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Come join us tonight to witness or to participate in our regular Thursday night Cockpit Chatter. It can be a show-and-tell of your home cockpit setup, review of hardware or software and general aviation conversation. We could even go for a short group flight. See you at 5pm Eastern, 2100 zulu at: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

Come join us for a lesson, a practice fly and a competition jeopardy review. Tuesday, October 5th, 5pm Eastern, 2100 GMT at: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

For the group fly, Xbox and PC flyers are welcome and the rest of you can join-in and chat along with others as we collectively have a Sunday evening blast with a group fly. The action all starts at 7pm Eastern Time or 2300 GMT (zulu) Sunday, October 3rd at  https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Don’t forget our new IFR series with our third lesson this Tuesday. We also have a new feature on our stream called Sound bites. You can spend bits to make sounds and music happen on the stream in real time. (There is one there called, “Where do we go from here?” and another called “Go around… to make Howard do a go around”)

Join us Thursday at 5pm Eastern, 2100 GMT for a look at two new, high quality planes this week. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly As always, every Thursday, bring your home cockpit photos to our discord server and share your setup at home.

Where do we go from here? Make suggestions. Bring ICAO codes of airports For the group fly, Xbox and PC flyers are welcome and the rest of you can join-in and chat along with others as we collectively have a Sunday evening blast with a group fly. The action all starts at 7pm Eastern Time or 2300 GMT (zulu) Sunday, September 26th at https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Don’t forget our new IFR series with our second lesson this Tuesday. Grab the VOD on twitch for last Tuesday so you can learn from Lesson 1. Our second Tuesday Lesson: You won’t want to miss this one. All welcome.

We are trying the Mulviz PC-6 Porter on this Saturday Group Fly Come join us Saturday, September 25th, as we shake out this new plane for MSFS made by Mulviz, the same company that brings us the Corsair. This rugged and unique airplane has a very interesting track record and is going to be a blast to fly in the back country, where it feels at home. True STOL capabilities and authentic modelling too. For the group fly, Xbox and PC flyers are welcome and the rest of you can join-in and chat along with others as we collectively have a Saturday morning blast with a group fly. The action all starts at 8am Eastern Time or 1200 GMT (zulu) September 25th at https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Thursday, September 30th, we highlight and shake-out the Mulviz PC-6 in greater detail and over a variety of liveries. You won’t want to miss this one, complete with checklists, features, cargo loads and possibilities, like dropping off skydivers and racing full nose first to get back to the ground before the skydivers! (true) Come join us Thursday. This caption, right out of the Mulviz manual shows this unique airplane.

Come join us a special guest and twitch moderator, RoystonS, takes us through the procedure to troubleshoot, test and set the Bravo Throttle Quadrant. In addition, we have the normal, “bring your photos of your home cockpit” series of pictures to see how others run their home cockpits. It all starts Thursday, September 23rd at 5pm Eastern, 2100 GMT. on https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

We begin a new series on Tuesday Lessons, covering this big topic by popular demand: Instrument Flight Rules. Many of us have been flying VFR and loving the low and slow, but the lure of flying through clouds, above clouds, through rain and dark has brought this series to ForderLearnToFly. There is a lot to learn so this will be a series and run every Tuesday until we move on to another series. We can’t possibly cover the detail of ground school and the tons of hours of cockpit learning as in real life, but we can get a taste of it, get into the basics, file and fly IFR flight plans and get to know how to survive on instruments alone. We will also understand how to interpret IFR approach plates and make our own IFR approaches. We will be using the stock Cessna 172 G1000 for this series as everyone has this airplane in all versions of MSFS and in the Xbox and PC version. It has everything we need. Then we can move up to more complex airplanes and apply the same skills and concepts. It all starts Tuesday, September 21st at 5pm Eastern, 2100 GMT on https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly with the introduction to your IFR rating using Microsoft’s Flight Simulator. All the skills learned here can be practiced on other flight simulators. This course series is open to all followers, subscribers, VIPs and moderators. Come join the fun of flying and learn the skills of flying on the ForderLearnToFly live twitch channel. Remember, subscribers help support the channel with royalty paid music and graphics, enjoy ad-free viewing and no-delay chats. We also invite lead pilots and celebrities onto our voice chat. You can use your Amazon Prime to subscribe for free and keep the channel alive.

Bringing you the latest in home cockpit software and hardware for Xbox and PC MSFS flyers. Bring your own photos of your home setup and software add-ons you find useful. A short group fly afterwards to hang out together at a few thousand feet. Maybe we can convince RoystonS to share with us his explanation of the configuration files used for the Bravo Throttle Quadrant by Honeycomb and how to troubleshoot it. This will be a short one that has to end by 6:45 so we only have an hour and 45 minutes to have a whole lot of fun and interaction. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly on Thursday, September 16, 5pm Eastern, 2100 GMT

Bringing you the latest in home cockpit software and hardware for Xbox and PC MSFS flyers. Bring your own photos of your home setup and software add-ons you find useful. A short group fly afterwards to hang out together at a few thousand feet. Howard will be showing off the T-Master HOTAS throttle and stick on his Xbox system. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Thursday September 2nd, 5pm EST 2100 z

Come join Howard and the gang in our family-friendly twitch lesson today on the glass cockpit found in the standard Cessna 172 and many other airplanes in Flight Simulator. Starts at 5pm Eastern, 2100 zulu on https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Xbox and PC flyers welcome to watch or to join in after the lesson and practice what you learned. We will also have an Jeopardy-style competition review session afterwards. Come have some fun and learn something on Tuesdays Lesson on ForderLearnToFly.

Don’t miss this important lesson, The Circuit. Some call it the pattern. This is a continuation of last week’s Tuesday Lesson on Landing and Airplane. Today, we learn how to keep airplanes flowing in an orderly fashion and test all the skills of a pilot. All phases of the circuit are covered such as takeoff (climb speed), crosswind, level off/downwind, base leg and final approach to land. All the while keeping your speeds where they should be, your altitudes in check and your radio calls in order. So much to learn in this lesson and so little time! Come and watch, then participate in the Jeopardy-style review afterwards to win points and other prizes. Then join in if you can in multiplayer mode in MSFS and try circuits yourself. Bring your friends, bring your family of any age as we are a family friendly twitch channel and we have a bank of moderators to keep it that way. https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly Tuesday, August 24th, 5pm Eastern, 2100 GMT (zulu)