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Come join me Tuesday evening at 5pm Eastern, 10pm Zulu for an informative lesson on Night Flying. We learn what it takes to get your night flying rating and what is involved to confidently handle a night flight. You can join me after the lecture for a group fly from Buttonville to Barrie Springwater airport in the Ontario Canada area. We won’t use airplane nametags so we have to keep our distance, know the weather ahead and know the elevation below us. Things are different now. Can you handle it? Join us: http://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Subscribers get a discount on Forder’s online courses. Tier 3 subscribers get free courses.

Lesson 5 of our multi-part series on the MSFSofficial twitch channel Come join us today on the MSFSofficial channel for Flight Simulator as the Flight Simulator Community Manager, Jayne takes on the role as student again and performs the new skills introduced in Lesson 5: The Circuit The main goal in this lesson is pulling all the previous skills together now and performing touch and go’s in the pattern, or runway circuit. She will be departing from 16Left at KPAE, Paine Field in Washington State, our home of our flying lessons. Howard will be teaching this class and is the principal instructor and course designer of this series. It is not a multiplayer flight, as in real life, it is only between the instructor and the student so the focus is on the handling of the airplane through the different attitudes without the distraction of planes zooming by and aerobatics in the air beside us. Although this isn’t on Howard’s twitch stream, it is on the bigger audience, MSFSofficial stream. Join us Wednesday evening at 5 pm Eastern or 10pm GMT (zulu) on http://twitch.tv/MSFSofficial Hope to see you there, join in chat, ask questions and interact with fellow pilots, instructors and newbies to aviation. Lot’s of fun!

February the 9th will be Lesson 3: Type !lesson to get the lesson plan Join me Tuesdays for this new series and a real-life airline pilot as he takes us through the checklists and the real-world experience managing and flying the airline heavies. Alan (vnavpth) has flown many airplanes in his career and is currently flying the Boeing 757 and 767 series of aircraft. On our Tuesday Lesson evenings, this new series brings new light to how the real airline pilots handle their big birds from cold and dark to complete journeys. In Flight Simulator, he will be managing the 787-10 Dreamliner through our series. Ref: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner Join us Tuesday, February 9th at 5pm Eastern Time, 10pm Zulu (GMT). on: http://twitch.tv/ForderLearntoFly When you get there, type !checklist and !info to get the checklist and background. !selfserve vnavpth currently flies the Boeing 757/767 series of aircraft

Join us Saturday morning, January 6th at 8am Eastern, 1pm GM T (zulu) for a group fly from Chicago Midway through the windy city, around Meigs Field (new scenery) and up the Lake Michigan coast with a final FISK approach to KOSH, the famous FISK approach to Oshkosh . http://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Once in chat, type !fly and !flightplan and while you are at it, type !scenery to get the web link to the new Meigs Field scenery (free and payware version). It only takes a few minutes to exapand the zip file and copy it to your community folder before you start your sim.

A special twitch session this evening from an accessory maker. Vince Prints has figured out how to make his own yoke, throttle quadrant and radio stack. You can too after you tune in to his insight on how to make these things. Very interesting, especially when these things are hard to find. Thursday, February 4th, 5pm Eastern (10pm GMT-Zulu) http://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

Come, load up the Pitts Special in MSFS and come fly with us. DrNoThumb who flies this plane on every group stream is famous for his take off and immediate aileron roll at low altitude. Now he is going to lead us in some fun aerobatics in a fun little plane. Join me and our growing list of group flyers on Sunday, January 31st at 7pm Eastern. Watch or join in. When you get to the stream, type !fly to get the server and starting airport. There might not be a flight plan, but at least an airport to start with. See you there: http://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

Ever wanted to learn how the real airline pilots do it? Join me Tuesdays for this new series and a real-life airline pilot as he takes us through the checklists and the real-world experience managing and flying the airline heavies. Alan (vnavpth) has flown many airplanes in his career and is currently flying the Boeing 757 and 767 series of aircraft. On our Tuesday Lesson evenings, this new series brings new light to how the real airline pilots handle their big birds from cold and dark to complete journeys. In Flight Simulator, he will be managing the 787-10 Dreamliner through our series. Ref: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner Join us Tuesday, February 26th at 5pm Eastern Time, 10pm Zulu (GMT). on: http://twitch.tv/ForderLearntoFly When you get there, type !checklist and !info to get the checklist and background. !selfserve vnavpth currently flies the Boeing 757/767 series of aircraft

Come fly with us or watch the attempts! Group Fly in Howard’s favorite water aircraft: The ICON A5. In this group fly event, Howard first shows us how to land and takeoff using the ICON A5 on water. But the rest of the evening is all flying together as a group and discovering the beauty of our land. We are on the WEST USA server (different than Howard’s default). We are starting at Victoria International Airport on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. We will be weaving in and around the mountains and lakes all the way up to Courteney, one of Howard’s favorite land/water airports near the Canadian Forces Base Comox. We could have easily just followed the coastline to get there, but weaving in and around mountains is more fun. Join us at 7pm Eastern, 12:00am Zulu at http://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly When you get there, type !fly in chat to confirm your server and !flightplan to download the flightplan and load it into your airplane. You can optionally load your flight plan into LittleNavMap to follow along. See you there. Subscribers to the channel get discounts and free flying courses plus free live lessons in a duo cockpit with Forder. Ask in chat for details. Join the Forder Flying Club today!

The details for real life pilot training and using a flight simulator to supplement it. Join me Tuesday, January 19th, at 5pm Eastern for a lesson and discussion on Becoming a Pilot. Howard will go through all the realistic requirements to become a Private Pilot and then explain other ratings, certifications and a career path for many. If you can’t attend live and join in the chat discussions, please visit the video on demand afterwards and get an insight on how to achieve the freedom of flying as pilot in command. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly (subscribers get discounts and flying lessons to ease the cost further)

Although we won’t see this scene from the air in the simulator, this has a rich history of USA influence Come join us Sunday evening, January 17th, at 7pm Eastern for a flight from Havana to Varadero, the white beaches for holiday sun at this time of year. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly This won’t be a history lesson, nor a geography lesson. Just a casual group fly with a flight plan. Chat room discussion is encouraged and if you have some knowledge of this winter getaway, please speak up in chat with your information. We all learn something new. Although Howard and his wife have spent winter holidays in Cuba, it was mostly in Varadero where the majority of tourists hang out… the all inclusive resorts. When you get to the stream, type !flightplan to pick up the flight plan and load it into Flight Simulator, or type !fly to get the server and starting airport. See you there.

Join us Sunday evening in multiplayer as we learn how a real student pilot handles the busy San Fransisco area traffic. Matt is a student pilot IRL and is taking lessons out of KSQL, San Carlos airport. It’s a busy airspace with many airports all around and restrictions on overlapping control zones. Matt will take us to his practice area IRL, including circuits at Half Moon Bay. Then on to the bigger attractions that San Fran is known for, like the Bay bridge and the Golden Gate bridge and all the cities surrounding them. No Group Fly would be complete in this area if we didn’t low-fly Alcatraz. But the real take-away is how to fly in and around this busy airspace. Come fly with us! https://www.twitch.tv/forderlearntofly

Event using Microsoft’s Flight Simulator (not FSX, Xplane, or Prepar3d) Come join in the fun as we multiplayer group fly through the Ripon/FISK approach to OSHKOSH for precision flying and “landing on the dot”. A right of passage for aviators. Do you think you can “land on the Dot?” Calling all MSFS pilots to get an insight on how this works for aviators into the worlds busiest airport for 10 days of the year. Preparation session and distribution of the thick NOTAM on Thursday, January 7th at 5pm Eastern. After the prep session, you can practice fly as a group to both the 36 FISK avenue approach and the runway 27 railroad track approach. The coloured dots are on the runway… see if you can do it before the big event. Then on Saturday, January 9th at Noon Eastern time, the even starts. All arriving aircraft will have to start before the FISK decision point if you want to fly in. You will need to register for the event as we can’t have anyone just dropping into the field and wrecking our separation approaches. Any skill level is welcome and all should obtain the NOTAM and follow the procedures for arrival. (registration details revealed Thursday evening) Can you land on the dot? Each dot is 45 gallons of paint. Special FAA sequencing rules are applied. Simultaneous landing airplanes are in order to fit the 10,000 participating aircraft over 10 days!