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A(TFM) briefbegan historyas a modest project called Flight Following, created by blind flight sim enthusiast Jason Fayre. Initially, its sole purpose was to announce the nearest city while flying. But as the community grew, so did the ambition—users began requesting more features, including access to flight instruments, lateral runway guidance, and control over the default simulator autopilot. As the project matured, developer Andy joined, bringing valuable software and web development expertise. With this new momentum, the focus shifted to supporting the PMDG aircraft in Prepar3D (P3D), which offered a robust SDK through FSUIPC. At this point, Flight Following had evolved into Talking Flight Monitor—a name reflecting its expanded scope and capabilities. TFM soon provided varying degrees of Talkingaccess to flight monitormanagement goescomputers here.(FMCs) Thisand pageaircraft will existpanels in the realPMDG documentation,737, but747, onlyand serves777 asseries. anAs examplethe pageflight sim community transitioned to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (MSFS), so did TFM—presenting its work at various accessibility and simulation events along the way. Then, in early 2024, TFM entered a realnew book.chapter: Whena youfull-scale editrebuild thisthat page,laid usethe markdowngroundwork for what you’re using today. To ensure long-term sustainability, TFM introduced a paid subscription model and formed a voluntary taskforce to writehelp steer its development. Work soon began on the text.newly Asreleased—and youinitially writeunsupported—PMDG the page content, the frame below the editor shows your progress777 in realtime.MSFS. ThisAfter avoidsover thea needyear toof savedevelopment, thealpha page,and lookbeta attesting, itand aftercommunity itfeedback, isTFM published,now thenoffers returningblind users complete access to the editor777, empowering them to makefly changes.

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