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Normally, when people head south to escape of the Canadian winter, it only takes 1 or maybe 2 flights at most to get to their destination. However, when you are in control of the flight, it is no fun to sit for hours letting the plane do the work. Canadian Xpress would like to invite all pilots to join us on Saturday, January 28th at 21h00est (Sunday 02h00z) for our January 2023 fly-in where we depart from where we left off last month in Washington DC (KCDA) and fly the second leg in our search to find warmer weather to Fort Lauderdale (KFLL). One lucky Canadian Xpress® pilot* will win: • Any Just Flight Product from: *Please see Fly-In PDF for contest d…

TODAY IS THE DAY! WE ARE OPENING THE DOORS TO THE PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME. OUR VIRTUAL AIRLINE WILL BE FLYING THE AIRCRAFT AND ROUTES THAT REEVE ALEUTIAN AIRWAYS FLEW IN THE 1950'S, 60'S, AND EARLY 70'S. OUR FLEET INCLUDES DC-3'S, DC-4'S, DC-6'S, L-188'S, AND G-21'S. WE WELCOME VIRTUAL PILOTS FLYING FS9 THROUGH MSFS AS WELL AS X-PLANE 11 & 12! Follow the link and fill out the application if you are interested in joining. http://www.reevealeutianvirtual.com/vam/index.php?lang=en

Happy New Year… And what does the New Year bring? Well same thing as every January, the end of the holiday season and the return to the grind. For us here at Canadian Xpress that means back to our regular schedule of flights. One of those flights is operating cargo flights for a major transportation shipping company.. Starting at North Bay airport, we make one of our daily cargo runs to Toronto. So that cargo can be loaded on to our McDonnell Douglas MD-11F for cargo runs around the world. Your mission is to depart from North Bay (CYYB) and Toronto Pearson (CYYZ) with the Canadian Xpress Cessna C208B Grand Caravan freeware or payware aircraft. Join Can…

What: "OnAir" WorkshopWhen: Saturday, Dec 3rd, 11am PT, 2pm ET, 1900 UTCWhere: TeamSpeak3, connect to(ctrl-s):ts3.digitalthemepark.com or DiscordAdditional Info: www.digitalthemepark.comDigitalThemePark member, BrianS, will be conducting a workshop covering the "OnAir" Airline Manager. No experience is necessary. If you have ever wanted to give this a try, have not known where to start, and enjoy a calm and relaxed environment with like-minded others ... this is the place for you.There are plenty of really good videos out there on the topic, but to supplement that material, we are going to have a "live" tutorial and Q&A for folks. Here is a synopsis of the topics cove…

November 2022 marked the 40th year for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Sadly, those 40 years have some dark times. With the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator X in November of 2006, we saw Meigs Field, the airport it made famous around the world, disappear from the scenery list for the first time. In early 2003 claiming safety concerns for the city in the post-911 world, the mayor of Chicago sent bulldozers out to the airport, and had 3 giant Xs dug in to the runway of Meigs Field. Sealing the fate of the airport forever. In late 2007 BAO now renamed Aces Game Studio, announced the availability of licenses of the Microsoft Enterprise Simulation Platform which is …

Hello. I have been trying everything about buying the Latin VFR A321 NEO. I went to Microsoft Store website, found infp about the aircraft, a section dedicated to comments, but not the area or page where to buy it. I don't know if I am missing that information somewhere during my search, but I spent a couple of days trying to find the section where I can buy it. Can someone put a link for that purchase page please. My failing eyesight is not helping me much either. Thanks.

Microsoft Flight Simulator (colloquially known as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020) is an amateur flight simulator developed by Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios. It is an entry in the Microsoft Flight Simulator series which began in 1982, and was preceded by Microsoft Flight Simulator X in 2006. The game is a return of the series after 14 years, with development beginning six years prior to its release. It was released on August 18, 2020, for Windows, with a virtual reality (VR) version released in December of the same year. Flight Simulator simulates the topography of the entire Earth using data from Bing Maps. Microsoft Azure's artificial intelligence…

What: Denmark "LEGO" Weekend Achievement Flights When: Saturdays, Starting Nov 12th, 8am PT, 11am ET, 1600 UTC Where: TeamSpeak3, connect to(ctrl-s):ts3.digitalthemepark.com or Discord Additional Info: www.digitalthemepark.com *** Earn your next DigitalThemePark achievement badge! *** As the continuation of our Discover-Europe series, join us for group flights in Microsoft Flight Simulator, P3D, FSX, or X-Plane exploring Denmark. For this set of achievement flights, I have created 10 wonderful flights to explore this region. You will want to fly your favorite low and slow aircraft. For more information and topics covered, please visit www.digitalthemepark.…

November marks the 40th year of Microsoft Flight Simulator. In the late 1990s, Microsoft was releasing a new version of Microsoft Flight Simulator every 24-30 months. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 was released in late 1999, with high expectations, as it moved beyond the limited 3,000 airport database with FS98 to nearly 20,000 airports. Worldwide navigational points were also added, which allowed for real world flights, detailed airports, and AI traffic. In the end, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 was a big disappointment for most users due to the minimum specs requiring a Pentium 166 MHz computer, although 400–500 MHz computers were deemed necessary to have a…

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Fly the Canadian Xpress Australian Adventure Tour Australia, the largest country of the continent of Oceania, is also one of the flattest and driest countries in the world. That doesn't mean it's devoid of life or interesting places. On the contrary, the country is full of wonders, from the grasslands of the southwest, to the savanna in the north, the rainforests of the east and the world-renowned Outback, Australia is full of things to discover. Small aircraft are an essential mode of transportation in and out of many parts of the country and for remote communities, a critical lifeline for medical aid (flying doctor) flights. Outside of the major ci…

November marks the 40th year for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Microsoft Flight Simulator began as a set of articles on computer graphics, written by Bruce Artwick throughout 1976, about flight simulation using 3D graphics. When the editor of the magazine told Artwick that subscribers were interested in purchasing such a program, Artwick founded Sublogic Corporation to commercialize his ideas. At first the new company sold flight simulators through mail order, but that changed in January 1979 with the release of Flight Simulator (FS) for the Apple II. Between 1979 and 1981, Sublogic adapted FS to several other home computer platforms. But things really took off in 1981…

The West Coast of the United States is known as the Golden Coast due to the golden color of the pacific sunsets. which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean. The term typically refers to the contiguous U.S. states of California, Oregon, and Washington. According to the results of the 2020 United States Census, 16 of the 20 largest cities on the West Coast exist in California. Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose, all among the top 10 most populous cities in the country, lead the West Coast in population with more than a million people in each city, with Los Angeles being nearly three times the size of San Diego's population. Behind these three citie…

Hello! I am pleased to introduce the Virtual Royal Canadian Air Force (vRCAF) to the general flight simulator community! The vRCAF is a new military operator based on the day-to-day functions of the Canadian Air Force. We pride ourselves in upholding a thorough and realistic version of RCAF operations. This organization is staffed by longtime virtual special operations members and aims to push the niche world of military flying forward. Training is a critical part of our organization and is one of the requirements set by VATSIM to apply for/maintain special operations status. Our pilots are initially separated into tracks based on their chosen pri…

DC3 AIRWAYS ANNOUNCES ITS 2022 WORLD RALLY https://dc3airways.net/wr/ DC3Airways, a leader in the Flight Simulation Virtual Airline community, is pleased to announce its 2022 World Rally. Beginning October 1, participating pilots will have a series of 10 carefully crafted plans to test their flight and navigation skills. Plans will be created for all the major flight simulation platforms. In addition to vectors and altitude guidance, the plans will include consistent weather through each leg of any given flight plan. This means, that external weather programs will not be necessary to get maximum enjoyment from the flyi…

Corporate Travel is a fair amount of charter business here at Canadian Xpress. However, when talked about. The first thing that comes to most pilots is a trip to some far-off place in our 737BBJ or Citation X. When really, most are not a trip to some exotic place. Rather, they are shorter flights where 3 or 4 people are traveling for a day’s business and the distance to cover doesn’t make financial sense to drive for 2 days and book several nights of hotel rooms and cover meals. This month's challenge is exactly that type of charter. We’ve been contracted for a business flight to Fort St. John a 320nm flight that should take about an hour. Your mission is to fly…

Connecting people. Uniting the world. Virtually. A NEW EXPERIENCE. United Virtual was created in December of 2020 to provide virtual pilots with a modern, relaxed, yet state-of-the-art virtual airline experience. Our extensive and growing list of features that separate us from other virtual airlines includes integrated SimBrief departure briefings, bi-weekly/monthly group flights and hosted events, an innovative, state-of-the-art and user-friendly crew center, a helpful and friendly staff team dedicated to providing a unique experience, free VATSTAR virtual pilot training, an active Discord server, and our United Virtual MileagePlus rewards program. We are ex…

San Diego International Airport, formerly known as Lindbergh Field, is an international airport three miles northwest of Downtown San Diego, California, United States. It is owned and operated by the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority. While primarily serving domestic traffic, San Diego has nonstop international flights to destinations in Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, and Switzerland. San Diego International Airport is the second busiest single-runway airport in the world. The airport's landing approach is well known for its close proximity to the skyscrapers of Downtown San Diego and can sometimes prove difficult to pilots for the relative…

Closing out our National Park Tour, we make the ultimate GA tour of several Ontario Provincial and Canadian National Parks in Ontario that should cover a minimum of 260nm. Departing from Toronto Billy Bishop, we head towards Wiarton passing over Mono Cliffs Provincial Park. As the name suggests, the park has several cliffs faces along the Niagara Escarpment itself. Along the Cliff Top Trail is a sturdy set of stairs which descend about 30 meters (98 ft) down the rock face to a wooden path that runs between the cliff face and a small outlier, providing excellent views of the rock, ferns, and cedars. Passing Wiarton we fly over serval Provincial Nature Reserves, o…

Fly the Canadian Xpress Long Haul Tour Get your longhaullers out and make sure the galley is stocked with lots of coffee. The age of the widebody has made our world smaller than ever, with aircraft able to fly incredible distances to connect two distant cities on opposite sides of the planet. The Canadian Xpress Long Haul Tour consists of 20 long flights that must be flown in order, that will connect Asia to eastern North America and Australia to the UK. It's going to get cold, too. Three of the flights will take you within a few hundred miles of the north pole. Make sure you point that out to your passengers. Join Canadian Xpress today by visit…

What: Norway "Kraken" Weekend Achievement Flights When: Saturdays, Starting July 30th, 8am PT, 11am ET, 1500 UTC Where: TeamSpeak3, connect to(ctrl-s):ts3.digitalthemepark.com or Discord Additional Info: www.digitalthemepark.com *** Earn your next DigitalThemePark achievement badge! *** As the continuation of our Discover-Europe series, join us for group flights in Microsoft Flight Simulator, P3D, FSX, or X-Plane exploring Norway. Callsign “JohnD” and “TomSWFL” over at DigitalThemePark have created 14 wonderful flights to explore this region. You will want to fly your favorite low and slow aircraft and for 2 of the legs, you will want something faster. For…

Hawaii is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago and the only state in the tropics. Hawaii is also one of several U.S. states that were independent nations prior to joining the Union. Hawaii comprises nearly the entire Hawaiian archipelago, 137 volcanic islands spanning 1,500 miles (2,400 km). The eight main islands, from northwest to southeast, are Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii, after which the state is named; it is often called the "Big Island" or "Hawaii Island" to avoid conf…

Hi all, I have started up a new virtual airline based out of Tampa and with other hubs available as well. Currently hiring for Staff and pilots as well. we have a good sized fleet and it will grow as well as the route network. Currently two fleets are running being the main and express fleets, both under the callsign "Pirate". feel free to check it out www.pirateairlinesvirtual.com

Hey Everyone Ive set up VNPT which replicates all West Atlantic’s real world operations aswell as other group companies. Feel free to join: https://vamsys.io/register/vnpt

Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was the first national park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. Yellowstone Lake is one of the largest high-elevation lakes in North America and is centered over the Yellowstone Caldera, the largest super volcano on the continent. The caldera is considered a dormant volcano. It has…