Apparently, a new flight simulator called Airland World was introduced during the 2025 FSExpo just a few weeks ago. The lead developer conducted a presentation outlining the project’s ambitious goals, including a one-to-one scale Earth built in Unreal Engine, designed to accommodate all forms of flight simulation within a unified ecosystem. They’re aiming for a…
Tag: X-Plane
Fly The Line – Short Haul Edition: A Fresh Take on Career Mode Simulation
Hello Captains, and welcome back! A new player has entered the career mode arena: Fly The Line – Short Haul Edition, and I couldn’t resist giving it a proper test drive. If you’ve followed my blog, you know career mode add-ons play a big role in enhancing my overall simulation experience—and this one caught my…
Is Prepar3D Dead?
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The annual Navigraph flight sim survey results were released just before the holidays and the survey says…..P3D is dead! In all honesty, I’m not surprised. After all, many of the top 3rd party developers have all but stopped creating add-ons for P3D and…
Flight Simulator Choices In The Year 2022
Unlike other simulation based genres such as agricultural sims, trucking sims (just to name two) these have very little choice and are ruled by two different developers with GIANTS controlling the ag sim with Farming Simulator and SCS ruling the trucking space with American and Euro Truck Simulator. This lack of competition, while good for…
Introducing Flight Sim Helpers
I’ve created a new Facebook Community for like minded flight simulation enthusiasts with a focus of helping others get the most from the hobby. The plan is to support all major flight simulation platforms including FSX, FSX Steam Edition, Prepar3D and X-Plane. Backstory for anyone interested. I’ve been involved in the flight simulation hobby since…
Which Flight Simulator Software is right for you?
Back in the early days, we didn’t have much choice when it came to selecting flight simulator software. When I was a teen back in the early 80’s, I had a Commodore 64 computer. I had a version of flight simulator which ran on the Commodore 64 computer. In those days you only had a…
X-Plane 11 Low FPS Fix
I want to share with you a solution I found to help with low FPS rates in the X-Plane 11 beta software. First, remember that X-Plane 11 is still very much in beta. It will likely be considered beta for some time. When a software product is considered to be in beta, it means there…
Flight Sim News
A few months ago I wrote a blog piece discussing my plan to take a very close look at X-Plane 10. I took that look, didn’t really like what I saw and I promptly requested a full refund via Steam. There are a few reasons why I believe my initial X-Plane (XP) experiment failed. The…
Looking at X-Plane
Yes…you are reading this correctly and NO it’s not a delayed blog posting which should have been uploaded on April 1st (April Fools Day). I’m actually starting to consider purchasing X-Plane version 10. For the sake of bringing everyone up to speed, I’ve been flying computer simulations since the early to mid 1980’s. Yes…I said…
Which Flight Simulator Software is right for me?
Back in the early days, we didn’t have much choice when it came to selecting flight simulator software. When I was a teen back in the early 80’s, I had a Commodore 64 computer. I had a version of flight simulator which ran on the Commodore 64 computer. In those days you only had a…