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It might help to just look at it in order, despite the confusing terminology (I would've said "join" instead of "rejoin," but the latter may be a habit when vectoring people off-route and back on for traffic, etc). The first instruction was direct, so proceed direct to PDZ, every...

Keith, Sorry to get a little off topic here but, I took a look at your link and there were way too many coincidences to pass up. HEF is near where I grew up. I'm guessing you were on the HYPER/DELRO, so you flew right over the house I currently live in. I met Roscoe a while back when I was a PUBNAT'...

You'll need to get the weather to FSX via either FSX's internal weather download, or through a program like ASE. The "server" reference with WideView is just to say that it'll pull it from your local server (your FSX machine) to the WideView clients. You can't use WideView to pull weather ...

I guess it would help if I read to the end of the title, eh?

Take a look at RealAir's. It's free and it incorporates a "more accurate" dynamics (to include the possibility of spins). I've never used it, but it's gotten the best reviews related to how it feels (a flight school down in NZ/Aus uses it in its training, too). I'll download it tonight and...

Kyle, most pilots on PilotEdge are aware that VFR flight plans are not seen by ATC ever since we introduced that feature on the server :) True. I'm still training my brain out of the VATSIM ways of thought in some ways. Good point. Really good point on the pop-up IFR bit, too. I actually never thou...

AJ, keep in mind that not everyone talking to ATC is IFR. When you file a VFR flight plan, ATC never sees it. I'm not sure how much real world flight experience you have, but if you've ever filed a VFR flight plan and then called up a facility for flight following, you'll note they ask you where you...

Correct. A basic rule of thumb here, in an attempt to clear things up in all cases: Unless otherwise told (below), switch on your own when you're holding short, and announce to the tower that you're ready. Contact tower precludes the above, and is an instruction to announce to tower that you are now...

One of the things that pilots forget about all the time is the issue of aviate, navigate, and communicate (in that order). First, make sure you stay in the air; Then follow any directions for navigation; Finally, communicate. Basically, if a controller says to make a final turn, do it first, and the...

Colin, that is certainly valid, but keep in mind that ground still owns the taxiways and is therefore still responsible for you. While you're in the runup block, ground likely knows what you're doing, but he can't directly talk to you in case he needed anything. It's best to hold off until short of ...