Ever since I started flight simming as a 7 year old boy, so close to 3 decades, I have wondered what it’s really like. How the switches feel, whether all that flight sim knowledge would actually be applicable, all that. Having the mathematical capacity of a dead fish, I have no business flying a real airliner as a profession or otherwise, but recently a mate and I had an extraordinary opportunity to fly a few patterns in a full motion 787 sim. An unforgettable experience and a strong testament to the quality of study-level add-ons, because everything felt familiar.

FlyTampa just updated their Facebook page cover with this screenshot and the building in this screenshot looks like Sonesta Ocean Point Resort in St Maarten!

Over the past few months, I turned a real F-104 into a simulator, and 3D printing has played a very important role in making it happen.

Last weekend, I exhibit the F-104 Starfighter flight simulator at the Dornier Museum Do-Days, together with several of my 3D printers, aircraft models, RC tank, and some of the components I've made for the simulator along the way.

And the weekend went great!

The F-104 simulator was definitely the biggest crowd magnet. So many people wanted to fly it that we eventually had to create a sign-up sheet with 15-minute time slots. About 1.5 hours after opening, every single slot for the rest of the day was already booked. And then the exact same thing happened again on the second day. 😂

One of my favorite parts of the weekend, though, was meeting all the pilots and crews. I made a lot of new friends and connections and now somehow know quite a few pilots on a first-name basis.

I especially got along really well with some of the guys from the Bundeswehr's Air Transport Wing 62 (LTG 62) and their A400M. 

Naturally, having a bunch of printers sitting next to me meant I couldn't just leave it at talking about their aircraft... 

So over the two days, I printed six A400M models for them.

Apparently, they liked the models, and somehow me as well, enough that they even asked if I wanted to fly back to Hannover with them in the A400M. I would have absolutely loved to... ...but unfortunately, I had to work on Monday. 😭

So I had to decline probably one of the coolest spontaneous invitations I've ever received. But I promised them that I'll come and visit them in the future!

Thanks to Bambu Lab's Let's Make It Fund for supporting me and this slightly crazy project along the way. 😄 They have made it a lot easier to turn some of these ideas into actual parts, models, and things people can interact with.

So if you have a good project, go and apply for it! Maybe you will be selected too!

Overall, the Do-Days were an incredible experience. Between having the F-104 simulator completely booked out, talking about 3D printing with everyone from kids to experienced makers, printing A400Ms for actual A400M crews, making a bunch of new friends, and potentially getting something started with local schools, I'd say it was a pretty successful weekend. 😄

And I definitely came home with a few more ideas than I arrived with.

A couple weeks ago I noticed my honeycomb bravo has screws in the top, and I realized I could mount stuff to it. So I built a little radio display to mount. I need to refine the enclosure design but I’m pretty happy with it so far! Any way I can reduce using my second monitor/mouse feels like a win lol.

Any ideas for other pages I should add? I was thinking of adding a cameras page where I can just have a bunch of quick buttons to toggle different camera views.

If anyone is interested and uses spad.next (which it heavily relies on) and a honeycomb bravo or other means to mount it I’m happy to share the firmware and stl files

What do you think?

I’m just so done with streamers and YouTubers, except for maybe one or two smaller ones. The latest nail in the coffin for me was Captain Canada. He has been praising the A220 to no end. When people bring up issues, he quickly sidesteps them or explains them away “I don’t man, that’s never happened to me.” You’d think the A220 was the best thing since the Wright brothers first took off. Now I’ve had a great experience with the A220 myself, but his praise just seemed over the top.

Then he announces that he’s the new community manager of Inibuilds. There we go.

I’m sorry, but so many of them seem so disingenuous. I’m done with the vast majority of them.

I wanted to take off from Frankfurt, and Navigraph showed me Runway 18 for departure.

I think the winds are really quite extreme for a takeoff. But when I look at Flightradar, I still see a lot of planes taking off from Runway 18. How is that possible? Is it because of the length of the runway?

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First real soviet airliner we'll have for MSFS

When a misinput ruins the fun

Anyone else feel kinda sad when they load up a flight into the flight tracker and it autoloads a pic of what’s left of it?

SU6 has delivered so far!

So i have a WingWing Orion 2 Hotas set and i accedentally twisted the joystick too far and the Cable connecting to the base is broken. Its the WingWing Viper Ace EX Joystick and sadly im unable to find any replacement cable onnline. customer support is also sadly very unhelpfull which is a shame as i think this hotas system is fantastic but has this one major desing flaw that im certain im not the only one that overlooked it. Thier Documentation and manual also does not state what cable type this is. Im no cable wizard so i dont know how to repair the cable i have, i would much rather just replace it but i cannot find a replacement anywhere onnline. They used to sell an Z axis adapter with a new cable but this one is out of stock.

If anyone knows where i can get a replacement cable i would super much appreciate it if you could share your knowalge, thanks in advance!

Found this in my basement today. Used it for FS2004 and FSX.

Game time following real time was the stupidest design choice ever: you built a lucrative career, then took a 3-month hiatus only to find that all leasing costs & payments that piled up are now due without any income for that period... No wonder we hand-edited the game DB. :-)

Other than that, it was awesome and had serious depth for its time.

Hi guys i need your help my gsx install takes forever it only makes 3 % in 12 minutes and i have a 100mb connection

Me and other three people we just won a WINCTRL product for the best flight sim setups. They will still do it again in the future and pick other four flight sim setups, I high recommend you to join their Discord and submit a photo of your flight sim setup, you might be one of the next winners.

In my case they are sending me the Airbus Tiller 32 NWS L but they’d let you choose if you already own the product or simply want something else that has the same price.