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The initiative if you would like to get rolling with a career that requires flying a aircraft is to acquire a pilots license that enables you to fly as a private pilot. To place that in context, there are lesser pilot’s licenses such as the student’s license or the sports or recreational licenses but there are a lot of restrictions on those licenses. Whenever you would like to be able to fly in support of your business (just not as your business) or to be able to aviate with more or less freedom as part of your private life, a private airplane pilot license is a beneficial step and it has a natural opening move even if you plan to go on to train to become a commercial airplane pilot down the track.

Like any other certificate, the route to acquiring a private pilots license is fairly carved in stone. You’ll have to be in the correct age range because you can’t become a pilot if you’re younger than sixteen. With that simple necessity out of the way, the step by step method towards eventually realizing your ambition of having a private airplane pilot license is…

1. Research the flight schools in your country and be sure the one you utilise bears a good reputation, a well developed programme and equipment to support it and education staff that both knows how to fly and knows how to educate. Be sure the flight schools that make your cut are certifiable to provide airplane pilot training that will issue a FAA accredited pilot’s license.
2. Be sure your finances are in order because flight school will run between $3000 and $5000. There are scholarships available and you could be able to apply federal student loans through FAFSA if the school qualifies.
3. Enroll in flight school and clear up your agenda. Acquiring your airplane pilot license had better be your life’s passion for the following few months.
4. Acquire a medical examination certificate that’s particular to aviation. A full general health check is not enough so work with the school to find oneself a doctor who can help you pass the medical exam requirements to be able to fly.
5. Go through the ground training to be able to pass the written pilot’s license exam that is required by the FAA. These classes will take about four to five weeks to complete.
6. Take AND PASS the written exam required by the Federal Aviation Administration at any FAA testing center.
7. Work with the school to complete thirty to forty hours of required flight time with a certified instructor. You can move through his requirement at your own pace which means as fast as you can afford to get through it and schedule the time with the school and the instructor. The school will provide the airplane as that is part of the fees you paid.
8. Your next to last flying “exam” is a solo flight with no instructor on board.
9. For the final “big” exam, you will go on a flight with an FAA tester who is certified to validate that you know what you are doing in an airplane.
10. Don’t get nervous, you know what you are doing. Pass that final exam and you are home free to receive your private pilot’s license nice and legal.

You are going to learn a lot during this process. Don’t be fooled, it is a lot of new stuff to learn and you are basically learning an entirely new physical skill similar to when you learned to swim or ride a bike. So throw yourself into those test flights and get as comfortable controlling an airplane as you are driving a car.

You can do a lot not only to speed up the process but to cut costs by working hard on your own to conquer the skills you need to become a great private pilot. You can study the written the test on your own and complete the FAA test whenever you are ready. But once you have that license, you will be glad you worked hard to get through the process successfully so that from now on you can honestly say to people, “I am a pilot”.

SlewAssist permits mouse controlled movement of the aircraft during flight, in many different ways and combinations.

Although the software is called “SlewAssist”, it is important to note that its capabilities may be used when FSX is in Slew Mode, Pause Mode, or Regular Flight Mode.

Since “Slewing” was introduced as a feature in Flight Simulator many versions ago, the only way to actually slew the aircraft was via the provided hotkeys (fast and slow slewing). This method gives very little control of preciseness and does not easily cater for the exacting needs of today’s scenery designers and general flight simulation users.

FSWidgets are proud to release an industry first in features and functionality with SlewAssist. Please note it can only be used with FSX, it will not work with Flight Simulator versions prior to FSX.

Feature List:

• Mouse controlled movement of the aircraft in Slew Mode, Pause Mode or Regular Flight Mode.
• Modular design, so only the screens required need to be visible at any given time.
• All screens “Roll Up” to minimize screen space and enable maximum viewing outside the cockpit.
• Can be used with all aircraft without any configuration required.
• Can be used remotely on a network connected machine, either on a local LAN or on another computer half way across the world via the internet.
• Precise movement is possible based on units of measure including Millimeters, Centimeters, Meters, Kilometers, Inches, Feet, Yards, Decimiles, Decinmiles, Miles and Nautical Miles.
• Absolute movement of latitude, longitude, altitude, pitch, bank and heading.
• Relative movement of latitude, longitude, altitude, pitch, bank and heading.
• Ability to save movement values and settings for reuse later.
• Relative movement speed is completely adjustable.
• Optional transparent windows to further increase visibility.
• Display output containing important FSX state data to assist with movement.
• Menu driven via FSX when in “Local” mode.
• Configurable hotkeys for showing and hiding SlewAssist and associated screens.

Examples of Use
SlewAssist can be used for many things in many different ways. As you start using the software we are sure you will come up with lots of novel uses for it.

To kickstart things along, here are a few suggestions we thought of

• Scenery Designers and developers requiring fast and precise movement around the FSX world and environment. You could even use SlewAssist for
• accurate measurement of scenery. If you want to know what lat/lon location is 300 meters to the left of your current position it’’s easy. If you want to see
• what is 250 yards away at heading 286, it’’s easy. If you want millimeter accurate coordinates, it’’s easy.
• Stall recovery training. Position the aircraft at specific pitch, bank and roll angles, save that setting and then practice published recovery procedures.
• Assist with finding thermals for gliding and soaring. Easily slew around (particularly up) to increase glide time or to practice manouvers.
• Casual simmers simply wanting to explore an area of scenery quickly and easily.
• Anyone wanting mouse controlled slewing to replace the inbuilt FSX keyboard slew commands. Remember, SlewAssist works in FSX slew mode, pause mode and regular flight mode too.
• Anyone wanting the ability to slew from a remote machine, perhaps as flight instruction or training.
• Anyone needing to rapidly switch to a saved location and specific aircraft rotation parameters.
• Those who need to make an instant adjustment during flight, perhaps increase altitude by 500ft when final approach altitude is too low.
• Assist with taxiing, very simple to rotate on the spot or “move” directly to a runway if need be.
• Hands free “flying” of sorts. Using the relative slider controls (explained later) you can actually fly in a fashion. It’s not real flying mind you, but it does allow controlled, hands free aircraft movement in all directions and at any speed. Perhaps a good way to simply sit back and enjoy the scenery.
• Take the perfect screenshot by positioning your aircraft exactly where you want it.

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Traffic X is the latest generation of the hugely popular Traffic series of AI traffic programs from Just Flight, and is set to become the new benchmark for Artificial Intelligence traffic expansions.

Traffic X includes custom features designed to take maximum advantage of the new capabilities available in Flight Simulator X.

New aircraft, more traffic – Traffic X employs completely reworked and updated aircraft for FSX with new and more detailed high-quality airline liveries. Traffic X will include 99 individual, different aircraft models with numerous airline liveries and paint schemes – giving a total of more than 1,700 individual aircraft.

Featured aircraft include commercial airliners, regional jets and turboprops, business aircraft, GA aircraft, helicopters and – for the first time in the Traffic series – military aircraft.\n\nThere are, of course, a host of other new features!

• NEW! The new Traffic Control Centre (TCC) program gives you an easy way to comprehensively customise and expand your AI traffic.
• NEW! ChronoTraffic AI time period selection feature. Every aircraft and flight can now be set for a certain period of years.
• NEW! DirectX10 compatible. Traffic X is future-proofed as far as possible for DX10 use.
• NEW! The all-new Follow-me car and the all-new Pushback truck let you explore the airport from the ground and even ”guide” incoming AI aircraft to their parking positions.
• NEW! 787 Dreamliner with the majority of the launch customer liveries included
• NEW! Airbus A350 XWB included with the majority of the known launch customers” liveries
• NEW! Clandestine CIA Extraordinary Rendition flights
• NEW! 600 extra aircraft
• NEW! Traffic X now includes a diverse selection of military aircraft.
• NEW! Many all-new and updated liveries.
• NEW! The all-new Traffic Radar lets you view traffic information in three different modes about each AI aircraft in range – vertical speed and current altitude, bearing and distance, identification and true airspeed.
• NEW! Unique Custom AI sounds.
• NEW! Appropriate aircraft take advantage of the advanced animations in FSX to operate with airport service vehicles.

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