December 17, 2020
I drive a Tesla Model 3 Performance Edition and my wife a Tesla Model S. My car goes 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds, which is […]
October 2, 1989
“The Thirsty Birds” (October 1989, Air Force ROTC) The KC135 refueller airplane cruised down the taxiway. I sat in a seat near the front so I […]
February 1, 2000
The Martian Chronicles (February 2000, experience not real: Simulated in X-Plane only) NASA has very exact data on the atmospheric pressure, density, and temperature on Mars. […]
February 26, 2000
The Space-Glider (February 2000, experience not real for me: Simulated in X-Plane only) Read this chapter before attempting Space Shuttle landings in X-Plane if you want […]
July 26, 2000
“The Speck of Incredible Speed” (July 2000) I recently test-flew the Lancair Columbia 300 at Oshkosh. First: My favorite part of aviation: The QUIET part. This […]
September 26, 2001
OK I just got back from New York city (September 28, 2001… 17 days too late) and I took a digital camera with me to record […]
July 26, 2002
“The Magical Fishbowl” (July 2002) Hello! Austin Meyer here. So I just got back from a trip test-flying the EC-135 helicopter to fine-tune the performance of […]
September 26, 2002
“The City” (September 2002) OK so I told Sergio (the guy that does most all the artwork for X-Plane, including the excellent terrain textures, airliner textures, […]
November 12, 2002
“The 4-WD Buick” (November 2002) So my experience with the Piper Archer has been pretty tame for the most part. Being the Buick of light planes, […]
November 26, 2002
“The Train” (November 2002) So in the USA when you are going to work and a train gets to the crossing of a track and a […]
February 26, 2003
“The Long Room” (February 15, 2003) “Hang on, let me see for myself what is going on down there!” The tech opened the aluminum door in […]
March 26, 2003
“The Abyss” (March 2003) OK So a friend of mine named Chris Scott swore on the Bible that the set to the movie The Abyss by […]
July 2, 2003
“The Cows” (July 2003) Ok so in this area of Italy (the Dolomites, an area of huge stone mountains surrounding grassy green valleys with little villages […]
July 26, 2003
“The Firebomber” (July 2003) So Sergio (chief artist for X-Plane) Ben (cheif computing technologies consultant for X-Plane) Lori (girlfriend of cheif computing technologies consultant for X-Plane) […]
December 26, 2003
OK the day has finally come! I just picked up a new Cirrus SR-22 Centenial Edition from Cirrus Design in Minnesota. Thanks to all the people […]
August 26, 2004
An Italy Trip (August 2004) OK so it was time to code X-Plane version 8 with all-new scenery, and Magic-Ben had a bunch of non-linear adaptive […]
September 26, 2004
Osama Bin-Laden decides where we go: We don’t Sept 27, 2004 OK So I had to go see Ben Supnik in Maryland to integrate the new […]
November 26, 2004
Cirrus Mini-Adventure: The Red Cocoon OK So I had been working almost non-stop on X-Plane 8.00 except for sleeping for about 2-weeks and light planes need […]
January 26, 2005
Udvar Hazy January 2005 OK so if you just read the “Cirrus How-To” adventure, then you know how Randy and I got to Washington DC for […]
January 27, 2005
Cirrus How-To January 2005 Out of all my adventures, people keep asking for more CIRRUS adventures, and I admit that I have not been as good […]
February 26, 2005
OK so it was a beautiful, sunny, brisk afternoon in February and I had not exercised the Cirrus in 2 weeks so an afternoon flight was […]
May 12, 2005
CrossCountry May 12, 2005 One of the things that light plane pilots always think about, but don’t always do, is fly all the way across the […]
June 26, 2005
The Cannes X-Plane Conference (June 2005) OK so Steph Maurel decided it would be fun if a bunch of French and Italian (and any other European) […]
July 26, 2005
OK so myself, Randy Witt (my customer service guy), Anthony Booher (my military airplane-design guy), and a bunch of college kids from Iowa State headed out […]