Month: December 2016
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Note: I’ll be updating this as I make changes to my system and as the X-Plane ecosystem evolves. Updated 20 Nov. 2018. *** As a former P3D user I am often asked “What advice do you have for others making the switch?” So I’m writing this little how-to in hopes it will help other P3D…
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As in “After hours Closed Traffic,” which is a group of guys who have been flying on PE Saturday mornings (US) from non-towered fields for practice, and then finishing at a towered field with the controllers once they’re online. Today we took advantage of the Western Expansion, flying a number of short mountain fields before…
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In my real-world flight training I have a cross country coming up from KOQN to KMDT and back. A few mornings back I pulled out the charts, flight planner, and E6B flight computer and planned the flight using real-world weather, and then flew it in the sim with only paper charts and my flight log. Here’s…
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At a reader’s request I’ve designed a second custom airport for X-Plane, KMQS Chester County. Chester is a local field where I’ve done pattern work, and I think it turned out well as a second attempt at scenery design. You may visit the download page here if you’d like to grab it.
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X-Plane 11 sure can take them. Note the reflection of the sunrise on the underside of the wing.
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* NOTE: I updated this post on 1/16/17 to clarify how you find the initial assignments of axes and buttons. The one lingering barrier to my complete switch to X-Plane was the inability to use both sets of the Basement Sim’s controls. It seems that in X-Plane if roll/pitch/yaw are assigned to more than one…
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I’ve been playing around with the X-Plane world scenery editor and decided to make custom scenery for my home field, KOQN Brandywine. The default KOQN is just a strip with taxiways, and while the prefab airport package made it better, I decided to make my own as a learning experience. I’ve created a page for…
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The PilotEdge Western Expansion goes LIVE tomorrow, December 27th. It’s going to be a fantastic addition to the service, with a remarkable expansion of the network’s the controlled airspace: I was fortunate to participate in the beta test of the expansion last week, and here’s a video I made of the flight. It’s a long one: KSLC…
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Listening to Philly Approcah and NY Center on your new handheld air band VHF transceiver, which Basement Fly Wife was nice enough to give me for Christmas. This will be my backup for my solo work in the real airplane, but while at home it’s sitting on my desk scanning the local frequencies. (Just don’t…
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Yesterday I was able to build the center pedestal console I’ve been wanting to build for some time, and I thought that today it would be nice to share my plans here as a holiday gift to the cockpit builders who frequent the site, and as a thank you for their readership. So here they…
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