My free app is now available on all major platforms. A320 CBT is a unique, first-ever first flight simulator that features interactive lessons as well as a free flight mode. Several predefined scenarios are included that help you save time setting up high energy situations. You can also save the current state of flight to…

My new book Practical Airline Radio Telephony is now available on Amazon.

The A320 Practical Descent Energy Management book is now released on Amazon: A paperback and eBook version is available. Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCnqAG3Adhufu_RofifxCxg

It is possible to enable Speech Recognition (STT) in Unity with the use of Coqui STT. This is a tutorial on how to do that. Many thanks to @kbabilinski for doing most of the hard work porting DeepSpeech to Unity. Create a new Unity project. In Unity go to Edit->Project Settings->Player->Other SettingsSet Configuration->API Compatibility Level…

Speech recognition and Flight Simulators Recently, a few airplane addons for consumer PC based flight simulators have reached a level of detail which makes them suitable for home based practice for certain scenarios. There is one big shortcoming of this use case though: multi crew operations. In the real world, most commercial aircraft are flown…

The A320 cockpit in the video above (Unity URP) is now available for purchase at CGtrader. The HDRP version is available upon request. https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/aircraft/jet/unity-3d-fully-functional-airbus-a320-cockpit The original CAD model is available here: https://airlinetools-online-shop.myshopify.com/

It is normal that you can’t get along with everyone, there is nothing wrong with that. The highly complex but logical environment we operate in is mostly dictated by SOPs and regulations, you can have a good day at work with someone who you normally wouldn’t hang out with. That is a good thing. But…

When I first started flying jets, I struggled with descent energy management. I ended up too high, too low, and didn’t know when to use the Speed brakes. It wasn’t until I had about 2000 hours on the jet before I finally understood the principle. But why did it take so long? I used to…

I finished a few more EFIS vector graphics displays. They are created in a CAD program, converted to SVG, modified in Inkscape, converted to XAML with ViewerSVG, and rendered in Unity using NoesisGUI. The complete process is described here. Here are some screenshots: In Unity, it looks like this: The Status Display (SD) consists out…