A new first flight for me with this latest instalment of Flight Journal. This time it’s Blackbird Simulation’s C310R and a first full flight in it in the skies over Oregon and Washington State. Let’s go! Oregon coast I picked up a few new airports in one of the last Orbx sale. This time it…
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Flight Journal: First outing in the Honda Jet
This was a fun one and I wanted to tell a short story and share some images of my first flight in Marwan Gharib’s HJet in Microsoft Flight Simulator. This Flight Journal episode actually happened back in mid-December but I hadn’t had a chance to tell the story until now. As a result, the HJet…
Flight Journal: First full flight with PMDG’s 737 flying Calgary to Vacouver!
Following up from my recent Flight Journal talking about getting started with PMDG’s 737-600 in Microsoft Flight Simulator I’ve now progressed to doing my first full flight with the aircraft. It went surprisingly well although I did get some serious help along the way that I might not have been able to manage otherwise. Here’s…
Flight Journal: Journey across the United States part 2
Remember how I was doing a journey across the United States in Microsoft Flight Simulator with the Beechcraft Model 18? It took me a while but I have finally finished my journey flying all the way from Block Island airport, on a small island off the coast of Rhode Island all the way to Catalina…
Flight Journal: Taking to the skies in the PMDG 737 part one
One of my 2023 goals has been to finally learn an airliner. I had a pretty good run with the default A320neo that came with Microsoft Flight simulator in a cross Canada challenge. But now I want to take it a bit further and learn a high fidelity version. I’ve just plonked down some cash…
Flight Journal: Flying in Alaska with XP12 and the VSkyLabs Maule M-7-235B
A few days ago I picked up a new aircraft for X-Plane and the first exclusively developed for X-Plane 12. I’m talking about VSkyLabs Maule M-7-235B which has followed X-Plane 12 through the beta process. I took out the new aircraft into the skies of Alaska as it seemed like a great place to test…
Flight Journal: Mossies on the Rhine
Ever since the Mosquito came out for IL-2: Battle of Normandy, I’ve wanted to take it out on a daring low level strike with friends on one of the multiplayer servers. Schedules and other circumstances had combined to make that impossible until several days ago when we finally had the opportunity. It was everything I…
Flight Journal: Flying the C-47 online!
This next journal is going to document a couple of things from a recent flight. First, I wanted to showcase the kinds of flights that you can have online with the C-47 in IL-2 Great Battles. Second, I wanted to show off that it is possible to conduct these flights without loss thanks to a…
Flight Journal: South Pacific island trips
In reviewing the Aerosoft Twin Otter DHC-6 I made several interesting journey’s around the world. Despite some issues with the airplane, it is a fun aircraft to take into and out of some very interesting locations and with its capabilities in both real world and virtual world operations, it very much looks and feels the…
Flight Journal: A C-47 in the night skies over D-Day
When 1C Game Studios announced that the C-47A Collector Plane would be coming to the IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles Series, the thing that I immediately sprung to mind was the parachute drop scene from the HBO Band of Brothers series. Now that it has arrived, I wanted to simulate that flight and it was very…
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