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FLIGHT LESSONS
The Art of Instrument Flying
Looking for a challenge? You could try a dangerous visual approach around mountains… or perhaps flying with half your instruments dead! Partial Panel IFR is the subject of today’s Instrument Flying lesson.
Ground School
Keeping a logbook is not only law, but is also good pilot practice. Greg Trainer takes you through filling out logbooks and explains why they are so important to any real or virtual pilot’s career.
THIS ISSUES REVIEWS
• Flight 1’s Cessna 152 Package
• Sybex FS2004 Official Strategies & Secrets
• Visiontek Xtasy 9800 Pro
• Just Flight’s Memphis Belle
FREE CDROM CONTENTS
Commercial Flyable Demo's
Want to try out the latest and greatest simulators and add-ons? Here are just a few of the many that will feature on Computer Pilot's Cover CDs over the next 12 months: Wings of Honour, Megascenery USA 2004: Los Angeles / San Diego, Las Vegas "Glitter Gulch" Scenery for X-Plane v7.15+, MicroFlight v3.5 Demo
Videos / Media
We have several demo movies of some hot commercial products for you to take a look at including NaturalPoint's TrackIR head tracking device, a video from the new Wright Experience simulator, a clip from Megascenery USA Los Angeles and some ATC Audio of the last concorde flight provided by Tony Smith. Thanks Tony!

We have also included a full back issue of Computer Pilot Magazine (the April 2003 issue in PDF format) for your reading pleasure as well as an interesting article from Austin Meyer regarding his Cirrus aircraft.
Freeware
We have compiled a good selection of freeware aircraft/scenery/utilities for many different flight simulators. There are too many authors to thank here, but check out the CD for all their valuable work, and to find out who they all are!

December 2003
VOLUME 7 - ISSUE 12

Sub-Zero Aviation
Flying around in icy Winter conditions is certainly not for the faint-hearted. It requires special knowledge, special skills and techniques. Luckily, Francois Dumas is a ‘native’ of these conditions and comes to our rescue this issue..

Tips for Flight Simmers
Quick tips and ideas to enhance your flight simulation experience.

AVSIM Conference Report 2003
It is one of the biggest flight sim related conferences on the planet. Doug Horton was there to see the sights, meet the people, and of course, report the story for Computer Pilot as well!

The Best of 2003
Arturo Weiss takes a look back at the year 2003 and shows us some of the best freeware and commercial software to be released this year as well as some of the hottest selling hardware components. Don’t miss it!

Going Commercial with X-Plane
Who said our flight simulators were just ‘toys’? X-Plane is certainly far from it! Chuck Bodeen explores the wide use of this simulator in a number of commercial applications and settings

Round Robin Adventures
We are flying for WESTJET Airline based out of Calgary Alberta. Our flight will be very close to a regular route and will take us to Comox BC Canada and on to Edmonton Alberta and back to Calgary.

Mods and Rockers
Derek Davis takes a look at all the various enhancements, modifications and improvements eager simmers have made to some classic combat simulators

You Get What You Deserve!
Virus protection under the spotlight. Find out how to avoid catching a bad dose of Internet infection!

Show Me the Money!
Rod White explores the move by many freeware developers into the commercial/shareware realms.

Hardware Corner – Christmas Buyer’s Guide
Rod White tracks down some some hot hardware that should be on every simmer’s Christmas wish list!

From the EDITOR..

Here we are at the end of another volume of Computer Pilot Magazine! In fact, this was our largest volume ever, comprising 12 issues. We have been so busy here at the Computer Pilot offices of late that we only realized after the release of the November issue that it was our 50th published issue of the magazine! Oh well, I guess we will have to wait until the 75th issue now and remember back to the 50th issue as the first issue to feature a Cover CD, something definitely unforgettable!

And speaking of Cover CDs, how did you all enjoy the first? Let us know if you liked/disliked the format, the way it was presented, or the content included on the CD. What would you like to see more, or less of? Do you have any other suggestions or have a favorite file you would like to see included? Remember, this is YOUR magazine, and YOUR Cover CD. Without your input, we can only guess what you would like to find in our publication, so send us email to editor@computerpilot.com or log onto our forums via the Computer Pilot Website and express some thoughts, words of wisdom or ideas you might have.

We have quite a mixed bag of content this issue, all of which we hope you will enjoy. There are plenty of great add-ons, demos and videos again to be found on this month’s Cover CD, so what are you waiting for? Stop reading my long-winded, overbloated column and strap yourself in for another round of Computer Pilot Magazine - the World’s ONLY monthly flight simulation magazine, now with Cover CDs too!

Dean Bielanowski
Editor



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