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I agree, Brett. The plane looked like it was a robot, controlled, to perfect, and not being "flown". Also the clips were so short that also added to the unnatural feel. But the scenery looked really good, and the rotating beacon on top of the fin looked like it was rotating, not just the unnatural flashing blob that you get in FSX.

I also dumped Sky at the beginning of this year in favour of Freesat. They were just charging too much for too little of any interest (a couple of aviation shows on Discovery and season 10 of NCIS is all I'm missing. Oh, and season 3 of game of Thrones!)

Cow flow?

Seeing as I was born in Chatham, my dad worked in the dockyard and an uncle worked in the ropery (used to get personal tours on Navy Days!), and I went to college in Pompey, I should have recognised them, lol. But I suppose one dry dock looks like another... Yes the Paris scenes really did look like sets rather than streets, which was a shame IMHO. "Okay, hair cutting scene, take two... oh. oops!"

Some interesting differences from the stage show too. Both Hathaway and Jackman got Golden Globes the other night, so I'm even more convinced there are Oscars coming. BTW, there's a review up on my blog http://timarnot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/les-miserables.html

I saw it at the weekend in a packed cinema. Some of it was difficult to hear over all the sniffing... Very good performances, although Russell Crowe came over as rather one noted, definitely the weakest performance. Sascha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter were brilliant as the comic relief. Jackman carried the film though - no surprise though that he is up for the Best Actor gong, and Anne Hathaway too for Best Supporting Actress. Man the barricades!

I'm pretty sure the clipons are incorporated into the bridge

Bay of Islands is my all-time favourite part of New Zealand, so the Kerikeri addon will definitely fall into my hot & sweatys...

May sound obvious, but have you checked for MOBO driver and BIOS updates? If your system is getting on in years, there's a good chance that the drivers and BIOS could be well out of date, especially if you're attaching new devices to it...

Orbx have NZMF - Milford Sound about to hit the shelves any day now. It's a three airfield pack and the preview screenshots are absolutely stunning. Definitely on my "to buy" list. They also have Queenstown in development, but I haven't seen an ETA. Nothing announced yet for the North Island.

I think they have to provide a VAT receipt if you explicitly ask for one, but maybe not otherwise? It isn't a scam though -- HM Crooks & Robbers will not be banging on your door for a second dose of VAT (they might well still ask for Duty though) FSS may simply not be registered for VAT in the EU. (in which case, technically you are still liable)

They're not sheep, they're clouds...

If you're in the EU, you pay VAT, regardless of where the goods come from. Most big Internet traders are now set up to pay the VAT from source, so they charge it at the point of sale. Thus you will pay VAT when purchasing from the U.S. on the Internet. If you buy goods from another EU country, you STILL pay VAT, and it is charged at the rate of the country of origin. Most EU countries pay more VAT than the UK (although some pay less), so SimMarket, for example must charge 21% VAT because they are based in Germany, compared to the UK's 20% (I think Rob has his business-accountant hat on, sinc

Picture 4 appears to show rape fields still in flower, which would put it around June time, I would guess? (Oilseed Rape is the only thing that ever gives me hay fever, which means England in May and June is a Yellow and Unpleasant Land, as far as I'm concerned...)

I'm with Kasper: I think it's very much a false economy. If you spend 10 minutes tweaking the config file whenever you start FS, only to dave a few seconds of loading time, was it worth it?

Very impressive. Love the bull. Does it moooove?

Me following Joe... Everyone on the apron

No.

At the rate they're going, it'll be a very long time (decades?) before Orbx can make a dent in UK2000 on sheer volume alone. Plus, Gary's airfields work out at around 30p each in packs of 70-odd, so of course a £20 stand-alone airfield is going to be miles better. But don't forget you can swap out individual UK2000 fields one at a time as the Orbx replacements come onstream, no different to any other high quality replacement. Gary's VFR fields have always been intended as mid-quality fields that can be sacrificed for a high quality replacement.

http://www.skydemonlight.com isn't payware. Slightly less featured and UK only, but still the best in class IMHO

Superficially nice, and done "in the style of" US Sectionals (which are not the clearest of charts), but there's an awful lot of missing data. Just a quick glance at the UK shows lots of important airspace missing, very few airfields etc. Probably fine for IFR & airways, but poor for VFR. A fair first effort, but put it side by side with SkyDemon, and there's just no contest.

Google counts everything you do within a session as part of a single "request". So if you start Plan-G, do some planning, shut it down, then start Plan-G again. That counts as 2 requests. The free limit before Google starts charging is 25K requests. But Plan-G has 60K users. So if half the users run Plan-G once in a day, that has more than blown the free limit. (btw, other map providers count every trip to the server as a separate request, so google is actually quite generous in that regard) Now, Google refuse to say whether their metering is done on the API key or the originating IP address.

First thing I ever do to a drive is reformat it. Never needed any of the junk that comes pre-loaded.

Why did you not just copy the old drive onto the new one and change the drive letters? Would have been much quicker & simpler.

John: Absolutely spot on. They had a product that nobody wanted, aimed at a market that didn't exist.