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The Flight Sim Round Table
Welcome to the flight simulator round table! Here we gather our flight sim experts to give their expert or personal opinion on the latest hot topics, flight sim news items, product announcements, and answers to those sim questions that are just begging to be asked! The flight sim round table board meets for a second session
It's A Beta Testing Life
“So what is a beta tester? For many, it appears to be that some developer asks you to try their brand new product before the public does. Actually, the reality is much more complicated and I posed a series of questions to a group of them in an effort to determine the answers.”
Online Resources
We find the most useful aviation and flight simulation websites online!
The Flight Sim Doctor Returns
troubled by terrifying, hair ripping flight sim problems? Are your sim ailments causing you loss of sleep and frustration levels that would blow apart a pressurized cabin? Have you been sharpening your axe and painting your computer’s name on its blade? Fear not… the flight sim doctor is back, ready to cure all your flight simulation headaches and technical problems…
Two real IFR approaches - A true flight adventure
About 15% of US private pilots have instrument ratings, and the percentage may be similar in other countries. To be considered “current” and qualified to fly in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), US instrument rated pilots must fly a minimum number of real or practice approaches every six months, fly a practice holding pattern, and satisfy other requirements. This article describes two of the most interesting instrument approaches the author has flown, with suggestions for simulating these approaches in FSX.
A twelve step program for Flight Simulation addiction
My name is Roger and I am a flight simmer. it began innocently enough about 18 years ago when I learned there were flight simulation programs I could run on my computer. As each iteration of the series debuted I could not resist the new features and acquired the program thinking each time that it surely could not get any better-but it did- FS98 led to FS2002, then FS9 and finally FSX. I was addicted!
Fuel flow in multi-engine aircraft
The reliability of modern engines makes mechanical failures rare and most engine-out incidents are a result of fuel starvation. Knowing how to manage fuel loads and a knowledge of your aircraft’s fuel flow system will help prevent engine or aircraft disasters.
Loading the CDU on the Wilco 737
If you are an owner of the Wilco 737 add-on for flight simulator and have never been able to figure out the CDU, you are in luck! Captain Mike Ray offers a complete step-by-step guide to CDU data entry that will surely put a smile on your dial!
A useful glossary of terms
Captain Mike Ray offers some explanation to those many useful, and occasionally useless terms and abbreviations we come across while flying our simulators. If you don’t know what ladder bars are or you have misplaced your eadi or pfd or just don’t know which side of a LNAV you are on, fear not, the answers are here…
Horton's Hints For FSX
Tips to make the most of your FSX experience!
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