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AboutMy reviews of flight sim goodies.

AboutNelson's Dockyard at English Harbour is waypoint 3 in the ’Beach Bonanza’ mission from Caribbean 1.

AboutFlying the "Beach Bonanza" mission from "Carribean 1".

AboutThe lowering of a colour's chroma, which occurs with distance and is one of the main ways we perceive distance in a landscape.

AboutThe Cotton 'gin' (from Engine) separates the cotton lint from it's seeds. In 1794 the first cotton gin patent was granted in the USA to Eli Whitney.

AboutIFR actually means 'Instrument Flight Rating', but is a traditional joke amongst pilots to refer to two valid VFR techniques of navigation: "I Follow Rivers" and "I Follow Roads".

AboutIRL: In real life

AboutExplore the vast irrigation projects which bring deserts to life and ensure reliable, year round food supplies.

AboutPlane spotting from the ground. Click the buttons below for more.

AboutReflections of light and colour, often subtle, are one of our strongest cues to visual reality, a subject which was explored with a vengeance by the Impressionist painters. Modern graphics hardware does a great job of rendering reflections in real time.

AboutFive Island Village is at waypoint 5 in the ’Beach Bonanza’ mission from Caribbean 1.

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"

AboutMaybe the most exciting announcent for flight simmers since the first Thrustmaster HOTAS!

AboutThis is why the Australian outback is called "The Red Centre".

About"The CFD currently proposed uses a default of 20 x 20 x 20 cubic voxels that englobe the aircraft. When enabled, the simulation will then solve a custom version of the Navier Stokes equations that includes upwind advection solving designed to cope with high fluid velocities. The CFD is solved over each of the voxels by the CPU at a rate of 100 times per second with three global passes per iteration. The load is spread over 5 different threads for minimal cpu impact." - MSFS SDK, 2023

AboutA quick free flight to look at the features of the MiG-29.

AboutSome highlights. Trying to get a gun kill on a highly motivated bogie was the aspect of Project Wingman which I enjoyed the most. (Pardon the pun).

About In Mexican Livery at the gorgeous waters in the tropical quay of Santa Maria on Cuba's north coast.