Flight simmers enjoy making their sim cockpit more realistic, so companies like Cockpit phD are a great benefit in making this possible. Though founded only four years ago, the Cockpit phD team has created an expanding line of cockpit controls that make the home cockpit more real. Raymond Andersen interviews them about their passion for flight, how they got started, future plans and more.

Scenery designer Terry Flemming has created a speciality in designing WWII RAF base scenery, as part of a group he participates in that recreates historic missions. Thus historic research is as much a part of his creations as the actual flight simulator design work. Learn more about his interest in history, scenery and aviation by reading our interview.

For many years Bill Womack has been creating highly detailed flight simulator scenery that has drawn many fans. Just recently he rejoined the Orbx team and his products are now published there. In our interview we learn about Bill's long history of scenery creation, what tools he uses, what drives his choices of airfields and much more.

Peter Watkins over the past decade has created quite an extensive set of aircraft repaints, mostly for FSX/P3D. He mainly focuses on British aircraft but isn't afraid to branch out if something appeals to him, and especially enjoys creating planes that have a historical significance. Learn more about Peter and his influences in our interview.

Today we have the pleasure on interviewing Milton Shupe who over the past sixteen years has provided us with a large quantity of nice prop aircraft to fly in FS2004, FSX and Prepar3D. Milton talks about his inspirations, the tools he uses and how he works with a variety of people to create aircraft.

Mario Donick uses X-Plane as his main simulator, and sometimes P3D and Flight Sim World. As well as flying both simulated and real aircraft, Mario also writes reviews, tutorials and manuals for FS MAGAZIN (German bi-monthly print magazine) and aids add-on developers, such as vFlyteAir, and on occasion, Aerobask). Mario also provides X-Plane customer support for Aerosoft and works for a (non-flight simulation related) communications service provider.

Taburet is probably a name that many people recognized, associated with scenery for FSX, Prepar3D or X-Plane. Now meet Ray Taburet, the man behind the scenery and learn how he got started, his interest in aviation and what are his plans for the future.

2017 marks the fifth year of the annual aviation and flight simulation conference, FlightSimCon. Since its humble beginnings in 2013, the event has grown in both size and popularity. What began as only a small gathering of enthusiasts, has grown into a global attraction, with the event now attracting a far larger audience, many of whom have traveled great distances! As a preview to the event, we had the chance to interview several of the developers who will be attending.

Daniel Moser of FreeMeshX has brought a new level of up to date flight simulation scenery mesh to FSX and Prepar3D. In this interview, he gives some background on himself and the project, details on how mesh is created, and plans for the future.