Back To Page 4 Here you can see the results of running up the engines on a wet runway; a fine spray blows back as the props pick up the moisture. As an example of how useful X-Plane is for training purposes, I set up a short local area IFR training flight in Asheville, […]
Back To Page 3 The Beech 1900D panel is really a great work of art. Many of the aircraft in X-Plane 8 suffer from a striking similarity to one another unless the designer goes out of his way to accurately portray the intended aircraft type. This is a great example of how good a […]
Back To Page 7 As I continue to climb I hit the magic “3000” altitude and the right engine catches on fire and starts smoking. Losing two Pratts in the same lifetime would be rare, let alone on the same flight! Another interesting failure that X-Plane allows for is the total separation of an […]
Back To Page 6 Heading down the runway in the B1900D I’ve just broken ground and am passing through 105 knots when the “trigger” fails the left engine on me. “Dead foot, dead engine” I say to myself as the airplane rolls into the dead engine and I push my right rudder pedal to […]
Back To Page 2 The sim has a very intuitive environmental set-up screen that allows you to quickly configure the weather for whatever conditions you seek. From perfectly clear skies and no-wind to hurricane conditions or low visibility, this sim can do it all. You can set the conditions manually, or you can check […]
Back To Page 1 There is an almost infinite amount of screen resolution sizes that you can select. Initially I was running at 1280 x 1024 but soon realized there was an advantage to running 1024 x 768. Settings such as “World Detail Distance” and “Number of Objects” and “Number of Roads” have direct […]
Back To Page 4 “Es war sehr schön, es hat mich sehr gefreut…” …translates to “it’s been very lovely, it was a pleasure”. Our old Austro-Hungarian Imperator Franz Joseph used to say that after a good theatre play, and I’m sure if he was still walking around today he’d say the same about the […]
Back To Page 3 The Stars of the Show… …as usual were the aerobatics display teams performing on fast Jets or Jet-Trainers. Careful selection of the air show weekend and good international contacts once again allowed the organizers to get five major European teams scheduled and also some of the less well-known ones. These […]
Back To Page 2 Turning Gas Into Noise… …is what the gentlemen flying modern combat planes specialize in. Like many others I love the smell of kerosene in the morning, and with more than half a dozen of solo jet displays there was no shortage of that. In sheer numbers, the Vipers probably won. […]
Back To Page 1 It’s All About Diversity… …these four words seem to sum up the successful concept of most European air shows, and the Airpower05 was certainly no exception. Featuring a wide range of planes dating from before WW2 into modern times there was bound to be something in it for everyone. As […]
by Guest Writer Helmut “RSColonel_131st” Skrdla If There Ever Was… …a historically significant time to hold an air show here in Austria, it clearly had to be this year. In total count, there was not one, not two, but actually three fifty-year jubilees waiting to be celebrated. Firstly, half a century ago the foreign ministers of […]
Back To Page 5 If there was any disappointment to the symposium, it was that the crowd didn’t get many details or stories out of Archie Donahue, who finished the war with fourteen kills and three probables. Donahue had the rare distinction of being an ace-in-a-day twice, downing five aircraft on both May 13, […]
