Microsoft Flight Simulator offers an unexpected learning lesson by demonstrating aerodynamic icing in flight as it affects the pitot-static system. [Credit: Shutterstock] The Microsoft Flight ...

Jerry Williams is confident that when he flips an aircraft in midair or disables the cockpit instruments, his students can recover without careening to the ground. Rather than attempt dangerous ...

The author evaluated RealSimGear's SR7x Pro simulator, an FAA-approved Advanced Aviation Training Device (AATD) designed to replicate the Cirrus SR Series G7 aircraft, at a flight school. The ...

A good flight simulator is way more than just a game. As flight sim technology has gotten more and more accurate, and realistic tools have become increasingly affordable, setting up a simulator at ...

We’d heard about the new Microsoft Flight Simulator’s mega-realistic scenery, digitally distilled from satellite imagery. We knew the sim could recreate real-time weather conditions on the go, relayed ...