my update posts that flying the same aircraft day after day might wear thin. Turns out, I couldn’t have been more wrong. I genuinely…
Around The World 2025 – Update 13
Hello Captains and welcome back for what I hope will be the final update posting on my long around the world adventure in the A2A Piper Comanche. I began this adventure almost two months ago on 17 August. By the time you read this (as these blog postings are running behind my actual scheduled flights)…
Around The World 2025 – Update 12
Hello Captains and welcome back. Wow, what an adventure this has been. Over this next week I will be flying from Russia over towards the Aleutian Islands. While I’m still along ways from home, I feel as if I’m rounding third base and home plate is calling my name. Due to my wife’s work schedule…
Around The World 2025 – Update 11
Hello Captains and welcome back. Remember way back in an earlier update post I mentioned my routing for this around the world adventure may take me to places that we normally would never go in the real world? Well as we depart Dalian, China we’re headed due east towards North Korea. It will be interesting…
Around The World 2025 – Update 10
Hello Captains and welcome back to the 10th update post of my around the world adventure in the A2A Piper Comanche. If all goes as planned, I’ll cross over the equator from the southern hemisphere back to the northern hemisphere as I make my way from Indonesia towards the Philippines then further north to Taiwan…