I am not much for buying new aircraft for MSFS these days, but I could not resist buying the helicopter from Taog’s Hangar, the venerable Alouette III, which I had the chance to see in action, in RL, many times. One good reason, for me, to buy the Alouette III…

What do my departed calico cat, Yellow, the space sim Elite: Dangerous and comic books have in common? Well, I used the game to create a comic book style story in memory of Yellow. When last December I had to help my lovely calico cat Yellow cross the Rainbow Bridge…

What do my departed calico cat, Yellow, the space sim Elite: Dangerous and comic books have in common? Well, I used the game to create a comic book style story in memory of Yellow. When last December I had to help my lovely calico cat Yellow cross the Rainbow Bridge…

One month ago today, on December 26, 2022, at 13.26, I helped my lovely calico Yellow cross the Rainbow Bridge, at seven years of age, after a five month battle with a silent killer: PKD. I continue to not be able to stop the tears from flowing down my cheeks…

This is the text I didn’t want to write but I knew was coming since the start of the Distant Legacy Expedition: my “copawlot” Yellow crossed the Rainbow Bridge December 26, leaving an empty Diamondback Explorer behind. For the 9th Waypoint of the Distant Legacy Expedition 3308 organizers decided to…

Seven years later history repeats itself. I had to put my companion cat Yellow to sleep, due to PKD, a terrible disease that took her from me in the space of a few months. At 13.26 on the 26 December 2022, I put Yellow to rest. That’s the exact hour…

Exobiology in Elite: Dangerous should now come with the footnote “how to become a space millionaire… fast”. Here are some notes about Exobiology taken while at Waypoint 8 in the Distant Legacy Expedition. One of the good things about the Odyssey expansion of Elite: Dangerous is the presence of planets…

Afraid I might run out of cables for my HP Reverb G2, I decided to buy the Pico 4 as an alternative PCVR headset to run anything from DCS to Elite: Dangerous or Microsoft Flight Simulator. I was in for a surprise! Tethered VR headsets continue to offer the best…

The postcard from Waypoint 7 in The Distant Legacy Expedition is here now, as the space explorers, now divided between platforms, continue the journey towards Phua Brue FL-P e5–0 , in hommage to Toby, the cat. As the HMS Atreides Dawn carries those playing Elite: Dangerous on PC to WayPoint…