Welcome to the fist free issue of ‘PC Flight’ magazine.
For those not familiar with the PC Pilots Ireland and our magazine, here’s a brief history.
he PC Pilots Ireland has been in existence sine 1993, when Ian Broni and Terry McGee decided to start a Flight Simulator Club, the ‘PC Pilots Club of Ireland’, to share our interest with other like-minded people who used Microsoft Flight Simulator. Membership steadily grew with the help of our printed magazine, published every quarter, which until the end of last year, was only available to members, who paid an annual fee. All articles and reviews in our magazine are provided by our members and Flight Sim product publishers has supported us by providing products for review in the magazine. Back issues of PC Flight will be freely available on our website soon.
We held an annual ‘Fly-In’, in a Hotel at Dublin Airport at which members got together for a day of Flight Simming. We also had on occasions a guest speaker from the flight sim community or the real world of aviation. We exhibited at many Flight Sim events in the UK and Germany and we held Ireland’s first Flight Simulation and Aviation show.
Due to lack of new blood, we decided to close the club at the end of last year but continue the magazine as a free download, published every quarter. PC Pilots Ireland is now a flightsim community group with our private PC Pilots Ireland Google Group which consists of past ‘PC Pilots Ireland’ members and those wishing share their interest in Flight Simulation with others.
We welcome contributions for the magazine of aviation and flight sim related articles.
You can contact us at pcpilots@pcpilotsireland.com PC Flight is available for download from simmarket.com and our own website pcpilotsireland.com. I hope you enjoy our magazine and I look forward to comments and suggestions.