There have been events in history where individuals will always remember where they were, who they were with and what they were doing when the event happened. For the generation of my grandparents, that day was December 7, 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. For the generation of my parents, that day was November 22,…
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What comes around….
Yes, I suppose it truly does go around. I’ve blogged over the past 9-10 months about my full circle experiences of getting back involved with a virtual airline, flying on VATSIM and even managing my old DFW hub. Sadly, it all came to an end tonight when I had to make the difficult decision to…
Microsoft Flight–My Opinions
As a flight simulator blogger, I use this blog to provide reports to you the reader about my flight simulation adventures, news about the hobby of flight simulation, product reviews and from time to time share my personal opinions about the hobby. If I’ve mentioned the new flight sim software from Microsoft simply called Flight,…
We need a better try before you buy
Please note: I wrote this blog post approx. 6 months ago and for whatever reason it failed to publish. I just realized it was stuck in draft mode and while I’ve changed my mind about some aircraft developers and also own a couple of excellent payware models that work flawlessly with my GoFlight hardware, some…
Are you a real Pilot?
This was the question asked of me after I landed my iFly B737NG (FSX version) on 16L at KDEN the other night. It was a dark and stormy night….no really, it was both dark and somewhat stormy with lightning flashes to the west of KDEN. I had departed KDFW for a 2 hour flight on…
Caution–Hard Hat Area
I recently read a blog article which I can easily relate titled “Banging my Head Against the Desk” by fellow blogger and flight sim developer, Bill Womack. Bill describes some of his frustrations with getting his brand new 737 off the hard ground and into the beautiful skies. Bill fully recognizes the differences between complex…
VRInsight CDU II–A Review
Since starting this blog last September, I haven’t written many product review blog postings. This has been for several reasons. First, I’m not really setup as an official reviewer with any flight sim product developers. Any reviews I do are because I purchased the product, own the product and shared my feedback with whom ever…
Is the VA model still alive???
I saw this question mentioned on the VATSIM Forums the other day and it got me thinking. Is the VA model still alive? Being someone who has been involved with virtual airlines off and on for a decade now, I sort of began pondering why I joined a VA in the first place and why…
A real world adventure simulated…Part 2
Before I get started detailing part two, I just wanted to mention the Heathrow scenery is UK2000 Scenery. They develop add-on scenery for both FSX and FS9. It runs fairly well on my machine and since I enjoy flying to Heathrow, I wanted to update it from the way it looks in FSX default (which…
A real world adventure simulated…Part 1
For about as long as I can remember I’ve enjoyed simulating my real world flights on flight simulator. This probably started in the mid-90’s with the introduction of Flight Simulator 95 (FS 6), but I may have been doing it as early as FS5. Generally the way I do it is a few days or…