We Visit the High Country to See the Newest Way to Fly by Chuck “PFunk” Bellows Introduction It started with a phone call. My editor, Doug Atkinson, called back in 2005, asking the question, “Hey, what are you doing next July?” It turned out that the first visit by the International Flightsim Convention on American […]
Back To Page 8 Later That Evening… A formal dinner was enjoyed by a packed house that night, with keynote addresses from Brett Schnepf and Hal Bryan of Microsoft and Mark Silcock of IFC. Again, Captain Mike Ray happened to be seated at the table. Now, during breaks in the evening’s festivities, and while […]
Back To Page 7 I got my hands on the beta and one such ‘Mission’ was a very simple landing tutorial that brought you into a small airfield in Sitka, Alaska on the coastline. The air traffic around you was minimal, consisting of a Cessna Caravan. I was a little confused about what to […]
Back To Page 6 Microsoft FSX Beta Demo In the middle of the convention were the Microsoft demonstration kiosks, each running a beta demo of FSX. The machines were Intel dual-core rigs, and it was even featured on a few Dell XPS laptops. Saitek furnished a handful of its X52 HOTAS controllers. A couple of […]
Back To Page 5 Angle of Attack If you haven’t seen their website and checked out the brainchild of Robert Trent and Chris Palmer, you’re missing out. Not many of us have time to flip through hundreds of pages of manuals — even ones as entertaining as Mike Ray’s — so the guys at […]
Back To Page 4 The First Day… Unsure of what I’d see, I rose early Saturday morning to get in before the crowds. I was greeted by bustling activity, and it had been going on long before my wake-up call. Somewhere in the middle of the night, NaturalPoint’s crew had arrived and their booth […]
Back To Page 3 Pacific Aircraft A good number of flight simmers are also modelers, whether real or virtual, so it wasn’t a big surprise to see the team from Pacific Aircraft at IFC Denver. It was my pleasure to meet and talk to Tyrone Wong, an executive with the company. Well, for […]
Back To Page 2 Just Flight One of the most impressive booths belonged to the UK-based company, Just Flight. Their two emissaries, Alex Ford and Martin Wright, were in the process of loading about a dozen of their add-ons on three machines when they realized they hadn’t had anything to eat or drink in […]
Back To Page 1 The First Night I had the good fortune to check in right at about the time several exhibitors were getting their booths arranged. Without the throngs of convention-goers, the exhibitors actually had some time to spare for interviews. I really wasn’t sure what to expect. One of the first people […]
Back To Page 9 The flight home was as uneventful as the trip to target. We never did find out why the U.N. forces did not respond to our sortie, and I am glad we did not face them in the air that day. There have been many missions for me since that day. […]
Back To Page 8 “Sacha, close in before you shoot!” I take a breath and wait till the building seems to fill my windscreen! I will crash if I do not pull up quickly! I fire, more rockets blazing out of the launcher! I pull out of the dive only sixty feet above the […]
Back To Page 7 Coming into range, I squeeze off rockets but they’re falling short still! Go To Page 9
