Rick310

When I am flight simming, I live in the virtual world. My wife in the virtual world is the station chief at 1L1. I have been gone for over a month flying in Alaska.

Made my way down to Oregon. Almost home. I will try to make to 1L1 today in one 3 hour flight so I can kiss my wife hello. LOL

Not the answer I was looking for, but I get it. Not your department. I have not bought x-plane 12 for reasons I have already shared on x-pilot.com. Thank-you for your time, Sir. I have yet to see a brand new flight simulator just released that ain't a piece of garbage. I bought x-plane 11 in 2019, two years after it was released and I have had 5 CTD's since I bought the simulator. And x-plane 12 after two years of being released will be stable and have plenty of 3rd party stuff available.

As a member of the Laminar team, Please give me a little insight about what is going on with X-plane 12. Maybe a short little roadmap?

After a long day of flying today. About 5 and a half hours of flying time, I have finally out of Alaska and in BC Canada. Will be landing at Port Hardy CYZT.

From what I see on FSElite.net. MSFS2024 has taken center stage at the FlightSim Expo 2023. And most of the Developers are focused on MSFS2020 and MSFS2024. Except for the developers here at x-pilot.com. Sorry x-plane fans, No question in my mind, X-plane 12 has taken a back seat at the FlightSim Expo 2023. Austin and LR better pick up their game if they want to keep up with Mircrosoft. Now would be the time for Austin to STEP IT UP! Or X-plane 12 will crash and burn. And Microsoft will be in full control of the flight sim world again. If they are not already??? NOT me, X-plane forever. Mircrosoft can kiss my a@#. Just calling it like I see it.

Lincoln county airport is the main hub for Air Nevada. I will looking forward to returning home. I have made an airport scenery for Lincoln County Airport and down the road you will be able to see my Virtual house. This is the first VA run by a husband and a wife. My wife and I run this VA. She is the CEO of Air Nevada. I travel from airport to airport. The airport I land at is the one I take off from. No teleporting. And I do this in small aircraft. In three years I have over 2000 flights and over 4000 flight hours. Flight simulation is my life. Fly everyday, all day. I feel I am one of the best simulation pilots. I test my skills every day on the IVAO network with live ATC. Flying as real as it gets.

Finally, the weather broke and I am in the air. From PAVD to PAYA. Along the coast of southern Alaska. I have two or three more flights in Alaska then I will enter Canada and pass through the Vancouver area and then enter the lower forty eight. I have around another five to six days of flying before I get home. If you sit around and worry about the weather, you will never spin a prop. A Quote from Jim Tweto.

I not willing to do it. Too big of commitment for me. This would cut deeply into my flying time. I was hoping C would commit on my last post.

Sad but true, the .org site dominates the X-plane world. I wish @Cameron would being some that over to X-pilot.com. One area I would like to see is the scenery developers like MisterX over here at X-pilot.com and others I can not name. If I knew how the get in touch with MisterX, I would invite him over here, but I don't know how. Already gave my rant about .org sh#$ hole.

So you have never went around the world in a big bird(airliner)? I did a few times back in the of FS9 days, Never in x-plane. One day when I am ready, I would like to ask you send some good municipal airports in North Carolina. So I can add them to my database in my VA. Most of my flying is in the US. Mainly the western US, but go east as far as Kansas, Texas and sometimes Louisiana. Last summer I spent all summer in Alaska. I started to do the same this summer, but cut short because I think to much. I do plan to go back next summer. Thank-you for your kind words.

Ok, then tell me who mSparks is? He talks like he is a Developer of something. Or just full sh@#? I agree, they hate x-plane and love MSFS2020.

No they don't.

Leaving Alaska and heading home to Panaca, Nevada.

Go to AVSIM.com and tell those people how great X-plane 12 is and see what they say.

Lost my mojo to fly in Alaska. I am headed home to Panica, Nevada. Rest in Peace Jim Tweeto. But I will back next summer.

I will be flying two VA's today. Air Nevada and Platinum Airways in Alaska. See ya in the air.

All that is left is reading the SID and STAR charts. I can not do that in this platform. Good Luck.

OH MY!!! He died doing what he loved to do. Ariel was quoted as saying. A legend in Alaskan aviation. Very sad. Fly Wild Alaska has been my favorite series to watch for many years and I still watch it today.

Copy that.

I get it. I not big on Avionics. I am old school with the basic gauges with a GPS autopilot. I like when Austin explains how he flys from taking off to climbing to talking to ATC to power setting on climb and monitoring engine temps, then you reach your cruise attitude and set your power setting, you finally get look outside of the aircraft. But until then you are so busy in the cockpit you do not have time to look at all the eye candy that you may want to look at. This is SO true! I really really loved that interview. The best part was his thoughts on what a flight simulator should look like and feel like. A flight simulator is about flying a airplane just like a real world airplane would fly. Thank you @VirtualGAaviator

Very nice. But too long for my attention span. Great work, Sir.

STAR is a standard instrument terminal arrival procedure. This chart shall provide the flight crew with information to enable it to comply with the designated standard instrument arrival route from the en-route phase to the approach phase. The chart shall be identified by the name of the city or town or area which the aerodrome serves. The coverage of the chart shall be sufficient to indicate the points where the en-route phase ends and the approach phase begins. Bearings, tracks and radials are magnetic. Where bearings and tracks are additionally provided as true values for RNAV segments, they shall be shown in parentheses to the nearest tenth of a degree. The aerodrome of landing shall be shown by the runway pattern. The established minimum sector altitude, based on a navigation aid associated with the procedure, shall be shown with a clear indication of the sector to which it applies. The components shall comprise the following: 1) a graphic portrayal of each standard arrival route, including route designator significant points defining the route track or radial to the nearest degree along each segment of the route distances to the nearest kilometer or nautical mile between significant points minimum obstacle clearance altitudes, along the route or route segments and altitudes required by the procedure to the nearest higher 50 m or 100 ft and flight level restrictions where established where the chart is drawn to scale and vectoring on arrival is provided, established minimum vectoring altitudes to the nearest higher 50 m or 100 ft, clearly identified 2) the radio navigation aid(s) associated with the route(s) including: plain language name; identification; frequency; geographical coordinates in degrees, minutes and seconds; for DME, the channel 3) the name-codes of the significant points not marked by the position of a radio navigation aid, their geographical coordinates in degrees, minutes and seconds and the bearing to the nearest tenth of a degree and distance to the nearest two-tenths of a kilometer (tenth of a nautical mile) from the reference radio navigation aid 4) the applicable holding patterns 5) the transition altitude/height to the nearest higher 300 m or 1000ft 6) the position and height of close-in obstacles which penetrate the obstacle identification surface (OIS) 7) the area speed restrictions, where established 8) the designation of the navigation specification(s) including any limitations, where established 9) all compulsory and "on-request" reporting points 10) radio communication procedures, including: call sign(s) of ATS unit(s); frequency; transponder setting, where appropriate 11) an indication of "flyover" significant points The system of designators shall: permit the identification of each route in a simple and unambiguous manner make a clear distinction between departure routes and arrival routes, departure or arrival routes and other ATS routes, routes requiring navigation by reference to ground based radio aids or self-contained airborne aids, and routes requiring navigation by visual reference to the ground be compatible with ATS and aircraft data processing and display requirements be of utmost brevity in its operational application avoid redundancy provide sufficient possibility for extension to cater for any future requirements without the need for fundamental changes The coded designator of a standard departure or arrival route shall consist of: a coded indicator or named code of the significant point of the procedure, followed by a validity indicator, followed by a route indicator (optional and where required) followed by the word "arrival" for the plain language designator, followed by the word "visual" for the plain language designator, if the route has been established for use by aircraft operating in accordance with the visual flight rules (VFR)

The weather is turning in Alaska. I am in Barrow, and it looks good. Where oh where can I go now. The JF Piper Arrow 3 is running good, no problems so far.

The weather has been nice all week up here. Yeah it has been in the low 90's here in vegas, it should be hanging around 100 this time a year.