Exciting News We have a new website  https://www.southwestflightsimgroup.com/    Please use the new website as this one will be closed shortly https://www.southwestflightsimgroup.com/             ..read more

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Antony's Devon 737 project update progress report - you may recall a posting in January this year. Having take delivery of a sawn off 737-200 cockpit and installed it in a shed, the work began to convert the cockpit into a 737-800. The pictures below, before and after show how well the work is progressing. The detailed work flow is incredible. The overhead, MCP and all the instruments, twin yokes and complete pedestal are all installed.  The motorisation of the throttles is still work in process (requiring a cannabilised cordless drill motor), the J-seat runners are ready to install. Th ..read more

Southwest Flight Simmers from Devon and Cornwall will be keeping your liveries flying Heavy rain in EGTE Brighter days ..read more

Hopefully we are all back from our Summer holidays and returning to our favourite hobbies. Those of who love flight simulation have had a year of non-stop announcements and superb free and payware add ons from the major players, MSFS and XP-12 in particular. Have you spotted something we must all share? If so come along to our next meeting and enjoy spreading the word. No doubt we can, and do, endlessly trawl the internet and the specialist forums, even so there are gaps which can only be filled which come up randomly in conversation or can be demonstrated in real time in Ipplepen. The real re ..read more

 Its Summer, time for beaches, kids, golf and cricket - if its not raining. When we are not doing those things some of us like to keep up our flying skills and where better to do it than in the relaxed atmosphere of SW flightsim, now merged with MyAir. If you like flying passenger jets and are wanting to give on-line flying a go but feel its a bit of a challenge, welcome to MyAir where you can enjoy a relaxed introduction with live but very friendly ATC to guide you. Or if you already have many air miles under your belt with goups like IVAO or VATSIM but want a more chatty environment, gi ..read more

MSFS has taken the World by storm, 10 million downloads DCS world is getting ever more popular X-Plane has worked very hard to give us the best.  So what's it to be for 2023 ..read more

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    Flightsim is really taking off again and getting better and better with the two clear leaders remaining neck and neck and vying for our time and money.     Although our meetings were curtailed for a time during the last couple of years we are looking forward to a very good attendance from the start of the new season.   New aircraft and scenery are arriving almost every day to tempt us to press the 'buy now' button as well as huge amounts of free addons. Do you really need/want it, is it worth the money? There is a lot to discuss and see which is why our h ..read more