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On this blog, we talk about aviation in general through flight simulation:
News and reviews about sceneries and planes for X-Plane 11
Home cockpit building
My favorite real aviation YouTubers
IFR and VFR flights
Flying techniques
Flight control hardware for flight simulation
Aviation apps for Android
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Welcome! Home cockpit, flight techniques and scenery/plane reviews are some of the topics covered among the aviation world.
MY BIO
I'm a real world private pilot and flight sim enthusiast. I'm maried and father of a lovely daughter.
I was born in 1981 in France but IÂ live in Belgium since 2001.Â
I've been using PC flight simulators since I was 10 years old. My very first simulator was Airbus A320 on ATARI. I used a lot of military flight simulations (Tornado, F14, falcon 3, Eurofighter...etc) and the latest one was Open Falcon. Flight Simulator 5.0 was my first serious civil simulator in complement to ATP by Sublogic. I used Aerowinx PS1 simulator based on the Boeing 747-400. I used FS2004 and FSX and since 2017, I'm flying exclusively on X-Plane 11.
The desire of leaving the desktop to a home cockpit was growing up rapidly and the adventure of home cockpit building started in 2015. Since then, I'm a happy owner of a complete Cessna 172/182S replicate home cockpit.
MY FLIGHT SIMULATOR DESCRIPTION
Flight simulation software
X-Plane 11 version 11.25r2
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ATC services
PilotEdge
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PC hardware
i7-7700K / Geforce GTX Ti 1070 8 GB VRAM / 16 GB RAM
Planes
Carenado Cessna 152
https://store.x-plane.org/C152-II_p_7...
NHAdrian mod for the Carenado Cessna 152
https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?...
Carenado Cessna Centurion CT210M
https://store.x-plane.org/CT210M-CENTURION-II-XP11_p_794.html
JustFlight Cessna 152
https://store.x-plane.org/JustFlight-C152_p_820.html
Justflight Piper Arrow Turbo III & IV
https://store.x-plane.org/PA-28R-TURBO-ARROW-III-IV_p_729.html
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Realism enhancer
REP package by Simcoders for the default Cessna 172SP
http://store.x-plane.org/Reality-Expa...
REP package by Simcoders for the Carenado Cessna Centurion
http://store.x-plane.org/Reality-Expa...
XPRealistic Pro
Scenery
Ortho4XP
https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?...
FSEnhancer True Haze;True Shades and True Lights from Enrico Del Bono
https://enricodelbono.wixsite.com/fse...
MaxxFX
http://www.x-aviation.com/catalog/pro...
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Home cockpit
Gauges; glareshield and MIP:
Flight Illusion (except annunciator panel and flaps lever from Simkits)
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Yokes
Saitek Cessna yoke and a Cessna Skyhawk 172 replicate by Routech
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Rudder
RedBird Simulations
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Switches
DIY Realism
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TPM
Real throttle; propeller and mixture vernier from eBay
Check the awesome gauges at Flight Illusion
GET THE BEST OUT OF X-PLANE 11
What I use to render X-Plane 11 as real as it gets
ORTHO4XP
Free plugin to create ortho photo real scenery that replaces the original textures of X-Plane 11.
Quite easy to use, download high resolution photos available for the whole globe in various Zoom Level.
Follow this tutorial made by a great guy Digital Aviator YouTube channel:
XPREALISTIC PRO
XP Realistic Pro adds another level of realism into X-Plane 11!
With realistic cockpit immersions such as ground roll, squeaks, pilot head anticipation, and prop enhancements. G-Force effects are also added to your cockpit environment, flying through turbulence will never be the same again, listen to the drag induced by your flaps, watch as your cockpit dashboard shakes on stall, enjoy the sounds of a real ground roll, and much more.
XPRealistic supports X-Camera and TrackIR
REALITY EXPANSION PACK BY SIMCODERS
The Reality Expansion Pack for X‑Plane 11 and 10 is an add-on that replaces some internal parts of the sim with custom ones, greatly enhancing the realism.
It replaces and enhances the flight & ground dynamics, the default piston engine, the electrical system, the landing gear and many other aspects of the airplane, adding things such real world physics, new stereo sounds and extra 3D elements.
REP also provides a damages system, a maintenance hangar and the interactive ground checks.
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REP package is available for several XP11 aircraft:
"Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
Born: February 4, 1902
Died: August 26, 1974
Occupation: Aviator
CONTACT ME
Feel free to send me your questions whether it is related to the home cockpit, X-Plane or content you'd like to see covered in this blog or on YouTube