Come fly together in this casual, open to the public event. We take the bush airplane in search of Elephants. An open event for you to fly-alongside or watch. When: Sunday, September 27th, 2020 1100zulu, 7pm Eastern Time up to 2 hours. Where: ForderLearnToFly twitch channel: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Flight Details: At 7:10pm (ten minutes to start your sim and gather) we will be departing HALL, a small airport, flying the Zline Cub plane for back country flying with those tundra tires to land anywhere. We start at a single runway airport and have two landing challenges during the session on the plains. (this plane available in all versions) Two challenges: apart from being what seems in the middle of nowhere, we have the challenge of small planes getting over mountain peaks. We also start at high elevation already and have poor airplane performance. Add to that, we freeze the plane at higher altitudes and visibility reduces alongside the performance of the airplane. Short field landings are in order as we plunk down on the tundra and look around for elephants. Planning: Starting airport is HALL. 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 north. Tell all your friends. Anyone can tune in and watch and comment. Weather: We will use preset weather so it’s few clouds, for the specific reason of clarity when looking for elephants. We will be landing near them and walking with them. 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. –Multiplayer: All –Live traffic: As desired –Weather: Few clouds and daylight (can change in session) –Communication: chat window and lead airplane C-FLTF (Howard’s Forder Learn To Fly) Howard will be the only voice leading us through this flight in a silver Zlin Shock Ultra bushplane: The Zlin Shock Ultra bush-plane only available in the Premium Deluxe edition will be Howard’s plane in the lead so you can tell him apart from the others. 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. 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. 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 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.

Every Thursday’s twitch session is about your home cockpit. Discover what you could have, what makes it better and how to get it. This livestream twitch session will focus on various methods of seeing live gauges in your home cockpit so you can devote your main screen to scenery. We will cover an iPad solution to bring that six-pack to a touch screen above your yoke called Remote Flight Server. Six pack, moving map or radio panel. Easy to implement. We will cover two free ipad apps to bring the G1000 PFD and MFD to an ipad in front of your yoke so you can concentrate out the window. We will take it one step further and house them (2) in hardware bezels that have all the knobs and switches so we don’t have to fumble around with a mouse on screen. This is the Simionic solution. We will have a look at real gauges you can assemble and install into a custom cockpit panel as actual stand-alone gauges that connect to your flight simulator. And finally, the Saitek Flight Instrument Panels. Individual small screens, one for each instrument you can mount in your home cockpit. Having a home cockpit with more than just a joystick and a laptop is a thrill to those of us who are practicing towards our real pilot license or those of us who are taking online lessons and need to practice in something more realistic. Howard has 3 online courses for Learning To Fly on Udemy.com and Skillshare.com and students who take those courses usually have more than a joystick and laptop. These Thursday sessions help to sort out what they could have and how good or bad they are. Being a livestream, you can ask questions about cost or setup and even suggest your own discoveries in the cockpit. Howard encourages you to share photos of what you have in your home cockpit and comment about your experiences building something that is fun, educational or just plane nice to have. Join in Thursday, September 24th at 2pm Eastern, 6pm zulu (or 1800 zulu) for this livestream at: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly These live streams are open to the general public. You can also get private lessons and progress monitoring from Howard if you join his Flying Club. You can do that in the live session or by visiting his stream URL anytime by pressing the “Subscribe” button. Save even more by using your Amazon Prime to subscribe at no cost to you. Howard’s cockpit at home with iPads displaying analogue gauges even though you might be running the G100 airplane.

Thanks to SeedyL, BaltoXYZ and Barbahierrogame for joining me on this mountain float-flying journey. All well-accomplished flyers who handled their airplanes well. What an awesome 3 hour event. I have learned that when we stop at an airport or a beautiful lake, give everyone a break for washrooms and refreshments!!! We will get better at this. Also thanks to BDLewis for joining in even though he wasn’t flying. Quite a few more viewers but not participating. They obviously like what they were seeing. Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator keeps surprising me and making me smile. We are getting closer and closer to the thrill and skill of flying and the satisfaction of freedom in the air. We will be doing more with this versatile little amphibious plane and the ability to land anywhere and go anywhere. The Icon A5 is a real-life plane, although expensive, and we can all see why it is desirable by the rich and adventurous! SeedyL, a streamer and real-life pilot too, here on a closeup surrounding me. Here is the spec sheet for the Icon A5, taken right out of the Pilots Operating Handbook (POH). This is a fast-response light plane without autopilot, which makes it so much fun. But you have to pay attention to that airspeed as it crept up on my into yellow too many times. With practice and trimming a lot, you can keep this adventurer under control. One page from the POH but an important one. Memorize the main 5 V speeds, Vx, Vy, Vs, Vr and Cruise speed and you will do fine. Here is a photo album online you can view for more shots. https://t.co/RLfMxZBUdn?amp=1 We also have two founding members of the ForderLearnToFly Flying Club which you can join by hitting “Subscribe” in the Twitch stream. You can even use your Amazon Prime membership to subscribe and let Howard have some of Amazon’s money. Subscribers get private streams, flying lessons and free flying courses on Udemy.com To see the recording of this adventure, visit the twitch stream at: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Other Sunday night group fly-ins planned for the future include: Sunday, September 27th (7pm ET), we go Elephant hunting, and I mean with binoculars. There are a few herds in flight simulator. We will land near them, and walk over to be amongst them. They will be on the move, so we have to track them down first. We will be using a “bush plane” tail dragger to get there. Who’s up for the challenge? Details of the flight plan and settings will be found on this blog. If time permits, we will track down some other animals in the wild and walk among them. Kissimmee Gateway Airport – a VFR group flight around the vast Disney attractions, airports and scenery. There may be a Kennedy Space Center fly-by to honour the launch-pad 39A and B, where SpaceX now launches all of it’s east coast rockets. Rome Italy – Special guest, Elaine D’Angeli was a 7 year resident of Rome and knows Italy very well. As a voice tour guide to Howard’s stream, she will identify major tourist attractions, tell stories about Rome history and reminisce of her vacation days there. Toronto airport-hopping – There is a vast amount of airports in the Toronto Canada area, Howard’s home and the location of the Beginner and Intermediate Learn To Fly courses on Udemy.com and Skillshare.com – Here we discover the bigger and smaller airports with a diversion to the Niagara Falls area and landing in Buffalo for some “Buffalo Wings”.. LOL Cairo Egypt – Back as a tour guide from a place she has lived, Elaine guides us around pyramids and down to the big dam where we attempt to land on the water before the dam and after the dam. Exciting and educational at the same time. Multiple planes adventure – We use our familiar single engine planes to meet at a major airport, then join a special guest Airliner pilot to fly to a remote location, then jump into our rental planes and continue the journey. The challenge is to fly the rental plane which has to be a plane you don’t normally fly, get the vital speeds, try to stay in a group while flying. Anyone up for the challenge? More to come as viewer ideas are heard. We can fly to your home airport and learn about where you live and the surrounding area. You can be the guest voice tour guide as we fly.

Join me for a casual VFR group fly-in Sunday evenings. An open event for you to fly-alongside or watch. When: Sunday, September 20th, 2020 1100zulu, 7pm Eastern Time up to 2 hours. Where: ForderLearnToFly twitch channel: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Flight Details: At 7:10pm (ten minutes to start your sim and gather) we will be departing CYHC, a water airport, flying the Icon A5 plane so we can all land on the water in various locations. We start on the water and have two landing challenges during the session. Two challenges: apart from starting on the water at Vancouver Harbour Airport (CYHC), we will be following rivers, climbing over mountains and landing twice in mountain lakes. Once at a 6000 foot lake and second at a challenging lake that few can land… Are you up for the challenge? No airliners or fixed gear planes need apply. Planning: Starting airport is CYHC. If you start late, start farther up and catch us coming through at Squamish airport, CYSE. Please load your aircraft 15 minutes prior to take off and ensure you see others floating nearby getting ready. We will announce when we are ready for takeoff, as we will all attempt a parallel takeoff, heading north. Weather: We will use custom weather so it’s evening, light clouds or clear for the scenic beauty of mountain flying. You select your own variation. Multiplayer Setting: To see and be seen by everyone: –Server: West USA (if everyone disappears, change your server, change it back) –Multiplayer: All –Live traffic: As desired –Weather: Few clouds –Communication: chat window and lead airplane C-FLTF (Howard’s Forder Learn To Fly) Howard will be the only voice leading us through this flight. As with all group flights, it is advisable to turn off both aircraft and terrain collisions. Although you can slew back to the group, most won’t know how. Just pick us back up when we come through at Squamish airport (CYSE) Let’s Fy! As with all informal, public fly-ins, there are no checklists, strict flying rules and its an informal visual flight (VFR). Everyone is welcome, no matter what your experience level. Subscribers: to the twitch channel have private fly-ins with more strict flying. You can use your Amazon Prime to subscribe to a Tier without costing you any more. 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 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.

Today I will be livestreaming on twitch ( https://twitch.tv/Forderlearntofly ) and presenting the apps I use and other apps that would be useful. Many are ipad apps on my various ipads and iphones but some are just websites with apps that connect to them. This is insightful for students who want to simulate what real pilots use. Products I use such as Foreflight require a subscription that is certainly useful in real flying and can connect to the various flight simulator programs. So I get to use it both real and simulated flying. But not everyone is ready to buy a subscription to Foreflight, so I offer alternatives and some free apps, like the Simionic G1000 apps for both the PFD and MFD. Both free. I hope you can tune in and join me. Safe flying, blue skies. -Howard

Tuesday, September 15th at 2pm Eastern or 11pm Zulu(GMT) I will be broadcasting on Twitch for any followers who want to watch. It would also be so kind if you could click the little heart icon and follow me on Twitch to help me get to affiliate status if you like my live content. Open for questions in chat and at the end of the session. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

Hey everyone. Sorry to not post for awhile. Work gets in the way. I have been making corporate videos for companies in my IT trade by day. But my real love is flying and I have started a Twitch.tv stream from requests from students in my Udemy.com and skilllshare.com courses. This Saturday, September 5th, 2020 is my first live stream on twihttp://twitch.tv\Forderlearntoflytch so I can connect with my students and fly together. I will be using the new Microsoft Flight Simulator and staying around the Toronto Island area, which you are all familiar with in my courses. It’s a first test if it is interesting for each of you and a way for you to ask for what you need. Feel free to tell me what you need in a live stream and I will make it happen. Later in the week, my first request was to show how the G1000 autopilot works. I will fly from Victoria British Columbia to Vancouver BC. Using autopilot and an ILS approach to Vancouver BC airport. I encourage all of you to join in and even fly with me. MSFS has multiplayer built-n and you can fly with me in your own plane if you wish. I hope you join me: twitch.tv\ForderLearnToFly See you then. -Howard

The famous OSHKOSH EAA fly-in event is over but we can all re-fly it anytime using the custom OSH scenery supplied by PilotEdge. I have published Part 1 of the event which is very long with chapters for you to jump to the parts you like. Part 2 is the north tower approach from FISK and is being finished today. All from the comfort of your favorite flight simulator. You could fly-in to this event using FSX, X-plane or Prepared simulators and we all see each other in the air and on the ground. Visit my YouTube channel to check them out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2frY8TDDDgQ Howard covers the whole flight from Portage Muni, around Green Lake, through FISK and on to the big event where hundreds of live pilots also flew and 10,000 more were already on the ground in custom scenery. This was an exciting virtual fly-in event. While you are at it, visit the PilotEdge.net site and take a free trial. Real air-traffic controllers keeping us sharp while practicing on our flight simulators. Without this added realism to the SimVenture event last week, it would have just been nice scenery and a quiet experience. Both parts of my videos cover a lot of flying and a lot of radio talk, mostly from controllers as it’s a VFR event and we don’t have to say anything… just “Rock our Wings”… In a supplemental video, I will be covering performance of our flight simulators and computers. Things like frame rate, multi-cores, memory and software to tweak our computers to get the best performance out of them for our simulators. I ran into frame-rate problems during SimVenture and will cover that in the performance video. #FlightSimulation #Oshkosh #Multiplayer #PilotEdge #SimVenture

Finally, we get a release date. August 18th We can preorder today by visiting http:flightsimulator.com There you can read about system requirements, the three versions available and preorder. This is exciting and most of us have been waiting for this day. The visuals look great and the alpha testers (there are thousands) have all approved of this remarkable upgrade for realism in flight simulation. I will be posting my first looks of the final product here and on my YouTube channel. -Howard

Visit my YouTube Channel for course introductions and extra demonstrations such as the RealSimGear line of products, extra airplane demonstrations such as the Spruce Goose, Douglas DC3 and the SeaRey homebuilt amphibian all in Flight Simulator or X-Plane 11. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC675HL1Gp34t5FBT8s8XWhg/

Although all 8 major modules of the Advanced Learn To Fly course have been published now, it will take the next week to shoot the extra demos and product reviews to be added. For example, on the topic of “Novelty Planes”, I have footage of flying some homebuilts in Xplane like the Zenith CH750 or the SeaRey2, my favorite now. My DC3 takeoff and landing are a sight to see. Only took 3 tries to get that smooth and I still did a little bounce on flare… that was a hard one. The SeaRey2 in real life. This versatile homebuilt is all around us, from here in Canada where I live to many countries in the world. It’s a flying boat and inexpensive at that. We can put this into FSX and practice. It has the full G1000 suite. Look for it in my demos in the course. I am also in post production for reviews of some hardware I have bought for my own cockpits. I have two major cockpits… one for FSX and one for XPlane. Simply because some hardware works natively with Xplane while you meed extra software purchases to run it in FSX. So I avoid that by having two separate cockpits running different hardware in each one. When some students need a lesson on-site in my classroom, we can both jump on different machines and fly multiplayer. Secondly, you get the benefit of see me install the hardware and seeing it in action. It might help you decide if it’s worth it and how to make it all work. I have purchased a lot of hardware for this advanced course, such as the RealSimGear.com lineup of products including the GNS530/430 and G1000 PFD/MFD with audio panel. The dual-display PFD/MFD with integrated audio panel from RealSimGear is a an expensive but realistic addition to your flight sim cockpit. More and more modern aircraft and homebuilts are using the G1000 glass cockpit. Why not train using the real dials and clickable buttons? I also purchased and use on FSX, the G1000 hardware bezels from Simionic, where you use iPads in each hardware bezel. This one works natively with FSX without additional software purchases so I get to have a G1000 in both cockpits. These iPad displays simply use the wireless network to talk to your flight simulator computer and a perfect match. (it can also work with Xplane natively but I already had the RealSimGear G1000 on my Xplane setup. I would recommend this setup if you are using both Xplane and FSX on the same computer, as many of you are. The surprise cost here is that you need to purchase a couple of used iPads for the displays. (you can download the free apps and try them first on your simulator with just one iPad before you buy the hardware bezels to make it real) As a disclaimer, I don’t get paid to make recommendations on any products you hear about on my courses. I paid for these hardware devices for my own use and in my courses. I do have to say that RealSimGear did give me a big discount because I bought so much hardware from them. Luckily, I highly recommend both G1000 suites from Simionic and RealSimGear with their pros and cons for each.

It’s finally here my fellow aviation enthusiasts. I have had requests to get this published for 2 years now. It has taken many months to film, produce and fine tune this course to get it published. I hope you will come here and leave some comments along the way.