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AboutFor aviation purposes, refer to Armenia.

AboutFor aviation purposes, refer to Armenia.

AboutMicrosoft official trailer for their free scenery upgrade to Australia.

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AboutThe cult of Sun Worship is alive and well in the Kingdom.

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AboutThe buildings are mostly open to the public and although guided tours are provided we elected to wander through at our own pace. Climbing a steep spiral staircase into the attic I was amazed by the huge wooden beams which have been supporting the steep roof for over 300 years.

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AboutWalking into Copenhagen centre from our lodgings I made a momentous discovery. The burial place of one the most influential thinkers of modern times! The sign said "Kirkegaarde" and something else, which I took to mean "Kirkegaarde is buried here".

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AboutLars is a Super Geek from way back. He loves flight sims and got hooked on PC sims by Chuck Yeager's Air Combat ... like many of us !

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AboutThe tourist brochure states these are Europe's largest survivng World War 2 fortifications. That may well be. I can personally attest to their largeness!

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AboutRud is located in the region of South Denmark. South Denmark's capital Vejle (Vejle) is approximately 38 km / 24 mi away from Rud (as the crow flies).

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AboutTried a new 'airshow' landing ; <)

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AboutNo narration unfortunately as my mike was turned off. Although many people will regard that as fortunate indeed! I tried a short field take-off and landing, with an inverted run up the field and various other shenanigans over beautiful Wellington. Enjoy!

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AboutFlights from "Europe 4"

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AboutThis edition of Falcon 4.0 introduces a Balkan campaign.

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AboutJust over the border into Victoria, from New South Wales. | Su-57 by Deimos Inc.

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AboutJust over the border into Victoria, from New South Wales. | Su-57 by Deimos Inc.

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AboutJust over the border into Victoria, from New South Wales. | Su-57 by Deimos Inc.

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AboutOne of the crowning achievements in the Golden Decade of flight sims which presaged the fluidity and detail we would take for granted in the years ahead.

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AboutMicrosoft Flight Sim 2020 was still young and had more than a few rough edges but nonetheless we were able to enjoy an absolutely amazing flight together despite being almost half way around the world from each other! | 250102 Moved to the correct exhibit.

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AboutMiGMan gave a Flight Sim Masterclass on the November 14, 2006 episode of Good Game which is presented by ABC - Australia's National Broadcaster.

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AboutI took a walk around the beautifully sculpted airport by Mr. Miyazaki. What a great opportunity this sim gives us to inspect architectural marvels in this fashion! My one and only complaint was the snack food was a little bit "plastic" to the taste.

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AboutPracticing formation takeoff, landing and cross IFR (I Follow Roads) with two MB-339's in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

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AboutKosovo Border Patrol | Wave the flag at Kosovo's border crossings with Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia.

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AboutIt's hard to keep up with the MiG... very easy to get behind the aircraft.

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AboutI was busy as a one-armed paper hanger on final approach! Quite tricky to get the recommended 10 degrees AOA... more practice is the answer I feel.

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AboutThis was tough... they shot at me (with live ordnance) ... I thought it was supposed to be a training sortie... ; -(
Check out the next video where I (hopefully) PASS this mission.

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AboutI think I only just scraped through this mission because the MiG-21's couldn't find me!

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AboutI passed the bombing, not elegantly but nonetheless, then a rudder failure meant trouble on landing... I mean WHO or WHOM parked a tank there?

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AboutI did escort the fighters successfully. My wingman did most of the work as I directed him via voice command. And then I took out the enemy AWACS (scratch one MiG-29...).
This is the first video I've made with voice control, using Voice Attack. I make so much more use of the wingman when I can simply talk to him rather than hunt around in the dark for keys!

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AboutA simple NAVEX turns into a Badger hunt!

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AboutFlight testing my ridgy-didge state-of-the-art hotas voice-controlled Fulcrum!
1. Pan view working and mapped to the HOTAS. Not TrackIR but pretty good for a 20 year old sim that doesn't support mouse look.
2. Voice control for control surfaces (flaps, gear, chute), wingman.
3. Draw distance? Can anyone help? I doubled the draw distance in the MIG29.INI file, but every time you enter the sim it overwrites it back to 26.
4. Low speed, high alpha
5. and... I didn't take the situation at the threshold seriously enough...

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AboutIn this action packed and punchy edit I refly the mission which is becoming somewhat of a nemesis! But it's still a lot of fun.

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AboutNight flying! - - - Dangerous - - - Exciting! - - - Even more so when you're being shot at...
Actually the graphics in MiG-29 Fulcrum look stunning at night, and of course draw distance becomes irrelevant.
Enjoy this one!

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AboutSome Tu-160's turned up and put on quite the show with their four afterburning engines! ... Then we shot them down.

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AboutSecond attempt at this bombing mission. The bombing is very forgiving in this sim... but then we ran into the most 'Top Gun' helo pilot of all time!
Then I shot him down. Eventually I shot him down.
I found the explanation for the 'Top Gun' helo pilot in the documentation for the mission editor. Flight models and aircraft models are independent... and the manual warns not to assign an F-16 flight model to a chopper... which is exactly what some wag at Novalogic did here!

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AboutThe P-51 Mustang was apparently known as the F-51 in the Korean War. What was one of the most formidable and effective air superiority machines in WW2 was, only 5 years later relegated mainly to a ground attack role. The jet age had begun.

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About"The F-80 Shooting Star was flying in Italy in January 1945 but didn't see combat.
On the 8th of November 1950 a Shooting Star shot down a MiG-15 in what is thought to be the first jet to jet air combat encounter. The first 4 months of the Korean war saw the F-80 bearing the brunt of the combat with over 15,000 sorties being flown."

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About"The F84 ThunderJet often ran out of runway in the hot Korean weather and was known as the ""Groundhog"" because of this reluctance to become airborne. I noticed fairly quickly in MiG Alley that on take-off it is important to keep the flaps down until the speed has built up and to keep the climb out fairly shallow. Other fliers have reported that a ""flaps up"" setting is best for takeoff, with a very shallow climb out... barely clearing the treetops at about 2 degrees climb angle."

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AboutThe F-86 Sabre is modelled in the A, E and F Variants.

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AboutYour have five fighter squadrons and two bomber squadrons under your command.

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AboutThe Forward Air Controllers in MiG Alley are a first for Combat flight sims.

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AboutThe aircraft in MiG Alley use the classic "Finger Four" formation. This was known to Commonwealth pilots (Canadian and Australian) as "High Battle Formation". According to Christie Harris, who flew for the RCAF in the 1950's, "You started as a wingman, with three practically foolproof opportunities for disaster.

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AboutOne of MiGMan's wobbly test flights! This video is more for the enthusiast, consisting as it does of 3 minutes dogfight footage of the F-86 Sabre in this classic sim.

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AboutOne of MiGMan's wobbly test flights! This video is more for the enthusiast, consisting as it does of 3 minutes dogfight footage of the F-86 Sabre in this classic sim.

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AboutThe cockpit in this aircraft represents the state of the art in virtual aircraft modelling in 2024. The object modelling and texturing are wholly convincing and almost all of the main cockpit elements are functional.

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AboutThe top notch modelling in this aircraft represents what the Asobo engine for MSFS 2020 was capable of. These images showcase the Australian Westpac Flying Doctor service from the 4Simmers Livery pack.

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AboutI purchased the aircraft from the MSFS 2020 sim marketplace, so installation was as simple as pressing the "Install" button.

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About"The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MU-2 comes with five liveries: White, Executive White, Executive Black, Xbox Aviators Club, and Aviators Club."

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About"If you weren't there to see the 1983 eruption of Kilauea on the Big Island, here's your chance to travel back in time. You'll experience first hand, this awesome spectacle of nature. "

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AboutIt doesn’t get any better than this! Total realism as I flew under the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Except for the bit about flying under the bridge. Previously to get anywhere near this level of detail for a particular locale you would have to purchase a 3rd party scenery pack and then suffer abominable frame rates. Not any more!

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AboutDemonstrating just two of the many thousands of free 3rd party add-ons available for the Microsoft flight sims.

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AboutBreaking every rule in the book I fly under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, through a football stadium, and frighten the diners 60 floors up in Centrepoint Tower's revolving restaurant! Oh, and it's at night in a Vought Corsair, which Microsoft thoughtfully provided for us in every copy of Flight Sim 2004.
And then I land at Sydney International Airport... probably in the wrong direction...

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AboutLike most (all?) folks, my first flight in MSFS 2020 just had to be to my childhood home.

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AboutIn my first caching experiment I cached the Williamtown RAAF base near Newcastle. That only used 45mb of space, so this time I set my sights higher. Or broader.

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AboutCompare this to the same flight in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002.

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AboutOne of my wobbly test flights!
In the default Bell 205B helicopter, taking a sedate flight over the strip in Vegas. Landmark areas of scenery such as this received particular attention by the developers and they pushed the software and hardware of the day to the limits to achieve this amount of detail. Compare this to the same flight in FS2002

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AboutUnbelievable atmospherics and lightinng from Asobo's engine make this Canberra sunrise jaw-dropping!

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AboutThe aircraft model reflects the state of the art in 2023 within MSFS 2020. And that standard is very high!

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AboutI'd spent some hours mapping my HOTAS and Voice Attack computer, and saw no arrestor hook command on the official list. Must be automated, I thought, wrongly. After the second bolter I whipped out my future-phone (it was 1979) and searched the inter-web with Alta-Vista. Aha!
H = hook.
Kind of important to know that.

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About"Expansion for Strike Fighters 2: Israel. Adds flyable Mystere IVA, Meteor F.8, and P-51D Mustang to a historical campaign set in the 1956 Suez Crisis." READ ON

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About"Intense air combat experience in the skies over Middle East during three major historical conflicts - 1967 Six-Day War, 1973 Yom Kippur War, and 1982 Lebanon " READ ON

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About"... recreating the intense air combat experience in the skies over North Vietnam at the height of the air campaign during the Vietnam War." READ ON

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AboutFrom the excellent manual. The documentation is exemplary.

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AboutSome of my favourite gun camera snaps and theatre footage taken by my trusty wingman.

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AboutThis was the "Save Boris Yeltsin" mission which was typical of the fun to be had in this series. The footage was shot in the 1998 Windows collection Fighters Anthology.

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AboutPhotos I took of an F-111 cockpit on display at Darling Harbour in the early 1990’s.

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AboutIn 1995 MiGMan and PC paid a visit to Amberley, a RAAF base in sunny Queensland, Australia. as guests of No.1 Squadron. Australia is the only country in the world operating the F-111, the Americans called it the "Aardvark", or "Vark"... the Aussies call it the "Pig". Aardvaark is Afrikaans for "Earth Pig"

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AboutWhat is it about? | Timeline | Data | Resources

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AboutTable based comparison of the F-111 Aardvark, and it’s proposed replacement, the F-35 JSF.

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AboutPeter Inglis’ submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into Australian Defence Force Regional Air Superiority, 2006

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About"First time I climbed into the Aeroplane I was 10 years old, and I will never forget the experience." - Francisco J. Campos

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AboutComputer Pilot magazine Cover Art 2009

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AboutCharles H. Cook flew a B-24D named "Cookie" with the 90th Bombardment Group in the southwest Pacific in 1942-1943. At that time, Allied forces were greatly outnumbered, and Japanese invasion of New Guinea and Australia was a very real threat. Bruce Irving has interviewed Charlie Cook and composed this valuable record of his aviation career. The entire article is also available for free download.

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AboutIn 1994 I was lucky enough to witness the first flight of a MiG-21 in Australia!

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AboutIn 1993 a famous air to air collision occured between two MiG-29s...famous because it took place in front of the world press!

AboutThe 1989 incident was at the Paris Air Show, and involved the famous Anatoly Kvotchur.

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AboutFairly detailed overview of the entire air war from the 1939 Blitzkrieg in Poland to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan.

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AboutThis 2003 book is a sort of "oral history" of the BoB, little on the strategy/politics and hardware, mostly personal stories based on conversations, old letters, diaries, etc. of the fighter boys themselves. Plenty of flying and action, but focused on the personal stuff.

AboutI recommend this book to anyone who wants a detailed treatment (626 pages!) of the air war in the Pacific.

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AboutPhantom in Combat tells the story of the F-4 in combat from the pilot and Weapon system operators' perspective. It contains blow by blow accounts of some of the more famous engagements between MiG's and Phantoms.

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AboutNo. 77 Squadron became not only the first Australian squadron, but the first of the whole British Commonwealth to enter the fighting. In three years No. 77 Squadron lost thirty-five members dead and in addition a number of RAF pilots on exchange duty with the Squadron were killed in action. The Squadron carried out 81,872 individual sorties, destroying 3,700 buildings, 1,500 vehicles and 16 bridges.

AboutThey give a great tactile feeling, expecially on sounds like piston engines, slow firing guns, afterburner rumble and .... incoming fire (makes me almost leap out of the seat).

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AboutThis article by Mark Schimmer is about connecting game port rudder pedals to the Saitek X-45 but it may help with other game-port style rudders and newer sticks.

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About"I had a week long trip to Berlin and also visited Peenemuende, where the "Secret Weapons" of the 3rd Reich (V1, V2 and others) were developed. Quite impressive place." - Mark Schimmer

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AboutMark Schimmer is building his own cockpit and got hold of a genuine helicopter control stick.

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AboutWay back in the distant mists of time I attended a primary school in Australia. One day an English migrant lad turned up and started raving about an action / adventure TV show which had the most incredible aircraft.... piloted by puppets! Needless to say we thought he was quite mad and attributed his ravings to the effects of the tropical sun. Little did we know! A couple of years later Thunderbirds turned up on our TV screens and started for many of us a lifelong fascination with aviation. In this exhibit I compare the 1966 ac with the 2004 versions.

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AboutHoliday snaps I took in Boston, August 2009 as a guest of Flying Singer and his charming family.

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AboutRoyal Navy veteran & F4 Phantom pilot

AboutOn an unusually grey Sydney afternoon in October 2006 MiGMan was a guest of Microsoft at the launch of their new flagship product - Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
The creme-de-la-creme of Australia's gaming journalists gathered at Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, and embarked on a champagne flight over Sydney Harbour in a C-47, the military transport version of the Douglas DC-3.

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AboutAfter getting special permission from a nervous civil aviation authority an RAAF F-111 was granted permission to fly at under 500 feet altitude - practically IN the stadium during the closing ceremony. As it passed over the flame the pilot engaged afterburner and then dumped fuel, resulting in the trademark 100 foot plus trail of fire - as if a chariot of the gods had picked up the flame on the way to Greece.
As it flew 14 kilometres towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge it was accompanied by a sea of flame as the Parramatta River seemed to explode, with fireworks every 500 metres.

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AboutMiGMan was keynote speaker at Australia's first ever Flight Sim Expo, held in the old Ansett terminal at Kingsford Smith International Airport, Sydney.

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AboutUS approach charts, frequencies and more. Great flight sim aid.

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