September / October 2010

Issue 69

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BN-2 Islander (Flight1)

Beechcraft F33A Bonanza (Carenado)

Battle of Britain 70th Anniversary
(Just Flight)

Stuka vs. Hurricane
(First Class Simulations)

Austria Professional X (Aerosoft)

Audio Environment (Flight1)

A Tale of Two Sims
Richard Benedikz heads off to Berlin to look at two custom-built, high-fidelity airline simulators that can be hired at a price much lower than professional setups. One simulates a Boeing 737-700 NG and the other an Airbus A320.

Logbook! – Poor Planning =
Poor Performance
Chris Frishmuth relates an incident from his logbook which highlights how poor planning can lead to potentially dangerous situations!

Thrustmaster’s HOTAS WARTHOG
Thrustmaster kindly invited PC Pilot to attend an exclusive preview event for the latest addition to its long line of products: the HOTAS Warthog – the highly anticipated replica controls of the A-10C Thunderbolt II. Our roving reporter, Richard Benedikz, sent us back this report.

DCS: Black Shark!
In this instalment of his series on Black Shark, Chris Frishmuth takes a look at the aircraft’s weapons system and offers advice on how to use them to best effect.

Flight Simulator – A Beginner’s Guide
In his ‘Beginner’s Guide’ for this issue, Tony Radmilovich delves a little deeper into the subject of FS add-ons.

Jet Airliners – A Flight Sim Pilot’s Guide
This issue Jane Whittaker takes a look at FMC pre-flight pages of the MD-11.

GA Flight Sim Training
Peter Stark continues to look at how we can recognise potentially dangerous illusions that can affect night pilots. He also includes some more exercises and tips on how to use Flight Simulator to develop our night flying skills.

Professional Instruction with Bill Stack
Today’s tutorial flight is a 769-nautical mile flight from Bangkok, Thailand to Singapore in a Boeing 747 that will take around two hours from gate to
gate, which is longer than most of our previous flights.

Rise of Flight – Flying the Fokker DVII
The Fokker DVII was generally considered to be the best all-round German scout of the First World War. We show you how to get the best from it in Rise of Flight!

Flight Sim Hints and Tips – A2A’s B-17G
Following on from his review of A2A’s B-17G in our previous issue, Peter Wright offers some advice on how to get the most out of this milestone simulation.

Flight Sim Q&A
Are you having issues with sound in FSX, or maybe you’re experiencing problems with the display on your monitor. We have answers to this type of query and more in this edition of our

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