The HJet by Marwan Gharib and FlightFx is something I purchased months ago, flew a couple of flights with it and then got distracted by everything else going on and forgot about it. Fast forward to now and I’m back in the latest edition of the sleek and diminuative business jet and I am absolutely…
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Flight Journals: Five quick summaries on fun and magical ATR flights
Something has clicked for me with Microsoft’s ATR airliner and while I prepare for my take on a review of this airliner for the sim, my first ever review of an airliner, I thought I’d share some of the flights that I’ve been doing together with some of the liveries that I’ve downloaded to make…
Flight Journal: An epic flight in the FSS E175
Spending the time that I have with the ATR in the last couple of week’s has prompted me to explore the airliner field a bit more. While the PMDG 737-600 waits in the wings for me to get a better grasp on it, I decided to take a chance and try something else too. Enter…
Flight Journal: Flying the Big Radial’s Norseman in northern Ontario
Back in the Big Radials Noorduyn Norseman for this flight journal. This time I’m skipping halfway across Canada to northern Ontario for reasons that will become clear soon. This journey is an out and back flight simulating the kind of supply drop that a Norseman could have undertaken in some of the northern communities during…
Flight Journal: Two adventures in the ATR for Microsoft Flight Simulator
Tropical island hopping? Flying the only route that can take you between Canada and France on a turboprop? I’ve been having some fun with the Asobo/Microsoft ATR 42/600 and ATR 72/600 and I wanted to share both of the adventures I’ve been on so far in this latest flight journal. There will be beautiful locales…
Flight Journal: XP12 DA42 dusk flight across Florida and some editorializing
This is going to be part Flight Journal and part commentary on the state of X-Plane 12 right now as I fly across Florida in the Aerobask DA42 from Fort Lauderdale to Daytona Beech. Let’s go! What I’m flying and where Earlier in the year, Aerobask released their simulation of a Diamond DA42 for X-Plane…
Flight Journal: Talkeetna to Denali in the An-2
In preparing my review of the recently released An-2 for Microsoft Flight Simulator, I’ve taken the aircraft out to several different locations putting the type through its paces and getting a good close feel for the airplane. For this flight journal I took the ski equipped variant out on a beautifully scenic flight north of…
Flight Journal: Flying over Oregon in the Blackbird C310R
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…
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…
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