March 2007 - Posts
Good friend and fellow Eaglesoft Development Group 3-D artist Bob Hayes has joined the bandwagon and started a new spaces live page. He already has a pretty good start of things on its first day of inception, including some pictures of him taken with...
As reported earlier this week, the promised SP1 performance patch for FSX has been released to beta testers, myself included. Though they are still working on a few things that did not make this pass, it shows great promise for being the breath of fresh...
The latest TrackIR newsletter hit my email inbox today, so for those of you who do not subscribe to it, here is a summary: Kevin Fox reports that they have updated the software for TrackIR including a beta build driver for Vista. Some other highlights...
There is a new (or relatively new) community site focusing on flight simulation called FS-FBO managed by FSGenesis developer Justin Tyme. Justin is using PHPizabi 's social networking platform, which seems to be gaining in popularity worldwide. Since...
There has been quite a bit of "buzz" going on in the FS Community lately. If you haven't been paying attention, here is a summary of a few hot topics. SP1 Phil Taylor has been fielding several inquiries regarding SP1 in the AVSIM FSX forum....
What an honor! The FS team has posted excerpts of my MVP visit and more pics blog posts on the FSInsider website. Thanks much for the kind words gents! I was delighted to read that Z, Hal, and Kevin were involved with the Aviation Learning Center curriculum...
Inspired by my flight last week, I've recreated Alex's Columbia 400 paint scheme for the version we are working on for FSX. I show the EVADE heat strips for visual asthetics only. I'm pretty sure that we're not planning on simulating the EVADE system...
The first event was a technology expo, where we all could meet up with our MVP Leads and get introduced to fellow MVPs within each technology group. From left to right, MVP Lead Tyler Welch, myself, and fellow G4W MVP, Ho Yin Au. Bill Gates giving his...
Alex Hopmann, webmaster for Club Columbia , was kind enough to give me an aerial tour of the Pacific Northwest on Thursday afternoon, after the MVP summit adjourned. He needed to get his plane up to Skagit to have an MFD looked at that was not communicating...
Those of you who prefer to subscribe to my site via RSS feed, please update your feeds to point towards my new feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/polypoke They have some pretty interesting tools that give me a little more flexibilty versus the raw feed...
As part of the MVP Summit held last week, those of us in the Games for Windows area were treated to a 1st class tour of ACES Studios given by none other than Mr. Hal Bryan , FS community evangelist extraordinaire. The first thing you encounter along your...
Out of the 250+ photos submitted for this video, mine was one of the 80 or so that made the cut! Look for me about 17 seconds in... Video: MVP Summit 2007 Opening Read More...
I frequently read Av8rdan 's blog for some really great topics on the subject of aviation. I happened to pull his blog up this evening, and I was greeted by a familiar sight: a Kenmore Air de Havilland Otter . Dan recently had the opportunity to ride...
As Nick has mentioned, I've had this blog mirrored over at MSMVPs.org to much of Nick's pleasure (he's been trying to get me over there for a while). It is actually pretty neat in that it uses this site's RSS feed, so it's on autopilot. Very cool! Maybe...
N728SM Legacy C 400 logo on fuselage. Read More...
As work on the Eaglesoft Columbia 400 conversion for FSX draws close to an end, I thought that this was a good chance to have a closer look at this aircraft and highlight what makes it one of the best aircraft in current production. History The Columbia...
Columbia 400 Test Columbia 400 Virtual Cockpit Oversized nacelles feeding the Continental TSIO 550 Stunning horizon. Flying over the Grand Strand Bloom at its finest. Like wings of an angel. The fastest single engine plane you can buy! Read More...
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