https://www.airdailyx.net/article/air-daily-x-adx-is-recruiting-an-x-plane-managing-editor/

 

Air Daily X (ADX) is recruiting an “X–Plane Managing Editor.”

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The X–Plane Managing Editor will report to the Executive Director and will be responsible for delivering impactful, experienced, informative and insightful X–Plane content at ADX.

X–Plane Managing Editor will have a constant measure of the pulse of the X–Plane flight simulator platform and associated third-part add-ons. The ADX X–Plane content will focus on highly impactful news releases regarding high fidelity aircraft (e.g. Take Command!: HotStart TMB-900, Milviz Cessna T310R, Take Command! Series by X-Aviation, etc.) releases and outstanding premium scenery (e.g. OrbxTrueEarth Great Britain, Orbx Airports, etc.) releases, as well as major news releases from X–Planes’ publishing company Laminar Research. Additionally, the X–Plane Managing Editor will be responsible for publishing highly impactful and insightful reviews on X–Plane third party software that will focus primarily on high fidelity add-on aircraft (e.g. Take Command!: HotStart TMB-900, Milviz Cessna T310R, Take Command! Series by X-Aviation, etc.) and outstanding premium scenery (e.g. Orbx TrueEarth Great Britain, Orbx airports, etc.).

The rewards for the X–Plane Managing Editor:

• Have a dynamic relationship with the global flight simulation community.
• Have a solid and robust platform to communicate his/her ideas, comments and insights to the global flight simulation community.
• Be provided with X–Plane add-on products to review at no-cost (free).

Requirements for the X–Plane Managing Editor position:

• Be honest, responsible, mature, pleasant and nice.
• Behave, contribute and conduct themselves with the highest level of integrity.
• Be able to fluently read, speak and write in the English language.
• Have a genuine and committed interest in the X–Plane flight simulation platform.
• Candidates are required to have a MINIMUM of ten years of bona–fide (e.g. genuine, real) and consistent experience in personal computer (P.C.) based flight simulation and/or ten years of real-life flying experience as an aircraft and/or helicopter pilot.
• Candidates are required to have or previously had a United States (U.S.) Federal Aviation Administration (F.A.A.) certified single-engine-land (S.E.L.) pilots license with instrument rating privileges AND a minimum of 100 hours of total logged flight time (T.T.) including no less than 60 hours of pilot in command (P.I.C.) logged flight time.
• Have excellent verbal communication skills.
• Have excellent written communication skills.
• Enjoy writing.
• Be able to very critically and fairly evaluate news, the X–Plane flight simulation platform and associated third-party add-on products.
• Be personally driven to contribute to the flight simulation community.
• Own X–Plane 11
• Own a reasonably modern (approximately 1-3 years old) computer and good video card to review and test the latest and future third-party software add-ons for X–Plane 11+.
• Be able to commit to the position for a minimum of one year.

The ideal X–Plane Managing Editor will:

• Be a major U.S. major (e.g. United, American, Delta, etc.) airline captain (or first officer) or international equivalent (e.g. Lufthansa, British Airways, Air France, etc.). *** Note: National (e.g. Southwest, Alaska, Hawaiian, jetBlue, etc.) and regional (Skywest, Horizon, Mesa, Envoy, Endeavor, etc.) airline pilot will also strongly be considered. Career flight instructors holding a U.S. F.A.A. airline transport pilot (A.T.P.) rating (or international equivalent) and/or U.S. F.A.A. designated (or international equivalent) examiners will be strongly considered.
• Be a college graduate with a Bachelor’s in Science (B.S.) degree or higher (better) from a nationally accredited U.S. university (or international equivalent). ***Note: Engineering majors will strongly be considered and/or preferred.
• Have outstanding verbal communication skills.
• Have outstanding writing skills.
• Enjoy writing very much.
• Be personally very driven to contribute to the flight simulation community.
• Be able to commit to the position for greater than of one year.

Interested candidates meeting requirements are encouraged to submit an email of interest to [email protected] that includes the following:

1) A single paragraph personal statement explaining the interest in the position.

2) A single paragraph explaining qualifications.

3) Direct contact information (an email address is sufficient).

Thank you so very much for your time and consideration!!!!!!!

All the Best and Sincerely,

David M. Edwards

 

 

Executive Director and Editor-In-Chief

Air Daily X (ADX)

https://www.airdailyx.net/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-m-edwards-7551ab68/

I didn't realize that Air Daily X was still active. It hasn't been the same since D"Andre Newman stopped making video. I enjoyed his interviews from 2 years ago from FlightSimCon back in the day. 

 

Edited February 27, 20197 yr by Wise87

38 minutes ago, Wise87 said:

I didn't realize that Air Daily X was still active. It hasn't been the same since D"Andre Newman stopped making video. I enjoyed his interviews from 2 years ago from FlightSimCon back in the day. 

 

I was told D'Andre moved on from ADX to other things in life (well paying job, family, etc.).  I've kept him on the team page since he was in the initial seed/Founder.

Apparently, D'Andre would financially afford to fully commit and devote substantial time to ADX for that period in his life.

Edited February 27, 20197 yr by pager94

How things have changed! The XP haters are now jumping on the XP bandwagon! Some of us were ahead of the curve during the xp9/10 days! 

Out of curiosity, what do you think is the reason they are looking for american pilots only?

After reading all this and the very high demands, I'm amazed to see "being paid" isn't one of the benefits 🙂. 

1 hour ago, france89 said:

Out of curiosity, what do you think is the reason they are looking for american pilots only?

American bias, maybe because non-American pilots aren't real pilots... who knows 🤣

Absolutely barking mad......this is a computer based pc flight simulator game!!  There can’t be many individuals out there into pc flight sim that hold all those qualifications at once - and who will do it for free.  Anyway, without wishing to antagonise anyone, I thought ADX was dead, it certainly is well behind the drag curve in reporting news - FS Elite is more on the ball than ADX.

I agree.
Never seen such a wishlist of requirements for a hobby-job without salary.
Its like running a mega McDonalds fully unpaid, BUT you can eat as much BigMacs as you like.

 

Anyone with all those qualifications would be looking for a good paid job in aviation journalism.

47 minutes ago, Petraeus said:

Anyone with all those qualifications would be looking for a good paid job in aviation journalism.

+1 Good luck with that one ADX. I once had a boss who said "If you are going to spend time on the job dreaming then dream big because you will need another job sooner than you think". LOL