My Previous MSFS 2024 Setup: Performance, Settings and Where It Struggled Before getting into my new PC build, I wanted to show what I was using before, how it actually performed and why I eventually decided it was time to upgrade. I’ve got around five years of experience with PCs and building them, and I’ve […]
Starting in MSFS can be quite daunting; even as an experienced simmer, you can find it hard to discover those core, essential add-ons. In this post, I’ll share my recommendations for the top 5 essential add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator. There will be a mix of freeware and payware in this list. Hopefully, by the […]
There are some bits of flight simulation software that almost every simmer knows about, even if they don’t necessarily use them every day, and MobiFlight is probably one of them. I’ll be upfront from the start: I don’t use MobiFlight very much these days. Most of the hardware in my current setup comes with its […]
What is DesktopCockpits, and how would you explain what you’re doing to someone discovering it for the first time? DesktopCockpits designs and produces pre-assembled desktop flight-simulator cockpits for Microsoft Flight Simulator and X-Plane 12. Building a home simulator can sometimes feel overwhelming, expensive and time-consuming. Many flight simmers also need their desk for work or […]
For those of you who don’t know me, hi — I’m known as The Flight Director. I’ve been an aviation enthusiast for as long as I can remember — always fascinated by the flight deck. To me, it was this special room full of switches, dials, and indicators that looked like a spaceship. If you […]
Scrolling through my social media feeds and YouTube videos, I’m bombarded with DLSS 5, NVIDIA’s fancy AI rendering technology that uses neural rendering to inject games with photorealistic lighting and other enhanced details. I’m not going to dig into the technology or copy and paste a load of info from NVIDIA’s press notes, but rather […]
The UK flight simulation community has been waiting a long time for a dedicated event of its own. This autumn, that wait comes to an end with FSimUK at Aerospace Bristol. What started with conversations among members of the Bristol Flight Simulation Group has grown into an event bringing together flight simmers, developers, hardware manufacturers, […]
We’ll admit something. Until we became involved with FSimUK, we hadn’t heard of Authentikit. And that’s actually one of the reasons we wanted to feature them. Flight simulation is enormous. Yet depending on the creators you watch, communities you belong to and aircraft you fly, it can sometimes feel as though we’re all talking about […]
There are some things you see and immediately think: We need one of those in The Hangar. That’s pretty much what happened when we discovered Lids, Tops & Tails. They create aviation-inspired illuminated light boxes, including designs based around one of the most instantly recognisable parts of any aircraft – its tail. For an AvGeek, […]
You load the simulator. You’ve got an A320 sitting at Heathrow. And then comes that strangely difficult question: Where shall I fly? You could open a flight-tracking website, find a real-world service and recreate it. You could pick an airport you’ve never visited. Or you could spend the next 45 minutes deciding where to go […]
