behind the scenes

You probably heard of Microsoft ESP. However, do you know how ESP fits into the Flight Simulator series? We had a chat with the ESP team at Microsoft and learned just exactly what ESP does and what lies ahead. Don't miss this if you want to learn what you may be seeing in the next iteration of Flight Simulator!

You probably heard of Microsoft ESP. However, do you know how ESP fits into the Flight Simulator series? We had a chat with the ESP team at Microsoft and learned just exactly what ESP does and what lies ahead. Don't miss this if you want to learn what you may be seeing in the next iteration of Flight Simulator!

You probably heard of simmers who take the hobby to the next level and build their own cockpit replicas. Maybe you've even built your own cockpit yourself. But how about not building just one, but keeping building them and selling them for real money? Meet the guys from Pacific Simulators in New Zealand: Russell, Steve, Stuart and Mike, who build professional Boeing 737-800 cockpits, and created their very own franchise. What started out as harmless fun is now an award winning business that started to expand into overseas markets.

I have always found something appealing about agricultural aircraft, the rugged functionality of their design and the exceptional skill of the pilots who fly them. Ag planes are designed for a purpose and in New Zealand, our most important export industry – agriculture, would struggle to exist if not for the aerial topdressing industry.

It's been 10 minutes since you got off the phone and you're heading for your Bell 206 helicopter. Somewhere in the mountains of Wales a hiker has been reported lost. You could be the person that determines the fate of the hiker, because your job is to find him. If you don't he may not make it through another night.

There are people who are passionate about flight simming and then there are people who are passionate about flight simming. If you spent a whole year recreating the continent you live on and building a community of 5000+ people around your scenery within just a few months, you truly know you belong to the later group. John ’Koorby’ Venema certainly does and we met him so he could tell us the amazing story behind his VOZ scenery.