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The Canadian Tour! The well-travelled corridor from Ottawa to Montreal. Then we add more to the trip in the areas Howard is familiar with: Petawawa/Pembroke, where he served in the Canadian Armed Forces. Along the way we travel through the busy capital city of Ottawa and the nearby Aviation Museum at Rockcliffe Airport, where the Avro Arrow legend can be found. Then on to the busy hub of Montreal Quebec where our final destination lands with the beautiful Ottawa river all the way there. Come witness the group flight or join in with Microsoft’s Flight Simulator. Anyone can watch or participate. Sunday, May 9th, 2021 at 7pm. Eastern, 2300 zulu https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly When you are in chat, type !fly (to reveal the server, usually EAST USA) and type !flightplan to pick up the flight plan and load it into your simulator. In the Ottawa area, we have to swing by and land at Rockcliffe airport where the famous Canadian Aviation Museum lives.

Two main topics on our regular Thursdays Cockpit Chatter twitch session: The first real helicopter and using TrackIR 5 for head-tracking. Two requested topics that we will cover so you know what they are and how good or bad they are. Join Howard, the moderators on voice and the whole chat room group on Thursday, May 6th, 2021 at 5pm Eastern, 2100zulu https://twitch.tv/ForderLearntoFly Install and test using the included hat clip. As a reminder: Twitch Tier 1 subscribers get 10@ off Howard’s online courses, Tier 2 get deeper discounts and Tier 3 get all his online flying courses for free.

Jayne is the Community Manager for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Join Jayne and me in Lesson 11 on the MSFSofficial twitch channel Wednesday, May 5th at 5pm, 2100 zulu. We will be covering short fields and soft field techniques for landing and taking off. These are two crucial skills for access to smaller airstrips around the country. Come and watch Jayne master a new skill that private pilots would have to master in their flight training towards their Private Pilot license. These lessons are done with Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator, released in August of 2020. They are for entertainment purposes only but are lessons taken from the curriculum from real flight schools. https://twitch.tv/MSFSofficial Howard is her instructor through this series of Learn to Fly lessons. All lessons in this series are conducted on the Cessna 152 but can pertain to any trainer aircraft. Yes, she really is going to land in the thin strip of a grass airport straight ahead, surrounded by trees!

Tuesday Lesson: May 4th, https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

We will start out with an amphibious ultralight of the strangest design at the Forder Resort & Spa in Alaska (scenery made by sj). Then we head to wherever the chat group wants to go. (you can download sj’s Resort scenery in chat with !resort We could even do the return flight of the Norway flight plan for an hour if you wish. Join us Sunday, May 2nd at 7pm Eastern, 2300 zulu to join in MSFS or to just watch and interact in twitch chat or our !discord server. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearntoFly Upcoming Events: Tuesday, May 4th, Tuesday Lesson at 5pm Eastern, 2100zulu Wednesday, May 5th, with Jayne on the MSFSOfficial twitch channel for a lesson on Short/Soft field landing and takeoffs. This time we are heading out to a remote soft and short field with trees at both ends. Wish us luck. Thursday Cockpit Chatter at 5pm. Eastern, 2100 zulu for cockpit photo sharing, discussions about flying with simulators and hangar talk.

We will uncover the new Ultralight Aircraft just released and take it for a spin. Come join us Thursday evening at 5pm Eastern, 2100 zulu at: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearntoFly

Great discussion about your MSFS setup. Join Howard as the discussion is all around how you got your Xbox gamertag. In addition, he continues his display of your home cockpit setup with pictures from “screenshots” from his Discord channel. When in twitch chat, just type !discord to get the invite. Thurdsday, April 22, 5pm Eastern, 2100 Zulu. on https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

Lead by our real-life airline pilot and CFI, ductmonfault Join me Tuesday, April 20th for our second lesson on using the Aerosoft CRJ-700 from cold and dark to our final destination in this multi-part series led by a currently active real-life airline pilot, ductmonfault. This is going to be another packed session with high interest as you can’t just spawn a plane like this in flight simulator and turn the key to go. Fascinating to see how it’s done in real life. Join me on https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly at 5pm Eastern, 2100 zulu. Get to know what every switch and dial is for and how to use them properly.

Our lead pilot: dutchsim leads us through the highlights of his country. Another very interesting group fly to an destination dutchsim knows well. Since the recent World Update 4, this area needs closer inspection. Come join us to witness this multi-airplane event in Microsoft Flight Simulator simply by tuning in to: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearntoFly You can chose to fly along with us or just sit back and learn about this beautiful country from the view of an airplane. When you get to Forder’s twitch stream, type !fly to get the server and !flightplan to get the flight plan that you can load into your own MS Flight Simulator and fly with the group. You can also load the optional starting airport scenery for enhanced realism: !scenery Sunday, 7pm Eastern, 2300z – Hope to see you then.

Join Howard Thursday evening at 5pm, 2100 zulu for a insight on how you can be the lead pilot on one of Howard’s group fly events on weekends. Show your area of the world to everyone from the perspective of Flight Simulator and it’s spectacular photogrammetry scenery. It’s all there, just waiting for us to discover it. Thursday, April 8th, 5pm, Eastern, 2100 zulu at https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

Yes, get the coffee pot ready. 14-17 hours depending on the real-world weather Even if you don’t fly the Microsoft Flight Simulator, you can join in, watch and even witness Howard singing during those long, dark, over-the-water passages with his Professional Karaoke tracks streaming live over twitch. There will also be 10 Orbx giveaways during the race for anything on the Orbx site. It all starts Saturday, 7:30pm Eastern, 23:30 zulu on https://twitch.tv/ForderLearntoFly

Come witness the scariest part of being a pilot… ditching your airplane due to engine failure. An engine failure is rare in an airplane. So much redundancy is built-in and checklists are followed meticulously. But all pilots are trained in handling that rare moment when your engine quits and you cannot sustain flight anymore. Join me Wednesday evening as I lead Jayne, her fellow student-pilots on voice and a chat crowd of hundreds through the process of handling an “off-airport landing” by gliding to a desired landing spot without the aid of an engine and propeller. This will be on the Microsoft Flight Simulator Official twitch channel: https://twitch.tv/MSFSofficial at 5pm Eastern, 2100 zulu Wednesday, March 31st. Student materials are provided including checklists and reference to book materials online. When in chat, type !material and !studentkit to get your materials and follow along.