Blade Edge

With a couple of early mornings coming up and being on a schedule of falling asleep around 3-4am I needed to reboot my sleep period and the way I do that is to simply stay up through to the next day as long as possible. Since as I start getting more and more tired my [...]

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Here is the flight plan for this trip. Today I woke up early – way way early. Like, before the sun had risen early. Bleh. So to make up for it I decided to boot up the sim and hop into a plane and fly somewhere. No idea what or where I just loaded things [...]

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What are Game Notes? While playing a game I have found it somewhat cathartic at times, thoughtful at others to tweet my experiences. Twitter is a great medium for condensing your thoughts – if I can’t figure out how to say what I want to say in 140 characters or less then I don’t feel [...]

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Here is the flight plan for this trip. Leg 1: KVAY – NJ84 It was a blustery day yesterday according to the weather reports, so the first thing I did after finishing my pre-flight checklist on the tarmac of KVAY in the Cessna 172S was taxi on over to the pump to top off the [...]

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Ahhh my first flight of 2012! Also my first flight since the start of November, yikes. Reminded me why the FAA mandates check rides every few months for proficiency, especially considering some of the mistakes I made on this flight. Thankfully I was able to run my computer at 4.5GHz again after accidentally wiping out [...]

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Part of developing airports for FSX, which I do for my website MegaScenery Earth Airports, is that I need to make sure the way AI aircraft taxi around the airport follows realistic taxi patterns and, more importantly, that it even works and I don’t have aircraft going in circles or not finding a parking location [...]

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Yea so it’s been a while since I’ve gone on a planned flight – and even this flight I’m blogging now actually took place back on October 22nd! Besides my airport scenery development I’ve also been busy getting started as an AVSIM staff reviewer – I’ve already written two reviews and will be working on [...]

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So since I was on a break from airport development the past few weeks and thus had no new airports to fly to, I decided it was time to go through and check out the many freeware aircraft I had downloaded months ago all at once as I troved various download sites. They had been [...]

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Time to start sharing some of my airport development experience and I might as well start with this topic as it came up in a thread on FSDeveloper. This tutorial will cover several things: Creating rows of parking tees like actual airport parking areas Using ADE guidelines Preventing AI spawning in certain parking locations Placing [...]

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This past Saturday I finally took the time to overclock my i5 2500K CPU to 4.5GHz, which is an extra 1.2GHz past stock speed. I started off by trying the auto-overclock button that’s on my motherboard, but after rebooting the computer and entering Windows, things locked up almost immediately. So I turned to the trusty [...]

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