I use to see road traffic. Was very cool to see…especially at night. Traffic coming towards you have white headlights, going away red tail lights. I actually made a flight plan just to fly over I-95 just to see it. This is very easy to do using Little Navmap. Then it just disappeared (the traffic …
Category Archives: X-Plane
Added another new short flight plan
KSNA [John Wayne] (RW 02L) to KLGB [Long Beach] (RW 30)
VFR vs IFR and video resolution
I have what most people using flight sims would call a very under powered video card, a Nvidea Geforce GT 730 2GB. A fairly old card by today’s standards. At least that’s my impression considering what I’ve read/watched. However it’s been more than adequate for the vast majority of what I do. I’m not a …
Added new short flight plan
I should add these are short fun flight plans to practice with. You’re not likely to land at an AFB Airport. KLAS [Harry Reid International Airport] to KLSV [Nellis AFB Airport]. This one is fun because if you turn early after takeoff you’re likely to head towards tall buildings such as Mandalay Bay.
X-Plane-11 – KBUR to KLAX success!
Failure yesterday…success today! KBUR [Bob Hope Airport Burbank] > KLAX (RW 24L) short flight plan with ILS landing. Just meant to fly again looking for reason for failure yesterday…but success. However after approach turn at BOUBY to SUTIE I appeared way left of magenta line, heading to runway. Didn’t seem enough time to meet it. …
X-Plane 11 – Flight plans and ILS approaches
My beloved mother died a year ago today. So I need a distraction. I’ve been looking for short trips to practice flying a flight plan with ILS approach. Don’t want to fly 100 miles just to see if I’m successful or not. Googled and didn’t find much help. So I thought I’ll figure it out …
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X-Plane 11 – flight plan frustrations Pt 2
Trying to do something I’ve successfully done many times before and failing with the GNS 530 has been very frustrating. It’s been awhile so I assumed the problem was mine. It just didn’t make sense. So I decided to try flying with the GS1000. I never used this instrument before and yet on only my …
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X-Plane 11 – flight plan frustrations
On my return to X-Plane, finding it very frustrating executing a basic flight plan. Especially when adding an approach. As a programmer I feel I’m relatively good at following instructions. So why do I “program” destinations into the GNS 530 and the plane ignores them? Even when I literately follow a YT video step by …
X-Plane 11
Getting back into X-Plane 11. After mom passed almost a year ago, I briefly “played” with X-Plane, but it just didn’t seem right to be playing “games” at that point. Even though I consider X-Plane 11 a simulation and not a game, as I describe here. I know there are differing opinions on this. Anyway …
X-Plane 12
Worth mentioning that it has been announced. I’ve enjoyed X-Plane 10 & 11. It’s a big satisfaction to me, who at this point in my life will never fly an actual plane. It’s something you can “play” that you can actually learn something from so it’s educational too. But honestly, I don’t see myself playing …