Haven’t We Been Doing This in MSFS For What…Decades?! By: Chuck “PFunk” Bellows Introduction I never thought I’d write about this day. For years now, fans of the Third Wire series, if they wanted a new aircraft, generally had to go through the oft-times painful process of .ini editing to get new planes. For the first […]
by Jens “McGonigle” Lindblad From my research into all matters airborne, I came across a very interesting incident from 1968 and in the spirit of the popular SimHQ Feature Series, “Read It Do It” by Chris “BeachAV8R” Frishmuth, I offer you this fascinating glimpse into our fairly recent past. The Story April 1st, 1918, the […]
Back To Page 1 Recreating History Using the excellent freeware Hawker Hunter for FSX, and the stock FSX London terrain, I attempted to recreate the Tower Bridge fly-through, just to see if I could do it. Taking off from London Airport (now Heathrow) I had a straight approach to the Thames and my objective, coming in too fast […]
Back To Page 2 Conclusion Wings of Prey suffers from a split personality. It wants so badly to be a simulator, to really make you very happy, but just cannot seem to break away from its console roots that keeping it from being something to spend a couple of hours with, and becoming something special […]
Back To Page 1 Graphics… Wings of Prey is one of the most beautiful and visually captivating flight-themed games I have ever played in my life, full stop. Gorgeous vistas all around you wherever your eyes gaze, phenomenal aircraft models and cockpits, and some of the most astonishing effects I’ve ever seen in a video […]
She’s Got Crazy Eyes… by Chuck “PFunk” Bellows Introduction There comes a point in any relationship in which the responsible adult sits astraddle the world before them, takes a good, long look at the scene presented with a gimlet eye (or at this hour of the morning, probably a screwdriver eye) and says to the […]
Yeah, it’s still stuck in 2002… but I won’t say that’s a bad thing by Chuck “PFunk” Bellows Introduction Last week, Third Wire dropped their latest update to the Strike Fighters series that has added / fixed some interesting things to one of the longest-lived series in flight simming today. The second-generation games were re-engineered in 2009 […]
Back To Page 2 Loadouts include wing and tip fuel tanks, and practice nuclear weapons mounted on the center fuselage. There is also a custom bombing calculator that will score your bombing runs. The low level attacks utilize a dual timer and a specific bombing profile, all of which is modeled. My accuracy was […]
Back To Page 1 Custom flight and engine modeling were created for the F-104 (driven by plug-ins) giving well researched and authentic flight modeling properties for X-Plane. New pilots will quickly learn that asymmetric Boundary Layer Control and roll-off tendencies require careful manipulation of the throttle lest you end up upside down on the runway. […]
by Chris “BeachAV8R” Frishmuth For fans of X-Plane the past few years have been an exciting time as ever more quality payware offerings have entered the market. In the past year we’ve reviewed the fantastic MBB / Kawasaki BK 117, the Piper PA-18 Super Cub, and the Tupolev 444 SSBJ. While add-on developers for the Microsoft franchise still have a […]
Back To Page 1 In the afternoons we were forced to take a break from flying. As splendid as the location was, it just couldn’t stop the sun from interfering with our head tracking devices. We had not come as prepared as some of the other pilots, since parasols, sheets and cardboard contraptions were […]
by Guest Writer Joris “Jorri” Koolen The Lowland Tiger Meet was only a month away when Jan “Ice” asked the Rise of Flight community to make their first attendance. I had heard about the event but had never been there, nor to anything similar, so I decided to go and take a look. In short, the LLTM […]
