Chaos and Beauty

Flight simming today is chaos and beauty.

It’s wires on the floor, glowing screens, and skies that stretch further than the room you’re sitting in.

It’s a joystick clamped to a desk that also holds your coffee, or a full cockpit that takes up half the garage.

It’s engines that growl through your headphones.

It’s avionics glowing on a tablet in your lap.

It’s switches you built yourself from scrap parts, or glass panels that feel alive under your fingertips.

It’s the kid who just wants to take off and buzz their house.

It’s the die-hard simmer memorizing flows and failures until they can cold-start a jet blindfolded.

And it’s everyone in between.

The state of flight simming today is choice.

Plug in and fly. Or dive down the rabbit hole.

No wrong way, just your way.

We’re standing in a moment where the line between play and reality is thinner than ever. Where the click of a button feels like the snap of a real switch. Where a simple idea—“what if I could fly?”—becomes a world you can step into every day.

And tomorrow? Even less friction, even more immersion.

Tools that don’t get in the way but get out of the way.

So that flying—just flying—remains the heart of it all.

This is the state of flight simming today.

This is the future.

Capt Michael