The Singularity Collective

Well, I think it’s finally time. Time to simply come out and admit it mostly to myself, but perhaps to others as well (who’ve known for a long while now probably). I think my foray into the flight simulation world has finally come to an end. Permanently. I simply have absolutely no desire to do [...]

I flew a return flight from Portland, Oregon (KPDX) to Salt Lake City, Utah (KSLC) last night… first time I’ve flown in more than a month. Flight wasn’t too bad, there were lots of clouds and as a result a lot of turbulence, which necessitated me requiring the pax to keep their seatbelts on… which [...]

I passed the 737 check ride for Delta Virtual, and am now a First Officer in the Stage 2 737 program. I flew my first Delta flight in the 737 using the PMDG 737NG the other day… and the irony (especially after the check ride) is that the flight was one of the worst flights [...]

I started getting the “Virtual Airline” bug again a few weeks ago, and like usual when I get it I start combing the internet looking for quality VA’s to join. I found a few, but hesitated to join because I’m rather tired of the same old nonsense of flight ranking and CAT Ratings based on [...]

Over the last few days we’ve had a few developments in our virtual Charter operation of Alaskan Aviation Services we’re running in FS Economy. Taking a look at our operation, I decided to put together a spreadsheet that shows all of our assets and liabilities so that we have a running total of our expenses [...]

Rather surprisingly, we had an offer fall, literaly, right into our laps. An airport operated by a group in FS Economy called “Air Mobil” had let a bunch of their FBO‘s go and most of them were inactive as a result due to a lack of supplies. Apparently he wanted to simply get rid of [...]

Ever since I joined FS Economy, I have always wanted to open and manage an Fixed Based Operator, or FBO, in Alaska. Since I am originally from there, and love the state, it’s only natural. My preference for location has always been the Kenai Penninsula area… both because my dad lives in Homer, but also [...]

This last few weeks has been kind of odd. I’ve had no real desire to do much of anything on my computer really… so I’ve largely just been tooling around doing odds and ends and not really accomplishing much. However, I finaly did manage to get a hold of the person that I needed to [...]

Last couple of weeks have been a bit odd. I’ve not really done a lot, just hung around the house, played with my daughter as much as possible, and done a bit of flying online here and there. In all reality, part of my “restlessness”, if it could / should be termed that, is having [...]

I finaly got some time to do some Clearance and Delivery (DEL) at ZSE on Friday night. I managed to get on while Adam (the ZSE head training instructor) was online, and we chatted a bit, mostly with him letting me know it had been a slow night so far. I went ahead and set [...]

Sometimes flight simulation can be a royal pain in the ass. Take last weekend for example. I wanted to get started with the VATSIM Los Angeles ARTCC’s Pilot Certification program. However, being the perfectionist I am, I didn’t want to fly the 182Q I typically fly up in the Seattle area, a red, white, and [...]

I decided to go ahead and take the plunge and get back into controlling on the VATSIM network again, and since I already had some time at the Seattle ARTCC in VATUSA’s airspace, I figured I go back there and re-apply. This time I really want to get all of my certifications in order and [...]

Well… after the last post I made, I got together with Mark (one of the original founders of MetroAirVirtual.Com) and we hashed it out. We decided, after I showed him FSEconomy to create the virtual charter company I was trying to create in the FSE world. So far, we’ve been fairly successful… but a lot [...]

So, for the last couple years now I’ve been seriously wanting to create a Virtual Airline organization that models small corporate prop and turboprop aircraft in it’s fleet. A small company serving just the Pacific Northwest. The largest aircraft would be of the Cessna 441 size… other aircraft ideas would be Cessna 421C, Piper Navajo, [...]

Well, I took the plunge again. For the last several days I’ve actually had an urge to fly… so after doing a little jaunt in a Cessna 182RG up in Alaska (for my FS Passengers company), I decided to emulate a flight I flew in reality back in the summer for a training class I [...]