P-12C Pilot
The Flight Simulator experience and other tangential thoughts
Reality Check
Okay, back from reading through the links at sim-outhouse regarding my combat post. There certainly...
Author: P-12C Date: 12/22/2006
The Snow is Almost Gone
As some of you probably know, the Seattle area has had a lot of snow and stormy weather lately. The...
Author: P-12C Date: 12/02/2006
Helicopters in FSX
I've been meaning to post something about this for awhile and kept forgetting to do it. I saw a...
Author: P-12C Date: 11/06/2006
FSX Review by SimHQ
There have already been several previews and reviews of FSX and I rarely call them out in this blog,...
Author: P-12C Date: 11/05/2006
FS Weekend Day 1
After a fairly long drive in a taxi to Lelystad airport I entered the Aviodrome. The venue is...
Author: P-12C Date: 11/05/2006
Post on Avsim from Phil Taylor
If you are interested in what the ACES perf team is doing, you should read his post and the various...
Author: P-12C Date: 11/04/2006
Vista and DX10 Perf?
Many have asked what Vista will do for perf both with and without DX10 hardware. Considering Vista...
Author: P-12C Date: 11/03/2006
Patches or no patches?
We are working on the top issues end users are having with FSX with teams of people dedicated to...
Author: P-12C Date: 11/03/2006
FS on Xbox?
Speculation abounds about what our intentions may be with the Xbox 360, so I thought I would address...
Author: P-12C Date: 11/03/2006
Issues, issues, issues...
I wanted to let all of you know that we are listening, collecting, and discussing the issues and...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/27/2006
One Six Right
What a great aviation film. The team was invited to a private screening of this film in Seattle...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/27/2006
Making Missions More Realistic
I'm a little surprised by the number of screen shots from missions that show the mission pointer...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/18/2006
Easter Eggs in FSX?
Well yes we do have "easter eggs. For those that aren't familiar with easter eggs in this context,...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/18/2006
Top 10 Favorite Missions?
We have such a wide spread of mission types, that I would expect the answers to this question to...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/18/2006
First user created mission
Justin (my office mate and fellow designer) downloaded and flew the first user created mission...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/17/2006
Red Cessna
There have been a lot of questions about why the Red/Gold Cessna is actually white. The answer is a...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/16/2006
New FSinsider site up
The beginnings of a great new fsinsider is up courtesy of our community team. In the past this site...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/13/2006
Follow-up from Red Bull Air Races in San Francisco
I didn't go to the event as it just wasn't in the cards for me, but Brandon did go and he had a...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/11/2006
Autogen tweak that might help
Many of you have been frustrated that you can't control the density of autogen trees verses...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/10/2006
Performance Anxiety
Not mine, but FSX of course... The number of posts regarding FSX performance is staggering, but not...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/09/2006
FS in first person POV?...
There is an interesting thread on AVSIM which poses this question and which I read with interest...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/07/2006
All FSX all the time
I've been informed that this site isn't actually considered a personal site where I can post...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/05/2006
Back to work as they say
And happy to do so. After a week in Reno, then a couple days of work followed by a week in Maui, not...
Author: P-12C Date: 10/03/2006
P-12C still coming along nicely
My father has been working hard on the P-12 and is making great progress. Since my last report he...
Author: P-12C Date: 09/30/2006
I saw a shiny package...
...and you'll be seeing yours soon too. Maybe I shouldn't be saying this... Okay what I saw isn't on...
Author: P-12C Date: 09/30/2006
Thank you Brandon!
Now that I've gotten that last political rant off my chest (there are more waiting btw) I must say...
Author: P-12C Date: 09/30/2006
Thank you community sites!
I've been meaning to post a huge THANK YOU to all of the various sites that host forums and allow...
Author: P-12C Date: 09/20/2006
AVSIM Conference
I didn't go, as I'm sure you've figured out, I was in Reno, but I heard the show and the various...
Author: P-12C Date: 09/20/2006
Remembering September 11th
With respect and honor my heart goes out to the victims and survivors of the attacks on the World...
Author: P-12C Date: 09/11/2006
Keeping up on Reno
For those that are interested in following what's going on at the Air Races in Reno, the forums at...
Author: P-12C Date: 09/10/2006
Tutorial 12 Times
We have 12 tutorial missions in FSX. The last 4 are helicopter tutorials and the last one is really...
Author: P-12C Date: 09/10/2006
Devs flying missions...
As we wind down, a lot of the developers have been trying to catch their breath, so some of them...
Author: P-12C Date: 09/09/2006
Racing Reno Style!
Reno is just around the corner and I can't wait. I love seeing the warbirds take to the course, and...
Author: P-12C Date: 09/09/2006
Flying with a German Co-pilot
I have been helping test the Polish and German versions of FSX flying missions to see if things are...
Author: P-12C Date: 09/09/2006
Video Miami to Tampa on Vatsim
One of our beta testers pointed out this video of a pilot flying from Miami to Tampa starting in a...
Author: P-12C Date: 08/29/2006
Flying MP in FSX
Those that don't have bugs that must be fixed have all turned into testers, so several of us have...
Author: P-12C Date: 08/29/2006
Fire Storm of Opinion
I knew I was dropping a small bomb by talking about ATC in my last post. I know it's a charged...
Author: P-12C Date: 08/28/2006
FMS, ATC, SIDS & STARS
All of these features are often requested and we are very aware that one segment of our users want...
Author: P-12C Date: 08/24/2006
Simulation Enhancements in FSX
A lot of users have asked what we have done in the way of enhancements to aircraft and the...
Author: P-12C Date: 08/24/2006
No More "Blurries?"
Adam has been working hard on our scenery system and he has recently checked in a fix that should...
Author: P-12C Date: 08/20/2006
Moving Carriers
We do now have landable carriers that move in FSX. They are configurable so that you can move them...
Author: P-12C Date: 08/20/2006