It’s my first full flight in the Fenix Simulations A320ceo in Microsoft Flight Simulator and I’m flying in style with a charter flight from Boston to Toronto with the sleek, all black livery Air Canada Jetz scheme. Here’s how it went! The setup…. and the setup Let’s start with a bit of narrative. I love…
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Flight Journal: Alaskan bush flying again with more airstrips to visit
I had an absolute blast doing one of my last Flight Journal pieces where I flew the DHC-2 Beaver to several airstrips in Alaska. Most of those airstrips I visited were enhanced with scenery thanks to Emerald Scenery Design. Having seen the journal, they reached out and sent me over some more scenery to have…
Flight Journal: First flight in the SWS’ PC-12
I’ve just completed my first flight in Sim Works Studios’ Pilatus PC-12. For this inaugural flight, I flew from Bern Airport in Switzerland (LSZB) to Nice, France (LFMN) taking in some beautiful views of the Alps along the way. Here’s how the first flight went and a few first impressions of this aircraft for Microsoft…
Flight Journal: A quick dash across the frontlines on Combat Box
It’s been a bit since I last did a multiplayer Flight Journal piece with IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles so let’s change that thanks to a bit of fun I had the other night flying on Combat Box. With limited time and a desire to fly something, anything, I hopped on Combat box and aimed to…
Flight Journal: Great bushplane scenery with low cost options
It’s been a little while since I did some bushplane flying and I wanted to do something a little different with this next series of flights so today’s Flight Journal covers some different ground. First, I wanted to offer a mini-review of some great scenery options and second I wanted to find some low cost…
Flight Journal: Checking out the A300-600’s new engines over Japan
I’m back in a favourite aircraft for this Flight Journal. iniBuilds A300-600 has just received another update and this one is fairly substantial! There are new features for the aircraft including a new radio control panel, however, its the engines that are the stars of this update with the newly added Pratt & Whitney’s PW4158…
Flight Journal: Long(ish) haul flying in the 737-900ER
I’m working my way up to a review of PMDG’s 737 aircraft line-up and I decided that I couldn’t base my review on just the short and zippy 737-600 so I decided to go to the other end of the 737NG spectrum and picked up the 737-900 as well. A study in contrasts if nothing…
Flight Journal: Anti-tank ambush with the SA342 in ‘Operation: Cedar Spear”
As I put the finishing touches on my DCS: SA342 full review, I’m getting in a little extra flying with the updated helicopter and my most recent experience is focused on a community created mission called ‘Operation Cedar Spear’ by Don Rudi on the DCS User Files section. The mission calls for some low level…
Flight Journal: Putting the FN.333 Riviera through its paces over… and in the Caribbean
I’ve got a review coming up for a unique aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator stable and I wanted to share one particularly interesting exploratory flight in Mario Noriegas’FN.333 Riviera amphibious plane. And what better place to test such a plane than in the Caribbean! Saba to St Barts testing flight You get a bit…
Flight Journal: Low intensity COIN in the Gazelle … turned out to be intense!
For a while now I’ve wanted to do a small multiplayer DCS scenario where the stakes are reasonably low but the fun factor is high. A COIN (counter insurgency) operation with light aircraft and non precision weapons versus technicals, infantry and the like. Low intensity as it turns out can be quite intense! Here’s the…
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