Followings are the cockpit pictures from Thomas Campbell who basically built his cockpit on the Volair Sim Avionics Panel. It looks pretty nice.
Builder: Thomas Campbell
Location: Columbia, South Carolina, USA
ICAO: KCAE – Columbia Metropolitan Airport
KCUB – Jim Hamilton L B Owens Airport
Many friends emailed me how I find the new 64-bit Prepar3D v4. I wish I had some comments but I am still repacking my room with so many things to tidy up and clean before I can move on to set up my new cockpit. Moreover, it’s really no rush at this moment as there are so many addons needing to be updated before they can fully work with the new simulator.
Followings are some photos of the status of my room so far.
Lockheed Martin has just announced that Prepar3D v4 will be public released on May 30. And finally it is 64-bit.
The company says that the new version will completely change the simulation landscape with a comprehensive baseline update to a 64-bit architecture. Higher resolution visuals, more objects, increased data precision, larger scenarios, and improved performance are now all possible at levels never seen before in the product’s history.
No information about whether we current users need to pay for the update or not. The company says more details Continue reading
by Michael Basler
Here are good news. I just tested SPAD.neXt with FSW support and was positively surprised. My Prepar3d C182 profile (which, of course doesn’t have a counterpart in FSW) works excellently with the FSW Piper. This includes 
notably Tom’s gauges. Some of them are of course not appropriate for the Piper, but the values are all displayed and even the Flaps indicator moves.
I find this great news. Continue reading
Followings are a picture chronology of how Shawn Carrier who turned pieces of wood into his home cockpit. Actually he submitted the pictures to me back in April. But due to my forgetfulness, the images were not posted until now.
Builder: Shawn Carrier
Location: Miamisburg, Ohio, USA
ICAO: KMGY – Dayton Wright Brothers Airport
by Colin Moir
Followings are comments originally sent by Colin regarding the early access of the Flight Sim World (FSW). As it is generally covering many aspects of the product, I am posting it as a full piece instead. BTW, sorry to hear that Colin had a bad fall at home while doing DIY recently. Hope him get well soon.
Installed FSW last night too, can’t complain about the price (free) as I’d already bought Flight School … a nice gesture from them, but I’m sure future DLC is where Dovetail expect to make money from this title, it all seems a bit raw just now and that’s expected because its early access … really like the windscreen rain effects, this reminds me of the old Flight Unlimited 2 from Looking Glass, if they can get the effect to change as the Aircraft travels faster I think they will have nailed this visual effect. Continue reading
Whether you are entitled for a free copy of the Flight Sim World on Steam, it is just available for download now. It comes with over 15 GB of contents. Still need time to explore how it performs comparing to the previous Flight School and FSX. Anyway, facing with more and more competition, P3D should be more aggressive and go 64-bit asap.
By the way, my system will be down in the next couple of days due to room rearrangement. May not reply to emails and questions at all.
First Impression:
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Below is the de Havilland Beaver simulator by Beaverpilot in Canada. He believes it is the first DHC-2 model to scale as far as he knows. What we see below is about 8 years of his work with some time off. No doubt, it’s amazing.
Builder: Beaverpilot
Location: Northeastern Ontario, Canada
ICAO: CYCN, CNN5 waterdrome
Following the X-Plane C172SP, the Cessna Shared Compass for FSX/P3D aircraft has also upgraded with similar changes to allow the exclusion of OMI markers and NAV/GPS indicators. In addition, a new version specifically customized for the A2A aircraft is also released.
Although these three Wet Compasses look similar in appearances, they do have differences in many ways from each other. For example, there is no “BOTH” communication option on A2A and X-Plane. The sound buttons, OMI markers and NAV/GPS indicators are also responding differently according to the status of the battery and avionics switches.
The main purpose of making all these similar but different versions available (which applies to all my other gauges) is to Continue reading
FS Times 