Sumner's Virtual Flights

From ChristChurch, I started gazing toward Australia, where I spent a month visiting with a family years ago, and decided to first hop over...

While in Auckland, I decided to experiment with some different aircraft I had seen on the X-Plane User Forms site.  I tried the Beechcraft S...

For my upcoming adventure around New Zealand and Australia, I decided to learn to fly the shorter-range Fairchild-Swearingen SA227 Metroline...

From Tahiti, remembering a few flights when I was a passenger as a young adult, I decided to head in the direction of (relatively) nearby ...

Thinking about fun warm places to go next, I decided to depart Cancun and visit the tropical island of Tahiti. I climbed into the Boeing 74...

For a winter escapade, I flew the Boeing 737-800 from Denver International airport ( KDEN ), and headed south to seek warmer weather in Canc...

I've been having fun with simulated flying lately. I'd forgotten about how much fun it was to fly the 1940s vintage DC-3 around the ...

Oops! I'm still flying around in MSFS 2020 and X-Plane 11 (and leaning toward buying X-Plane 12 which is just being released this quart...

I’m off in the DC-3 (actually, the C-47 military cargo variant), with the goal being to land at most of the airports in the Bahama Islands ....

Next month’s (March 2022) edition of the AOPA Pilot magazine has an article extolling the virtues of flying into Pease airfield in Portsmout...