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Category: PilotEdge

  • Join Me For After-Hours Closed Traffic On PilotEdge

    Regular readers probably know that most recent Saturday mornings (US time) I join a group of other simmers on PilotEdge to do pattern work and practice radio skills together. The group is called “ACT,” for After-hours Closed Traffic (as the PE air traffic controllers are offline when we begin), and it’s been a lot of fun.…

  • Westward Ho! The PilotEdge Western Expansion (And Beta Test Flight Video)

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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…

  • Fantastic News From PilotEdge

    The long awaited Western Expansion is finally ready and will go live on December 27th. This will bring a massive increase to the coverage area, offering seven new towered fields (six continual, one on a rotating basis) to the service area and many hundreds of thousands of new square miles in which to fly. Just as…

  • P.A.T. Fun On PilotEdge

    A few PilotEdge users, led by Jiva, have arranged some pattern traffic together in the hours before controllers start manning their stations on the network (hence PAT – PilotEdge Afterhours Traffic). Today I joined the group a bit late at KDLO where we did pattern work, and then Jiva and I flew out Elizabeth Lake…

  • The PilotEdge CAT-04 Rating

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    Yesterday I did the fourth PilotEdge Communication and Airspace Training rating flight, which is a Class D towered field (KSBP) to a Class D towered field (KSMX) with no ATC services in between: Here’s the description from the PE briefing page, but the short story is that you: Get the weather at San Luis via…

  • The PilotEdge CAT-03 Rating

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    The PilotEdge Communication and Airspace Training ratings continue, this time with the CAT-03, which is three laps of the pattern at San Luis Obispo. I actually flew this twice. I forgot to hook up the mic to the GoPro in the first iteration, so I flew it again the next day to re-record the video. That…

  • The PilotEdge CAT-2 Rating

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    The CAT-2 rating on PilotEdge, which is a flight from a non-towered (New Cuyana) to a towered (San Luis, a Class Delta) field. And this time we have fun with temporary lost comms! Thanks for watching.

  • The PilotEdge CAT-01 Rating

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    PilotEdge has come out with yet another wonderful service for pilots and simmers: their new Communication and Airspace Training series of training ratings. These replace the “V” series of VFR ratings. There were three V ratings, and while excellent, the CAT ratings provide VFR fliers with a larger number of rating missions (11 rather than…

  • PilotEdge I-01 Rating Video

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    Here’s the aforementioned run at the I-01 rating on PilotEdge, which is flying the 20R ILS approach into KSNA. Passed on the first try (although the intercept and landing are nothing to brag about, and in fact, the landing goes in my “Bottom 10” list!). But it was a lot of fun, and I’m looking…

  • Passed: PilotEdge I-01 Rating

    Woo hoo! I passed my first IFR rating on PilotEdge, the I-01 rating. It’s actually a very simple ILS approach procedure into John Wayne, but still, I flew it, and I flew it without autopilot (which made it a bit ugly at times). Video to come …