A new flight posted today...hurraaaayy !!! Aidan is back and took his Canuck 80 to make a trip in Alaska. Check it out on the front page !

And you are probably going to see more Alaska flights in the future since I am spending a lot of time in two virtual airlines, both of them Bush outfits in Alaska. I have added them to the Special Links section on the Simulation Links page of the site. They are Don Moser's Alaskan Bush Charter and the Bush Flying Unlimited company.

I have also been spending quite some time in their forums and in the Flightsim Veterans Club's forum. All great fun, but somewhat distracting me from the actual flying. And writing.

I am currently finishing my review on Lago's FS Scenery Enhancer, due out soon on AVSIM, and you can also read a report about it in Computer Pilot Magazine due out next month.

Stay tuned for more flights soon and thanks for having a look here !

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all !!!

Bit late, but I just returned from a skiing trip over X-mas and New Year.
Not much news yet on the VFR site I'm afraid. We did post Ken Peckham's first FS2002 flight. This is a little bit different concept than the one we started with. Ken has provided a very detailed written account of his flight and we invite you to use it as a 'route manual' to follow.
Hopefully this new year will bring us more time so we can bring YOU more flights.

One last thing I would like to draw your attention to are two great sites I subscribe to myself (and their forums): The first is the Flight Sim Veterans Club (FSVC) run by John Consterdine. It has a very extensive Tips & Tricks section for FS2002 and a friendly forum. You can find it here.

The other is a sub-site of Don Moser's Bush pilot site and it's called Alaskan Bush Charters (or ABC). It's a virtual airline without rules... a refreshing concept. Don provides a forum, some nicely painted bush aircraft, Alaskan airfields... and the rest is up to you. Just fly and file your report - umm, well, stories - on the Forum (Pirep). Have a look here.

Woops ! The VFR Center has been very, very quiet for too long. Reasons plenty for that. Not in the last the September 11th events. The effects of this crime have been truly incredible and have touched on so many people. Aidan has been sent off to somewhere, being in the British Forces. I myself have been tasked investigating an beefing up security in Europe for our company. And then FS2002 was released and it took 6 weeks of frantic testing and writing to give you the 8 part review ! Some other reviews, the new AER on AVSIM, and little bits and pieces of private life filled up the rest of the time.

But we have some news too. A few new links in the simulation links page. And we will be featuring a new item on the flights pages. Ken Peckham, aka Blowhole in the forums, will be providing us with a different way of flight descriptions. We'll post the first of such flights later this week, so stay tuned !

Francois

Look on all the pages...noticed something? Yup, a new logo. The AVSIM Educational Resource is a new initiative of AVSIM aimed at collecting all sites that in any way provide educational value to the hobby of flight simulation. The VFR Center is proud to be among the first to be included in this new venture. But have a look at all those other great sites too !! Everyone of them is worth more than one visit, I can assure you !!!!

Because of all this activity, and also because of the recent distressful events, I have not been flying much. So please bear with us for some new VFR flights.... it's just a matter of time :-)

Francois

New. Yes, but no news from me. Just silence after this mind boggling event in the US......

I use this space to convey my condoleances to all victims and their families.
And to all citizens of the free world. A free world that has lost a battle this week. A battle in the war of sanity and reason.

Fortunately history teaches us that we will always win that war, no matter how many battles we may loose. I just wished these attackers had studied their history a little bit better. They would have understood that this outrageous crime does not serve any purpose and will not bring any good to any of their misguided beliefs and goals.

Well, busy times as you might have gathered. 2 new flights added today, one by Aidan, flying in his favorite Alaska, and another FlyII flight in California from Chris.

I have been deeply intrenched in work on Abacus Private Pilot Training, doing the test and writing a review. The results will be posted on Avsim wthin the next few weeks.

I took down the link to Smart Groups because that didn't seem to work. We'll have to work out something else to get your comments.

Next thing on my agenda is adding new links to the links pages, and getting ready for the FS2002 review that I will take part in.

Finally! Vacation is over ! So back to work.... I saw from the statistics that some die-hard VFR fans still clicked on the site.. sorry for not putting anything new on lately, but it does not really work over a GSM connection <g>.

What do we have for you? First a flight in Latin America (our first !) brought to you by Peter Schues of Brasil. He flies one of the Tradewind DC-3's from Brasil to Venezuela. And he's added some interesting links too !! Go and have a look.

Second, a tour of the French Riviera in a Mooney. A flight I did a while ago, testing Olivier Bochu's addition for FS2000 in that area. I have also added a few links AND some real pictures of the area. I hope you like it.

Other news:
I am currently working on using a new web building software (Dreamweaver by Macromedia), so you might see some hicups from time to time in my web links. Sorr in advance.
I am also working on a number of reviews (now with the main TrainSim review out of the way).

And.... I made another real flight at the controls of a Jodel Mousquetaire.... I will post a report here on AVSIM within the next few weeks.

Keep visiting...more new flights are coming soon..... Francois.

Last week we published the first Fly! pictures. Today we have the first Fly!-II flight posted on the site. This was just a test flight touring the vicinity of San Diego and admiring the clouds. When I get to grips with flying this sim be sure for many VFR flight proposals to follow.

Not only do we have a new pilot publishing, but also NEW PLATFORMS, i.e. X-Plane and Fly!

We are now working on providing a template that you can use in future to send us your best VFR flights! To  keep things clear, we want to use the same template for all, so our readers can quickly find and recognize flights. Stay tuned !!!!!

• a flight to Tromso
• a tour along the French Riviera
• a trip from Kodiak to Seward in Alaska
• an ULV flight in Holland
• a KLM flight from Nice to Frankfurt

Thursday 29 March 2001

Here is the first news item since going live:  We have already changed the lay-out of the site ! Judging from all the reactions it is clear that the site will grow quickly, with the number of flights in different parts of the world increasing. After some experimenting we have come up with the concept of the world map, where you can choose the region you want flights from.

It will take a while before there are flights available of course, so bear with us....