AUGUST 2011
MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR X . . . . 
The Thrill of Flying!
Here's what I use to fly FSX:
Mainboard: DFI NF4-SLI-INF
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
Memory: 2 gig Corsair Memory Sticks
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 226BW 22"LCD
With all these scout badges, I feel like I should perform some good deeds, but not today. Actually these Microsoft awards are kinda fun to receive and I am quite pleased to achieve the 800 landings award. My total hours are now over 550 for this FSX version. IFR hours are quite difficult to accumulate cause you gotta actually be in the soup to get credit. Although over 95 percent of my flights are with IFR flight plans, I've finally achieved the 100 IFR hours mark, a major achievement for this pilot!
My aircraft preference is generally for twin turboprops, I've had a lot of fun taking my regional jet, the Bombardier CRJ700 into small area airports. Having tried carrier landings lately, I find that that takes a ton of control and concentration and I certainly need more practice. Also, I'm not too happy with the fact that the carriers are AI objects and replays of landings are not possible the way I've been doing it.
With this old fashioned winter we've got this season, I'm mostly taking short flights into the bad weather areas to sharpen my IFR skills. The thrills just keep on comming!
Now that I'm kinda satisfied with my settings, I'm enjoying my flights. Because I have so very many screenshots, I could not possibly show all of the good ones, so here I've just posted some I pulled out of the hundreds I've taken in the last few months on various flights. These are mostly all taken in the New England and New York areas. It seems that I'm just hooked on this "game" and get so much enjoyment out of my flights, always trying new challenging real weather situations and a variety of aircraft as you'll see below. Any comments or questions are welcomed here so see my email address below.
