Thursday, December 17, 2009

Glider Soaring on Flight Simulator X

Fly gliders is a fun undergo, and FSX has added features that now allow us to fly gliders is some realistic waye. Keep reading to learn how to fly a sailplane in Flight Sim X.

Go to in game's "Free Flight" by selecting it on the main menu.

Select the glider you want to fly.

Select the airfield were you want to depart and hit Fly now.

Once airplane and scenery is loaded hit Ctrl + Shift + Y keys simoultaneously, this will "call" the tow plane.

After a few seconds you will feel tow plane starting the take off run, once reach hundred feets above the runway, hit the G key to retract the landing gear.

Keep your glider behind and a little over the tow plane flight path at all times.

Once you reach 1500 feet above the groud you can hit the Shift + Y key combination to release tow airplane rope.

In order to keep flying you have to maintain over sunny areas and objective structures, as thermals (hot air ascending) are belike to be over these areas, and fastness the glider adrift.

If your glider is equiped with a variometer you will hear some beeps, high pitched and fast beeps indicates your plane is being elevated by upward air flow, higher the pitch and faster the beeps indicates stronger level of ascentional forces. If it drifts too low, start a shallow dive until the variometer beep pitch raises backwards up.

When you are willing to land, ask ATC for landing clearance, point your plane on the landing pattern to your airfield, once in "with the wind" pattern hit G key to extend the landing gear. You must use the speed brakes and flaps to put your airplane under the correct glide path and speeds.

These procedures will let you fly gliders and have a good time, but with the inherent game limitations, you will not be able to soar on ridges and with more realistics thermal environment. On my next article I will explain you how to fly gliders under realisting soar environments, including rigde soaring.

Where do you get more resources? Get new FSX gliders and FSX scenery

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Carenado on Twitter

Carenado has opened an Twitter channel so people can follow closedly and know more about recent releases, news and promotions.

Follow Carenado at http://www.twitter.com/Carenado

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

fsinsider ...goodbye?

As you may noticed, the Flight Simulator resources website established by Microsoft some years ago, www.fsinsider.com is slowly disappearing, you can notice the domain now redirects to microsoft.com sub-pages, another sign that MS is throwing Flight Simulator away?

Mycockpit.org Announces Podcast

Mycockpit.org, the world's largest community for home cockpit builders, is proud to announce its very own Podcast, in association with FSBreak.net. This podcast is a trial edition and talks about some features of mycockpit.org and an exclusive interview with a renowned home cockpit builder. The future editions of mycockpit.org podcast will carry some exclusive discussions on home cockpit building, including discussions with the experts, some vendors and much much more.
You can access the podcast now from http://www.mycockpit.org

New YouTube Channel by Space Shuttle Mission 2007

Exciting Simulations has launched a YouTube channel for the Space Shuttle Mission simulator.

The channel will be used for posting training videos, trailers of specific features and maneuvers and even full-mission movies.

The first available video is the recently-released updated trailer which emphasizes the new launch effects, ISS rendezvous, V-BAR approach and docking, EVA, and the collimated HUD during landing.

The new channel can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/user/spaceshuttlemission

The Space Shuttle Mission 2007™ is available for online purchase in downloadable format at the SSM2007 official web site: www.space-shuttle-mission.com. The latest and updated Demo can also be downloaded freely at the same web site.

You can read more about Space Shuttle Mission 2007™ on the web:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/exciting.simulations

Blog: http://ssm2007.blogspot.com/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SSM2007

YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/spaceshuttlemission

Wiki: http://wiki.ssm-fans.info/

Carenado Sale

Carenado will start a holiday promotion for a limited time.

Starting on Sunday 6th, 2009 at 00.00 GMT The following aircraft will have a 30% discount until December, 19th, 00.00 GMT.

Flight Simulator X: Piper PA-28-181 Archer II FSX / Cessna C152 FSX / Cessna C172N Skyhawk II FSX / Mooney M20J FSX / Piper PA28 Arrow IV FSX

Flight Simulator 2004: Piper PA-28-181 Archer II FS2004 / Cessna C152 FS2004 / Cessna C172N Skyhawk II FS2004 / Mooney M20J FS2004 / Piper PA28 Arrow IV FS2004

http://www.fsx-download.com/specials.html