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If re-center doesn't do what you want, elevate yourself slightly in your chair, press Re-center, then lower yourself to a more natural position. It will be as if you lowered the seat. Don't know if there's a way to change the config but that should work. John

It's whatever key is assigned to "Re-center", F12 by default, unless you set it to something else in the Natural Point TrackIR software. Adjust your position in your chair, turn your head to get exactly the view you want and push the re-center key. Great to do if you're slouching after an hour - just re-center and continue to slouch. John

Not exactly flight simulator specific, but as active users of the Internet, this is something most of us are likely to be interested in and/or affected by... https://apnews.com/191032549cca44b9b1b74e1d130a04e5/Microsoft's-anti-hacking-efforts-make-it-an-internet-cop This is a really interesting, long-standing effort by Microsoft but I was not aware of it until I saw this article Not sure yet if this activity is as lily-white as advertised - I'm the skeptical type - but, as described, it certainly seems preferable to the naked political bias of recent actions by Faceboo

Other than operations and schedule impact from being short one aircraft, and possibly getting raked over the coals by the NTSB for security of a parked airplane, I'm thinking the company really isn't going to get hurt too bad by this - barring a lawsuit coming out of the woodwork from someone. That's kind of hard to predict - lawyers are gonna' lawyer. The big loser will be the insurance company and they charge everyone enough for their insurance coverage to be able to afford to cover a hull loss now and then. It's what insurance companies do. As aircraft go, this was not even a

Some insurance company somewhere is definitely not happy. That's a pretty expensive way to commit suicide. John

Much easier for them to extract "intelligence" from digital data as opposed to voice pickup, though that can and is done too. It's a pretty safe assumption that ANYTHING you put in an e-mail, text, on-line post, chat room, etc. is being logged and saved by someone, probably several someones. In most cases, they are after your preferences, buying habits, financial status, etc. for the purposes of targeted advertising, but there are some more nefarious things going on too. John

I think that's probably correct. I don't think P3D or any of the sims are capable of being updated by AIRAC data. I could be wrong - just an impression, really, but I THINK that's the case. Waypoints and intersections, navaids, airways, approaches, etc. are buried in hundreds if not thousands of FS bgl files with a lot of other stuff (e.g. airports and scenery) and it would take a serious effort to build something that would sniff all that stuff out, update it and compile new bgl files. What you say about Plan-G data import is correct. If AIRAC doesn't affect the FS data, ther

Google, FaceBook, Twitter - not to be trusted. Not so sure MS is any better but at least they have a revenue stream other than selling your personal information to advertisers, political parties and others who want it. John

I don't think that guy was at much risk of really being shot down, though it does seem the local gendarmes did have their panties in a wad over this one. It used to be that Barney only had one bullet and had to carry it in his pocket, but I suspect that most police forces are a little more capable these days, even in Mayberry. One hopes they are also a little more sensible. I think some of the other authorities mentioned may have been a little harsh too, but those guys are on a good day. I think they have their sense of humor surgically removed when they are hired. The fact that the pilot

Have never seen anything like that. I agree that it almost has to be the Tac Pack. Look on their site or in forums to see if anyone else is talking about the same problem. John

I don't think they really mean vertical and high speed for a Ju-52 isn't all that fast. I think the "...high-speed, high-angle..." terminology in this case is just meant to distinguish between a hard forced landing gone wrong and a collision with Mother Earth. This appears to have been the latter to the first investigators on the scene. Also, the Ju-52 fuselage is only a little less robust than a Sherman tank. John

I've been following this on PPRUNE. Not too much known yet. It appears to be a relatively high-angle, high-speed (for a Ju-52) impact. The terrain was at a fairly high altitude and sloped with some big rocks around. It's been characterized as flat enough that a forced landing attempt might have been possible, but that doesn't seem to have been what happened. WX was VMC but wind may have been about 35 km/hr. There's some speculation about some kind of failure causing a stall or other loss of control. A photo taken sometime just before the crash shows what might be a smoke trai

I love the Air Force, but sometimes they have their head in the sand. They never wanted the close air support role, nor did they want anyone else to have it. The go-fast crowd in the AF has been trying to kill off the A-10 almost from the moment it came off the drawing boards at Fairchild. It just doesn't fit the image they have of themselves and their role. There's no other mud-mover in our inventory that can match the utility of this thing. It's relatively low cost of operation and low-speed, low-altitude, long loiter time capability make it a pretty good card to have in our deck. It's

Well, at least they're not trying to do it with batteries. John

Ugly, isn't it? John

The NTSB preliminary report is out... https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20180721X41413 No evidence of control locks and the tailwheel was locked, as it's supposed to be. Transfer of control from co-pilot to pilot early in the take off run due to heading swings. Co-pilot was somewhat inexperienced and only had received his type rating in the DC-3 a month before. John

...I can still see his tracks.

8/2-3/18 Bundle Updates The monthly update of the Airport Diagram bundle files has been completed. The prior bundles updates were completed on 7/2-3/18. Bundle downloads are available here... http://forum.mutleyshangar.com/index.php?/topic/23067-airport-diagram-download-center/ Changes in this update cycle... Angola - 1 added FNHU Albano Machado - Huambo, Angola Argentina - 3 added SARI Mayor D Carlos Eduardo Krause - Cataratas Del Iguazu, Argentina SASJ Gobernador Horacio Guzman - Jujuy, Argentina SAZR Santa Rosa - Santa Rosa, Argentina

Take those little victories wherever and whenever you can get them. John

Do you see the typo? John

Here's the latest - a new report out of Malaysia that says what's already pretty obvious and admits they don't know much... John https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/mh370-investigation-unable-to-determine-cause-of-disappearance

That's pretty fast. It must have arrived before it departed.

I'm told it got so hot here once that all the corn started popping in the fields. The popcorn got four feet deep and some of the alligators thought it was snow and froze to death. John

I've seen the video of the DC-3/C-47 crash several times. I believe he may have had the control lock in. I never saw any deflection of any of the control surfaces in the video - not rudder, not elevator nor ailerons - not even ailerons after liftoff as it rolled first a little right, then left. Countering that roll with ailerons would be second nature to anyone flying and I can't see any evidence of it happening. It appears he never got the tail up, so the angle of attack was higher than for a normal takeoff and the AC lifted off at a lower than normal airspeed.

We're losing the greatest generation... John