… at least for a few days. In the past 10 days I’ve been in or through Dallas, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Long Island / NYC, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis. Needless to say, I’ve logged no sim time (well, maybe 30 minutes) in that span, and have had less time for blogging about it. The…

Hi everyone. I’m going to be away from the sim for about a week or so. If you’re new here, please enjoy reading the archives or perhaps checking out the YouTube channel. Thanks for stopping by, and I’ll be back on the blog soon … ~ BFG

Needs a wash, but it sure is fun to fly. 

… to see this Pilatus warming up on the ramp yesterday. If you’re going to go someplace with a single prop, this guy’s about the fastest way to get there.

There’s no room in the basement for this. Maybe the garage?

International travel has kept me away from posting the past week or so, and I still won’t be in the sim again for about another week. That said, I will be able to post a bit more in the coming week than in the last. Thanks for staying with OTG in the meantime …

I’m downloading X-Plane 10 …

Checking in on my YouTube channel today I noticed that according to the analytics page the channel has passed 20,000 views. I know there are YouTube channels with many tens of millions of views, but the thought that the basement sim has been watched 20,000 times sort of astonished me. I hope it’s been entertaining to…

PilotEdge controller Marcusmmc is streaming his scope live now on Twitch. Worth watching if you’ve ever wondered about the controller’s side of things. And how about this: you can embed the stream! I’ll do that here … Watch live video from Marcusmmc on www.twitch.tv

Carenado has released a Baron 350i King Air. I have a great friend who flies one of these for a living … in fact, he’s the buddy who helped me build the sim on construction weekend. I like Coronado’s aircraft (and have the Cessna 182 and Cessna 177 Cardinal), and I’m VERY tempted to give…