Flying Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

Epic has just released the most recent iteration of the airplane, the E1000 AX, with a major avionics upgrade including Garmin’s G1000 NXi suite and upped the useful load to an advertised (on its website) 2,860 pounds—gross weight 8,000, max ramp weight 8,035. The solution is to put something in the baggage compartment.

Rudder

Flying Magazine

JULY 11, 2025

At $69.99, the DC-6 is one of the most expensive aircraft available in-sim, but like other aircraft in the same pricing tier, it offers a level of systems modeling that can take you from radial engine neophyte to feeling confident enough to step onto the flight deck of a real DC-6 to help out someday. One can dream and prepare, right?

Flight Deck

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

With the F2, the rudder and vertical stabilizer are changed, with the rudder becoming a much smaller surface than before. You can sit there with full back stick, full aileron one way and full rudder the other, and its perfectly controllable. You might ask what happens with crosswind landings when you take away rudder authority.

Rudder