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I'll most likely stick with FSX:A for the most part. There's just too much money sunk to abandon it. But I will start dabbling in X-Plane. Me and M$ are about at the end of our relationship. If I can get a good flight simulator running on Linux natively, Windows will be just a bittersweet memory.

I seem to remember reading of a similar incident at an unmanned range tower by a US Navy aviator. His handle was quickly changed to Sniper.

It was another great year for the MEBAR. Great legs and a fun plane to fly. Here are a few random pics from the trip. The first day was a tad cloudy. Saw lots of this, but usually less. Winding down on day 1. At least runway was visible. Was not thrilled about the low lying fog over one of the touch & go fields. Lost it twice in the pattern. This approach was much nicer. Really need to stick it on the numbers for the short touch & gos. Wrapping up another leg. Cranking a turn around a way point. Sunrise on leg 4 A

While I love A2A planes, a broken trim actuator at 40 hours in real life would have me howling. Not taking care of the engine is one thing, but airframe issues? It keeps you on your toes, but the accelerated decrepitude is annoying.

All that time under the hood is finally going to pay off!

Now that's some serious pilot pr0n.

Pre-registered! Last year was a blast. Need to find another sweet ride. Hmmmm

Hi Rosario, I haven't flown it in a while, but I remember reading about the fuel management. You don't switch tanks, gravity and automatic pumps feed the central "sump" tank from the outer tanks which then feeds the engines. If the engines are dying when the outer tanks run dry there is a serious problem. If the central tank is dry, you are out of fuel. Manual fuel management comes into play if you have an external tank. The fuel pump has to be turned on to transfer the fuel out of that tank into the primary system. I don't know if I've flown it long enough to ever run out of

Nice. Is it just me or does the Gherkin Building appear to be rude?

Thanks everyone. And that's 3 1920x1080 monitors hanging off a GTX 970. It's not quite full screen though. If I go full screen the frame rate wants to tank. Setting the window to about halfway across each of the side monitors gets a solid 60.

Seconded. The Staggerwing sure is pretty.

Had the DC-3 stuck up in the middle of nowhere while other things were going on. After finally getting back into the cargo game I couldn't for the life of me find a job going back to home base at 7KA that didn't require a 3 hour flight to get to it. To boot, it was at an airport the AI pilots were afraid to take off from. "It's a DC-3 fer chrissakes!" Could probably get her airborne in the length of a diving board when she's empty. Anyway, the trip home made for some decent pics. 9:30 AM and the sun isn't even out of bed Finally some decent light

Very nice pics Dolf!

Raising a pint of Sierra Nevada IPA to Mr. Rickman. He shall be missed.

Nice plane and great shots. Chicks dig round engines!

OK Kevin, I have to ask. Did you use them much? If so, how did you get the pedal surfaces that clean? I've tried Windex and a couple of other things, but 10+ years of almost daily use seems to have ground in the dirt on the set I have.

Awesome pics Dolf!

There are something like 40 to 50 add-on aircraft in my hangar. It's been a while since I've flown it, but the Carenado Mooney is still my favorite. It got me through a couple of Air Hauler startups. It's fast, carries more than a 172, and fun to fly. I have noticed on prior FSX installations that moving unused aircraft to a boneyard folder shortened load times. There were 100 or so pay and freeware planes loaded in that instance. Moving just 10 or so made a noticeable difference in load speed.

Nice flight Joe. Just remember, you can only tie the low altitude record.

I have the CH Throttle Quadrant as well as the CH Yoke. The throttle on the yoke is configured for pitch trim, although it is a tad touchy. Haven't messed with the other two yet.

If you go to Sky Vector and set up a flight plan from KBHM to KMEM, then click on the Routes link in the planning box, one of the options is the route in question. I don't know what the NW9 part is, but VUZ is a VOR about 10 NM northwest of BMH. The 333025 part signifies a point 25 NM along the 333 degree radial. If you look at that route on Sky Vector, it is nowhere near as straight as the actual flight path. I think they got vectored direct as soon as they were airborne.

Looks like the lobbyists from Ryan Air are making the rounds in Brussels.

Whew! Those caipirinhas really pack a wallop. Who knew you could have a party in the middle of a jungle? The mosquitoes around there must be constantly buzzed. Anyway, Manaus is one rockin' town for the middle of nowhere. I know we just had a leg with a Kodiak, but seeing as this was going to be a river run all the way, and I had quite a load of party cargo to drop off, the Kodiak made sense. That and the G1000. Need to get more practice with glass cockpits. It's hard to see in this picture, but there's a buzzard at about 5 o'clock to the sun. I think it's over where t

I get lazy when I have to reinstall. It's usually to a new drive, so the old install is still handy. I tend to copy aircraft over from the old instance instead of re-installing them one by one. The thing that trips me up is special gauges. FSX will throw an error when it can't find a file, so at least I know what I need to copy from the old gauges folder. The other thing is add-on scenery. Not the big stuff, like OrbX, but little things like airports or special spots. If you don't have the original files, or they're lost somewhere in a obscure hard drive folder, having the files from

I got sucked into this too. CT182T G1000 (transition training started, will actually fly one if the weather ever cooperates), C340 and Piper Seneca II. Love those GA twins!