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Hi, Folks, As I'm sure many of you have noticed we were offline for almost two days. I certainly apologize for the downtime and inconvenience involved with this. The short of this is our server has a RAID-10 setup (four hard drives, two of which are for mirroring/backup). In a rare event, not only did a production hard drive fail, but a backup drive failed at the same time. The RAID controller was also shot, which we believe to be the primary cause in this. As a result, our "live" backup of the websites were lost entirely. That said, we do snapshot backups of our server data every evening and place these backups on an entirely different server. Because of this, we have lost about only hours worth of posts on X-Pilot (very minimal), but that's about it since the snapshot last backed up was less than 24 hours prior to the server crash. In the grand scheme of things this is very minimal after what happened, and most of you won't notice anything missing at all....just a few posts from the day of February 23rd. Because of the nature of the failure and having to transfer the backup from our offline backup server to our new server, this process took quite a while to come back to life. I want to personally thank all of your for your patience as we have worked tirelessly to restore services. Blue Skies! -Cameron

Notice my face in the reflection from the Cockpit. (Either that, or Somene is talking to me from above).

My new video guys. I hope you like it as much as I love this scenery. The ISDG group is, in my humble opinion, what makes the X-Plane community so special. Where else can you get something like this amazing piece of work for free ? There are a few other groups like this out there but they are far a few between. Between these types of groups and several single person developers X-Plane10 is much more than I ever imagined it would be.

Approaching the peak of Mt Denali (20,320 ft) in Alaska in my Aviat A-A1 Husky by STMA

'Ryanair, you just screwed everything' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283617/Ryanair-just-screwed-What-Dublin-Airport-flight-controller-told-airline-plane-forced-jets-abort-landing.html Aviation authorities are investigating a serious incident at Dublin Airport in which a Ryanair plane taxied the wrong way down a runway on which other planes were about to land. Ryanair flight FR227, from ­London Stansted to Dublin, missed its exit and made a 180-degree turn at the end of the runway, before heading back the way it had come – causing other flights to abort or delay landings. Dramatic recordings of Air Traffic Control communications describe how the Ryanair flight had to ‘brake hard’. Other planes were ordered ‘go around’. The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating the incident, in which FR227 attempted another unauthorised turn before being directed onto another exit. After the incident, another Ryanair plane, EI-DWR, addressed as Three Whiskey Romeo, asks the tower: ‘What was wrong with the runway?’ The control tower replies: ‘Well what happened was one of your company aircraft landed on runway 28, appeared to be going to the very end of the runway and just before they got to Bravo 7 [a runway exit], they made a 180 degree turn which, uh, just screwed everything.’ In the incident, FR-227 had been cleared to land on Runway 28. After landing, air traffic control called the crew and requested they ‘expedite vacating the runway’ which the crew acknowledged. Almost immediately, the incredulous­-sounding controller asked the crew: ‘227, have you made a 180?’. The response from the crew was: ‘Affirm.’ The controller immediately alerted the next incoming aircraft, Aer Lingus flight EI-249 from London Gatwick, telling it: ‘Go around.’ The Aer Lingus plane – about to land on Runway 28, where FR-227 was now taxiing the wrong way – aborted its landing and flew around the airport to come in for another approach. While Aer Lingus flight EI-249 had not been cleared to land, the flight was less than a minute from touchdown when the crew was forced to abort. The controller also advised the crew of the next inbound flight, Aer Lingus EI-627 from Copenhagen: ‘Possible go-around now, traffic has made a 180 on the runway.’ Ryanair 227 then called the tower to advise it they were turning off at taxiway Echo 7. The tower controller told the pilot: ‘No, you can’t make that turn. You’ve got to all the way down the runway to Echo 5. This meant that the Ryanair jet had to travel almost halfway back down the 2.6km runway. No other aircraft could land or take off until the aircraft had cleared the runway. Soon afterwards, the controller confirmed to flight EI-627 that it too would have to abort its landing and go around. The tower next made several attempts at finding out from Ryanair 227 exactly why it had made the unauthorised 180-degree turn rather than continue to the end of the runway and exit at Bravo 7. The crew explained they’d had issues with the landing and had had to brake hard. While the runway was effectively closed for less than 15 minutes, a total of eight flights were affected. It’s likely that the incident cost both Ryanair and Aer Lingus thousands of euro in extra fuel. Hundreds of passengers were delayed. Ryanair came under fire late last year after three of its planes made emergency landings in Valencia, Spain, in just one day. Budget airlines. Budget training. First Class screw-ups.

Carenado's next X-Plane model is available now!! This Beechcraft A36 is awesome! She's got an Aspen EFD1000 and dual GNS430's. I've flown her a couple of hours now and I think she ranks right up there with the Skymaster and the Caravan. The EFD1000 implementation is a welcome addition!

KingAirB200 with my own livery of the Alaska State Troopers, Advance check of the Iditarod route, in preparation of the March 2nd Iditarod race.

http://pilotedge.net'>PilotEdge is pleased to invite you to join us for the 2nd part of our IFR workshop series tonight, Feb 26, at 7pm PST (Feb 27 0300z). Tonight's workshop will focus on IFR Enroute procedures, including decoding enroute charts, MEA's, MCA's, holding, change-over points, and navigation techniques. It will last for 2 hours and will be held live on the DigitalThemePark Teampspeak3 server (ts3.digitalthemepark.com). More info is available here: http://www.pilotedge.net/workshops/ifr-enroute-procedures-and-decoding-enroute-charts The last workshop was held 2 weeks ago (they run every other Tuesday) and covered IFR Departures. That workshop is available here:http://youtu.be/fe3HFoEfNTc These workshops are available to the general public. You do NOT need to be a PiltotEdge member to attend. In fact, there's very little discussion about PilotEdge. These are simply a great venue for discussing procedures, techniques and regulations for real world VFR and IFR flying (in the US, at least).

I felt naked without xpilot

Some night VFR in the BK17. Departing 50D for 3BS: Approaching 3BS: Dropping in on the airfield:

I dont know how to make plane maker flight models, or animating, so this probably wont make it to X-Plane. I model this for practice only and texture experiments (For now)....

Already done. We'll show more previews as things continue to progress.

Prototype? you mean Beta? or first release?