Amazing news Stef! So happy to hear things are going well and can't wait to see you in the skies again. For now enjoy the virtual skies!

Why not MSFS? You were trying it during covid. Plus it has multiplayer so you could make a live stream with your subscribers 😊

Yep, Stefan, I’m a retired Aeronautical Engineer with some piloting experience, as with other’s here, I have the Microsoft flight simulator on a PC with Augmented Reality goggles, joystick, throttle and pedals. Fantastic and I can ‘fly’ all sorts of aircraft, including the Cirrus SR-22. Although now I’m ’flying around’ with the Cirrus Vision Jet, fantastic four seater personal jet!

Xplane is shit.

Out of the box X-Plane controls for rudders are too aggressive. Set all sensitivity sliders to zero and play with the response curve to make them more natural. There are videos and forum posts on how to do it if you're new to the SIM. Glad to see you flying!

Hey Stef, I have a few questions: 1. What planes have you flown? 2. What is your favourite plane? 3. Are you coming to Avalon and/or Oshkosh when they are on?

Please get MSFS 2020 or 2024!

Genuine suggestion. Try flying on VATSIM and that will help you keep your knowledge.

Great news on your health, and the controls are always twitchy with no feedback :) (My excuse and i am sticking to it)

Recommend you pair this with vatsim if you really wanna keep up to date on procedures

Get a beefy PC, MSFS2020 and a VR headset

Try msfs 2020, it has developed a lot since you last played and is more of a sim now

Amazing to see!

Never give up! Keep writing letters and keep cooperating with the FAA, or whatever the Australian equivalent is. It will probably take a few years since government agencies are inherently slow, but I’m confident that you can get a medical back. I’ve seen people here in the states get medicals back after major medical episodes. Just keep up the fight!

Really great news mate! Can't wait to see you back as PiC. Enjoy simming and running in the meantime 😊

This is the only way I'll ever fly a plane. And that's great for the world 😂

0:51 "I'm going to assume that I've done all of my checklist..." I know you're "Just making a video" - but ... Fly how you train, Train how you fly. If you would never skip pre-flight in life, then you need the discipline to do it in the sim. It's the discipline to force you to do the "things you know how to do" when you are tired, or bored, or think you've got it all together that makes a good pilot. Even in the airline, the times you see someone doing a check from memory, just because it's only a couple of steps, is the same number of times you see a poor pilot.

You will be flying again by November this year I prayed

Good positive alternative! You might wanna have a look into VATSim for ATC in the flightsim.

Search "flight sim VR pass through". Amazing flight sim possibilities.

Your plane is so excited for you it did the wheelie in celebration!

So glad for your good news. Genuinely teary.

the CAPS works on Xplane12, pull it at about A020 its really cool

YES!! I was going to suggest MSFS 2020 to you. Combine that with VR and an Nvidia RTX 4090 and you are set! I love it in VR. You could do awesome content on how to use all the instrumentation in game with your real world experience! Still trying to work it all out myself. One of my favourite regular flights is Moorabbin airport (I live not far from there so that is my go to start) to Melbourne CBD to Lilydale behind the Dandenong Ranges out to Wilsons Prom then landing at Flinders Island.

100% Stefan.. come fly in MSFS 2020 for superior visual for VFR flying.

The biggest inserted excuse I would put would be "should've got Microsoft flight simulator."The X-plane scenery sucks compared to Microsoft's effort and at least you get some ATC including IFR........................................................

Great news mate

Just a quick comment to let Stef know that in MSFS2020 he can have VHEYZ written on the tail of his SR22 if he wishes. It's in the global settings. Happy flying.

Awesome Stef, can’t wait for you to be back in-EYZ again. Does Stephen have his own KZbin channel for flying?

Really good to hear that you are Timor free 👍😀

The SR22 in MSFS2020 has recently been updated too!

Need to get EYZ Skin in MSFS, that would be epic to have a fly in with you all in you plane...

Put yourself in the VR world, as close as it gets!!

😆😅🤣😂 ....."I'm gonna do what all good Cirrus pilots do and not use the rudders".. Great video Stef and so glad to hear of your good news.

Get Autoortho, Simheaven, HeadShake and Simple Ground Services. They are some really cool addons for X-Plane 12.

Torquesim! Get the Torquesim SR22! You had it. Just install the Torquesim SR22 again. Get Simheaven, Autoortho and XP12 will look really good. Also get HeadShake to get... Head Shaking like in the real plane.

Hi Stefan, Wonderful to see you finally back in the "air". And FANTASTIC News regarding your checkup results Stefan. So so good to read this. You mention the circumnavigation os Oz by Gobels and McIntye 100 years ago. During my 16 years~and~continuing research on the McIntyre Field base at Tocumwal, at one stage I'd considered him as the namesake. But after some archaeological prodding/digging, I found Captain Patrick William McIntyre is the actual WWII fighter ace (from Illinois USA) the place was named after. Peter Dunn has put up on his site a fair bit to do with Captain P W McIntyre from my findings, as I thinkk also Matt at the Toc museum. 🙂

I thought clearance to land from the airport you are heading towards is required BEFORE you are allowed to take off?

MSFS 2020 has a great SR22T coupled with Boris Sounds, ✅ just do it 😂

That’s fantastic news, Stef! Have fun flying the simCirrus, and get prepared for the real deal!

I still remember that 4 years ago you made a video about TorqueSim SR22 with EYZ special livery on X-Plane 11, and I bought that too! It's now compatible with X-Plane 12, so you may give it a go again 😉

i see you got the new SR22 tail dragger variant 🙂

I've got both MSFS and X-Plane... Stef you should try it in VR...

MSFS, X-Plane - are great simulators. if you add some rudder pedals, head tracker -- it's going to be much better. I often flied your flights like that..

pls don’t turn into a gaming channel

Yay!!!! 😃 MSFS2020 has much better scenery etc but some of the addon scenery bogs down Melbourne a bit. Once you are totally captured (hooked on flight sim) you could upgrade to msfs2020. I know you would appreciate the scenery and flight charcteristics for many of the aircraft (both default and addons). Enjoy! 🤠

Will you ever be able to fly by yourself ever again?

Get FS 2020 and be blown away. There's not at least one moment I have to look at scenery and just go wow.

Oh mate, you need MSFS 2020 with a decent computer and you’ll be flying all day long

You should have filmed that in your real plane, you have the opportunity of doing it so you should not waste it.