Hangar Chat

I don't know how much of a thread this can be but it was only about a year ago that I discovered how incredibly awesome vital wheat gluten is for your bread recipes. I now have a 'light wheat' bread that is easy too make and really good imo and it has great texture. Do you make your own bread products and have you discovered this stuff?

I like to simulate charter ops. I aim for realism but at the end you can offer charter flights in pretty much any aircraft, yes? Or no? (I’m talking about the real world)

Late one evening, a Police patrol car was routinely parked outside a local neighborhood bar at closing time. The officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk. The man stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes with the officer quietly observing. After what seemed an eternity and trying his keys on five vehicles, the man managed to find his car, which he fell into. He was there for a few minutes as a number of other customers left the bar and drove off. Finally he started the car and even though it was a fine, dry night he switched the wipers on and off. He then switched on the turn signals, then switched them off, tooted the horn, …

Seeing the excitement about A2A being able to bring their suite of faults to MSFS, I’m wondering what an accurate frequency of faults might be. I get that it depends on an awful lot of things, but if you’re sticking to your maintenance regimes, just how frequent are faults, hydraulic, electrical, or emotional😅?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mj1LtEv2JxY Noel

I went to dinner last night at the house very old friend's friend. In the course of the evening I learned that they both went to the same high school. Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. I guess that it was inevitable that the conversation would turn to Barbra Streisand. She also went to Erasmus High. And graduated in the same year as my friend's friend, 1959. After a couple of drinks, the host brought out a picture. Taken on the set of a movie titled The Way We Were. It was of the two primary actors, Barbara Streisand and Robert Redford. And it was signed by both of them. With a special notation from Barbara remembering their high school years. Wow!

But on case anybody else is a dunce like me Orbx airports can be used as stand alone airports without using the rest of the Orbx scenery. I didn't know that. I thought Base Pack and Vector and the like had to be installed for them to work. Also the Orbx GA AI Traffic for North America works by itself too. I was using FSX for my aircraft collection, especially for military airports, that don't work in P3Dv5. But my FSX gave up the ghost last week so I installed P3Dv3. Almost all of my aircraft work there just as well as they did in FSX. I installed FSAddon Vancouver and Tongass Fjords and the terrain additions to make them work. Then I went to PAKT to see…

Hi all, So, my first hangar chat post.. I found this today while I had to be in quarantine due to my housemate being positive. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ZAus_gn2RhTZWzOWUpPERNC0Q8OhZRTZ#scrollTo=JX56bq4rEKIp It is an AI (python script I think mostly) which you can feed prompts (anything you can think off). It then generates an image for you. https://medium.com/nightcafe-creator/vqgan-clip-tutorial-a411402cf3ad < small explanation. It creates..well.sometimes..amazing images!!! really mind blowing. Looking forward to your opinions on it! (and your images if you want) Enjoy Vic

Theres an internet acronym that I often see being used... it's 'smh'. Acronyms are often new and unknown to me and I like to figure them out without looking them up. 'smh' seemed quite easy as its what Dave Lister used to always say 'smeggin h***' is it just me? 🙂

https://www.airlineratings.com/news/sensational-new-finding-mh370-flightpath/ Yves Guillaume is mentioned in the text as being one of the experts who analysed the data on the captain's flight simulator platform. Interesting / sophisticated "tracking" technique used by the aeronautical engineer mentioned in the article.

EGLC London City has had a NEW Taxiway now the full length of the runway for almost a year !!! Why has no developer updated their scenery to show it ??? It’s even on the charts… and why is it so hard to find pictures of it.... someone who works there or in the tall buildings nearby please take some pictures and send them to some agencies.... you might even get some cash.

I recall a movie years ago called the crowded skies. We've graduated. Now it's getting harder to tell what you are looking at in the night sky. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59299101 Noel

I've watched a ton of Kennedy Steve videos, but this is a really amazing interpretation and illustration! More of a short film.

But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. And then the Lord God leaned back in his recliner and laughed and laughed and laughed. Yesterday afternoon Betty said she was going to the beauty shop and her hair done. When she came home I made a point to say, "Gee sweetheart, your hair looks nice. They did a good job." She gave me the 'look' and said, "The beauty shop was crowded and I didn't want to wait…

I've started a project to make it simple for people to make their own replica flight controls. It uses 3D printing and I'm hoping to engage the freeware community so that people will share hardware designs as well as software. Hopefully this first video will explain it a little better.

AA flight diverted FA had her nose broken. Zero and I mean ZERO excuse for this. Punishments need to be far more severe for these incidents to prove a deterrent for further incidents. Look, we've had diversions for years because of drunks onboard but the prevalence of attacks on flight crews, fights on board the aircraft "seem" to be ticking up exponentially. It's ironic we put a security guard at every Apple Store but not one on aircraft. Is it time for a dedicated airline security service? And no, that is not what an Air Marshall does sadly. Just disheartening to see this over and over... FAA reports 4,941 incidents in 2021 and most of that time…

Still getting the laughs

What do you think boys and girls? You spin a small satalite round and round really fast untill it's very fast indeed and then let it go. Spinlaunch are hoping to launch satalites this way with just electrical power.

“certain modifications” to the aircraft design involving both software and hardware changes to the actuator control electronics reflected the company’s “current judgment of global regulators' compliance expectations.” https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2021-11-14/anticipation-builds-boeing-brings-777x-dubai

With heavy rain approaching, he deduced there was possibly a new world across the ocean. Instead of some improbable scheme of rescuing animals he quickly loaded up his family and sailed away. In a medium sized concrete ship! Along the Mediterranean, past Gibraltar, and onward until finally arriving south of the St. Lawrence. An accomplishment which testifies to his abilities as we consider the how and why of his ship building materials and methods.

If so, post a photo of the type or types you flew. T-41 and T-42 during my service. Not as exciting as most, but it hooked me on aviation.

I just (re)watched a Clint Eastwood movie titled "Play Misty For Me." It brings back so many memories of the good old days. I was raised in Monterey CA and know that part of the country really well. At the the beginning of the movie Eastwood is standing on the deck of a house overlooking the ocean. The "Eastwood" house used in the film is located at 162 Spindrift Drive in the Carmel Highlands, just a few miles south of Carmel CA. It's where the road bends to the right and turns back toward Hwy 1. Spindrift Drive is a very narrow tract. Barely wide enough for two cars to pass. But just down the road from the "Eastwood" house there is a small turnout spot on the left overlo…