Darren's Flightsim Blog

flying with only the keyboard in simulator

For nearly 30 years I've been using the keyboard and I have been enjoying it very much. I've tried the yoke and I still didn't get used to it!

I notice that it's not all that hard..I've been able to take off and land with all sorts of random aircraft big and small with no problem and am able to really get down to earth with the flying aspects on the keyboard...

Flying with the keyboard does mean that there are fewer things to break... yokes are about 2-3 pounds or more and there are parts to break that won't allow the machine to work or they are expensive than buying another one isn't worth it...

I seem to feel like I am the only one of maybe just 2-3 people that may still fly using the keyboard. Im not here to say anything about, or bash the yoke users I'm just here to say that if you want to be able to fly with the keyboard it's possible and I've been doing it for nearly 30 years!!

have a good day!1

Va locations as of 10/12/19

1.Buffalo:CYHY
2.Westjet:CYVR
3.CP Air:CYYZ
4.Alaska:KSUN
5.Froggie: PHNL

another virtual pilot notam!

so it looks like if you want to use sqawkbox for fs2002/4 anymore they have (Vatsim inc) decided to not support it anymore as well as FSinn and a few others.

So for now here are the server changes

!SERVERS:

CANADA:165.22.239.218:Toronto, Canada:CANADA:1:

GERMANY:167.71.49.142:Frankfurt, Germany:GERMANY:1:

AUSTRALIA:180.200.247.40:Australia:OCEANIA:1:

SINGAPORE:68.183.185.148:Singapore:SINGAPORE:1:

UK:167.71.136.59:London, UK:UK:1:

USA-EAST:134.209.67.219:New York, USA:USA-EAST:1:

USA-WEST:165.22.163.56:San Francisco, USA:USA-WEST:1:

Current VA Locations

Alaska: KSFO
American:(unsure because of the behindness of VA)
Westjet:Toronto
Buffalo:CYSM (on the new B206 Tour)
CP Air:KRSW
Froggie Air:KISP
Ozark:KMSP

i think that's it for the time being

Twin Otter Best Liveries

Thes livery list is not suppoed to mean i like these over the others...just my fav so far..

Winair
Maldivian Air Taxi
NOAA
British Airways
CC-138 RCAF
Harbour Air
Air Inuit
Northwright Airlines
Ken Borrek
WestCoast Air

special notam for flight sim pilots

For those hoping to get a a little more real world weather showing up in flights, you might have used the FS9 and FSX default real world weather, since their inceptions onto the market until just a year or so ago.

Since then users of both sims have been relegated to use some free and some paid options out there, most FSX users are using Activesky and FS9 users are to use FSRealwx (or any others that work) for the mean time.

They both quite fix the problem of getting info downloaded only after 15mins (default on both sims) and relegate it to whatever you the end user wants. It could be however long you need to wait for weather info to download.

FSRealwx comes in two forms, one for free and one you pay (i think). FSrealwx Lite is a freeware weather program that will work for both sims (check them first as i have forgotten). FSRealwx Pro is a free for 30 days then pay up type of service and weather program...both work and look the same way just one has a limit of 30 days and then you have to pay for the product.Those have worked great in the years past and will continue to work for more years.

I find nowadays many people come into the flightsim community asking what weather program to use, there are only these listed below to use with the assorted sim and program. some of this is confusing as the payware one should be payware and would thus be easier to talk about.

FS9 has FSRealwx Lite
FSX has FSRealwxPro and AS16+ASCA

both of the fsrealwx can be found on their website https://www.fsrealwx.net/

if you want to use the AS16+ASCA go to https://hifisimtech.com/

Hoping that you can get to this, this is a great set of sites and programs to add a little more realism to your sim...

heres hoping that the notification of that these are the only ones you can use for both sim can be given to you...yes there are only two types of weather progras as listed above fsrealwx and as16...check them both out!!