For years I’ve been dreaming of having the Hawker Typhoon make an appearance in a WWII combat flight sim. War Thunder has two variants but it wasn’t fully satisfying to me and so when news that IL-2: Battle of Normandy was bringing the British fighter to the sim, I was overjoyed. Recently I’ve been flying…
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Flight Journal: Flying straight into Tropical Storm Henri
Last year I did a little hurricane hunting off the coast of Mexico in Microsoft Flight Simulator and decided that with the latest tropical storm working its way up the eastern coast of North America that I’d try and repeat that experience. So I hopped into a King Air 350i along with a friend and…
Flight Journal: Combat action on Cold War server
Most recently, I’ve spent a bit of time in the DCS Cold War server and flying an aircraft that I’m always impressed with when I come back to it – the DCS: AJS-37 Viggen. Here’s a bit of a recap of my flying with it recently. Cold War popularity? DCS’ focus seems to be focused…
Flight Journal: Back in the Warthog
One of my goals for the summer was to get back to flying the DCS: A-10C II and really learn it this time. After the last couple of weeks, I’m now well on my way towards completing that goal and taking the aircraft into a multiplayer combat server. Here’s a bit about the learning process…
Flight Journal: P-47 flight success!
I feel like the P-47 gets a little bit of a bad rap amongst sim pilots. It’s not a dogfighter and it doesn’t do well on its own in those low altitude turn fight contests that so many scenarios end up dealing with, however, when flown in a team, a group of P-47’s can be…
Flight Journal: Tokyo to Osaka in MSFS (the good, bad and ugly)
Sim Update 5 for Microsoft Flight Simulator is a big moment for the sim and while my overall opinion is that this is a good update that will be a key moment for both the sim and the franchise on the whole over the long run, it’s also been a bit of a shaky launch….
Microsoft Flight Simulator UK Tour Part 2: Scotland
This is part two of my UK tour of Microsoft Flight Simulator using World Update 3 for the sim. My goal is to explore some landmarks and check out the sights and scenery of Scotland in this part of the tour. If you missed part one, be sure to check that out as well as…
Flight Journal: Old school bushplane flying with the Carenado C170
Last night I went on a bit of a spending spree. I bought the Carenado C170 from the MSFS Marketplace and I bought CYBD Bella Coola and CZST Stewart – a scenery pack from Orbx that I’ve been looking at for a long time now. It wasn’t part of the current Orbx sale but I…
Microsoft Flight Simulator UK Tour Part 1: England & Wales
With World Update 3, Asobo Studio brought some added details, new landmarks and photogrammetry, and updated satellite and height mapping to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Although I had to delay my tour around these locations because of performance problems, the issues have been resolved and I’ve now completed my tour of England and a…
Flight Journal: Fun with DCS Liberation campaign multiplayer
You may have heard of DCS Liberation campaign before. I’ve written an article or two before about this third party dynamic campaign and mission generator for DCS World. Until recently, however, I hadn’t had the opportunity to try it in multiplayer but over the last couple of weeks I have and it’s been an incredible…
