& Bravo Throttle Quadrant Setup Come join in for our Thursday Cockpit Chatter where we discuss hardware and software for your home cockpit. This week we show you how to make your own helicopter collective ; the part that makes the heli go up or come back down. We will also cover how to setup the Bravo Throttle Quadrant. There are some things that need to be removed from the bindings and then others added. Along the way Howard will discuss how the autopilot has all the necessary functions to work on any size of plane. Come join us Thursday, May 20th at 5pm Eastern, 2100 zulu at: https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

Welcome everyone as we take to the custom Cessna 152 STOL (short takeoff and Landing) airplane made by our own sjfly2. Sj modded’ our standard 152 to give is this great performance; perfect for getting in and out of back country airstrips. When you get to twitch chat, type !fly and !flightplan and then !files to get everything. Come join us to view or jump in a fly along this weekend on https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly We will be using it both on our Saturday fly at 8am Eastern, 1200zulu and on our Sunday evening fly at 7pm Eastern, 2300 zulu. Hope to see you then. You can find sj’s enhanced Cessna 152 in flightsim.io

Learn to find, tune and use this valuable navigation aid in the cockpit. Join Howard for another Tuesday Lesson on flying using Microsoft Flight Simulator. The VOR. How to find them, tune them and use them. This handy radio navigation aid is the basis for cross-country precision location and guidance systems. Every plane has it, even the basic Cessna 152 trainer. When you hear the expression, “Fly the Needles” this is the basis for that method. Using one or two VORs and even the more elaborate ILS system to guide you in low visibility or just to check your position along the way. During the demonstration, Howard will take us from Oshawa airport near Toronto Canada to the Simcoe VOR, then outbound to Baldwin airport. Join us for another informative and clear lesson and demonstration on: Tuesday, May 11th at 5pm Eastern, 2100 zulu on https://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly

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.