Hello Captains and Welcome Back The buzz in the flight sim community is growing louder: the highly anticipated PMDG Boeing 737-800 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is nearly here. According to Robert Randazzo, we’ll see it before the end of the year—but there are strong hints it could arrive even sooner. Just a few days…
Another Subscription Service SimAtlas
Hello Captains, and welcome back! I hope all my U.S. readers enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. Just before the holiday, a new subscription service was announced: SimAtlas. For $16 a month, subscribers gain access to what the company claims is more than $1,300 worth of payware add‑ons. Sounds tempting, right? Is it a good value?…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving, Captains! As we taxi into the holiday season, I just want to take a moment to say thank you — not just for flying along with me, but for being part of a community that continues to inspire, support, and elevate one another. Whether you’re cruising at FL350 in the Fenix or troubleshooting…
Why Older Adults Game
Hello Captains and welcome back. A recommended video recently popped up on YouTube which originally was aired on The Today Show. For those not in the USA, The Today Show is a morning news/entertainment show which airs on the NBC network. The subject of the segment is titled “Why a Growing Number of Older Adults…
Is MSFS 2020 Dead?
Hello Captains, and welcome back! Now that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has officially celebrated its first birthday, some might be wondering: is MSFS 2020 obsolete? My short answer — absolutely not. Or more accurately, it doesn’t have to be. Let’s not forget, there are still die-hard simmers squeezing every last drop out of FSX, and…
Reader Question – Christmas Hardware Add-ons
Hello Captains and welcome back. I recently received an email from JP who is looking to add a few hardware add-ons to his simulator setup. Let’s review his email and dive right in with my opinions. Hello Jerry, I’m an avid reader of your blog and find your content to be honest. I started flight…
Billiards – My New Cue
Hello Captains and welcome back. Another off-topic post. I promise I’m not going to flood the blog with these types of posts as most of you who “tune in” to this space do so to read my flight sim content. But as I had posted a few weeks ago about my renewing my love of…
The New King of Aircraft Developers
Hello Captains, and welcome back! For over two decades, PMDG has reigned supreme as the undisputed titan of third-party payware aircraft development. Their legendary lineup—including the Boeing 737, 747, 777, and the Douglas DC-6—set the benchmark for study-level realism across platforms like FS2004 (FS9), FSX, Prepar3D, and Microsoft Flight Simulator. Like many of you, I’ve…
Reader Question – Decisions, Decisions
Hello Captains and welcome back. We have another reader question which I would like to share with you. The question comes from Doug. Hello Jerry, I recently discovered your blog site and see that you frequently help answer questions from the community. I’d like to get your opinion please. Many years ago I was a…
The Jealously of MSFS 2020
Hello Captains, and welcome back. From mid-August through mid-October, I flew exclusively in MSFS 2024, charting an around-the-world adventure in the A2A Piper Comanche. Early on, I’d speculated in one of my update posts that flying the same aircraft day after day might wear thin. Turns out, I couldn’t have been more wrong. I genuinely…