I can't remember the most recent time I've seen this posted (or where), but I've seen it crop up a bit in the major Flight Sim forums: Microsoft should use Google Earth for Flight Simulator.  Leave aside for the moment the fact that Microsoft has...

There's a sentiment I've seen echoed on various forums regarding Flight Simulator, with regards to testing-- especially beta testing. This sentiment is captured over at Avsim by a poster who claims "...nobody outside the MS building is a beta tester....

I am currently on a secret mission. Secret, 'cause if I told you about it, I'd probably get fired, or at least in a lot of trouble. Mission, 'cause it sounds cool ... So, y'know how I already pretty much work 7 days a week? (not last Saturday...

New version of X-plane is out, along with some screens . Congrats! Additional screens (lots of 'em) from global-scenery.org

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I love to cruise the screenshot forums of various community sites, and occaisionally I like to share what I've found... First off, one of my perennial favorites, Avsim's Steve "Bearracing" Cartwright. Steve has consistently been innovative in *what...

Merry Christmas!

...is another flight simulator! [:)] Joining the ranks of Austin Meyer , creator of X-plane , and Matthieu Laban (who's on the blog roll on the right) is Andreas Jung , who posted a quite thoughtful comment on my last post.

Anybody remember the brouhaha over “missing” bridges in Flight Simulator 2004? (There’s a beautiful rant here: http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/op-ed/ed343.htm ) What was up with that anyway? Well… lots of things really. A real cluster...

It looks like he has a name now. Here's mine: My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Shuriken of Warm Humanitarianism . Get yours .

If you haven't done so lately, why not take a quick trip over to virtual France and catch up with Matthieu: http://www.white-clouds.org/ If'n he's on your blogroll, don't forget to change your links...

There’s a thread over at Avsim : “ THE most needed improvement to the next version?” (talking about Flight Simulator) asking for people’s input on what they’d like to see in a future version. They’re not alone, of course. There are threads just like that...

Found this over at Bruce's website... Great Images in NASA

The Wing Fell Off shows off a few new screens of Over Flanders Fields for CFS3. Looks pretty good! I've always been partial to WWI aerial stuff. From Rob's blog I worked over to SimHQ, looked for the so called "CFS 4 screens" And THEN read that they...

Burning Man in Flight Sim?!!!!!!!!!!!! see here

for the rest of us

Happy Hanukkah.

And very dark it is...

Two new additions to the ACES alumni blog roll. Kate Bigel was the Art Director who led the studio way back when I first came on, and the person responsible for hiring more than a few of us old timers here in the Art department. (now you know who to...

A guid New Year to ane an` a` and mony may ye see!