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JUNE/JULY 2010 VOLUME 14 - ISSUE 4 - This is the full magazine in digital form!
From Juneau to Shemya – A Floatplane Journey
We’ll use the venerable de Havilland Beaver equipped only with floats for this trip along the southern coast of Alaska (USA) from the Alaskan capital to one of the last islands in the Aleutian chain. November should be a decent time; before the worst weather sets in.
Aircraft Spotlight: The 747 Family
Today’s edition of Aircraft Spotlight covers every 747 type born and raised from the Boeing Everett Plant in the United States of America. For those who aren’t familiar with Everett, it’s situated 25 miles north of Seattle and houses one of the largest Boeing plants.
“I Learned to Fly From That” – Part IV
“For the fourth in this series, I’ve left primary training behind and moved on to the Basic Flying Training program at Webb Air Force Base, located at Big Spring, Texas (USA). We flew the Lockheed T 33A Shooting Star, a single engine jet with a pair of tandem seats.”
Freeware Frenzy
This issue there is a strong focus on classic prop and combat aircraft suitable for both FS2004 and FSX, and some for CFS too. Plus there is some scenery and even a FSX pedestrian add-on thrown into the mix!
Virtual Airline Spotlight: Cayman Virtual Airlines
One of the most common and popular fantasy escapes is the concept of living on a warm and sunny tropical island. What could be better? Well, how about being paid for flying to and from warm and sunny tropical islands? Thus is born the premise and the promise of Cayman Virtual Airways.
Simulating Emergencies
You can use your home computer to simulate many types of failures quite easily and without special help from the simulator program but it would be impossible to imitate an engine failure, part of the plane falling off, or inoperative instruments without special coding built into the sim.
Benchmarking FSX – Part IV
This article begins with the finding of significant framerate performance improvement in FSX after upgrading two different computer systems from Vista to Windows 7. Thereafter, the main part of this article will provide test results from overclocking an Intel Core i7-975 Extreme processor, with simultaneous trials of sample alternative air and liquid processor cooling products that might aid overclocking.
Build A Cockpit Simulator Setup
Mike Ray shows how you can build a basic but operable flight simulator flight deck setup at minimal cost and almost minimal effort!
Round Robin Adventures
We are flying for Air Canada. Today we will fly from Toronto, Ontario Canada to New York’s La Guardia airport, Ottawa and back to Toronto’s Pearson Intl. |
