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Quickmarch

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  1. From the Bagpiper Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of life. As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Nova Scotia back country. As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost and, being a typical man, I didn't stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had ev
  2. Three rednecks were working up on a cell phone tower: Cooter, Ronnie and Donnie. As they start their descent, Cooter slips, falls off the tower and is killed instantly. As the ambulance takes the body away,Ronnie says, 'Well, damn, someone should go and tell his wife. Donnie says, 'OK, I'm pretty good at that sensitive stuff, I'll do it.' Two hours later, he comes back carrying a case of Budweiser. Ronnie says, 'Where did you get that beer, Donnie?' 'Cooter's wife gave it to me,' Ronnie replies. 'That's unbelievable, you told the lady her husband was dead and she gave you beer?' 'We
  3. Thanks for the link, JA. One maxim that we all need to remember: There are three things that are of no use to a pilot. One of them is "runway behind you". Applies to both takeoffs and landings. Any guesses on the other two? I often find myself trying to rescue a bad approach in the flight sim. Bad idea! Maybe it's because the penalties are less severe than in the RW.
  4. Definitely have to agree that human error was the culprit. Can you imagine two guys frantically going about making a bad situation worse. There's quite a lag to get a big jet to spool up. Odds are good that the reversers (or likely just one of them), which don't need to wait for spool-up, are the issue. With the CF going on in the cockpit I'd like to know which one of them was bracing himself against a rudder pedal whilst trying to get the reverser(s) into play. Ah.......armchair aviators - ain't we great? I just feel sorry for the poor bu**ers who were on
  5. Had this one forwarded to me today: Subject: Fw: I miss Bill Clinton!
  6. Quickmarch

    Sim addict?

    I tried the train sim thing, too. No offence to those who are into it but...........i'd rather watch the grass grow (that from a sailor).
  7. If I dig around I should be able to find photos of the one at the Pima County Air Museum in Tucson. I was there two years ago on my way back up North from an auto trip to Mexico. Quite an impressive aircraft. Pics (not mine) of the "City of Fort Worth" here: http://www.airplanesofthepast.com/b36-pima-air-museum.htm
  8. Don't know if all experienced the same thing - but what a papa oscar sierra video. Betcha that was a scary ride from the front seats.
  9. Just signed in.......... Sucking on a Black Bush as we talk. Many thanks to all my friends and acquaintances on the best Sim Forum on the planet. (I am trying to forget that these things come up once a year - way too many under my belt, now) Cheers, March
  10. I'm thinking of @hlminx. Talk about monitor envy. I think she said she's got three 32" displays. I don't have that much wall space. Unfortunately, I don't have the DP output on the video card. I'm becoming convinced that the problem lies in the forced (by form factor) choice of the GT730 video card. My tough luck that the solution is a new box+a new motherboard+a new GPU. I'm willing to bet that the 8Gig of memory mounted on my current motherboard will not be usable on a new board, so more expense incurred. I've got to hold out hope that my i7 chip can be moved over.
  11. I'm not real clear on this statement. Are you saying you would reject the video card (output - outgoing HDMI signal) or the monitor/tv display (input - incoming HDMI signal)? Or is the passing of digital signals a back-and-forth sort of arrangement? I've always been less than satisfied with my displays. Not for the scenery - that's OK. My system happily runs REX, ORBX, and the sim with no video or OOM issues. It's reading the gauges from any reasonable (eyepoint) distance that bugs me. A lot of the aircraft models available, whether FSX or P3D suffer from hard-to-read gauges. I rea
  12. I live in a different "Victoria" - 10C and raining here. Also hunkered down. Feeling for the folks on the East Coast.
  13. Both Tim_A and Mutley have it right. I have FSX, P3Dv3 and the newest P3Dv4.1 on my platform. I no longer use the P3Dv3 - not much point when I have the 64bit replacement. I never added any third party stuff to the v3 as I was still evaluating it when v4 came along. I have a lot of aircraft for FSX, including a lot with my special QuikAire (AH and AH2) liveries, so I'll be keeping that one for a while. ORBX has a new FTX Central (FTX Central 3). It identified the three different sims and offered downloads to match my licenses. I did not download any of the v3 scenery as
  14. Ah! Key Lime Pie. One of my all time favorites. Used to get them from a little old lady in Marsh Harbour - many moons ago. All the best JA. Here's to lots of runway in front of you, lots of air under you and all the gas you can carry. March
  15. Quickmarch

    VR is here!

    I just bought a third-party aircraft that has ONLY a virtual cockpit for VR. There's no 2D pop-ups, all functions are switchable within the VC. It's the GLJ Lear 25. It's pretty difficult to use without something like Track IR because you have to be continually hopping around the cockpit to see the switches. See: https://xtremeprototypes.com/en/product_GLJ25_se_v2r1.asp I'll bet it's the cats pajamas in Oculus Rift as long as you have some method of clicking switches inside the VC. Take a look at P3Dv4. There's even a menu choice in the menu bar for "Virtual Reality". Looks like P3
  16. See: https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/17/us/atlanta-airport-power-outage/index.html This is pretty amazing that all of the power, including backups could be taken out. Appears it was a fire in a sub-station that started the mess. Cheers, March
  17. I've got to agree with @allardjd on the Extreme 3D by Logitech. I've used it for years while on my boat due to lack of space for other controls. The only difficulty I ever had with it was the need to cross my left hand over my body to get at the little paddle on the base which I mapped for throttle. The trigger works great for linked braking and there's enough buttons and switches to map for most other cockpit switchable needs. Besides the paddle there are four buttons on top of the stick around the top-hat switch, a single push-button on the side of the stick and six buttons on th
  18. The devil made me do it! I just made it two sinners, @hlminx. How can you dodge a 45% off bullet? Global Base and Vectors in the bag. While I was at it, I completed NZ by going for the SI as well as the rest of the Wet Coast of NA. That's it! Christmas is over for March. I sort of understand what my wife means when she tells me how much she "saved" at the (fill in the blanks) sale. Cheers,
  19. Sorry for all the questions What about frame rate hit (in P3Dv4 especially)? It's quite a bit of money to lay out only to be disappointed in the results.
  20. 1) I didn't know that! I've never used autorudder. I started out with a twist-style joystick. 2) Agreed. An accurate slip is very near impossible with the joystick I'm describing. You get real good at crabbing down the centreline, then kicking the a/c straight as the mains touch. If you like big airliners, try the 747. It has castoring mains.
  21. To you knowledgeable ORBX types: How important are the "global Base pack" and "global Vector pack"? Now that I've gone 64bit, I've reloaded the ORBX stuff I have and I'm reactivating it one area at a time. So far, no conflicts. I have NZ NI, Oz, PNW and Pacific Fjords with a few of the I've got the Global NA Airport Pack - I think that was a freebie.
  22. I'm going to ring in here with a suggestion: Most high-end joysticks have a "twist" (of the wrist) feature which is mapped to rudder. This will solve your dilemma about the rudder pedals. As @allardjd says; it's possible to fly without pedals but it's a bear on the ground taxiing with the keyboard. If he's interested in airliners (we call the tubes of chairs), I suggest the Airbus line. This because they are normally flown with a joystick rather than a yoke. However, all aircraft can be flown with a joystick so Airbus is not the only choice. I was offshore o
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