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Non-Traditional Airports |
If you’re bored of landing on tarmac or concrete, then let Peter James offer some alternatives in this lesson that looks at operating on unusual surfaces, at some very “untraditional” airports!
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A ‘Dirty’ Night in Naples |
Captain Charlie recounts a flight where weather was less than enjoyable over the Italian coastline. Real and simulated flying rarely get as hot as this, battling thousands of tons of aircraft in less than ideal circumstances!
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Formation Flying |
Up for a challenge? Formation Flying can be tricky, dangerous, exciting and rewarding! Greg trainer provides some great tuition on basic formation flying and how you can safely undertake it in the virtual air. |
| THIS ISSUES REVIEWS |
• First Flight: The Wright Experience
• Track IR2 Head Tracker
• Voice Buddy
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• Cover CD Information
• Horton’s Hints for FS2004
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Secret Weapons over Normandy Demo |
Save yourself the 164Mb download but grabbing this LucasArts demo of Secret Weapons over Normandy off this month’s Cover CD. Is it a real flight simulator, or a console ‘game’ converted to PC format? Try it and see for yourself!
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X-Plane Photographic Scenery : England & Wales |
This demo version courtesy of Circle Software & Simulation contains a 1 degree area of scenery from the full version to be released shortly. The demo version covers an area of Southern England from Latitude N50 to N51 degrees and Longitude W002 to W001 degrees. This essentially contains the whole of the Isle of Wight and part of the Southern-Central coast covering Southampton and Bournemouth.
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Videos/Media |
Want to see Mike Pohl’s Aerodomes in action? Well we have a short video clip supplied by Mike showing these great setups running in full motion. I bet any simmer would almost give their right arm to have one of these in their office/bedrooms! Check it out, plus the other great video content on this month’s Cover CD for your viewing pleasure.
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Freeware |
Great selection of freeware including Lee Swordy's AFCAD program and supplementary material from the Computer Pilot Team!
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March 2004
VOLUME 8 - ISSUE 3
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Wings Over Japan |
Francois Dumas takes to the Land of the Rising Sun looking for virtual flight adventure. Follow along on his journey as he discovers what’s hot, and what’s not about flying in Japan.
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X-Plane Nuts & Bolts |
This short mini series of articles will provide X-Plane fans with a bunch of great tips and tricks for getting the most out of the growing simulator. X-Plane expert, Chuck Bodeen has the inside knowledge on how you can improve your X-Plane experience.
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Crosscheck: Getting it Wright! |
Andrew Jones takes us back over 100 years into aviation history to look at how well our current day simulators replicate the classic Wright Flyer aircraft. We explore Microsoft Flight Simulator’s offering against a new simulator on the market dedicated to the Wright Brother’s flying creation.
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“Humoring the Stodgies” |
A novel about flight simming? There’s a novel idea. With universal and perpetual emphasis on realism in this computer-generated hobby, who would have thought fiction would be of interest to anyone? To wit, all the books, magazine articles, and miscellaneous documents published about flight simming since the hobby’s inception are non-fiction… Until now!
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Mike Pohl’s Aces Flight Simulation Center |
From Virtually Fun to Realistically Profitable – Arturo Weiss discovers how one man started off by selling $39.95 gift certificates for one hour simulated dog fighting sessions in a small shop-front to earning a six-figure contract with Lockheed-Martin!
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New Generation Monitors |
Confused by all the new-age monitors appearing on the shelves and how well they work for flight sims? Rod White provides some answers on the mysteries of LCDs, flatscreens and many other high-tech monitors invading the market.
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Customizing AI Traffic for FS2004 Part II |
Doug Horton continues his discussion/tutorial on adding AI traffic to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 in the final chapter of this two-part series.
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Top Gun Fighter School: The A-10A Thunderbolt |
Can’t get your head around the aircraft in Lock On: Modern Air Combat? Derek Davis offer some advice and handy hints this issue of the A-10A Thunderbolt Tank Killer! A great aircraft for beginners through advanced.
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Hardware Corner |
In this issue we take a closer look at M-Audio’s Sonica Theater 7.1 sound device,
Altec Lansing’s MX-5021 THX certified 2.1 speaker system, Leadtek’s A360TD GeForce FX 5700 128MB graphics solution, X-Micro’s WLAN 11.b Broadband Router and Fuji’s FinePix S5000 digital camera for the aviation happy snappers among us.
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Getting the Most from PMDG’s 737NG |
The Precision Manuals 737 for FS2004 is a very popular and complex add-on indeed. Andrew Jones shows us how we can make the most of the experience by offering some great tips on flying the aircraft.
From the EDITOR..
Welcome to the March 2004 issue of Computer Pilot Magazine. Things are busier than ever at the Computer Pilot office as we work on bringing our internal schedules forward to reduce the effect that recent mail and delivery delays have caused for readers in certain parts of the globe. This process has to occur over a period of twelve months, but our aim is to continue to bring our deadlines forward so the magazine will get to readers and subscribers much earlier in the month. Please bare with us while we work toward meeting the new schedule. You will of course still receive issues on a regular monthly basis, so there is no real change in that respect.
The final touches are currently being applied to the new Computer Pilot magazine website. Keep an eye out at www.computerpilot.com for the new site. We hope it will provide a faster, more user-friendly interface to finding information about the magazine and updating your personal details.
Arturo Weiss has written a great piece on Mike Pohl and the ACES Flight Simulation Center. It’s a really great story well compiled and written by Arturo, so be sure to check that out first. Plus of course, there is a wealth more of quality content this issue that should catch many simmer’s interests.
For those looking for a reasonably good simulation of carrier landings, check out Lock On: Modern Air Combat. I must confess to spending the last few nights shooting carrier approaches in the SU-33. Great fun indeed and a sim that becomes more enjoyable the more you use it! Ok enough rambling, I do hope you enjoy this issue of Computer Pilot Magazine – the World’s largest, and only monthly print magazine for flight simulation enthusiasts!
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