I met Joel DeYoung , creator of the popular SquawkBox add-on for FlightSim, last night at Redhook in Woodinville and talked with him and a couple other folks from the team over a few beers. (Note: Joel's website seemed to be down when I tried this morning...

Unless you were living under a rock you probably heard about the JetBlue flight from Burbank that ran into landing gear trouble and landed safely at LAX a week or so back. Steve Lacey forwarded a podcast of some excellent audio between the captain and...

Yawn. There are some things I definitely look forward to when we release a new version and one of them is the online buzz and curiosity. I make it a point to read several of the more popular online forums on a regular basis. I particularly like to find...

Forgive the takeoff on a pork commercial but I was sent this link to an interview with X-Plane creator Austin Meyer on Macologist . For those that don't know, X-Plane is the primary competitor to Microsoft Flight Simulator in the civilian flight sim market...

After two weeks of vacation it's time to get back to work. I've just about caught up on email. All I need to do now is go through about 200 check-in mails to see what the team's been up to while I've been gone. I'm looking forward to doing a build and...

Today’s post will be off topic compared to the past few. I finally decided to take a real vacation and blocked out two weeks out of the office. Last week my wife and I spent 4 days in Las Vegas (sans toddler—yay!) and despite the tagline that begins ...

The fact that I failed to begin my blog without first clearly identifying myself seems to be fueling the conspiracy theorists in the Flight Sim community so I thought I'd take just a minute to fill in the blanks. I didn't think who I was or what title...