There's a bit of a dipsy doodle over at Avsim over the idea of implementing birds as part of The Flight Simulator X worldspace. Steve Lacey has covered that to some degree here. (be sure and read the comments) The upshot is about the tension between...

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Found at a forum at Avsim dedicated to Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Google Earth vs FS X Nice round up of comparison screenshots, also comparing several 3rd party add-ons in Flight Sim 2004, and how close it does and doesn't come to the press...

A Flight Simulator enthusiast wrote up some notes about the new version (titled "Microsoft Flight Simulator X") as caught by Susan (Engauged) in her post: Some more entertainment The same user is back. This time with a post (from Avsim ) on the...

From Bruce's site... Track your flight http://flightaware.com/

In an earlier post ( the one with the kittens and puppies ) I bungled a link. I've corrected it in the post, but would be remiss if I didn't post an update: If you eat food, you might enjoy Ellen's site. Disclosure: Ellen is a friend. I eat...

Yeehaw! Here's a couple of posts I found notable... Hal blesses the world with a couple of posts worth reading (make sure and click the links he put in)... Comparing Apples to Really Expensive Apples Adrian (torgo) our Tecnical Art lead has a...

Mike Gilbert (also affectionately known as Tdragger) riled a few feathers talking about how nice it is using the x-box controller with Flight Simulator X I've seen some negative reactions at the very idea of using such a controller. Below is a representative...

Guy Kawasaki's new blog (via Lacey) has great post about getting strong product evangelization: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/guys_golden_tou.html Good read. Flight Sim has the potential, I think. Not there yet. (see the entry "elegant...

Okay. I took the Flight Simulator X screens seen in the link below: 3 years later ... and here FSX VS Fs2004 Default Terrain But who took the Flight Simulator 2004 screenshots? And how did he or she know this: "Calaveras Reservoir (10 mi E of...

There's a couple of interviews available at gamespot . My favorite is Mike Gilbert's little piece available here: http://www.gamespot.com/pages/video_player/popup.php?pid=931252&sid=6141988&tab=related Great job Mike!

A statement made during our announcement at CES about the team having over a year remaining have generated a few questions in the Flight Simulator communities about when we're gonna ship. So when are we gonna ship? The FSInsider site reports in...

Does Flight Simulator need a brand new engine?...

Includes link to the CES FSX demo... http://fsinsider.com/articles/FSX_Press_Release.htm I expect the headline image will change soon...

My favorite response from a Flight Simulator user so far, found at Flightsim.com: "Indeed. If FSX looks like FS9 with $100 worth of add-ons, imagine what FSX will look like with $100 of addons." Link to the whole thread

A user over at Avsim points us to the fact that BillG's CES keynote speech will be available for one and all after 11:00 pm PST here: http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx Cheers!

I thought I would be able to get some work done tonight but am so amped from the announcement at CES that I'm likely to spend the rest of my time cruising forums, and monitoring reactions. So far they're mostly good, although there are a fair share...

via Nick : http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx starts at 6:30pm PST.

Frequent Flight Simulator add-on contributor ( and frequent blog commenter) Owen Hewitt is gearing up to become a new father soon. Make sure you keep an eye on his blog every now and again to see if the happy event has happened yet...

Every now and again I've posted in a forum or two like Avsim.com or Simflight.com, but I never should have done so without first watching this... WATCH BEFORE YOU POST

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Blogs with just written content are so passé... for your viewing pleasure: http://www.itsjerrytime.com (via my buddy robert )

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

...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.

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...