Welcome!

[Hal Bryan]

By popular demand, we've created a new forum, dedicated, as the description says, to the topic of virtual flying for real pilots!

To kick things off, let me recommend a couple of books on the topic, full disclosure: both were written by friends of mine:




And:




As most of you know, this is a topic that's important to me after my previous career at Microsoft...but, to be clear, this forum is wide open not only to FS and its descendants like Prepar3d, but to X-Plane and any other platforms that you've found helpful in augmenting your real-world flying in some way.

[I_FLY_LOW]

Did you dabble in the Micro$oft Flight project?
I haven't messed with it in a long time, much less MFSX.

[Hal Bryan]

I looked at Flight when they released it, but it wasn't really for me. It was a little depressing, frankly, to see what we were building as FSXI be used as the basis for a product with such a vastly different focus.

[1600vw]

Hal do you have a link to this new forum? I myself use FSX and really like it.

Tony

[Hal Bryan]

Tony... you're already there!

http://eaaforums.org/forumdisplay.ph...ght-Simulation

[1600vw]

Tony... you're already there!

http://eaaforums.org/forumdisplay.ph...ght-Simulation

I must say...sometimes I get a good laugh at myself....This is one of those times....LOL

I always log in by going to " New post ". Very rarely do I go to the main page, as you can see.

That's just to funny.

Tony

[Jim Rosenow]

Who-hoooo...Christmas is finally here! :-)

I got my copies of the books Hal mentions out of the mail box about an hour ago. First look is VERY impressive. The authors of both books are ex-Microsoft FS team members with excellent real-world aviation (and writing) credentials.

Based on a perusal of the TOC, Scenario-based Training starts out with a more general view (hardware, software, resources, etc) so that's first on my list. Will provide a more in-depth review after I've been thru them. Gotta go...I've got 2 3/4" (deep) of reading to do. :-)

Oh...disclaimer...don't know any of these folks or anything about them other than what's in the front of the books and Hal's recommendation of them.

Jim