Tim_A

Hi guys, My first game for the iPad/iPhone got approved and arrived in the app store today (yay! ) Just thought I'd mention it... It's really aimed at younger kids, (so it should suit forum members down to the ground! <ahem>) Here's the link: http://itunes.apple....d469998633?mt=8 If you do get it, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE rate it, and even better, write a little review too

Yah. Fog & rain. Who needs it! But then it is the PNW....

Sounds just like FSX...

Too many conveniently positioned cameras and camera angles, and the footage is too "good" for it to be real. And that's before you start thinking about the 140+ mph pickup truck! I have no idea what the plane is supposed to be, but you *can* land a Piper cub on top of a truck, with both doing about 60. But it takes a lot of road. (also I think in Thunderbirds it took them at least 10 miles or runway -- or was that one mile of runway 10 times? -- to get the trucks in position) Still, a fun piece of fakery

Yup. The images all assume you start with a magnetic bearing and want to calculate true. But in aviation we always start with a true bearing, and want to calculate the magnetic. So you need to reverse the sign.

It's confusing, because those magdec charts work backwards compared to how the data is used in real life. On the chart, the blue numbers are -ve, representing West (the difference from magnetic to true), but in day to day use, you always want to go the other way (i.e. the angle from true to magnetic). So on charts, and in FS and Plan-G you'll see West as +ve, and East as -ve. In the UK it ranges from about 2 degrees in the South East to over 6 degrees in the West of Ireland. So, to go from true north on the chart to magnetic north on the compass, we add the westerly variation. You'll sometim

Does it have a 2D panel? There's no indication on Carenado's site that it does.

Wonder if 'Roadside Recovery' includes runways, fields etc...

Don't go near Pro Flight with a barge pole.

There's also a 'trainer' version which appears geared more towards ab-initio IFR pilots, and takes you through to test standards, rather than being just a refresher. You can find it from the link Brett posted above. Both products have a demo, so you can try them out first. The only caution is that since they are RW training tools, you will pay RW prices. Don't expect fancy FS-style graphics. I don't have experience with either program, although I have used other RW IFR sims.

Joe, you ought to pop over to the CIX VFR Club http://www.cixvfrclub.org.uk/ - they'll get you sorted out wrt VATSIM. They can offer one to one training via shared cockpit and teamspeak, which can get you up to Vatsim's P1 standard (not much harder than take off, turn, straight & level, land, plus a few questions & answers), or their own 'virtual PPL'. Training is out of Shoreham, Biggin Hill & Gloucester, all of which regularly have ATC online, and are of course pretty much home turf for you. They also have a members bar which is very nearly up to Hangar standards (I say that th

Apple stuff was way too expensive in the early years, although I did work with Macs during the mid-90s (ironically, during the "wilderness years"), then I went back to PCs about the same time that SJ went back to Apple. And it was only this Spring that I got back into using a Mac, although I've been using & enjoying a range of i-things for quite some time. By a strange quirk, the first piece of software I ever used was written by Woz, (Apple's other co-founder), in 1979, on a Commodore PET. There's much that we wouldn't have, or wouldn't work so well, if it wasn't for Steve Jobs. RIP.

Not unexpected, but a bit of a shock nevertheless

Was that the Buffalo one? If so, it was rather good, although it was some time ago that I saw it - back in the Spring I think.

That's not being more efficient; it's just carrying less weight. Simply forbidding the pilots from eating cakes will have the same effect...

Bet he managed to taxi it in too!

rofl!

Nah, climb to 3000ft, shut the throttle & maintain altitude. The staple of "upper air work"... It was supposed to be a public link, but obviously not. So I moved it over to imageshack.

Has it not come out? It shows up here...

Meeeeeeeeeppppp!

Excellent!

A friend of mine had three hives completely wiped out by wasps this year. B s

240 volts @50Hz down the wire... Oh, you mean aircon... Nah, we're British - we don't need no aircon*! (i.e., we can't afford it, or won't pay that much just for the one week a year it would be really useful! LOL) Besides, since the window tax was repealed, we all have these nice holes in our houses that let fresh air in!

I guess their screenshots concentrate on the good bits (unsurprisingly), but I remember "airport + surroundings" sceneries of only a few years ago, where the quality beyond the fence was pretty grim at best. And even Darren's sceneries have been known to miss out the odd fort or three... I stayed on Corfu several times as a teenager and absolutely loved it. Unfortunately all my photos from that era got lost in a house move, which was a real shame. Maybe one day I'll go back, in the event that I have income again...