brett

Barter

Good one! I don't know why but when I first started sim flying and for some time after that, I would actually get scared some when bad things would happen like a crash. Even tough IFR flights would turn my knuckles white, it was an odd sensation since it was only a sim. Now I'm a lot more relaxed yet still have those quick moments of unease when things get tense. I might be the only one that feels this way but it certainly made for some exciting flights.

I wouldn't have tried that in a simulator much less real life. Why, why, why, is the question, it makes no sense. Thanks for the look at this accident recreation, I wish I saw this way back when I was a pup pilot and crashed into a mountain.

Bording Pass

Have you ever BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR OWN AGE AND THINKING, SURELY, I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD. WELL . . . YOU'LL LOVE THIS ONE. MY NAME IS ALICE, AND I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW DENTIST. I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA ON THE WALL, WHICH BORE HIS FULL NAME. SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK-HAIRED BOY WITH THE SAME NAME HAD BEEN IN MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS SOME 30-ODD YEARS AGO. COULD HE BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, WAY BACK THEN? UPON SEEING HIM, HOWEVER, I QU

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Americans and their Cars

Seems the man had a storied career and should be praised for his work. Considering his earlier crashes, one might assume his disappearance might have been a crash also (50-50?) especially with no evidence of being shot down. What were the conditions when he went missing, time of day and so forth. Thanks for this interesting story Frank.

Armorer

I already let them take my money, I'm a sucker for flight sims.

Sold! Except for the dulling of colors in the Grand Canyon everything looks much improved. or should I say ten times improved. Thanks for the look. One thing I hope they have done is to show a bit of color difference between a mowed grass strip and the non-mowed, in MS2020 it's been all the same with that moving thick half grass, half weedy looking stuff. It has made finding the exact strip a bit tough.

Andrew, thanks for that. I'll look and see if I can upgrade my RAM, although I haven't had a problem yet it's something that we can never have enough of. Whether or not I can do this with this laptop is another question. I would have stuck with the Standard edition, but they smartly put the analog panel on the Cessna 172 in the Deluxe one which tells me it is still a popular choice for flying. I took on the task of learning and being comfortable with the glass panels which are great for IFR flying but those buttons drive me nuts when I just want a relaxing flight. Score one for Asobo.

Admiral

Andy, I have been flying in MS2020 since its release, like you I find this sim very enjoyable and for all the reasons you have stated above have elevated it to 'The Bees Knees status' above FSX. As sim pilots I think we all fly place to place, we all just do it in different ways. As I do enjoy time and distance flying the most, I have taken full advantage of the advanced avionics in the glass panels for IFR flying. "Toy" you must have mixed me up with someone else. Joe, I was looking at pre-ordering the Deluxe package of MS2024, it's only a hundred bucks and as I enjoy flying closer to th

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