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CONTENTS
16
REGULARS
4
8
11
14
Editor’s Letter
News
Cover CD
Downloads
REVIEWS
16
20
26
34
42
46
iFly Boeing 747
A2A Comanche 250
Fly Tampa Sydney
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JAR Design Airbus A330
Orbx Friday Harbor
CONTENTS
30
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Christmas.
See pages 24-25 for details.
FEATURES
30
DCS World 1.5
Chris Frismuth introduces the
latest version of the popular DCS
World.
Derek Davis takes us on a
memorable mission in Red Baron!
To mark our 100th issue, the PC
Pilot team share their favourite
flight simulation expansions of
all time!
This challenging flight takes us
to Tivat in Montenegro, with a
challenging mountain approach.
TUTORIALS
42
62
Airliners – A Flight Sim Pilot’s
Guide
Jane Whittaker introduces
us to the Bombardier Dash 8
turboprop in the first of a new
series of tutorials.
38
Air Combat Simulation
66
A Flight Simmer’s Guide to
Weather
48
My Favourite Flight Sim!
Peter Stark discusses the
creation of weather themes that
can be reused over and over to
create custom flying conditions.
58
Challenging Airports
72
DCS MiG-21bis – Air to Ground
Weapons
84
Flight Adventure
Jane Whittaker takes us across the
southwest of the UK for a scenic
trip from Elstree to Jersey.
Jessica Bannister-Pearce gets to
grips with the Jehell cockpit suite
for the Airbus Family of aircraft.
We interview Roberto Soriano of
Throttletek, a producer of throttle
quadrants for flight simulation.
72
In this issue we discuss the
formidable air to ground weapons
available for the MiG-21.
76
Combat Air Patrol 2 – Battle of
Hormuz
Chris Frishmuth looks at a new
standalone simulator, depicting
battle in the Persian Gulf.
88
Cockpit Building
HINTS + TIPS
96
Flight Sim Q&A
Richard Benedikz answers a
selection of queries, including
Windows 8.1 compatibility,
the Navigraph data service and
discusses pressure settings with
QNH and QFE.
80
FlyPad
92
Throttletek
Peter Wright explores three apps
aimed at flight training from
FlyGoo.
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EDITORIAL AND LETTERS
| Your chance to have your say!
Editor:
Derek Davis (derek@pcpilot.net)
Assistant Editor:
Jane Whittaker
Technical Director:
Richard Benedikz
Contributors to this issue:
Peter Wright,
Joe Lavery, Peter Stark, Chris Frishmuth
and Jessica Bannister-Pearce
Production Editor:
Sarah Robinson
Designers:
Matt Fuller & Chris Abrams
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ello and a warm welcome to
the 100th edition of PC
Pilot. Doesn’t time fly when
you’re having fun? A lot has
happened within the flight sim
industry since our very first issue
of PC Pilot. Most significantly,
there have been quantum leaps in
many technical areas particularly
when it comes to flight, graphics
and systems modelling, with
products now being much more
sophisticated and therefore
demanding more of our time and
effort to learn how to use them.
Progress and development is
inevitable in any industry but I
sometimes wonder if perhaps the
complexity of modern-day flight
sims has limited their appeal to
only the so-called ‘hard-core’
among us and therefore reduced
the appeal of the market as a
whole. Just a thought...
To commemorate this 100th
edition, I have invited a number of
our contributors to tell us about
their favourite flight sim product.
HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY!
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You can learn about their
choices in a special feature
starting on page 48. It
makes for very interesting
reading. You can read
about my favourite flight
sims of all time in a
separate feature
commencing on page 38.
One other article I would
like to draw your attention
to is the start of a new
airliner series written by
Jane Whittaker starting on
page 62. The aircraft
under the spotlight this
time is Majestic
Software’s Bombardier
Dash 8 Q400. We hope
you enjoy it.
At this point I would
like to apologise for the
absence of part two of
our review of Just Flight’s Tornado
GR1 - part one of which was
published in our previous issue.
This has been due to unforeseen
circumstances, but we will
endeavour to include it in our next
issue.
All that remains is for me to wish
you all happy landings.
Derek
Scenery
LETTERS
missing out by not trying GEX or
ORBX?
I enjoy your magazine and good
articles. I shall continue to subscribe.
With regards
George Clarke
Ottawa, Canada
PC Pilot
Hello George, 
Both packages are worth having a look
at. Orbx is probably the most popular
scenery in the FSX world.  It is very
good quality, particularly at low
altitude and the company has a large
product range. Most of the packages
are for small airports, although they
have FTX Global which covers larger
geographic areas. GEX, which also
covers larger areas, has recently been
updated to version 2. It is also a
significant improvement over the
default scenery.  
It is very subjective as to which one
simmers go for. Personally, I use Orbx
but I know other simmers prefer GEX. I
would recommend you have a look at
both, I know Orbx does demos of its
scenery so it might be worth having a
look at those. 
Hope that helps, 
Cheers,
Richard
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Dear PC Pilot
I have been a subscriber to your
magazine for many years now. I
have also been an FSX user for
many years. I want to enhance my
system with more scenery. The
problem is that there are choices to be
made. I realise that each system costs
money. We have GEX from Flight1,
ORBX, Mega scenery Earth and
Horizon. I think these are the major
ones.
My question to you is: can you
indicate which one is the better of the
four?
I tried Mega Scenery for Florida but
was not impressed. I also tried Horizon
for Great Britain - not impressed. Am I
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EDITORIAL AND LETTERS
What makes a popular GA aircraft?
had the amazing opportunity of
spending 54 minutes flying one in
real life in Colorado, so any time I fly
a Spitfire in Flight Simulator it brings
back very fond memories.  As a
consequence, I have both the Real Air
Spitfires and the A2A Spitfire in my
FS hangar.
If a general aviation aircraft looks
good and has nice features it is
attractive to me but the main
drawing point for me is if it flies
smoothly and well.  No matter how
good the aircraft looks, the flight
dynamics or how well it actually flies
is the strongest draw for me.
Because of this, it is no surprise
that I have more than one aircraft
from the RealAir team in my flight
simulator hangar.  On the other hand,
there are quite a few aircraft that I
have downloaded with much
anticipation from a flight simulation
website, only to fly it just once or
twice because the performance did
not match up to the looks of the
aircraft. And since I did most of my
flight training back in the day, I have
a preference for the classic analogue
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instruments, rather than the more
modern glass cockpits and GPS
displays.
Often I still pick out the next
aircraft to try on a whim after
hearing about or seeing the aircraft
in the real world. As an example, I
just bought a Sling LSA from South
Africa for FSX after hearing about it
while on a real world powered hang
glider flight here in southern
California. So please keep your
excellent aircraft reviews coming.
Those articles are eagerly read in
each issue soon after it arrives in
the mail.
Best regards
Melo Scanlon
Torrance, CA
Dear PC Pilot
You asked for our opinions in
respect of the article on GA Flight
Simulation: What makes a popular
GA aircraft?
My flight simulator experience
has tended to be with a variety of
aircraft but I generally to gravitate
back towards general aviation or at
least single engine types almost all
the time.
Once, with a friend, we
successfully flew Lockheed Super
Constellations in formation over
Switzerland online, in tribute to a
flight simulator friend who had
already flown his last earthly
flight. And on another occasion,
again with my friend and his
associates, we flew DC-9 aircraft
into Aspen Colorado together
online, although that flight did not
end so well for me when the pitot
tube iced over, or something else
went wrong with the jet engines
and my airport landing turned into
an emergency belly landing on the
slope of the nearby mountain. Two
or three other pilots on that flight
also had engine problems, but I was
the only one, being a rookie on the
DC-9, who could not get my engines
restarted. So as you can see, I
generally don’t do as well with the
more complex or multi-engine
machines.
One of my interests when picking
out the next general aviation aircraft
to download or purchase, is that I am
often drawn to fly the same aircraft
that I had the opportunity to fly in
real life. So the Piper Warriors I flew
in flight training in Pennsylvania
years ago are always of interest if I
can find a good one. I also have more
of a preference to fly low wing
aircraft in general, or sometimes a
taildragger, in Flight Simulator rather
than tricycle gear aircraft.
One taildragger that I was able to
fly once in California was the Piper
J-3 Cub, so I really enjoy flying that
again in Flight Simulator.
My absolute favourite aircraft to fly
in Flight Simulator, although not a GA
aircraft, is the Supermarine Spitfire.  I
I’ve come to another impasse – please advise
Dear PC Pilot
Having served 31 years with the
military, 26 with the RAF I took great
interest in aircraft, having been an
aero spotter as a boy, with a dad who
was a pilot and QFI in the RAF during
World War Two.
I was inspired by a lady who flew a
Piper Arrow single-handed around
the world to start flight simming and
in my guise as Wg Cmdr Percy Prune,
I followed this by making several
circumnavigations of the globe in a
Beech 300, Honda-Learjet and
Lockheed P3 Orion, of the
SURCLARO Search and Rescue team
‘Search for Maddie McCann’ Flight.
And my favourite aircraft is the
trusty C130J.
After many years ‘sim-flying’ FS95
FS9 and FSX, my FSX has decided
not to work, or repair or un/reinstall,
and the FS9 says there is a file
missing so go back to start.
If I buy a new copy of FSX hopefully
the problems will not re-appear, but
should I consider ‘Steam’, or an
alternative simulation? What does
‘Steam’ give me, that FSX does not
and visa-versa? What of X Plane 10?
I guess the aircraft already in my
hangar won’t fly in that
environment.
Kind regards
John P Laws
Alias Wg Cmdr Percy Prune DCM
& Bars
PC Pilot
Hi John,
Thanks for your email.
In answer to your question, I would
consider purchasing the Steam
edition of FSX.
The DVD and digital versions of
FSX are virtually identical in terms of
content. However, the Steam version
offers better performance (frame
rates) and a number of technical
‘issues’ have also been resolved.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Derek
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