I'm sure you've heard of the worldwide craze which is the Nintendo Wii. You may also know that it has a game called 'Heatseeker' available, which is a military flightsim.
Weeell, I'm now on level 2.5, and I'm noticing some significant problems with the game -
1: Numbers. You and your wingman are based on an aircraft carrier called the Nemesis. Not a problem, except you appear to be the only two on the ship. And of course, the kill counts are ridiculous compared. I killed over 50 a
I saw my first rock show, at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, in ... 56? ... 57? I can't remember the year precisely and Google isn't helping me, but I'll pledge 56. Remarkably, I can't find a single reference to the day when the show in question first opened its doors and an excited crowd of kids, fighting to get in, caused a stampede that left one kid trampled to death and several others injured.
Aware of all the advance hype and excitement, and figuring that 'Tings Might Happen, I wasn't th
I am new to FS. I tried FS9 but somehow it just didn't live up to my expectations. Then my son gave me a game that I already had so I took it back to BestBuy and exchanged it for FSX and CIV4 Beyond the Sword. I thought my PC would do the job nicely so I got it.
I started with the tutorials and now fly free style. I started out in Mobile, Al and flew to Chicago and now am on my way west. I am headed to Denver and I'm currently in Neb.
I also like to fly the gulf coast at about 5 - 10 feet
I'm not a Mac user. Nor do I ever think I will be. However, I'm turning towards it due to a program, designed for Mac by Apple and now for Windows too: Safari.
Safari, for those who don't know, is an internet browser. Not unlike Internet Explorer, only because Microsoft based the latest version on Safari, I think.
So, why is Safari so great? Well, there's a nice load of features that Microsoft never got.
Apple claim Safari is the fastest browser available. It is. My wireless router is
You know all the A sides, I'm not going to repeat them. But here are some terrific Chuck Berry pieces that you may not have heard ...
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First, "Havana Moon". The author of "Louie, Louie" says he was inspired by this piece, which can be heard here ...
In this piece you can hear Berry's preferred bottom accompaniment -- a string bass. (Even after electrics came on the scene he continued his love affair with the upright.) Another interesting thing about the orchest
8/25/2008
First acknowledgement: Thanks to xxmikexx for the blog location; I'd been looking for it just a few days before...
In the last few days I've finally gotten around to doing a couple things that were on my FSX "to do" list: downloaded and ran benchmarking flights and spent two evenings getting Tile Proxy running.
Benchmark: first off, I was curious how my stock 2-core E8400 would compare to the 4-core Q6600 (to start with) and others' systems as well. When you spend a grand or s
Larry And Paul are my cousins, Paul being my age, Larry two years older. Paul's best friend in grade school and high school was ... George Petaki ... who later became governor of the State of New York. (I must have met George many times because I spent as many weekends at my cousins' place as I could, but I'm drawing a complete blank.)
My cousins' father was George, a Vienna-trained Ear, Nose and Throat doctor who fled his native Hungary during the late 30s, came to this country, and ended up
Dakar, Senegal - Lagos,Nigeria
DRZA - DNMM
Well this leg did not go according to plan. Everything seemed ok. Pre start checks went as planned and we took off and climbed up to our cruising altitude. We turned onto course and started heading for Lagos. Not more than 20 mins had passed when I noticed problems with the engines. The temperature had dropped rapidly in the cyclinder heads and carb air temp had plumited. This caused the engines to begin icing up even though Anti Ice was on.
The e
I’m not mad about saffron
Even on a chicken curr-y.
I’m not mad about saffron.
It’s yellow and it goes right through me.
Yet I like yellow jello. (That’s right.)
Yes, I like yellow jello. (That’s right.)
I like yellow jello. (That's right.)
Bop doit doit bop
Doit bop bop bop
We lick pickled bananas.
They’re the bee’s knees to me.
We lick pickled bananas.
You know, they grow on green pickle trees
Yet they are always yellow. (That’s right.)
When fresh they're always yellow. (
Right well you may all be wondering why I am starting with Leg 6 of my world tour. Well this is simply due to the fact that in Legs 1-5 it did not occur to me to take any screenshots or make any writings.
Leg 6.
Agadez, Niger - Dakar, Senegal
DRZA - GOOY
Very challenging flight. Bad storms all the way made for some challenging flying. The landscape was pretty flat most of the way although saw some interesting sights over the Massina region of the River Niger. We decended over the coast d
Hi everyone, my name is Tom and this is my first entry into this Blog.
I have been flying in the FS world for about 7 years and have spent a few of those years as a pilot for many virtual airlines.
However, as of late I have found myself flying in and out of many airports that I have visited time and again. So i began to wonder about the other airports in the FSX world that I have never visited or never would and wondered what interesting places of the FSX world there are tosee and fly o
Earlier today I asserted that anybody can write well enough to make any subject interesting simply by coming at it from an angle that would interest the author himself, his enthusiasm in turn affecting the rest of us. Here’s the promised example, me rising to the challenge of making the Telephone Book interesting …
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The telephone book known as the “White Pages” has many uses. For example, if I wanted to generate a name for a character in a novel I might open the phone b
Well, I've been a bit busy this week, been sailing all week. Talk about tired, but fun.
So no flying or development work. Hope to have some more news about these things in a couple of days.
This new blog feature is interesting, isn't it? Suddenly you're faced with some of the problems professional writers have, which is to find something interesting to say. I thought I'd start at the beginning, which for me, was in the spring of 1996. I'd bought a used PC from a friend, paid another friend to modify it, as it would not run the original Need For Speed as it was. I also got online as soon as possible. My first attempt at downloading an aircraft for Flight Simulator, and it was F
In one of Mike's Blogs he wrote: "Would you open a thread in your blog giving the highlights of your career, and then we can do another interview."
At first I said I would not, but, what the hey? What follows is a brief synopsis of what Mike calls my..."fascinating career".
Born at an early age in the 30s.
Educated in a semi-public grade school through the 7th Grade.
Boarding schools 8 through 12.
College ½ year.
Army 3 years, with tour in Korea.
Back to college.....no luck.
Scared
The first time I was close to an operating jet aircraft engine was when my grandfather arranged for us to visit the F-86 production line in El Segundo in 1952 while the Korean war was still going on and there was still a need to crank out these fighters as fast as possible. (By the way, the site is today the southern part of LAX.)
My grandfather knew one the F-86 project engineers, who gave us a guided tour of the production line himself. The compact and jammed final assembly line flowed from
I like to praise vendors in public when they do the right thing, as I did with the FS Pilot Shop a couple of weeks ago ...
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A few days ago my wife and I intended to eat breakfast at a local Denny's, a locally owned franchise where we spend roughly $1,000 per year, I estimate. When we walked in there was a young child in a high chair shrieking and crying very loudly. All the mother was doing was shush-ing the child. We sat down, placed our orders and waited for someone o
This is another post copied from elsewhere in the site, put here so I will be able to retrive it easily in the future. I'll edit the post tonight, it's in rough shape ...
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If you read the Gauges&Panels Software Tools thread you will find the beginning of a discussion of coding techniques. In there I basically claimed that maintainability is more important than performance because with proper system design even loose code will perform acceptably. When it doesn't, th
This is a continuation of some comments in the Fright Stimulator thread located here ... https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/blog.php?b=44. That thread had been taken so far off-topic by me that I decided to start a new one. Here it is ...
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My wife and I did our PADI scuba diving training in Key West in 1987. (Skylab, you HAVE heard what follows, I'm simply parking the story where I can get at it more easily in the future.) We originally planned to stay a few days, maybe a w
As I was discussing with a friend yesterday, I sometimes refer to FS as "Fright Stimulator". This is because a bad weather instrument arrival and approach is quite capable of confusing me to the point of panic.
You see, my headwork is very bad. It's why I gave up flying in the real world. I can keep up with the workload of hand flying my vintage 727-200 in IFR conditions as long as everything is going well, but if I'm flying on VATSIM, for example, and the controller pulls a last minute chang
Conclusion first, then the background ...
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PPLs,
If you're going to fly in the mountains, get some instruction first from an experienced mountain flyer, preferably a CFI. If you're not willing to pay for instruction, or to take time out for instruction, then at least read about the subject and talk to people who've done a lot of it.
If you don't, the following story from a few days ago could easily happen to you. The accident details have not been reported in t
Being involved in aviation does allow us to do some fun things. Though I was just a spectator, I did do something fun aviation related this past weekend that I thought I'd share here.
The event was called the "Race Of The Century" and was hosted by the Collings Foundation http://www.collingsfoundation.org/menu.htm at their HQ only a few minutes from where I live. Must be nice...big house, huge barn containing an amazing antique car collection, a hangar bigger than any at my local airport and
EDIT added later: I should never have posted this. However, given that I did I'm going to let it stand, warts and all ...
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Writing the parody lyrics for "Paperback Writer" got me to thinking about another Beatles song that has stood the test of time, "Taxman".
I thought you might be interested in my parody lyrics, and I thought you might be interested to see such a parody while it was under development.
Without further ado, the evolution of "Saxman" ...
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