Tim Barbright
Advice from a Flight Sim Historian and 20 year sim veteran:
Check your add-ons for malware.
Flight Sim legal threats are always meaningless.
Don’t tell the cops you’re a simmer.
No, you can’t land a real plane.
Go-arounds are for quitters.
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Developer Responds to Criticism by Canceling Future Updates, Banning Discord Users
28.10.2025 – Blue Star Sky Simulations (BSS) announced, via Discord on October 18th, that he was indefinitely suspending development on the popular NeoV2 lighting add-on for X-Plane 12. The announcement came in response to Discord users who expressed dissatisfaction with the add-on’s visual fidelity. In a statement, the developer expressed frustration that users had not been more…
Seven Months In, MSFS2024 Career Mode is Still a Grindy Unfinished Mess
4.7.2025 – With a whole two major Sim Updates addressing career mode fixes, it’s time for BLAZE THUNDERHAWK to return to the skies, go back to the mysterious unnamed “company” that was sending him around the world flying odd jobs, and explore more of what Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Career Mode has to offer.
Running An Air Charter Company (Into The Ground) With Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Career Mode
6.12.2024 – Welcome back to another installment in our ongoing first impressions/review of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Career Mode, or as I’m calling it, “The Adventures of BLAZE THUNDERHAWK.” In our last installment, we covered the early career experience and the overall grind of low-paying and frequently uninteresting missions. Our hero, BLAZE THUNDERHAWK, somehow obtained his commercial…
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Career Mode Is a Grindy Unfinished Mess (And I Can’t Stop Playing It)
27.11.2024 – Nearly a week after launch, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, is still largely unplayable for a great many in the sim community. I am one of the fortunate few whose sim experience thus far has been largely hiccup-free, in that I can actually launch and play the game… usually. Since launch, I’ve logged over 20 hours…