This journal entry is less about a specific flight or mission and more of a general overview of what I’ve been flying recently. After a bit of a hiatus, I’m back in the cockpit of more DCS World aircraft again and I thought I’d return in style with the DCS: AJS-37 Viggen by Heatblur Simulations….
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Flight Journal: Miami to Barbados in the XP12 Phenom 300
It’s been a long time since I did a longer flight and so after a little bit of planning and some interest in doing the flight I decided to embark on a new adventure. With the recently updated to X-Plane 12 standard Aerobask Phenom 300, I decided to put this favourite of mine to the…
Flight Journal and mini-review of the Beaver in a flight from Tofino
Microsoft Flight Simulator’s 40th Anniversary update came packed with new airplanes and one of them was one that I just had to check out. I did that by doing a little flight from Tofino to Courtenay both located on Vancouver Island in the Canadian Province of British Columbia. This is a mini-review of the airplane…
Flight Journal: MSFS Cessna 195 from Van Nuys to Santa Barbara
I couldn’t resist. Art deco style Cessna from the early 1950’s, made by Carenado, and sold at a good price on the Marketplace meant that I just had to pick it up. A review will be forthcoming but in the meantime I wanted to document a fun flight that I undertook with the aircraft. Let’s…
Flight Journal: Last X-Plane 11 cross country journey
With X-Plane 12 now out and my time with X-Plane 11 likely coming to a close in a swift fashion, I decided I should do one last cross country trek in X-Plane 11. One last fly around before moving on to the next generation. Let’s have a look! A tour of TrueEarth Washington I wanted…
Flight Journal: Touring Maui in MSFS
One of the best things about Microsoft Flight Simulator is the sense that you’re going somewhere or that you’ve been somewhere. High resolution streaming ortho imagery from across the planet, AI generated autogen, photogrammetry, and some high quality third party scenery can come together to give you a unique simulated flying experience. In this flight…
Flight Journal: There and back again in Alaska
I done a couple of fun flights in Microsoft Flight Simulator recently taking to the skies in Alaska checking out some new scenery and putting in some more time behind the controls of SWS’ excellent Kodiak 100. This is also yet another break from my cross country tour of the US which I hope to…
Flight Journal: Cutting through the Cajon Pass!
I’m back up in the air with SWS’ Kodiak 100 doing another flight. This time it’s in the SoCal region flying through the infamous Cajon Pass and into a very interesting airport. Here’s the whole story! Van Nuys takeoff I decided to start at KVNY Van Nuys Airport. This is an Orbx scenery that is…
Flight Journal: Journey across the United States part one
The concept for this journal came at me all at once. I was excited about the release of Local Legend #4 – the Beechcraft Model 18 and I was also interested to see what the United States was looking like with World Update X: USA. This second world update for the United States further improves…
Flight Journal: First multiplayer sortie in the Mosquito
With the release of the Mosquito for IL-2 Battle of Normandy, I was anxious to get a little Mosquito time as quickly as possible. I hopped into Combat Box last night to do a quick flight and managed a mostly successful mission. Here’s the story. The plan and the takeoff The scenario that was playing…
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