User:Rchiicz

About Me

I started flying simulators with MSFS 3.0 (1988) thru FS95. I have returned to an interest in flight simulation with FlightGear version 2020.3.18.

I have very minimal real flight experience:

• A few flights in a Cessna 172 with my dad many years ago.
• Probably a flight or two in his old Beech Staggerwing that I was too young to remember.

I was a software engineer for 32 years before changing careers. Now I teach high school math and computer science.

What I'm Learning

• Reading everything I can find on configuring and running FlightGear.
• Putting myself through simulated Ground/Flight school via Tutorial and Howto pages.
• Learning about Flight Planning with Route Manager and Howto:Create a flightplan
  • There is an overwhelming number of resources, including:
    • Kelpie Flight Planner (uses FG Data, so you know it is "correct" when flying in FG)
    • SkyVector (uses real world data, very informative, may not exactly match FG Data)

What I'm Contributing

1. Minor updates to FG Wiki pages as I find errors. (yes! Off and running!)
2. Maintenance updates to B-52F aircraft
3. I'm playing around with adding jet engine sounds to AI Aircraft. Work in progress.
   • Link to a thread on the forum here.
   • Will submit a pull request when it seems to be working well enough

What I'm Flying

Cessna 172P

• Completed the in-game tutorials (around PHTO)
• Completed all tutorials in The Manual (well, not the Helicopter one...)
• Digging into Tutorial Resources

B-52F

• Yeah, I really am. Want to experience a totally different flight model without the learning curve of modern airliners.
• It's interesting to fly long routes and play with Route Manager and Kelpie Flight Planner.

Fun Facts

• I finally figured out why I sometimes get loud static from my COM radios, often on final approach. So annoying. It is the radio trying to tune a station that has gone out of range or blocked by terrain. See Radio Propagation.