The Piper Cherokee family of GA aircraft have been popular with pilots for years. Just Flight now offers the latest variant, the Archer TX/LX for X-Plane 11 and reviewer Jennifer Kimball wanted to give it a try. Jennifer is a real world pilot with lots of time in Cherokees and was impressed with the accuracy of the visual model as well as its flight characteristics.

Being from Scotland, reviewer Stuart McGregor was excited to be able to fly to EGPH Edinburgh Airport using the X-Plane scenery from Orbx. He found that Orbx has done a marvelous job in presenting the airfield and its surrounding area.

Author Ron Blehm knows a young woman pilot in Washington State who shares her flight training and flying adventures online and through videos. His idea was that it would be fun for flight simmers to join in on her adventures, flying the same routes and sharing their experiences. Here is the second flight plus the feedback from the first one.

Seeing winter all around inspired reviewer MrYorkiesWorld to travel north and visit Mega Airport Oslo V2 created for FSX/P3D by Aerosoft. He found the capital city's main airport to be highly realistic with good frame rates and a lengthy list of features. He offers his report with a brief text summary followed by a video.

Reviewer Shawn Weigelt had been waiting for KTIW Tacoma Narrows airport for years, and finally Orbx has provided it for X-Plane. He lives in the same town as KTIW and is very familiar with the airport, so was glad to find that the Orbx version is absolutely beautiful and incredibly realistic.

Author Ian Radcliffe has been flightsimming for a long time -- since 1984 and FS2 on a Commodore 64. In an effort to give something back after all these years of enjoyment, Ian has offered a series of articles that will offer hints, insights and suggestions to enrich the flight simulator experience. This third article covers a number of topics, including around the world flights, online multiplayer flying, and a suggested trip around the island of Taiwan.

Aerosoft offers a wide range of sophisticated Airbus models for Prepar3D v4, with the latest being the Airbus A330 Professional. This bigger brother to the ubiquitous A320 family has become the primary plane reviewer Alex Dickinson wants to fly each time he fires up the simulator. He finds it both flies and looks great, and liked it so much that we've given it one of our rare Excellence Awards.

Flight simulator pilots interested in flying older airliners from the prop era might enjoy joining virtual airline DC3 Airways. In this feature, Sherman Kaplan describes a special charter flight in the larger four-engine DC4 airliner as it makes its way from Palm Springs to Las Vegas.

Over the past few years Sim Wings has created "professional" versions of some of the world's great airports. In this review, MrYorkiesWorld looks at their Mega Airport London Heathrow Professional for Prepar3D v4. He highly recommends it, finding its list of features impressive and the only downside that it requires a good computer system to run to its full capabilities.

Would you be surprised to find one of the latest sims actually runs well on older systems? Author Kenneth J. Kerr found that was just the case with Aerofly FS 2. While perhaps not considered in the flightsim mainstream, and lacking some features some might consider important, it makes up for this in other ways, offering a very enjoyable flying experience, even on an older system.