Creating a structured study and practice plan for learning general aviation through flight simulation is a fantastic way to maximize knowledge transfer to real-world flying while maintaining realistic immersion. Here’s a comprehensive plan, including resources and a suggested schedule. This plan assumes you’re starting from scratch but aims to build a solid foundation in both theoretical knowledge and practical skills.
Phase 1: Groundwork and Basic Theory (1-2 Weeks) Objective: Understand the basics of flight, aircraft operations, and navigation.
My friends and I have been playing Minecraft together over the past two weeks. Smoke from the fires in Canada have prevented us from enjoying the outdoors, so the traditionally winter game for us as a group has now occupied a portion of the summer. I conjoined the old world save we had with MCA Selector and hosted it on my old desktop PC for the first week. Unfortunately our attempts at fighting the Wither kept failing as the server would lag too much for us to shoot projectiles at it in its first phase.
Here is my PC part list for a capable Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 vr machine. It trounces my old PC in performance. Coupled with the new Meta Quest 3, it should make for an extremely immersive experience. My old PC is going to be used as a server, with the GPU used for producing more heat when my room gets cold.
PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.
I play Skyrim Special Edition that’s sold on Steam. Using NexusMods and Vortex, it is extremely easy to install and use countless free mods created by an immensely talented community. Below are my favorite mods to enhance the vanilla experience without deviating too far. It does raise the system requirements, but virtually any discreet graphics card will run all the mods at a playable framerate.
Mod List Skyrim 202X 9.0 Address Library for SKSE Plugins - All in one (special edition) Alternate Start - Live Another Life Enhanced Lights and FX Forces New Idles in Skyrim SE - FNIS SE - FNIS Behavior SE 7_6 FranklyHD Dawnguard Armor and Weapons Immersive Amors 8.
Faith and I spent a few hours decorating our Christmas tree today. During which, I set up my camera on 2 second intervals to take snapshots of us putting it together. With a total of over 4,000 images captured in RAW the timelapse photos took over 90GB of space. I used Darktable to correct the white balance and exposure slightly, then converted the images to JPEG. Each photo went from 22MB to 500KB, and from there I used Kdenlive to make a webm video that only took 138MB.
I successfully completed the Speedrunner 2 achievement for Hollow Knight. To gain the achievement the game has to be beaten under 5 hours. At 3 hours and 40 minutes I succeeded, but it is very slow for a speedrun - filled with mistakes and cheese strategies. For now, I am happy with what I’ve accomplished but part of me wants to practice until I can run it without dying accidentally.
I am the designated industrialist in my Minecraft realm. I enjoy the logistical and technical challenges in automating resource gathering, leaving most of the artistic building up to my friends. These are the mods I use in order to get the most done with the least amount of my time invested actively managing my world.
Mods Baritone Lightmatica Tweakaroo MiniHUD Xaero’s Minimap and Xaero’s World Map Item-Scroller Custom Clients Forge Impact Client Fabric Launcher Optifine
At work there is a gross excess of cardboard laying around and taking up a large amount of space. To kill two birds with one stone I created a simple cardboard laptop stand that only creates minutes to build. Be sure to print out the stencil then use it to trace onto the cardboard. Afterwords, cut the pieces and assemble together to hold your laptop. Took minutes, looks better than a ream of paper, and didn’t cost a dime.
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells is a sci-fi horror classic. It’s a story of a Martian invasion narrated by an unnamed 19th century man in England. My first reading of this book was when I was a child in 2005. I scarce remembered it other than it was far different than the movie adaptation starring Tom Cruise.
The original book is far more interesting than the movie, having better characters, stronger themes, and the focus of the story on the protagonist’s desire to find his wife out of love instead of desire to get rid of his kids.
This extremely simple design was made for my Minecraft Realm’s trading zone. Use string to suspend the carpet when it is not above a fence or sign. Unfortunately I am unable to provide a build guide step by step right now, but I will add it in some later post.
Materials List Block Name Quantity Barrel 3 Oak Trap Door 1 Stone Brick Wall 2 Spruce Stairs 4 Oak Fence 4 Birch Sign 1 Carpet 20 Oak Gate 3 String 12