It’s here! I have published our photo album from last weekend. We started in Toronto, Canada… flew across Lake Ontario to Niagara Falls at night, then jumped over to Rio to fly around Christ the Redeemer statue. https://myalbum.com/album/BFHiV32EiCru Screen-snaps from our group flying session on Saturday and Sunday, October 24th, 25th, 2020 We finally took up the challenge at Lukla airport in my new Canadian livery for the TBM 930. This final destination was really the final destination for some as we witnessed a lot of crashes trying to put it down on this runway. Exciting times (in the sim that is). Thank you to all who flew alongside. We had a blast.

Howard adds the first fighter jet available for MSFS and gets us flying and landing with the basics. Thursday, October 29th, at 4pm Eastern Time, 8pm Zulu. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Howard installs and introduces us to the only fighter jet fully functional in MSFS, the Aermacchi MB-339. During this twitch livestream, we take off from Toronto City Center airport (Billy Bishop) and get very high, very fast. The harder part will be getting back on the ground safely. Howard will walk us through an orientation of where everything is, how to get flying and how to land the beast. He will also introduce us to a stick/throttle recommendation to get the most out of jet fighter flying. There is no room for a yoke where we are going! The Aermacchi MB-339 is a military jet trainer and light attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Italian aviation company Aermacchi.

By popular demand, how to fly with steam gauges instead of a glass cockpit. Here, Howard explains each instrument and how to use them practically on the ground and in flight. Join Howard live on Tuesday, October 27th. at 4pm Eastern Time for this in-depth look at instruments you should know about before you fly. Ask lots of questions and come back here to comment afterwards. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearntoFly A peek into the lesson Tuesday on Steam Gauges and how to use them.

Day and night markings to get you around an airport and what they all mean. Tune in Tuesday, October 30th at 4pm Eastern, 8pm zulu to find out what a “runway displacement” is for and what colour are the lights around an apron. What do “piano keys” represent and why does Howard keep saying, “red over white is alright”? https://twitch.tv/ForderLearntoFly Don’t forget to come back here and comment on the session.

Come join Howard for another fun group fly in. You can just watch and interact in chat or join in the skies in multiplayer mode. See details below.. we are flying a floatplane to land on lakes. If you prefer planes with wheels, you can find some firm ground nearby to land. This session is based on a suggestion by a twitch follower who asked us to try this lake just like the YouTube video of a real Icon A5 doing the same. Please see the short video ahead of time and then join in this stream Sunday evening: Thanks to flox_trot, a participant in last Sunday’s stream. This is the chat-room choice first trip Sunday evening. An open public event for you to fly-alongside or watch. When: Sunday, October 18th, 2020 1100zulu, 7pm Eastern Time 2 hours Where: ForderLearnToFly twitch channel: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Flight plan: https:https://bit.ly/3j9F1Yi but that only gets you to the nearest airport.. keep going in that direction to the lake and ensure you are 3000 feet or above… Flight Details: At 7:05pm (after we gather) we will be departing KPAE, Paine Field in Washington State.. just north of Seattle/Tacoma airport. We will be flying the Icon A5 floatplane and landing on lakes along the way, much as we did in our Vancouver fly event. We will fly straight east following the Snohomish river to this secluded mountain lake where there is only one way in… and one way out. Two Landing challenges: We are going to land in Lake Isabel, just like the Youtube video of the real plane. Additionally, Howard likes to challenge fellow flyers to two almost impossible landing spots to take a break, use the washroom, refresh your drinks and take off again. Short field landings are in order as we plunk down in areas that would make your hair stand on end…. Planning: Starting airport is KPAE. Please pick the ramp area at the south end and turn on your fuel switch in the roof of the plane to start your engines. If you start late, chat the group and we will determine where we are from that airport so you can slew to us (Y key) Please load your aircraft 15 minutes prior to take off and ensure you see others doing runup nearby getting ready. (East USA server) We will announce when we are ready for takeoff, as we will all attempt a parallel northbound takeoff, heading east toward the mountains. Tell all your friends. Anyone can tune in and watch and comment in the chat window. Ask Howard lots of questions. Other pilots on the stream can help too. There is no ending airport!, This is a “Chat-Room” choice fly in event and this first destination was suggested by “flox_trot” in last week’s session. You can suggest where we go after the two landing challenges. Could be anywhere in the world, even over your own house! Weather: We will use preset weather so it’s clear skies, for the specific reason of clarity when looking at scenery. We will be stopping and using a drone camera for closeups. Live players, all traffic and preset weather to clear skies. Try to pick noon for best light on attractions. Multiplayer Setting: To see and be seen by everyone: (All Players) The fun part! –Server: East USA (if everyone disappears, change your server, change it back) Xbox Userid top right. It’s about the closest server to the streamer, not closest to the destination. (low latency) –Multiplayer: All –Live traffic: As desired –Weather: Clear skies and daylight (can change in session) –Communication: chat window and lead airplane C-FLTF (Howard’s Forder Learn To Fly) Howard the pilot, will be the only voice leading us through this flight in an Icon A5 amphib plane. As with all group flights, it is advisable to turn off both aircraft and terrain collisions. Although you can slew back to the group. Chat to find out where we are and use the Y key to slew back to us. Save your flight often along the way in case you have trouble and want to resume where you left off. Let’s Fy! As with all informal, public fly-ins, there are no checklists, no strict flying rules and its an informal visual flight (VFR). Everyone is welcome, no matter what your experience level. Although Howard will have new scenery you might not have, you can still land in the same area and just look at Howard’s stream screen. A note about the channel: keeping it alive. Howard has no endorsements to finance the production and performance on this channel. It is supported solely on donations (one time tips), or Subscribers (monthly supporters). Donations are accepted anytime and if you think there was some value in this production, please donate what you can. All proceeds go back into the stream to keep it going and make it better. Subscribers: to the twitch channel have private fly-ins with more strict flying (real checklists and procedures). You can use your Amazon Prime to subscribe to a Tier without costing you any more. This helps Howard support the channel and keep it going. All subscription money goes right back in to buy scenery or planes etc. If you wish to subscribe there are three Tiers: Tier 1: Fying Club Tier 2: Student Pilot Tier 3: Serious Aviator Mainly used by flying students in real life (IRL) or in Howard’s flying classes using a simulator on Udemy.com and Skillshare.com All subscribers have extra benefits and are usually simmers who want to learn to fly properly. All subscribers get more personal and private instruction at the airport of their choice. Tier 2 and 3 subscribers also get free access to ForderLearnToFly courses on Udemy.com (each course is normally $50) Tier 3 gets unlimited private flying lessons at the airport of your choice. You could even subscribe to Tier 1 for 3 months at a discount and get a free flying course with Howard on Udemy.com (just an idea), then your monthly is affordable.

Howard has been saying for a month now to “wait for it” as a ton of add-on scenery, liveries, aircraft and airports are on their way to the new Microsoft Flight Simulator market. Thursday’s Cockpit Chatter session at 4pm will show how to find all this new stuff and how to figure out where your “Community” folder is. There is a lot of confusion around this location and how to find it. Howard puts his technical hat on and shows you how easy it is to find out where on your specific system. Then you get to follow along as Howard installs the Space Coast scenery with the Falcon Heavy, as you saw on last Sunday’s group fly. Add a variety of Cessna 172 colours and a few other great scenery add-ons, all for free. An update to the space coast scenery, Niagara Falls and other great free add-ons. Join Howard at 4pm eastern on Thursday. Thursday, 4pm Eastern, 8pm Zulu at: https://Twitch.tv/ForderLearntoFly

Come see the tour that you can’t see in real life. Fly around the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Come and join Howard Sunday, October 11, at 7pm Eastern 11pm zulu as we gather at St. Petersburg Florida, over to Lakeland, home of Sun ‘N Fun, then on to the Bok Tower, up to Kissimmee airport, through Disneyland, over to Orlando Airport and finally over to the east coast to sightsee the Kennedy Space Center and the launch pads with Howard’s new space coast scenery installed. There is the link to the flight plan so you can load it in your MSFS 2020 and fly with him: https://bit.ly/3iOIyeq Here is the complete route in Skyvector, but the .pln file will load into your MSFS 2020 and you can follow the magenta line! An open public event for you to fly-alongside or watch. When: Sunday, October 11th, 2020 1100zulu, 7pm Eastern Time 2 hours Where: ForderLearnToFly twitch channel: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Flight Details: At 7:05pm (after we gather) we will be departing KPIE, St. Petersburg airport bound for Lakeland airport, our first stop. We make fly-overs or stops at Bok Tower, Kissimmee Airport, Disneyland, Orlando International, Space Coast Regional Airport and finally the launch pads of the Kennedy Space Center, all with Howard’s new scenery. Two Landing challenges: We are going to land near the launch pads. Normally illegal, here in the flight simulator, Howard likes to challenge fellow flyers to two almost impossible landing spots to take a break, use the washroom, refresh your drinks and take off again. Short field landings are in order as we plunk down in areas that would make your hair stand on end…. Planning: Starting airport is KPIE. If you start late, chat the group and we will determine where we are from that airport so you can slew to us (Y key) Please load your aircraft 15 minutes prior to take off and ensure you see others doing runup nearby getting ready. We will announce when we are ready for takeoff, as we will all attempt a parallel takeoff, heading east toward Lakeland Airport. Tell all your friends. Anyone can tune in and watch and comment in the chat window. Ask Howard lots of questions. Other pilots on the stream can help too. The ending airport is KTTS, the NASA Shuttle Landing Facility, but lots of variations to that route along the way. Weather: We will use preset weather so it’s clear skies, for the specific reason of clarity when looking at scenery. We will be stopping and using a drone camera for closeups. Live players, all traffic and preset weather to clear skies. Try to pick noon for best light on attractions. Multiplayer Setting: To see and be seen by everyone: (All Players) The fun part! –Server: East USA (if everyone disappears, change your server, change it back) Xbox Userid top right. It’s about the closest server to you, not to the destination. (low latency) –Multiplayer: All –Live traffic: As desired –Weather: Clear skies and daylight (can change in session) –Communication: chat window and lead airplane C-FLTF (Howard’s Forder Learn To Fly) Howard the pilot, will be the only voice leading us through this flight in a Cessna 172 G1000 plane. As with all group flights, it is advisable to turn off both aircraft and terrain collisions. Although you can slew back to the group. Chat to find out where we are and use the Y key to slew back to us. Save your flight often along the way in case you have trouble and want to resume where you left off. Let’s Fy! As with all informal, public fly-ins, there are no checklists, no strict flying rules and its an informal visual flight (VFR). Everyone is welcome, no matter what your experience level. Although Howard will have new scenery you might not have, you can still land in the same area and just look at Howard’s stream screen. A note about the channel: keeping it alive. Howard has no endorsements to finance the production and performance on this channel. It is supported solely on donations (one time tips), or Subscribers (monthly supporters). Donations are accepted anytime and if you think there was some value in this production, please donate what you can. All proceeds go back into the stream to keep it going and make it better. Subscribers: to the twitch channel have private fly-ins with more strict flying (real checklists and procedures). You can use your Amazon Prime to subscribe to a Tier without costing you any more. This helps Howard support the channel and keep it going. All subscription money goes right back in to buy scenery or planes etc. If you wish to subscribe there are three Tiers: Tier 1: Fying Club Tier 2: Student Pilot Tier 3: Serious Aviator Mainly used by flying students in real life (IRL) or in Howard’s flying classes using a simulator on Udemy.com and Skillshare.com All subscribers have extra benefits and are usually simmers who want to learn to fly properly. All subscribers get more personal and private instruction at the airport of their choice. Tier 2 and 3 subscribers also get free access to ForderLearnToFly courses on Udemy.com (each course is normally $50) Tier 3 gets unlimited private flying lessons at the airport of your choice. You could even subscribe to Tier 1 for 3 months at a discount and get a free flying course with Howard on Udemy.com (just an idea), then your monthly is affordable.

Thursday, October 8th at 4pm Eastern, 8pm Zulu, Howard starts his twitch livestream and walks us through another solution worth considering in your home cockpit. This session focuses on Air Manager for instruments separate from your main scenery screen and an added bonus of the “Knobster” to handle instrument adjustment. How to set it up, what it costs and an additional bonus, connecting the “Knobster” to physically move those instrument dials. Join us on twitch at 4pm eastern: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

Join Howard Forder Tuesday for the next flying lesson. An excerpt from his Learn To Fly: Beginner course on Udemy.com and Skillshare.com Tuesday, October 6th, at 4pm Eastern Time, 8pm Zulu. Join Howard on the twitch livestream as he walks us through the airport circuit and how to determine directions and elevations very easily. A quiz at the end of the lesson and then practice at Oshawa, Ontario airport, the topic of the demonstrations and calculations. (CYOO). We will have a group fly afterwards if anyone want to join in and fly with Howard. Where? How? https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly (followers are free, subscribers join the Flying club) Subscribers: to the twitch channel have private fly-ins with more realistic flying (real checklists and procedures). You can use your Amazon Prime to subscribe to a Tier without costing you any more. This helps Howard support the channel and keep it going. All subscription money goes right back in to buy scenery or planes etc. If you wish to subscribe there are three Tiers. Just hit the “Subscribe” button in the stream: Tier 1: Fying Club Tier 2: Student Pilot Tier 3: Serious Aviator Mainly used by flying students in real life (IRL) or in Howard’s flying classes using a simulator on Udemy and Skillshare

TW earns his solo certificate with flying colors! Please join me in congratulating TW for earning his solo wings. This milestone in flying studies and practice allows a student pilot to take planes out alone to continue to practice towards their pilot license. Although in Flight Simulator we are always alone it seems, TW met all the criteria of a solo flight including the circuit and emergency landings. Comment below to congratulate your fellow flyer with this accomplishment. -Howard Here is the congratulatory video on YouTube if you haven’t seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16oF-RB0GaQ

Sunday, October 4th, 7pm Eastern, 11pm Zulu Come and witness a tour of Rome Italy like no other. Howard and Elaine will take you on a flying tour using Microsoft’s Flight Simulator and the photo-realistic scenery in the new sim, mixed with their own photos of vacations in the eternal city. For those who have the new flight simulator, come join them in the skies over Rome as a group flight with two challenge landings: one at Circus Maximus and the other in the heart of the Vatican, St. Peter’s Square. Open to everyone to witness or to fly. Tune in to Howard’s twitch live stream at: https://twitch.tv/forderlearntofly Along the way you will witness their experiences in the major monuments that tourists seek in the center of ancient Rome, all within an hour and a half. Everyone is welcome. Donations accepted, but not expected to keep the live stream alive. Howard Forder will be flying the tour and Elaine (his wife) will be your tour guide. Elaine lived in Rome for many years, learned the language and has enthusiasm for this warm place in her heart to this day. This week is Rome. Next week is the surrounding areas and cities of Italy. Come and escape with us to the eternal city. An open public event for you to fly-alongside or watch. When: Sunday, October 4th, 2020 1100zulu, 7pm Eastern Time 1.5hours Where: ForderLearnToFly twitch channel: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Flight Details: At 7:05pm (after we gather) we will be departing Leonardo da Vinci airport (Fiumicino) LIFR , flying the Icon A5 plane for slow flight flying to see the sights. Start your simulator 10 minutes before 7 to be ready when we are. We start at this busy international airport by the sea and have two landing challenges during the tour. (this plane available in all versions) You can fly whatever plane you are comfortable flying. Don’t forget to turn on the fuel valve in the Icon A5, located on the ceiling next to the parachute handle. Two Landing challenges: Trying to land an airplane anywhere near Rome will be challenging. Normally illegal, here in the flight simulator, Howard likes to challenge fellow flyers to two almost impossible landing spots to take a break, use the washroom, refresh your drinks and take off again. Short field landings are in order as we plunk down in Circus Maximus and St. Peter’s Square. Planning: Starting airport is LIRF. If you start late, chat the group and we will determine where we are from that airport so you can slew to us (Y key) Please load your aircraft 15 minutes prior to take off and ensure you see others doing runup nearby getting ready. We will announce when we are ready for takeoff, as we will all attempt a parallel takeoff, heading south along the beaches of Ostia. Tell all your friends. Anyone can tune in and watch and comment in the chat window. Ask lots of questions for Elaine or Howard. Please start on the ramp near runway 25 so we don’t impede incoming traffic. Let’s try for ramp 105 as there is lots of space. The ending airport is LIRU, Urbe but lots of variations to that route along the way. Weather: We will use preset weather so it’s clear skies, for the specific reason of clarity when looking at scenery. We will be stopping and using a drone camera for closeups. Live players, all traffic and preset weather to clear skies. Try to pick noon for best light on attractions. Multiplayer Setting: To see and be seen by everyone: (All Players) The fun part! –Server: East USA (if everyone disappears, change your server, change it back) Xbox Userid top right. It’s about the closest server to you, not to the destination. (low latency) –Multiplayer: All –Live traffic: As desired –Weather: Clear skies and daylight (can change in session) –Communication: chat window and lead airplane C-FLTF (Howard’s Forder Learn To Fly) Howard the pilot and Elaine the tour guide will be the only voices leading us through this flight in an Icon A5 Light Sport airplane. As with all group flights, it is advisable to turn off both aircraft and terrain collisions. Although you can slew back to the group. Chat to find out where we are and use the Y key to slew back to us. While Elaine is talking about an attraction, save your flight in case you have trouble and want to resume where you left off. Let’s Fy! As with all informal, public fly-ins, there are no checklists, no strict flying rules and its an informal visual flight (VFR). Everyone is welcome, no matter what your experience level. When Howard pauses above a monument, you can choose to pause also or fly circles around him until he proceeds. (or save your flight in case you are in trouble later) A note about the channel: keeping it alive. Howard has no endorsements to finance the production and performance on this channel. It is supported solely on donations (one time tips), or Subscribers (monthly supporters). Donations are accepted anytime and if you think there was some value in this production, please donate what you can. All proceeds go back into the stream to keep it going and make it better. Subscribers: to the twitch channel have private fly-ins with more strict flying (real checklists and procedures). You can use your Amazon Prime to subscribe to a Tier without costing you any more. This helps Howard support the channel and keep it going. All subscription money goes right back in to buy scenery or planes etc. If you wish to subscribe there are three Tiers: Tier 1: Fying Club Tier 2: Student Pilot Tier 3: Serious Aviator Mainly used by flying students in real life (IRL) or in Howard’s flying classes using a simulator on Udemy.com and Skillshare.com All subscribers have extra benefits and are usually simmers who want to learn to fly properly. All subscribers get more personal and private instruction at the airport of their choice. Tier 2 and 3 subscribers also get free access to ForderLearnToFly courses on Udemy.com (each course is normally $50) Tier 3 gets unlimited private flying lessons at the airport of your choice. You could even subscribe to Tier 1 for 3 months at a discount and get a free flying course with Howard on Udemy.com (just an idea), then your monthly is affordable.

Tuesday’s livestream is “Approaching Airports” and starts at 4pm Eastern, 8pm Zulu. http://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Come along to learn or review how to approach your destination airport to land. We will learn the same procedures real pilots use. I hope you will join me in reviewing procedures to get into the airport’s control zone and landing properly. This will cover both controlled airports that have a person on a radio and uncontrolled airports where you have to call every position to the common frequency. This is a follow-on to last week’s lesson on Pitch vs Power to have a relaxed, controlled landing. The lesson and the demonstrations are first, then we can group fly to practice our newfound skills or just casual fly to an area of your choice. If you wish to wait at the apron during demonstrations to observe, we will be flying into Oshawa (CYOO) and Markham (CNU8). The advantage of livestream lessons is that you get to ask questions and make comments in the chat session. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Subscribers: to the twitch channel have private fly-ins with more realistic flying (real checklists and procedures). You can use your Amazon Prime to subscribe to a Tier without costing you any more. This helps Howard support the channel and keep it going. All subscription money goes right back in to buy scenery or planes etc. If you wish to subscribe there are three Tiers. Just hit the “Subscribe” button in the stream: Tier 1: Fying Club Tier 2: Student Pilot Tier 3: Serious Aviator Mainly used by flying students in real life (IRL) or in Howard’s flying classes using a simulator on Udemy and Skillshare All subscribers have extra benefits and are usually simmers who want to learn to fly properly. All subscribers get more personal and private instruction at the airport of their choice. Tier 2 and 3 subscribers also get free access to ForderLearnToFly courses on Udemy.com (each course is normally $50) Tier 3 gets unlimited private flying lessons at the airport of your choice. You could even subscribe to Tier 1 for 3 months at a discount and get a free flying course with Howard on Udemy.com (just an idea), then your monthly is affordable.