Well – here I go – this is the start of my FSFlyingSchool Blog. I hope that this will prove of some interest to those fine virtual (and real) pilots out there who have come to use, or are interested in using, FSFlyingSchool, or are just interested in flight simulation itself.
I’m Jeff Preston, the founder of FSInventions, makers of FSFlyingSchool, and am the main developer of FSFlyingSchool, along with my friend and software development partner John Paul Jones.
Things have been very busy lately with the release of several versions of the product since its initial publication in December 2006.
Out motto has been to frequently update FSFlyingSchool so as to resolve any issues as quickly as possible and to make new features available to existing users and new customers alike.
The new Career Analyzer is a great tool to use to evaluate your own performance with FSFlyingSchool. I have been using it for some time now and it’s very interesting to see which areas of my own airmanship needs extra work. The other day I managed to get a 747 down with a vertical speed of 66 fpm, which my experiments say is about as fast as a sheet of paper falls to the ground on a calm day. But, before I pat myself too hard on the back, I’m also very familiar with that awful sound FSFlyingSchool makes when you slam that baby down onto the runway and get told dryly that “you landed too hard”.
The FSFlyingSchool user interface training movies just made it onto the web site. We hope these will be very useful in explaining how the program works to both customers and interested simmers alike.
Dedicated users of FSFlyingSchool continue to submit new aircraft data for us to turn into FSR (aircraft profile) files in The Hangar – this scheme has proven very successful.
The web site itself has of course undergone several recent changes with the introduction of The Hall of Fame and the stats which can now be obtained on each pilot and each aircraft on the high score tables. There’s been quite a battle for the title of Circuit Caesar (pilot with the best circuit score), with Eric1972 currently holding that honour with 102.60 points in his SIAI-Marchetti SF.260 G-AERO.
May 30, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I recently downloaded FSFlyingSchool (from the above link) and was very surprised with the results. I had seen a couple of reviews, but didn’t think it was really for me, but on a wet weekend I figured I would give it a try.
Initially I used it with FS2004 and the setup was flawless. It used my already installed FSUIPC and worked the very first time. There’s a massive difference when flying with FSFlyingSchool watching you, no more throwing around those passengers!
Last week I tried it with FSX and TrackIR and again it worked straight away. I love TrackIR and am very pleased that I can use it was FSFlyingSchool. That was enough for me to buy the full version in order to fly along the west coast.
A highly recommended add on for FS2004 and FSX.
November 15, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Many thanks for the kind words – we’re glad you’re enjoying the program!