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6 Very Useful Flight Sim Finds

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FSX Keyboard Shortcuts Unite!

For a while I’ve been looking for a comprehensive layout of all the keyboard commands available for FSX. Well, I went out searching and found this great little PDF the other day. Great job to the guys who did this! (their info at the bottom of this doc)

DOWNLOAD HERE

Preflight My Airport, and Find Nasty WX

This nifty little web page has an awesome amount of intuitive and easy to interpret information. Not only does it bring up satellite imagery when you type in the airport identifier, but it also gives you the weather for that airport, the charts, and other useful information.

Oh yeah, if you’re looking for nasty IFR weather, or even MIFR weather (barely even legal IFR, if legal at all) this has a sort function right above the map that will show you all the places in the world with those current conditions. Just click the airport you want, and the information will populate!

CLICK HERE

Beginner FSX Tips

I know a lot of you guys have  your sims tweaked to the gills, as do I. But you really have to run through this document and try out the stuff this guy suggests.

*Disclaimer*: One of the biggest frame rate boosters in this doc is the Direct X 10 Preview. Well, with FSX and Windows 7, it is hard coded to only allow 2x anti aliasing in sim, which is horrible. Therefore, I had to leave this disabled. (really sad, because the mid 2x water in DX10 preview looked as good as the max 2x water in non DX10 without the framerate hit)

DOWNLOAD HERE

FSX on ‘Roids

If you want to become an FSX tweaking fiend, spend a few weeks really digging into this document. It’ll make your head spin, and your flight sim smooth as silk. *No guarantees!*

CLICK HERE

Podcast Worth Your While

After a while, I grew tired of affiliated news sources in the FlightSim community. FSBreak is a great news source that offers some awesome advice, reviews, and news about all things flight sim, as they put it. It’s a weekly audio podcast available through itunes, but can also be played directly on their site. Really, these guys are awesome. It’s worth a listen.

CLICK HERE

Penmanship from a Scenery Developer

Bill Womack, scenery developer for sceneries like Plum Island, Tongass Fjords, Dillingham X, and much more does a weekly blog called ‘Fanboy Fridays’, which, just happens to land on Friday. It’s a great perspective from this respected developer. What’s more, is he writes really well and his stuff is very enjoyable to read, just like his sceneries are enjoyable to fly in.

CLICK HERE

These are links and tools I’ve really been enjoying lately. I hope you find these tools and sources of information useful.

Which one looks the most appealing? Will you use some, one, or all of these resources? Join the conversation!


  • http://iblueyonder.wordpress.com Bill Womack

    Thanks for the mention, Chris! And double thanks for collecting some of the information I turn to frequently in a readily-accessible format. Bookmarked.

  • Tom

    Thanks a lot for all the information you put on this web, especially the free tutorials. I learnt a lot from it and getting more serious about flysiming.
    BTW, the FSX keyboard shortcut reports a dead link. Really like to download it. Please fix.
    Thanks again.

    • http://www.flyaoamedia.com/ Chris Palmer

      Try now.

  • Tome

    Chris, the keyboard shortcut URL has an extra ‘h’ in the ‘http’ – I think you’ve missed that one.

    Thanks for the great videos!

    • http://www.flyaoamedia.com/ Chris Palmer

      Got it fixed! Thanks for the heads up!

  • Bruce Saunders

    “6 Very Useful Flight Sim Finds ” What a great idea–all the REALLY usefull info in one place, great

    Bruce

    • http://www.flyaoamedia.com/ Chris Palmer

      I’m sure that’s not all of them, but helpful nonetheless.

  • Matias

    Hi Cris, i tried the tips for FPS (the beginer ones) and it rally didn’t help. It just gave me 2 or 3 FPS more than before. I don’t know if you can point me in the right direcction. I read the tweeks from Jesus, i Overclocked my rig and i lock the frames rates with an external limiter and i still con pass the 12-15 FPS on a almost not populated area (SAEZ Argentina) with the FlightSimLabs Concorde, when i read a post of a guy with a similar specs as mine that made like 30 FPS with the Concorde.
    My specs are: Core 2 Quad 3.1 OC, 8 GB DDR2, 500 GB WD Hard Drive , Geforce 9800 GT 512 and Windows 7 64.
    Thanks, for everything, i’m doing the Aviator90 just for fun and i’m still learn something new.

  • drsion

    Hi Chris,

    Have you thought about putting stuff about X plane on the site?

    Cheers

    Sion

  • Clive

    Great site and the videos are first class and a mention for Bill Womack for his great work.

    Cheers

    Clive

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