The flightsim community needs a good magazine. A magazine with some red meat in it instead of pretty pictures and endless repetitive ads. Aerodynamics, navigation, avionics, history, engines, structures, etc.I've had it with Computer Pilot and PC Aviator and I'm not buying them anymore. 10 pages of the same old ads issue after issue and wishy washy reviews.Anybody know of a good flight sim magazine with some real content?

Start one. :(

Good idea. Maybe I will. There was a good one a hundred years ago, around Flightsim 4 or thereabouts. I think it was called Microflight - or something like that.

Nice. How much will it cost? Seeing those 10 pages of ads helps pay for the cost I am sure your price will be much lower.

I don't need one. I find that I get everything I need here. When something new's released it's here in seconds and you can get a good impression of what it's like very quickly. And it's all for free.

Computer pilot has some ok articles, but the topics you mention sound good. The pictures in computer pilot are often very ugly though - average screenshots of default FSX. Don't let anyone write your mag unless they have the full set of 2012-essential addons!

The circulation of a printed magazine in this hobby is optimistically somewhere in the vicinity of 15,000 to 20,000 per issue, and I think those numbers are a real stretch. I have heard numbers closer to the 10,000 per issue figure. Those magazines probably have a "one time pass on" rate of 5%, and that too is really optimistic. Using the 5% figure, and the larger estimate of 20,000 readers, the total comes to roughly 21,000 per issue.AVSIM averages nearly 30,000 readers of just the front page A DAY. During any 15 minute period, we are averaging between 400 and 700 people in the forums. The daily exposure here far outstrips that of any given print magazine dedicated to our hobby.What's the difference, and why could not an AVSIM do the "magazine" like approach? Simple; we are a volunteer organization, we do not charge readers a monthly or annual subscription fee, and we do not pay writers. The few websites in this community that have attempted to charge for online access in the past have either gone the way of the dodo, ceased to charge, or went to a two tier membership model. We encourage donations, but that is not sufficient to pay writers and pay for the band width consumption.The AVSIM team are very aware of the startup costs of a printed magazine, and given today's customer base, circulation limitations, shelf placement costs, etc. etc., I wish anyone wanting to start a print mag the best of luck. You had better have infinitely deep pockets. The point I am trying to get to is that to me, print magazines in our hobby may always be present, but I doubt that they will ever see any growth in circulation or profitability. The fact that there are some that continue to print is, well, a continuing surprise to me.EDIT: What I would really like to see is that volunteer subject matter experts team up with our volunteer writers and do in-depth articles that mirror some of those seen in the print medium.

We have PC Pilot here in the UK but I stopped reading it some years ago as I wasn't too happy with it for various reasons.My other hobby is building scale aircraft models and that is a hobby which the Internet has revolutionised. I don't know about the US but in the UK there are quite a few magazines dedicated to the hobby, and all of them are feeling the squeeze because many hobbyists now get all their news and info from various websites and forums.

Anybody know of a good flight sim magazine with some real content?

HelloAvsim ?

Here is a good flight sim mag that has just started www.fltsimpilot.com

Here is a good flight sim mag that has just started www.fltsimpilot.com

He claims to be the "first" FS Ezine? Sorry... AVSIM started out as an Ezine in 1997, and it was free. I wish him / them luck... $28 a year for 6 issues...

Flight Sim Forums to me have always been the better value, This is where you find out about announcements, releases, freeware, new technologies first. Flight Sim Magazines compile all that and publish that content at a later date. Why would I pay $28 a year for 6 issues to find out what has already been said on Avsim?

When I moved back home to NY in March 2011, it was to take a tech job for a set of local newspapers, owned by a larger company. I had read all of the horror stories online, worst managed, bankrupt in 2005-6, etc etc. I was only there for 6-months because it was obvious to the writing on the walls. Print media is dying. ALL around. Those that have survived do so because of their online presence. Those that can adapt and overcome and WORK WITH the technology will make it; others will fail.They are trying "over there" at those newspapers to move more to the digital media, with a stronger online presence, more online content, video from sports events, etc. But in the long run I was seeing reporters, photogs, and other staff quitting because they didn't want to adapt. Tom is right, going to a print media would be going backwards in my book.

He claims to be the "first" FS Ezine? Sorry... AVSIM started out as an Ezine in 1997, and it was free. I wish him / them luck... $28 a year for 6 issues...

$28 a year for 6 digital issues

I recommend PC Pilot,Bob L