MY FS FLIGHTS
MY FS FLIGHTS
Articles about flight simulator flying, and about getting more out of My FS Flights.
A tour of the rebuilt My FS Flights: automatic flight recording across five simulators, stage scoring, and a landing report that measures threshold speed, touchdown rate and point - plus why FOQA-style data beats landing-rate toasts.
Why corner-cutting, snaking and overspeed taxiing happen on a desktop sim, from eye-to-gear geometry and missing peripheral vision to rudder axis setup, with drills, aircraft-specific techniques and data patterns to fix each fault.
Why handbook short-field and soft-field technique fails at a desk, and how to rebuild it: the energy equation, sight-picture workarounds, the five classic failure modes, and measured drills built for MSFS 2024's bush trips.
Sim Update 6 arrived this week with the headline content drop of the year - the classic bush trips, back in MSFS 2024 - plus DLSS 4.5 as the new default upscaler, sharper PSVR2, a skippable walkaround at last, and thousands of fixes. What matters and what to fly first.
Why hot, high-altitude departures make a piston aircraft feel powerless: the physics behind density altitude, the rules of thumb worth memorising, and drills for measuring your own aircraft's performance in the sim.
Thousands of sim pilots fly for airlines that exist only on the internet - with routes, ranks, fleets and colleagues. What virtual airlines actually are, how PIREPs and progression work, how to choose a first VA, and what modern VA tooling looks like.
Why 'flare at thirty feet' keeps producing hard landings: a sink-rate schedule you can fly by radio altitude, a two-number table for diagnosing floats and drop-ins, and sim-only drills for the last fifty feet.
Rudder pedals do more for your landings than any GPU, and there is a way to prove it from your own flying. A fault-by-fault diagnosis of common landing errors, a ranked buying order, and drills for when the pedals arrive.
Why pilots continue 97% of unstable approaches, why the go-around manoeuvre itself bites the unprepared — trim, spool lag, flap handling — and six sim drills that make the decision and the hands automatic.
Thirty-one national parks rebuilt, guided tours debut, Jackson Hole hand-crafted and a Goodyear Blimp to see it all from - World Update 22 landed for July 4th. A flying itinerary through the highlights, region by region.
Why headsets genuinely improve flare judgement and crosswind landings but degrade the instrument scan, how PSVR2, Quest 3 and Pimax compare on the metrics that matter, and a twenty-circuit test to measure the difference yourself.
Ninety-plus exhibitors, thirty-plus announcements, one weekend in Saint Paul. The M600 released, World Update 22 revealed, X-Plane's next act, Area 51 from FlyTampa - a curated recap with a "why you should care" verdict on each.
The three-times rule keeps failing you because it's taught as an incantation rather than arithmetic. Rebuild descent planning from energy principles, learn the fixes for being kept high, and make boring, on-profile arrivals a habit.
MSFS 2024 excels for VFR navigation, X-Plane 12 for helicopters and gliders, and for most training tasks the gap sits below your own scatter. A ten-circuit touchdown test settles the choice in one evening.
Circuits are the densest landing practice available: roughly ten landings an hour under identical conditions. Leg-by-leg numbers, three self-check gates, desk-specific workarounds for the base turn, common failure modes and drills that turn repetition into measurable improvement.
World Update 21 rebuilt a continent - 40 areas of interest, six hand-crafted airports and some of the most spectacular flying on Earth. Twelve routes to fly it properly, from Lord Howe Island's island strip to an outback mail run, each with aircraft, distance and difficulty.
How crab and sideslip techniques actually work, what a monitor, twist stick and forgiving ground physics do to them, and the three touchdown numbers that reveal whether your crosswind landings are genuinely good.
The largest update MSFS 2024 has received landed on April 30 - heavy and VTOL career certifications, PSVR2 support, a serious performance pass and a long list of avionics fixes. What matters for everyday pilots, and how to put the new career freedom to work.
Every airline flight you have ever been on was recorded, measured and graded - touchdown rate, approach stability, landing distance and more. Inside FOQA, the safety programme that fixed airline landings, and how to apply it to your own sim flying.
Most simmers never judge their take-offs, because nothing punishes a mediocre one. What a good take-off actually consists of - rudder profiles, rotation rates, centreline discipline - plus the failure modes, desk-specific fixes and drills to measure yours.
Where VRef comes from, what every knot above or below it costs in float, distance and sink, why wind additives creep, and drills for flying the number consistently at a desk without stick force or peripheral cues.
Flight controls are mainly responsible for the aircraft's behaviour. The flight controls are divided into primary and secondary controls. The primary flight controls are what control the whole aircraft, while the secondary controls are used to assist the pilot in flying. Buttons and levers control most secondary flight controls.
Three World Updates, four Sim Updates, City Updates and a packed aircraft calendar - the 2026 roadmap for MSFS 2024 is the busiest yet. Here is the month-by-month plan, and how to turn it into a year of flying.
Why the usual VFR-to-IFR progression inverts at a desk: see-and-avoid barely works on a monitor while instrument flying loses its hardest part, plus the key minimums, common sim mistakes and drills only a simulator allows.
Why most bad landings are decided long before the flare, how airline stabilised-approach gates work, and how to adapt them for sim flying on the simulator — with drills, a diagnostic table and ways to measure your consistency.
The world of aviation can be an intense and complicated one, with all its unique jargon. There are many words or phrases that pilots use every day which may seem overwhelming at first glance but over time become common knowledge to those who spend enough time flying.
Smooth landings are an output of a stable approach, not a last-second trick. Learn what touchdown rate to aim for, how the flare trades energy, why monitors sabotage your timing, and the five faults behind hard landings.
Four forces affect flight: weight, thrust, drag, lift. Pilots must understand to operate an aircraft safely.
A skill-by-skill audit of what desktop simming does for real flying: what transfers fully, partially or negatively, drills only a sim can offer, and why measured practice beats logged hours.
My FS Flights records, analyses and scores every flight you fly in MSFS, X-Plane and P3D.
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