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Woo hoo! 90 miles. John

I'm often tempted to screw with them. Lately I've been doing my best to keep the phone scammers on the line as long as possible without doing anything dangerous, just wasting their time. It's great fun. John

Replacement is called for, obviously. A devious crack like that will continue to propagate, becoming larger, less subtle and less able to satisfactorily perform its original function. Repairs that simply close the fissure, while tempting, are not practical in this case. Bob

Umm...Incorrect...his cars are trying to Not spew Carbon from a tail pipe, something they do Far Better than a gas or diesel or hybrid. Matt, you're just re-stating the "that" in my "other than that". The "that" is "...the fact that he's trying to build them without them needing fossil fuel aboard." What I said is not incorrect. That feature is the only distinguishing difference between his cars and everyone else's. His difficulty is that he can't seem to figure out how to manufacture them in quantity at the cost he's trying to sell them for, and he's a pretty

Happy Birthday, Arnie. Many more! "A very well-liked and popular member " - - - I agree. John

Headline: Russia admits defeat on its 'stealth' F-35 killer by canceling mass production of the Su-57 fighter jet http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-admits-defeat-su-57-not-going-into-mass-production-2018-7 Scathing article debunks the Su-57's capability. 12 built - that's all there will be. My favorite line from the article: "By all means, the Su-57 appeared a next-level dogfighting jet capable of taking out the US's best fighters in close combat, but its failure to integrate stealth made getting in close with an F-35 or F-22 an unlikely bet."

Saw this magazine cover and thought it fit right in. As noted above, "Elon Musk is having a much higher level of success with kerosene-fueled rockets than he is with battery powered Tesla automobiles despite the fact that building cars isn't exactly rocket science." The problems, of course, are mainly to do with the fact that he's trying to build them without them needing fossil fuel aboard. Other than that his cars aren't trying to do any more than other automobiles already do quite easily, just as well and for a lower price. John

For me, attempting to use the automation would probably be a mistake. My plan would be, a) leave AP engaged for the moment, b) ask the cabin for a second set of eyes/hands in the other seat to assist c) set the transponder to 7700, d) get someone on a radio - on 121.5 if necessary, e) declare emergency and request vectors to a survivable destination airport, f) disengage AP and hand fly per vectors. I think I could fly a heading, maintain an altitude, maintain a directed airspeed, make a gentle descent and/or easy turns, get the gear and flaps out when needed - not to ATP criteria

+1 on that!!! John

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-5937033/Could-NON-PILOT-land-airliner-Flight-crew-reveal-answer.html Yeah, I know - it's the Daily Mail, so needs to be taken with a grain 50 Kg bag of salt, but... Speaking for myself, with a lot of simulator experience and a low-time Private Pilot ticket, I think I'd stand a fairly good chance in reasonably decent WX, even from altitude. Hard IMC conditions, heavy turbulence, strong crosswinds, etc. at the destination would seriously hamper my chances, I think, probably to the point of being vanishingly small.

Interesting - they put a General Atomics SkyGuardian drone into the North Atlantic Tracks system to get it across to the Fairford show. Yep - it flew itself there rather than being ferried in the belly of a transport. This is a turboprop powered, advanced version of the MQ-9 Reaper/Predator B series. The FlightRadar 24 screenshot shown in the linked article indicates the flight is from Grand Forks, North Dakota to Fairford and shows 153 knots at about FL 270, over Canada, possibly still in the climb phase fairly early in the flight. This thing was apparently merged int

New release from BEA... https://flightsafety.org/egyptair-804-crash-update/ This is complicated... Egypt has the lead. The investigation by the Egypt air safety organization, with the assistance of others from elsewhere, determined that they found "traces of explosives" on some of the recovered bodies. That resulted in transferring responsibility for the remainder of the investigation to Egyptian criminal authorities. That was done without releasing a "final" report from the Egyptian air safety authorities, which would have included the input f

F-35 is the "low" end of a high-low strategy, along with F-22. It's very similar to the F-15/F-16 high/low mix of a few decades ago except that the production of F-22s was stopped early with too few built. The low end, the F-35, though expensive, is considerably cheaper than the F-22 and is anticipated to be built and sold in much larger numbers. $100 million a pop isn't chump change, but if you want to be able to run with the top-dog pack in the world today, it's not going to be cheap. The idea was to build a relatively small number of the very best available and a large number

Clicking "Add-ons" and "FSUIPC" isn't supposed to make anything happen. The fact that you have an "Add-ons" meu bar with "FSUIPC" in it means FSUIPC is installed and running. When FSUIPC is installed correctly, it starts when FS starts and is ready to facilitate communications between FS and other related programs such as Flying School. I don't have Flying School and don't know how you start it and kick it off, but clicking on Add-ons -> FSUIPC is most certainly not the way to get Flying School going. I doubt you need the paid version of FSUIPC - it adds some nif

I'd say it worked out fairly well on both sides of the Atlantic. Maybe you were just placing us in ready reserve status in case the Germans got too feisty, which they did, twice. Anyway, it looks like that hatchet has long been buried and I count the UK as one the US' two greatest friends in the world. (The other one? I'm not saying but it lies somewhere south of Lebanon and north of Egypt.) John

I just did a slow troll through the 27-1/2 pages (10 per page) of new files in the Flightsim.com file library and would like to share a few impressions and thoughts. I think their "New Files" button brings up everything uploaded in the last 30 days - 257 new entries in this case. First and foremost, this has reinforced a creeping sense I've had lately that X-Plane really is becoming a mainstream contender in the flight simulation genre. There is a surprising amount of new freeware listed there for X-Plane, along with much also for FSX and P3D, of course. It's also worth noting t

7/2-3/18 Bundle Updates The monthly update of the Airport Diagram bundle files has been completed. The prior bundles updates were completed on 6/2-3/18. Bundle downloads are available here... http://forum.mutleyshangar.com/index.php?/topic/23067-airport-diagram-download-center/ Changes in this update cycle... Argentina - 1 added SAVV Gobernador Castello - Viedma, Argentina Australia - Western Australia - 1 added YBRY Barimunya - Barimunya, Western Australia - Australia Austria - 1 added LOGK Kapfenberg - Kapfenberg, Austria

Old, old thread but I have to add that if you're looking for a freeware Office clone, Libre Office is pretty good. I use it exclusively now and like Open Office, it can read and write the MS Office file formats. https://www.libreoffice.org/ John

Happy Birthday Andrew. Due to the location of the International Date Line, your birthday must be nearly over by now where you are. Hope you're having a great time and still enjoying every moment of it. John

I struggle with the Garmin in FSX too, but have learned a few useful things that I can use it for without a lot of fumbling around. In general, it's pretty much a mystery to me. As a side note related to the GPS, the Approaches list that I include in the airport diagrams is a listing of those approaches that are built into the FSX/Garmin GPS. If you see an approach listed on one of my charts, you can expect that approach to also be available in the GPS, many with multiple transitions (which I do not list). John

It seems I'm reading and commenting on old threads these days. I point out that, 3-1/2 years later there is still no TTIP and there isn't likely to be one anytime soon. The sky was not falling after all. I'm no expert on the details of TTIP, but suspect that the Brexit referendum result and the election of Donald Trump pretty much knocked the wheels of that particular government initiative. John

On the Garmin GPS 500 in FSX - probably the same in P3D NRST button - > PUSH CRSR button (center of knob - top line airport ICAO will blink) -> Outer Knob Right Arrow (blinking ICAO will move down one airport - move to desired airport) -> ENT button -> Inner Knob Right Arrow to 3rd page. Will have a list of the airport frequencies, including the ILS. Obviously you have to be near enough to your destination airport for it to be listed in the top nine. John

Interesting to read back through some of these old threads four years later and see that the sky really was not falling after all. 64-bit P3D and Win10 have made all this sound kind of humorous, though no doubt early 32-bit P3D with few/no add-ons and the Win 8/8.1 debacle did cause a bit of wailing and gnashing of teeth at the time. Given a little patience and riding out the bumps in the road, most things get better over time. John

Map view… zoom in a few clicks until you see runways, click on any runway; either airport or ILS text info will display (depending on zoom level and exactly where you click). Either will do as the ILS frequencies are in the runway table of the airport text. …or... Allard's airport diagrams. John EDIT: Just discovered that, in the Map View, just mousing over the ILS feather will pop up an info box that includes the frequency. You must have the ILS feathers turned on in the top button bar of the map view. JDA

Hey, Dodgy, pick a winner and lets move on... John