After a really long two first days of flying to get me all the way across to the east coast of Greenland, I didn’t want to lose the momentum. So today is day 3 of flying and also the third consecutive day. Please make sure you read this post to better understand why I’m doing…
What is Customer Service?
This blog post is going to be a little bit different as I’m writing it over a period of a few days to document a story. I know exactly where the story will lead me and how I’ll feel when I complete the journey. What is Customer Service? Does support and service after the sale…
Around the World – Update 1
Just taking a few minutes to update everyone on my around the world adventure. I plan to provide updates every four to six legs. Here is my first update. Please read this post to get the general idea of why I’m doing an around the world flight and how I’m accomplishing it. My position as…
Around The World – 2010
I believe most all flight sim pilots attempt at least one around the world adventure in their sim career. I’ve attempted it several times and have completed it just as many. However, I’ll admit my successful attempts were either not very consistent (using multiple types of aircraft) and in each successful attempt, the adventure was…
How cool is your CPU?
Let me start off by saying a BIG Colorado “Thank You” to my Flight Sim Friend, Al. I met Al via his flight sim blog. Al also has a personalblog which I also follow. Prior to meeting Al via his blog and correspondence through email, both Al and I built new PC’s to support our…
Adventure Alaska – KDEN – KSEA -PANC
I recently found a Boeing 737-900 in Alaska Airlines livery and just couldn’t wait to take it for a spin. I found the aircraft on the Project Open Sky site. It is designed for FS9, but a few modifications and she flies like a champ in FSX. The guys at POSKY do awesome work. I…
A Toolbar just for us
As I’ve shared multiple times on this blog, my full-time day job is in IT. While I work for a very BIG company, my day-to-day job role is within an organization of about 500 employees spread out all over the world. I have about 120 located in the same office I’m in and I do…
Flight Simulator Network – A First in the FS Community
If you’re like me, when you’re not sitting down in your home cockpit flying…you want to be tuned into the flight simulator community news and happenings. This might be through forums, message boards, Twitter or even Facebook. By the way, you can now follow me on Twitter. I’ve been using Twitter for a couple of…
My new hardware
In my IT career, hardware has always been my strong point. I learned most of what I know about hardware by taking old PC’s, taking them apart and putting them back together again. I’ve always subscribed to the philosphy that software is only as good as the hardware it is running on. This philosphy is…
Rock you like a Hurricane
I decided today would be a good day to head out of Martha’s Vineyard. Hurricane Earl (currently a CAT 2 storm) was churning his way up the East Coast of the US through North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The leading cloud cover ahead of the eye had already made its way up into New England. The…