Love me some flight sim! I will try to integrate the sim shots more often in the future to help make the videos a little more visually interesting. Thank you for the well wishes!

True that!

Hello Paulo! Great to be back in the mighty Turbo Commander. Hope you and your family are well!

Thank you so much Conquest. I have been very fortunate to work for very good organizations over my life, 21 years Army, and three very good civilian companies in the last six years. The jet company opened my eyes to just how bad it can be out there. Seedy, unethical, unprofessional, total disregard for employees, I saw it all. You learn from every experience, both good and bad, and I learned a lot from that one so I don't regret having gone through it. It was a wonderful jet, good pay, and I was home but I realized that organizational culture is an intangible that can trump all those things when it comes to work place satisfaction.

Greetings Miguel, thank you for watching and thank you to the whole team in Tucson, you guys provide top shelf service and all of us med pilots in Safford (Rick, Mark, Austin) really appreciate TUS ATCT. I'll be on the night shift starting next Tuesday so I look forward to talking with you. All the best, Tim

I always enjoy you guys at Tucson! Nothing like the personal touch you guys give when its been a long night and you say "welcome back"

@@richardbell1630 anytime you hear “welcome back” that’s me. We each try to have a catch phrase. Mine is welcome back/welcome to Tucson

Hey tim! How have you learned to master the toe wheel steering / braking and reverse thrust combo on landing?

Hi Beechnut. Yes, that Jetblue call you made was hilarious, we all got a good laugh. I don't know if you saw it but I did post a response to you on the video of that incident. That was one of the very few times where something cool happened and I was actually recording. Fly Cochise! We got alum everywhere. Thanks for being a supporter of the channel. I hope to fly the Citabria down to the college this year and see how the program is doing.

Thanks Scott!

Thanks Dean. Good to be back. She is a great bird.

I think you are talking about the dreaded Tucson Jet Center. Try going there in the middle of the night and waiting for the high school line guy to wake up to marshal you in. You get what you pay for with that place. I would avoid it.

@@FlyingWildAZ I do medevac too and for some reason that's where dispatch ALWAYS sends us to meet the ambulance lol

For me the eye candy doesn’t to anything for me. I’m a IFR guy and plus the data consumption is horrible. I can still use P3D and have no qualms about the visuals.

@@superskullmaster Fair enough, no disagreement for me. Everybody has what they fancy. I like VFR, and sprinkle in IFR from time to time. I am not an airliner guy. I just like getting into the weeds, and rolling around in the mud. ionk ionk lol cheers Dion

@@Dionm01 same here, but once a Turbo Commander hits MSFS I might forget about X-plane. IFR should be fixed by then, I'd assume.

@@crazyhumpy Yeah, the Turbo Commander is one of my favorite aircraft. Heck any high wing aircraft for that matter, they are on my top list. I miss flying the MU2 as well. I wish Asobo would bump up SDK higher on the priority list to get it flushed out for Study Level aircraft creation. For me, I'd rather pay $60 to $100 USD on high quality aircraft. I'm tired of paying for aircraft that just don't give me the systems detail like study level aircraft does. I love it when developers make their aircraft from novice to study level quality & in turn it teaches you. I loved X-Plane for what it was. I Started my KZfaq channel Dionm01 with it. But once MSFS 2020 came out last August, I've barely touched X-Plane since. I've done the math with my receipts, and I've spent just a bit over $2,200 over the past 5 1/2 years on the X-Plane platform. Accumulated alots of aircraft, over that time. Even with all of that investment, and mainly my style of flying, there is really no need to go back to X-Plane any time soon. Austin has stated, in the past. He does not like photo realistic rendering worlds. He said, photo realistic scenery, just does not look as good as the real thing, so why bother (I'm paraphrasing). To be fair, he is right to a degree. But for those of us who will never get the chance to fly for real, Flight Simulation is the next best thing. So for me, from his words, that counts me out going forward. I played that game of rendering my own scenery, storing it on my own hard drive with orthro4XP. I'm done with that, for me it was more hassle than it was worth. But at the time that was the only thing we had. Now we have another avenue to follow with MSFS, and so the experience for me has been very good. I will concede that when the MSFS servers go down, I'm F'ed. We just recently had that experience, and there's no denying it, it sucked. I had to go do something else. Walked away from my computer, and went outside took a deep breath of fresh air. Looked at the trees in my backyard, listen to the birds chirping, Neighbor mowing their lawn, and went about my day. All is not lost. Return to my computer later on that day, loaded up the Sim, and was flying again. Life is good. What I see with the mod community, turn stuff out nearly every day, is incredible. With MSFS I expect overtime, it will surpass and dare I say leave all other simulation platforms in the dust. At least, that's my point of view. I'm Sure others will disagree with me and thats perfectly fine. They have there own Investments in their respective platforms and that's their choice, I'm cool with that. My loyalty is not to one company or Brand. Give me what I want, and you will be rewarded with my money. Its simple as that. But I will say, I hope and prey the other simulation platforms get better and rival MSFS. We as Desktop Aviators need developers to compete with each other for Our Sim Dollars, and that's how it should be. When they do, we as the customer win. And that's fine by me. (Competition is good, Stagnation is bad) Cheers Dion

I've invested so much in building a physical cockpit for my ZIBO 737 that I think I am stuck with X-Plane 11 for the long haul, plus with few planes for MSFS I find myself going back to X-Plane to fly the Turbo Commander, Premier, and Arrow. I do love MSFS in it's current state for the visuals flying around in my Cessna 150 which appears to me to fly pretty spot on compared to my real one. Probably will be waiting a few years before it matures to the point where I can replace XP11 on my big sim for more serious flying.