Almost Aviation

Mostly flight simulation and DIY cockpit construction. In real life I have a PPL and 99 hours in my logbook, mostly on Cessna 150/152 and 172s, between 1993 and 1996. My most recent flight was in a Thruster T600 Microlight in July 2011.

Most sim videos are FSX, then Prepar3D v4. A few are X-Plane 11. More recently I switched to MSFS 2020. A lot of content from 2014 covers the genesis of my Twin Otter cockpit. At the end of 2023 I more or less stopped simming for a year and disposed of my cockpit and all my hardware. In May 2025 I built a new PC, intended to be VR-ready for MSFS 2020 and 2024.

Specs:
Current: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D / 64Gb DDR5 / Zotac RTX 5070 Ti / 2560 x 1440 display.
May 2017 to May 2025: Core i7 7700K @4.0-4.5GHz (stock), 32Gb DDR4 RAM, nvidia GTX1070. Windows 7 Pro/64.
August 2012 to May 2017: Core i5-2550K @ 4.6GHz, 8Gb 1600MHz DDR3 RAM, Palit GTX670.
2009 to August 2012: Core2 Duo E8600-based PC, overclocked to 4GHz.