My wife and I just recently returned from our trip to Texas to visit family and to hunt for a house. During our week long stay, we toured nine different houses with our realtor and found our new dream home. Interestingly, the house we purchased was the first house we toured. We’re currently in the…
Reader Question – Airbus Fenix versus FSLabs
In recent weeks I’ve had a few emails from readers regarding the various options available or soon to be available in the Airbus A320 family of aircraft. I’m going to sort of summarize the main general question which each asked and provide my own opinion and plan towards the topic. In a nutshell, the general…
Some Real World Stuff – An Update
As mentioned back in May, my wife and I are planning to move from Colorado back to my home state of Texas. In about a week, we will visit my family in Central Texas and spend a few days shopping for a new house. It’s been a hectic past few weeks as we’ve already started…
Fenix A319/A321 Expansion Pack – Oh Yea!!!
Fenix released their much anticipated Airbus A319/A321 expansion package companion to their awesome Airbus A320 on Monday and wow….what an impressive package it truly has been. I purchased and downloaded the expansion pack within minutes of the announcement and was quickly flying the Airbus A321 from DFW to DEN which is a real world route…
Happy 4th Anniversary to MSFS 2020
Today, 4 years ago was the official release of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and what exciting times we live in as a result. While it took me almost two years to fully embrace and move over to MSFS 2020 as my primary sim, I knew on day one that what we were witnessing with MSFS…
Some Fresh Thoughts on MSFS 2024
Over the past few days there have been some updated information flowing out of Microsoft/Asobo regarding the upcoming release of the new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. I think from the very first time we began hearing about MSFS 2024, we knew it was going to be BIG both in sheer size but also in functionality….
Career Mode Add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator
Hello and thank you for returning to yet another flight simulator blog post. A few weeks ago I discussed the topic around whether the Flight Sim Virtual Airline concept was still relevant in today’s virtual aviation world. The short answer to that question is absolutely YES! If you haven’t already, please read that article. In…
I’ve Stopped Buying Add-ons for MSFS
Hello to all my wonderful readers. As we say goodbye to Spring and a reluctant hello to Summer, I’ve made the conscience decision to cease purchasing add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Of course, this excludes the PMDG Boeing 777, PMDG Boeing 737 Max and probably also excludes any other 3rd party aircraft that might…
Reader Question – Go Arounds on VATSIM
I recently received an interesting and somewhat concerning email from one of our new readers to my blog site. Here’s the email…. Hello Jerry! I’ve been reading your blog postings for a few months now and they have really helped me. I’m relatively new to flight sim. Have been flying MSFS and the PMDG 737…
Winwing Airbus FCU Finally
You might remember I first mentioned my interest in the new Winwing Airbus FCU back in May when I posted about my brand new purchase of the Thrustmaster Airbus Captains Pack. Well I had placed my order for the Winwing FCU way back on 23 April and had all but lost hope that I would…