My primary interest in Sims is the physics model which has been upgraded significantly? in 2020 i.e. does the sim plane respond / feel like the real thing for Stick & Rudder And getting DA40 which is not currently avail but will be soon based upon all the 3rd parties jumping in ( there is a DA40...

Just acquired MSFS2020 Plan on using it to .. a) Preview new airports .. apparently airport graphics are fairly accurate b) Practice maneuvers c) compare sim performance to mine ( sim has a DA40) Due to time constraints I"m only able to get up a few times a month So in my downtime I have the op...

So this keeps the nose aligned .. wonder if anyone had tried something like it and noticed increase in IAS

Thanks - use Airnav a lot never saw that link ..
also I'll ckout Foreflight again

fltplan.com has them.. sparsely populated https://ww14.fltplan.com/FBOComments/FBOMain.aspx AOPA has one ... sparsely populated https://www.aopa.org/destinations/airports/KFMN/details Since I use Foreflight extensively it'd be nice if they had FBO reviews Foreflight has a comment tab but its general...

Flew into EYW on the RNAV 27 approach VFR Despite flying VFR I usually fly instrument approaches into new airports to avoid pointy things Anyway the EYW tower asked me if I had contacted the navy tower on my approach I had not assuming the RNAV approach would keep me outside the NQX airspace apparen...

Flew into PNS on 9/7 @ Signature FBO rented Enterprise ( located at airport) returned 9/9 Charged thru 9/24 an extra 15 days $1,043 should have been couple hundred Hit my CC had no idea which airport as we'd been doing a cross country with many rentals. I usually leave as soon as a FBO opens for smo...

I've been curious about Glide Ratios so I went up Monday in my DA40 and did two test glides @ idle / no flaps and got 1) 6 nm descending 2,000' @ 70 kts ( best glide) ~ 13:1 2) turned 90 degrees - then 3.5 nm descending 2200' same config ~ 9.5: 1 ...better than I expected but Cross and Tail winds I'...

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFinerPoints Just discovered this Vid Series on YouTube .. Comprehensive demonstrations on the ground and in the air .. Example - Excellent one of Power Off Landings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAR4PkC5sSM I plan on working through these and then trying them out .. so...

smoss wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:32 pm perhaps your temp probe has died. Do you get OAT or TAS under under your IAS?

Yes I get both ..