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I think I'm old flying a sim....look at this guy: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/legendary-inuk-bush-pilot-flies-past-aviation-milestone-1.6203604 A candidate for livery if we ever get an MSFS Turbo Otter: https://www.airinuit.com/en/charter/fleet/johnnymayaircharter-dehavillandturbo-otterdhc-3

Johnny May is the first Inuit bush pilot in Nunavik. His work of the past 59 years was vital for his community. He has saved many lives flying in very difficult conditions and he has inspired generations of Inuit children. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/legendary-inuk-bush-pilot-flies-past-aviation-milestone-1.6203604

Is it a real or made up aircraft. I cannot find it on Google. If it is not a real aircraft and P3D wanted a Cessna 172 like aircraft for P3D why not use the FSX Cessna 172 instead of designing an aircraft that does not exist? Noel

Hello, I'm just asking if anyone has yet installed Windows 11 and if so what do you feel about it please? I installed it yesterday and apart from a few graphics changes I'm quite underwhelde and I can't understand what all the fuss is about. Best.... Phil

This is it. The last of my boyhood stories. I posted this here a year or two ago but I think it makes a fitting end to what I have been posting here the last few months. This story happened later than the rest of the collection. It happened during the summer between my junior and senior year of high school. But to me it is important to include it here. My Dad It was hot. The trail was dusty and the pack was getting heavier with every step up that long, steep trail that followed French Creek up the mountain. I began to wonder if this had been a bad idea. It was the summer of 1950 and I was sixteen years old, skinny, and weighed 120 pounds soaking wet. …

Here they are according to a PrivateFly poll. I flew the Toronto City Center approach in real life recently and made a video. Time to compare to the sim! 1. Donegal Airport (Ireland) 2. Barra Airport (Scotland) 3. Nice Airport (France) 4. Orlando Melbourne International Airport (USA) 5. St Maarten (Netherlands Antilles) 6. Saba Airport (Netherlands Antilles) 7. Queenstown Airport (New Zealand) 8. Toronto Billy Bishop (Canada) 9. London City Airport (England) 10. Aosta Airport (Italy)

Didn't realize how the whole supply chain network is so screwed up.

Hi Guys, I ask you for a little help. Could someone give me the Alitalia livery for the Aerosoft Professional A320/321? I'm looking for but I can't find this livery for the professional series. Thank you

Imagine this bizarre scene from a few years ago: Me with no pilots licence, yet I'm sitting next to a highly experienced professional helicopter pilot and giving him instructions on how to fly a heli. So he takes off OK but pulls too far back on the stick, his tail dips low and he starts moving backwards. So he puts the heli down and I take control and show him how to hover, climb then move forward. All in a days work guys! So what happened? You may have guessed it by now. I'd just installed fsx for him, as he was interested in virtual flying. We got a flight scenario going with the Bell heli at meigs, and using my saitek flight stick that I'd just sold to him, he atte…

Never thought I would see that. They are all such a ubiquitous part of the web that having them all crash, especially at once, is almost unthinkable. Even Oculus is offline. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-down.html

I just got done watching the movie “7500” on Amazon Prime. I am not going to spoil anything other than to say the whole movie was shot in the cockpit of an A319 and it was very, very well done. Excellent acting, probably the most realistic cockpit scene in a movie ever, and it is a thriller. It’s a must watch movie for the flight sim fan.

Newfie Flight 101 was flying from St. John's to Fort McMurray one night, with Russell the Pilot and Glen the co-pilot. As they approached Fort McMurray Airport, they looked out the front window. "Lord tunderin jeesus" said Russell "Will ye look at how flippin short dat runway is". "You're not flippin kiddin, Russell" replied Glen. "Right Glen. When I give de signal, you put de engines in reverse" said Russell. "Right, I'll be doing dat," replied Glen. "And den ye put de flaps up straight away," said Russell. "Right, I'll be doing dat," replied Glen. "And den ye stamp on dem brakes as hard as ye can," said Russell "Right, I'll be doi…

Hi, I've noticed a sudden influx of full screen ads and pop ups (mobile device) when browsing AVSim these past few days, so as per the title does donating remove them? I couldn't find any relevant answer in the donation section. Thanks

These three guys live in India in a very remote village. Their names are Babu, Raeen, and Sarru. I've been watching them for a while now, because the've never seen most of the things which I take for granted everyday. They live very simple lives, but their perspective is wholesome and their minds always seem to be in the right place. I think their age difference is one factor that I enjoy, different generations and all that. They don't own the channel, the channel employs them as reactors. Yesterday, they were shown footage of an a320 for the first time. None of them had ever seen an airplane before. 😁 The old guy, Babu, recently st…

22nd December 1988 Approx 11-45.am It was a normal day, driving north from England to Scotland. Normal that is until I started to approach the small town of Lockerbie in Scotland. Driving at 70mph I slowed down and looked over to the other side of the A74 dual carriageway (highway), The first thing I noticed was some burnt-out cars that had been travelling in the opposite direction to me. Then beyond the cars was probably the biggest and deepest hole I'd ever seen, with all sorts of carnage, debris and wrecked houses around it. It was only later, when I heard a news report on the car radio, that I realised I'd just witnessed the crash site of Pan Am Flight 1…

This may not be the best place to post this but I have been trying to get Simmarket to reactive my account so I get have access to my hundred of dollars in paid download items. As anyone else had this issue and can anyone suggest a course of action - short of my credit card company?

Some time ago I purchased the Virtavia C-17 from SimMarmket. Well, I want to reinstall it because I can't find it so I went to SimMarket to redownload it. But in the little download box where you watch the download progress I got the following message...Virtavia_C-17_FSX_v3_1.msi was blocked as unsafe by Microsoft Edge. WRF is Microsoft Edge and how the he** do I get rid of it? It downloads OK on my other computer. But I want Microsoft Edge off this one. Noel

Early man buried their dead in a hole in the ground. That lasted for eons. Some societies opted for cremation and that is becoming more and more popular since the Catholic Church no longer forbids it (but prefers a funeral with the body present and burial in a cemetery). Some Native Americans had put the body on a platform for the birds to feed on and I once heard Eskimos left bodies out on the ice for polar bears to eat. Then dumping bodies in holes in the ground gave way to mummifying them or putting them in a box before burying them. We had a friend who died a few years ago and she opted for new type of burial. She was buried in a biodegradable sack and b…

I have had FS2004 since it's inception. Then I went to FSX. In the last couple of years I installed x-plane 11. Then came MSFS, the latest all singing all dancing.... but I am disappointed. I upgraded my PC to a high end spec, and although the graphics are great, I can't fly my plane manually. I've tried all the tweaks suggested but have come to the conclusion this product is flawed. So back to X-Plane 11. Even with my high spec PC, the program takes too long to load, and if you change anything, like the aircraft, you start loading all over again. So if I want to fly in the least possible time, it's back to FS2004. It loads immediately, the ATC, although unreali…

This is interesting... https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/private-jet-rage-grows-as-a-record-number-of-fliers-strain-the-system.html Noel

Sorry I posted a repeat story here yesterday. I'm getting forgetful. Back to the boyhood stories. After this one there are only two left. The Jacket It was a magnificent jacket. Brown leather with a flannel lining. No one in the family ever had a real leather jacket before. Mom bought it for Dad's birthday. She scrimped and saved on the household money for a long time to buy it. Dad loved it! I spotted just a hint of a tear in his eye as he tried it on for the first time. It was a treasure. I coveted that jacket like nothing else in my life. If I could wear a leather jacket like that to school, or just wear it front of my friends, I would hav…

I check Orbx for new downloads for P3D from time to time. This afternoon I was rewarded with London Ontario and Ted Stevens (Anchorage IAP) airports and purchased them right away. They haven't completely forgotten we Luddites who haven't moved to MSFS. Noel

Interesting, rather than being the billionaire that pays no personel tax, he takes zero salary. When his stock options expire he pays 53% tax.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-01/the-day-a-pilot-landed-two-planes-in-a-paddock-in-regional-nsw/100502830 Noel

The trailers look really good, science fiction fans. Two episodes to start us off and then one per week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(TV_series)