Quickmarch

That's sort of what I was talking about. There are many areas (especially in the US) where there are several, as in 3 or 4, airports in close proximity. Landing on the "right" runway, but at the "wrong" airport is a favourite for pilots. This is due to the fact that runways are set up to use prevailing wind directions. So several airports close together may all have a (eg.) Rwy 06/24. If you're a hot shot commercial pilot who is not really paying attention, it's real easy to land at the wrong one. Happens all the time . It's "Visual" approaches that cause the problems. Mostly becau

Flying is rife with stories like this. I remember reading a column in (I think it was) Flying Magazine called "I learned about flying from that". This would be in the late seventies, early eighties. Every month there was a story about something that someone learned the hard way. It's almost hard to believe that in that, and in this, day and age someone manages to line up for the wrong airport, wrong runway, or a taxiway. At night??? They're side by side, yes. But one looks like a Christmas tree. Yikes!

An Air Canada pilot tried to out do Harrison Ford at KSFO. Warned off by ATC. Could have been a real bad one. See: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/07/11/air-canada-flight-nearly-lands-on-taxiway-at-san-francisco-airport.html

Ah! Math. My favorite subject. Are you aware that there are three kinds of people? -Those who understand mathematics -Those who don't

See: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amelia-earhart-may-have-survived-crash-landing-never-seen-photo-n779591

Marriage: My wife said it was like a deck of cards. At the start, all you need is 2 hearts and a diamond.... Later, you want a club and a spade

My other love is sailing. Emirates Team New Zealand just took the 9th race of the 35th America's Cup. the 36th AC will be in New Zealand. There is no second!

Congrats, Loic. Well done! Cheers, March

Thanks @Corsaire31, Yes, I took early access into account. There was much more to the decision than that . The real killer was the Steam interface. A lot had to do with the fact that I could not run it on my netbook (Win10, Intel Celeron N2807 1.58Ghz with 2Gb of memory). I was hoping it would be something I could take to Europe with me this fall for rainy day entertainment. I was recalling the times when a friend and I whiled away a lot of time on the Navimag Ferry heading down through Patagonia in the fog and rain. You're right, it was Virtual Skipper, I'd forgotten the name.

I played for an hour, sorry guys, but I gave it back to them this morning. IMHO they have a long, long, way to go with the UI before this will work as a sailing simulation. There was an Americas Cup simulation many years ago that was a lot more intuitive than this one. I found it way too "busy". Click spots all over the place and awkward mouse movements to effect trim. The steering simulation was very good, though. Instrumentation was also good. In all fairness, I loaded it to a laptop (with a trackball). It might be better on a larger screen.

Sorry boys, been out racing on my Mini 12 today (not joking). It was really interesting when I was learning to fly. Especially the navigation part using the #1 Eyeball. The instructor was quite amazed that I could intuitively track my course over the ground and plug in appropriate direction adjustments to allow for drift. That was until I told him that looking over the side of an aircraft was immensely more informative than looking over the side of a boat. Compass and watch. Compass and watch. Compass and watch. One thing I learned when using a sextant to navigate ac

Hey @brett, we'll give you one new term per day. You'll be talkin the talk before August. Today's- Lee means the side of the boat away from the wind. (opposite side to where the wind is coming from). Ref: Lee shore - the shoreline that is on the lee side of the boat. Ref: If you feel seasick, head for the lee rail (extremely important tip) Ref: Seasick - a malady brought on by the lack of a tree to sit under. Most often encountered while "at sea". Please start taking notes - there WILL be a test.

Got the game this morning. Still too many rellies around to start playing. I might get a look at it later tonight. If I feed the rellies a lot of red wine with dinner, they'll be sound asleep by 2100. Then the cat can play.

By saying "opening the top" Loic, I'm actually referring to "twisting" the sail so that the AOA at the top is greater than at the bottom. This has the effect of spilling the sideforce up high in the sailplan, reducing the heeling moment. It's the same as wing washout in an aircraft. The same is done on the mainsail by dropping the traveller to leeward, increasing the cunningham load, bending the top of the mast and tightening the outhaul. I'll be in Toulouse in the fall. Happy to show you, first hand. Fair winds March

Reefing is definitely in the cards. When racing I never let the heel angle exceed five degrees. The loss in VMG through increased side slip is tremendous. Leeway while cruising is also important. If you're trying top sail to windward, every foot you loose to leeway must be made up on the opposite tack. Cruising: Heel angle is controlled by dropping the traveler to leeward, increasing luff and foot tensions, and moving the genoa lead cars aft to twist off the top of the genoa. Finally I change to a smaller jib and/or reef the main. Racing: I control heel angle with sail

In light of the most recent thread on Sailing Sims, I offer this: When sailors were real sailors! “Nelson: “Order the signal, Hardy.” Hardy: “Aye, aye sir.” Nelson: “Hold on, that’s not what I dictated to Flags. What’s the meaning of this?” Hardy: “Sorry sir?” Nelson (reading aloud): “England expects every person to do his or her duty, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious persuasion or disability.’ - What gobbledegook is this?” Hardy: “Admiralty policy, I’m afraid, sir. We’re an equal opportunities employer now. We had the d

AAAARRRRRR Billy!

Welcome back, @mutley and motley crew. I've missed you.

You might give it a go with the genoa unfurled and set inside the gennaker. Depending on the boat and the apparent wind angle, double-slotting can give you an extra 1/4 Kt. Never worked for me on "Passages". Passages is a 20T double ender and I always found that it was not possible to heat the boat up enough to gain any VMG if the course was lower than 160. My wife and I would never set a symmetrical chute while offshore as the risks with a kite that size and a short-handed crew were not acceptable. Cool sim though. Maybe I should look into it and we can have us a race

I'm surprised no one has picked up this as yet. It occurred on the 15th of this month. An approach accident near Teterboro Airport (KTEB). See: https://www.google.ca/search?q=teterboro+crash&oq=tet&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0j69i57j0l3.4424j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Condolences to families and friends of the two pilots who lost their lives in this accident.

Thanks John, I still had the devil's own time finding the file - despite the, literal, map that you showed me. A search for the string gps6.zip or just gps6 returned nothing. Even when I went to FSX - FSX Panels nothing showed up until I cut the search back to gps. That returned four pages. The file we're referring to was on the first page. I'm using a VPN, but I doubt that would have any bearing. I was logged in to the Flightsim site in all cases. Ah well! Once again MH (and @allardjd) comes to the rescue of the technically challenged.

Thanks JA, Lookin' in all the wrong places......

No sign of a file with that name on Flightsim (or in the library) - gps6.zip

I seem to recall a Canadian Interceptor that was scrapped for the same reasons. 1959 - almost sixty years ago.

Your new platform is performing well? Thanks for the updates.