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Teaser for Season II

Teaser for Season II

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Season II of X-Plane is in the works, and it’s shaping up to be a doozy. The premise is simple: everywhere we fly will have some historic value, and we will discuss that history during the flight. The first flight is going to be KBTV (my home base, and where every season starts) to KELM. That’s right, sleepy little Elmira, New York. One the way, we will talk about tragic, senseless deaths,…

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Supporters and Detractors. 

Soemthing interesting, and a bit unsettling, is happening on my YouTube channel right now. In the past two weeks, I’ve had my subscriber numbers more than double, and my actual viewership has gone up by 900% (896%, to be exact.) I’m pretty sure it is a temporary boost, brought on by an influx of people interested in Aerofly 2. And that is where the interesting thing is. 

Aerofly has an incredibly…

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What do I love about aviation?

Everything. 


And most of my friends know it. That’s why, for my birthday, one of my employees gave me a 1/144 scale model of a plane to put together. 

I put together a model once, when I was seven. It was TERRIBLE. I did what every seven year old does. I ignored the instructions, I wasn’t patient, didn’t have the right supplies or tools, and didn’t prep any of the parts before I glued them…

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The one year YouTubeiversary!

That’s right! On Sunday, the 29th of May, we are going to celebrate my channel’s one year YouTubeiversary! I plan to start streaming (and drinking champagne) at about 3 PM, and we are going for broke, it’ll be my first time flying the 777 (seriously!) and we are going cross country with it!

Join us at 1900Z for a chance to watch me do a really, really bad job!

Did I mention that I’ll be drinking?…

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Lamenting over El Salvador

Lamenting over El Salvador

Well, now, that was an interesting stream. I did so much prep, and was super excited for the flight, but while I was installing the libraries for the scenery, an innocuous prompt popped up. New video driver? Sure. Why not.

Well, here is why. The video driver install removed all of the settings I had painstakingly tested for weeks. Upon reboot, the old jumpy-twitchy-terrible video in XSplit was…

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El Salvador!

Tonight, we are going to fly to El Salvador from Orlando. The problem is, I am just not good at deciding what to fly. I love the Jar A320, but I also really like the X-Crafts ERJ 175, and it is the plane that they actually use on this route. I’ve decided that I wanted y’all to decide for me. Or, feel free to write something else in!

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Aerofly 2 - my initial thoughts

Aerofly 2 – my initial thoughts

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A new flight sim entered early release yesterday. Aerofly 2 is an incredibly pretty flight simulator, but with a few big issues in it’s future. Before we talk about the issues, let’s talk about what Aerofly gets right.

First, though, here is a giant disclaimer. This game is an early release. It’s not done. It was released to early release yesterday. There have been no point updates or anything…

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Cancun, and online personas.

Cancun, and online personas.

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Last night, we flew the Houston-Cancun flight. The weather was nice, the airplane was mostly functional (the Blue Star Simulations audio plugin failed, which is unfortunate, because it really, really makes this Airbus amazing), and the company and conversation was largely pleasant.

I say largely, because during the approach, we had…

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New Orleans

We took another short flight today, this time returning to Houston from New Orleans. Of course, in game, it was easy. Not to put too fine of a point on it, you check your fuel load, start the APU, turn on the fuel injection, start turning the turbines, inject some fuel into their heart, and slap them on the ass.

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But there is more to New Orleans than just being one end of a short flight in a fast…

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United Virtual Airlines

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Lately, I’ve found that I have more interesting flights in my little simulated world. Why? Because I’ve joined a Virtual Airline. Specifically, I’ve joined http://www.united-virtual.com.

A VA is sort of like a flying club, where they give you a bunch of challenges, and you get little rewards for completing them. I just recently passed my 5 flying hour mark, and got to take my first test. You…

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