Tuesday Lesson: Steam Gauges

By popular demand, how to fly with steam gauges instead of a glass cockpit. Here, Howard explains each instrument and how to use them practically on the ground and in flight. Join Howard live on Tuesday, October 27th. at 4pm Eastern Time for this in-depth look at instruments you should know about before you fly.

Tuesday Lesson: Airport Markings

Day and night markings to get you around an airport and what they all mean. Tune in Tuesday, October 30th at 4pm Eastern, 8pm zulu to find out what a “runway displacement” is for and what colour are the lights around an apron. What do “piano keys” represent and why does Howard keep saying, “red

Group Fly Sunday October 18th

Come join Howard for another fun group fly in. You can just watch and interact in chat or join in the skies in multiplayer mode. See details below.. we are flying a floatplane to land on lakes. If you prefer planes with wheels, you can find some firm ground nearby to land. This session is

Adding Scenery to MSFS

Howard has been saying for a month now to “wait for it” as a ton of add-on scenery, liveries, aircraft and airports are on their way to the new Microsoft Flight Simulator market. Thursday’s Cockpit Chatter session at 4pm will show how to find all this new stuff and how to figure out where your

Group Fly Sunday in Florida

Come and join Howard Sunday, October 11, at 7pm Eastern 11pm zulu as we gather at St. Petersburg Florida, over to Lakeland, home of Sun ‘N Fun, then on to the Bok Tower, up to Kissimmee airport, through Disneyland, over to Orlando Airport and finally over to the east coast to sightsee the Kennedy Space

Home Cockpit Solution

Thursday, October 8th at 4pm Eastern, 8pm Zulu, Howard starts his twitch livestream and walks us through another solution worth considering in your home cockpit. This session focuses on Air Manager for instruments separate from your main scenery screen and an added bonus of the “Knobster” to handle instrument adjustment. Join us on twitch at

The Circuit: Tuesday Flying Lesson

Tuesday, October 6th, at 4pm Eastern Time, 8pm Zulu. Join Howard on the twitch livestream as he walks us through the airport circuit and how to determine directions and elevations very easily. A quiz at the end of the lesson and then practice at Oshawa, Ontario airport, the topic of the demonstrations and calculations. (CYOO).

TW Goes Solo

Please join me in congratulating TW for earning his solo wings. This milestone in flying studies and practice allows a student pilot to take planes out alone to continue to practice towards their pilot license. Although in Flight Simulator we are always alone it seems, TW met all the criteria of a solo flight including

Rome, Italy Tour & Group Fly-in

Sunday, October 4th, 7pm Eastern, 11pm Zulu For those who have the new flight simulator, come join them in the skies over Rome as a group flight with two challenge landings: one at Circus Maximus and the other in the heart of the Vatican, St. Peter’s Square. Open to everyone to witness or to fly.

Tuesday Flying Lesson and Group Fly

Tuesday’s livestream is “Approaching Airports” and starts at 4pm Eastern, 8pm Zulu. http://twitch.tv/ForderLearnToFly I hope you will join me in reviewing procedures to get into the airport’s control zone and landing properly. This will cover both controlled airports that have a person on a radio and uncontrolled airports where you have to call every position