Blade Edge

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After my last attempt to pilot a helicopter around Manhattan ended with me in the Hudson due to an engine failure, I decided it was time to try again. That, and it was a beautiful day out and I had some time where I knew I (probably, most likely) wouldn’t be interrupted. [...]

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I’ve been spending all my spare hours these past two days painstakingly re-creating KEWR to match my photo-realistic ground scenery textures, using a program called FSX Planner. It’s the first scenery manipulation I’ve ever done in Flight Simulator and I know there are a couple options out there to use when mucking about with airport [...]

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My helicopter flight around Manhattan was done without the built-in simulator ATC because it wasn’t properly recognizing that I was in a helicopter. I said at the time I didn’t want to bother with VATSIM, but I quickly changed my mind when I realized I would end up using it sooner or later – so [...]

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This morning I was up early again and had some time to kill before the day’s planned activities, so I decided to hop into the Cessna 172 to fly up north to an airport that could give me a chopper to take over Manhattan later on in the day. Consulting Sky Vector, [...]

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It’s been quite a while since I’ve logged any time flying. Mainly because I’ve been playing other games, also because after upgrading from XP to W7 late last year I never got around to fully getting FSX set back up and running. But now everything is back in working order again, finally [...]

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So when I decided to get back into The Sims 3, I wondered how I would go about chronicling the life of my Sim and his future descendants. The Sims is the kind of game where you put a lot of work and effort into developing your various Sim avatars, and build an actual unique [...]

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in 1999, I got Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (N64) for Christmas. I had played it on the PC – or at least tried to being that back then my gaming rig was actually the family PC and wasn’t really built for gaming much at all. So through the choppy frame rates I got an idea [...]

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There’s a way to get as much money as you need in Dragon Age: Origins, through a gameplay glitch and not a cheat – which means you can do it on consoles as well as PC (note that this has only been tested on a console). You also need to have The Stone Prisoner DLC [...]

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Fozburg is a large city founded in 1900, with a starting treasury of §50,000. It’s situated on a peninsula, with ocean surrounding the lower left and lower right sides of the map and a large central lake that is the sunken caldera of an extinct, extremely ancient volcano. This is my first large city map [...]

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Today’s flight was completing the loop I started two weeks ago when I took off from KBLM and traveled south down the New Jersey coast to Cape May for an arrival at KWWD. Now that I’m way up in north Jersey right by the New York border, I needed to get back [...]

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