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It happens every New Years Eve. As soon as the clock strikes midnight it seems everyone who owns a gun has to go outside and fire 100 rounds into the air. It's over in about 5 minutes. Our local police who are on duty all go to the first level of a two-level parking garage next to the Wells Fargo bank building and wait for it to end before they come back out. There will be half dozen police cars under there. All those bullets have to come down someplace. I stay inside because I don't want that someplace to be the top of my head. The character Puck said it best in Shakespear's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' when he addressed his king. "Lord, what fools the…

While driving on I-75 in Florida yesterday we encountered a really stupid driver. Here we are driving along the inside (right-most) lane at about the legal speed limit when we noticed a black pickup truck with flashing yellow lights on it's roof going up the outside (left-most) lane. I-75 there has three lanes in both directions there with an Armco barrier as the center divider. Suddenly everyone hits the brakes as the pickup truck swerves hard to the left, cuts across two lanes, almost hits the car in front of me, and starts driving up the inside shoulder of the road. Periodically there are breaks in the Armco barrier where police and emergency vehicles can make a U…

2022 was a terrible year for Betty and I. First we lost my brother. Then Betty's brother. A dear friend in Colorado and my two best friends in Roswell. Then, in early fall, the news about our son. He had been missing for about three years. He lived in Flagstaff and just dropped out of sight. He used to call us once or twice a month and come home for Christmas and then all of sudden nothing. Two years ago we reported him as a missing person with the Flagstaff Policed Department. They had nothing. In late September we got a call from a detective in Flagstaff. A hunter found his Jeep in a remote campsite in the national forest near Flagstaff. And …

Analysis by a market research and strategic consulting company, so make of it what you will: Market valued at USD 6.9 billion in 2021 CAGR of 6.7% Expected to grow ~80% in size at the beginning of the next decade. Not the flight sim market that primarily interests us. Though you could see MS/Asobo, Lockheed Martin, Laminar Research and Eagle Dynamics all wanting to grab a slice. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/flight-simulator-market-size-reach-103000513.html

According to this guy, and he seems to be truthful, the UK CAA faked a picture of a drone buzzing an airliner at 30,000 feet, In order to promote the anti-drone laws. Seems the New Zealand CAA did the same, by showing a photograph of a dented helicopter with smashed drone lying on the floor. In reality, the helicopter was damaged by a winch cable. Nothing to do with drones. Are they going too far with these drone laws? They certainly shouldn't be making up utter nonsense and if they do simulate something like that in the form of an image, they should make it absolutely clear that its simulated, not real.

This popped up in my feed this morning:

" significantly lower risk of developing chronic diseases, a lower risk of dying early or lower risk of being biologically older than your chronological age" Decades long study involving tens of thousands of people. Very significant improvement in 3 different things: disease prevention, long life, and looking/feeling old. And it's easy for most people and cheap: drink lots of water every day. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/02/health/hydration-disease-aging-death-risk-study-wellness/index.html

It just takes a careless few seconds...It's happened more than once on aircraft carriers. https://www.al.com/news/2023/01/american-airlines-worker-killed-at-montgomery-airport-was-ingested-into-engine-ntsb.html Noel

Eighty-five B-17's and thirteen B-24's of the Eighth airforce attack the U-boat pens at St. Nazaire. Seven aircraft are shot down by anti-aircraft fire. Alan Magee is a ball turret gunner in one of the downed B-17s. He is wounded when the wing is blown off but is able to escape from the ball turret. Unfortunately, his parachute has been rendered useless by the attack. Having no choice and with the plane in a spin, he leaps from the plane without a parachute, rapidly losing consciousness due to the altitude. Magee falls at least three miles before crashing through the glass roof of the St Nazaire railroad station. Rescuers find him still alive on the floor of the station.…

Tonight is Gregory Peck night at Turner Classic Movies. And two great ones are playing back-to-back in prime time. 'On The Beach' which gave us a popular song of the time, 'Waltzing Matilda'. Followed by 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro'. I'll be enjoying both. I gotta make some popcorn before they start. Noel

Do the rest of you have trouble explaining what it is we do to people? I have been at this for decades now and I still have not been able to explain it to people in a way they will understand in a time frame that does not see them walk away and start drinking with someone else. I just flew a return trip in the PMDG 737 from London to Sicily and back and it was magical. Truly. To have been at this for what must be 30 years now, it was breathtaking to see how far we, and this has come. However, I'm still at a loss as to how to make someone understand it. To such an extent that I try to avoid the subject if it comes up. People seem to think it's like Grand Theft Au…

Hi. Okay, so let me preface with I have no experience in programming. That out of the way, OpenAI / ChatGPT have been making waves the past month for its ability to write code and understand context. Has anyone considered using such a powerful tool to make some mods for their flight sim? On the off chance the answer is "No, but now I am," I'd love a mod for MSFS focused on improving the really laughable damage model: It would be great to write proper scripts for different types of icing, collisions, and fatigue. All things super time consuming and difficult for a human, but a 2 second process for ChatGPT. There are of course countless other ideas, but I used a d…

There's too many places and I don't know where to start, but could some of you guys list your favorite airports and or location for some beautiful plane spotting?

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...and also, when the taxiway takes the airliner into the runway pre-threshold often quite a long ways back from the threshold. For Q1, are they expected to taxi on the runway near the centerline or where is the expectation when there is no taxiway to the runway threshold? Presumably runway lights are on as well as strobe? For Q2, will the airliner start well before the threshold to get more effective runway, or is the expectation to not start accelerating until they get to the threshold? Thanks

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May you RIP. I could never have coached soccer without your help. You were right there beside me all the time and you never let me down. The world has lost what I will always consider the best player and the best inspiration to so many kids.....Doug

I've been reading about the mess our airlines have been thrust into due an unprecedented winter storm. But none as bad as Southwest. Have they been expanding too rapidly beyond their capabilities? From what I have read it surely seems that way. They cannot account for the whereabouts of most of their crews who, like their passengers, are lost in the labyrinth of the system. Beyond the time it will take to sort everything out visa-viz their passengers and crews it's going to take a heap of their money. For many years I have avoided air travel. The airport messes, security gates, surly counter people, and cancelled and late flights soured me on air tra…

I can't wrap my head around this drummers ability to play what appears two different time signatures at the same time. Its Crack The Sky doing a song called 'Ice"

" England World Cup fans flogged & jailed just for drinking, photos or swearing (In Qatar)" And I thought the Avsim moderators were tough 🙃 https://www.the-sun.com/sport/6660417/qatars-medieval-laws-world-cup-fans-jailed/

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/26/73-year-old-pays-370-bucks-a-month-to-live-in-a-1066-square-foot-plane.html Noel

In my final days of flying here in Roswell I taxied pass Elvis's jet whenever I was using runway 17-35. Since it was a 10,000ft runway I would always ask for intersection H at the center of the runway since it was a shorter taxi and 5,000 feet was plenty for a Cessna 152. That taxiway took me right past the Elvis JetStar. Noel

Any one who can guide me to a clean paint kit of the TB21 for MSFS2020 ? Thanks

Let's hope that in the future there will also be a soccer world cup...3XL!😁

It's been almost 80 years now since we lost Glenn Miller. His orchestra and his contribution to music is, IMNSO, without peer. But maybe I'm biased by my connection to his family. Back in my college days Glenn's nephew, Ritchie, was my roommate. Glenn's brother Herb was "the band" to hire for any special occasion in the town where I lived. Those were the days when I learned to love the big band sound. Glenn's nephew John (Ritchie's brother) is carrying on with the Miller sound through the John Miller Orchestra. There's a lot more to this story but just let me close by saying RIP Glenn. We miss you.