MiGMan

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About"One of the cool things about Microsoft Flight Simulator is the ability to do multiplayer flights with other players over the internet. I have done quite a few of these, most often group flights where we explore some interesting part of the world while we talk about flying or other things, over Discord or Skype. I've also done flights with my Australian friend Pete (a.k.a. "MiGMan"), often testing out routes in his ongoing MiGMan's World Tour (MMWT) Series. This is an enjoyable social aspect of flight simulation, where airplane nerds can talk with other airplane nerds about airplanes as they pretend to fly them!"

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AboutA classic sim in it's time which integrated many of the elements of addictive gameplay.

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AboutNote the name of the RIO.

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About1999 | Beta version | Retail version

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AboutIn this case a picture or two is worth a thousand words. This is some of the best fun I've had in 42 years of computer flight simming!

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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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AboutStills from our second Tiger Meet!

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AboutMiGMan and Flying Singer flew in Algeria and Greece, practicing station keeping and formation skills while talking about the state of flight sims.

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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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AboutA few notes about the campaign from 1998.

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AboutI had great fun with the fast paced missions some 20 years after initial contact. Here is a gallery of some highlights.

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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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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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AboutWhat I said 18 years ago about Flight Sim 2002 seems totally applicable to this new sim:

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.

With the ability to automatically generate buildings, trees, static and flying aircraft and the associated radio traffic this package must have sent shock waves through companies whose business was based on enhancing the Microsoft sims. Still, the open architecture is there and the Pro version even includes an object / aircraft construction kit.

I'd imagine some business plans are hastily being rewritten and in the end we are all better off.

The sim has the ability to support computers and graphic cards that aren't even built yet - but they will be!

Yet it still runs on an average PC and looks good. Who could have imagined 10 years ago that this level of detail and complexity could be modelled on a PC? Only in my dreams!

MiGMan, 2002

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AboutOn an unusually grey Sydney afternoon in October 2006 I was a guest of Microsoft at the launch of their new flagship product - Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

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AboutProflight was the first flight sim I had seen since the Apple ][ in 1982. I had bought an Atari ST to arrange and print music for my string quartet and included in the package was a demo of this amazingly fluid sim, running at 600 x 400 pixels (in monochrome). There began my true flight sim addiction.

Published:1990

AboutSuccessful repetition breeds success.

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AboutI use them in Voice Attack to mimic the sounds of radio comms, with a bit of static and crackle!

AboutThis is a topic I am very passionate about, how to increase immersion in our favourite hobby. Check out this short video and the transcript.

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AboutMy own checklist for removing the OMEN 25 from service, trying to ensure the least downtime as I install the 45L and get it all connected to the MiGPit.

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About"Flight simulation fanatics should bookmark this site now"
... said Kevin Cheung in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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AboutOverview of my 5 MFDs. This may be useful to someone thinking of going this route with MSFS.

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AboutJoin MiGMan in the cockpit for a chat about flight sims and related stuff!

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AboutSpecs for the sixth version of the MiGPit. a project that has been running since 1992.

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AboutSpecs for the sixth version of the MiGPit. a project that has been running since 1992.

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AboutI have used 5 of these as MFDs in the MiGPit since 2021.

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AboutDate: Sunday September 27th, 2020
Locn: MiGBase (Australia's Area 51)
Aircraft: MiGPit experimental
Pilot: P.C.
Added a second MFD and sent P.C. on a test flight.

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Abouti7 and large screens

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About2006 Pentium rigged for silent running.

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About2004 Pentium 4 for Microsoft Flight Sim 2004.

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AboutArticle by By Kevin Washington in the Baltimore Sun.

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About"The team at MiGMan's Combat diary have done a fantastic job cataloging the history of desktop flight simulations. We owe them a great many thanks for all their combined efforts, helping us to remember the heritage of this ever-expanding hobby." Kenji Takeda, PC Gaming World Feb 2000.

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AboutPC Planet magazine Denmark, December 2000 | MiGMan content on their website.

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AboutAdded to the MiGPit in 2020. By late 2023 the Warthog stick developed a loose wire / contact somewhere in the stick, resulting in random control inputs and view changes. A little bit annoying, especially on finals. I repurposed the Warthog throttle as a lighting (and other) control panel on the right side of my 'pit, so it lives on for a few years more.

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AboutWhich.. I found rather confusing, so I made my own.

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About"I composed this fanfare in 2006 to promote a proposed Television series. "MiGMan Fanfare" (c) 2006 Peter Inglis. All rights reserved."

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AboutJune 2003. My review of FS Falcon for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 in PC Pilot Issue 23.

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AboutMy feature article in Computer Pilot July 2002 issue. An entertaining time travel piece revealing the fun of combat flight sims.

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AboutMy feature article in PC Powerplay Magazine March 1999 issue.

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AboutIn late 2001 I breathed new life into the Celeron-466 with extra RAM and a new video card, new monitor and a CD R/W. | Celeron, not Cylon.

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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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AboutI used to fly in my own home-built own cockpit, which shared scale with an F-16 if not much else! It was programmable if you had a day or so to spare!

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About8Mb RAM and a 15" CRT monitor. This was as good as it could get!

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AboutRe-reading the specs reminded me that the 1040 was ahead of the pack for a little while with it's 4096 colours and built in midi sound.

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AboutIn 1982 the Apple II represented a huge leap forward in personal computing power.

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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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AboutI enjoy flying the F-16 fast and at treetop level... who wouldn't! But at all levels I was getting stuttering and slowdowns. The stuttering being much more immersion breaking that any slowdown. Anyway, cutting to the chase after hours and hours and hours over many nights, I worked out the single most important graphic setting (for my rig). And it's one I would NEVER have guessed.

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AboutI enjoy flying the F-16 fast and at treetop level... who wouldn't! But at all levels I was getting stuttering and slowdowns. The stuttering being much more immersion breaking that any slowdown. Anyway, cutting to the chase after hours and hours and hours over many nights, I worked out the single most important graphic setting (for my rig). And it's one I would NEVER have guessed.

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AboutYes, back in the day, before the mighty internet, people used to talk on the telephone (a communication device which was attached to the wall.

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AboutI was a keynote speaker at Australia's first Flight Sim Expo.

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About... and having fun while I'm about it!

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AboutThe dream of flight seems fundamental to the human condition. From the legend of Icarus to the notion of astral projection it seems to be present in all cultures. On a personal level, surely most of us have had "flying dream" where, escaping the clutches of gravity we seem to be able to float away from our wordly cares. However in years of civilisation it is only in the past (not quite) 100 years that sustained, powered flight has become a reality. And it is only in the past 20 years that the masses have been able to spread their wings in virtual flight.Join me on a humorous reminiscence of some of the high points in 20 Years of flight simming!

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AboutI demonstrated the HOTAS Cougar and TrackIR, flying a MiG-29 in LOMAC, then flew in s DC-3 with Junglist to the official launch of Microsoft Flight Sim X.

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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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AboutAs part of the grand overhaul of the MiGBase in late 2020, I replaced a mess of external hard drives and their associated power supplies and USB cables with a nice little ICY BOX!

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AboutI enjoy flying the F-16 fast and at treetop level... who wouldn't! But at all levels I was getting stuttering and slowdowns. The stuttering being much more immersion breaking that any slowdown. Anyway, cutting to the chase after hours and hours and hours over many nights, I worked out the single most important graphic setting (for my rig). And it's one I would NEVER have guessed.

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AboutI obtained this in 2001 to try and run some of the older DOS sims which just refused to run on my Celeron-466 .

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AboutRise of the Pentium. This is the year the Flight Sim Museum was born.

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AboutFlight Sims are inherently much more complex than most game genres, and therein lies the secret of their long term attraction.

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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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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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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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AboutAs the title says: 'My first flghts' in many varied and wonderful aircraft. Each flight a new adventure!

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AboutThis fanfare is the official Theme for MiGMan's Flight Sim Museum, which I composed and orchestrated in 2006. The flight sim footage features some of my misadventures in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004, Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 and Lock On Modern Air Combat (LOMAC).

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