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You spend three hours in Vehicle Assembly Building. You put it all together carefuly, arrange the engines and tanks just so. Yes, that’s a good-looking rocket there. It has good symmetry. The parts is all there. Fire up the main engines. Flip the throttle switch. And then… crack! The rocket tear itself to pieces on … Read more

Simmers spend their time in menus like weather or engine starts, and rarely consider physics of how an airplane behaves. Aircraft weight and balance are more than just a check box. It’s the difference between a tail drag vs a smooth rotation. While the flight sim weight and balance calculator do the math for you, … Read more

Okay, you’re at thirty-five thousand feet. You’re up here cruising along minding your own business, and then comes the voice on headset: “When do you want to begin your descent? That’s it. That’s what all those simulator guy live for and fear. And it isn’t some arbitrary dot on your chart. No, sir. It is … Read more

If you’re a racing fan, you know there’s more to a Formula One Grand Prix than the headline numbers. They cover about 30 miles, or forty-four laps around Monaco, while an endurance sprint might last two hours. Those sound like straightforward distances until you’re in driving seat. There’s a fuel gauge staring back at you … Read more

In Forza, you start by tweaking suspension to get better handling, but instead of improving corners, it feels like you’re driving on a trampoline. Sounds familiar? In most cases, driver isn’t the problem. It’s the spring rate. And most drivers simply guess. They pick a number they read in some forum thread that maybe worked … Read more

It’s time to take off. You think you’ve loaded up the simulator with more than enough gas for your flight. Yet, you overlook fact that climb burn is much higher then cruise burn. You’re watching the engines flame out in the middle of nowhere, twenty miles from runway. Every sim pilot learns this lesson once. … Read more

In sim racing, you turn the wheel and the car doesn’t turn. You crank on it some more and you spin yourself off into grass. And it’s not all about force feedback wheels. Your wheel must physically turn the same as your car in game to make it feel real. If you’ve got something where … Read more

You spun out on lap three, and the penalty cost you ten positions on results page. The penalty costs you ten positions. Your iRating feels out of reach. Before all this happened, though, you were driving well. System just looks at final grid, that’s the disconnect between effort and reward at the heart of competitive … Read more

After a clean stint, there is something about that silence; it feels like a reward for not having done anything wrong. At the end of the day, you have no incidents in a race and you get a little bump up in your stats. And that’s what frustrates so many guys who is trying to … Read more

While most sim racers obsess over the last lap time, which they regard as ultimate judge of their driving skill, raw lap times aren’t necessarily indicative of all that occurred during the session. Because traffic, tire wear, and fuel weight is not taken into consideration, we must draw a distinction between real pace and outside … Read more

The pedal goes down and the car gets heavy. Front tires bite. Nose dives. Rear end wants to step out. This is the lap, if you’ve watched enough racing on TV. Where driver who carry speed through corner separate themselves from those who wind up in gravel trap spinning around. The dance of this moment … Read more

Before you go racing, calculate how much fuel will be consumed between the green flag and finish line, as well as during formation laps, pace laps, and pit entries, to ensure you don’t run out of fuel in the middle of the race. A tool like the calculator can do all the math for you, … Read more