Hangar Chat

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In the 24 hours up to 04:44 27 December 2020 the pressure at my home close to Manchester Airport dropped 47 hecto pascals from 1020 down to 973. The Met Office describe a Weather Bomb as a pressure drop of 24 millibars in 24 hours. But what happened over much of the British Isles was a double weather bomb. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/storms/weather-bomb Pressure remains very low due to the proximity of Storm Bella which could intensify further in the next 24 hours and move south east. An interesting time to fly over the country especially when transitioning from QNH to standard pressure and vice-versa.

Great sense of humor. We need it, don’t we ? https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-germany-flightradar-idUSKBN2910E6

Here's my first Sunday bird picture. It's my favorite bird, the burrowing owl. Burrowing Owls make heir homes in abandoned prairie dog burrows. They are quite small and their diet consists of small rodents. I'd love to have one as a pet but it is illegal in the United States to own a raptor or even own their feathers. The first shot was actually taken in the park across the street from my house, although a couple miles up the bike path. I used to see the pair frequently when I walked. The second picture was taken at the wildlife refuge. They are youngsters outside the burrow. The third shot is yours truly. The patch is a volunteer patch. I…

https://www.aerospacetestinginternational.com/features/qa-ceo-of-hybrid-electric-aircraft-developer-voltaero-jean-botti.html The ten seat variant will be the hybrid. Deliveries by 2022 they say. "Our Cassio will fly in ranges of 800 miles (1400km), 200 knots full speed. All the versions, four, six and 10 have very low take-off distances, less than 1800ft (550m), so we can use this plane in a lot of regional airports." https://www.voltaero.aero/en/

Among other things I was also a wildlife photographer. Before I became persona-non-grata on the Orbx forum I used to post one of my pictures once a week. I will do that here if you guys are interested. Most of my pictures are birds. I took them while volunteering at the Bitter Lake Wildlife Refuge just outside of town. The picture here is of 5 male Mallards heading out somewhere. I call it 'Boys Night Out'. I have about a thousand wildlife pictures all told. Noel

SSPERSEJetsFS9.zip (dropbox.com) No Im not the developer of these just spreading the word. NO FSX NO P3D FS only

Not aviation, but at the time I wished I was an angel and could fly lol! and this is Hangar Chat which is kind of like AVSIM's bar and speakeasy.. My tale is lengthy, but I've endeavoured to use punctuation and paragraphs! I've not been active on AVSIM for the past week (Hurrah! I hear some of you shouting at the back! ) Last Sunday I was over at my daughter's house helping her to unpack a couple of deliveries which had come to us before she finalised settling in to her new rental - her first home! I'd successfully brought the new microwave oven into the house being careful how I did so as they are not the lightest package to move around when one has had a dod…

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Hi, Does anyone know how many ground vehicles a commercial airport has? I mean quantity of vehicles, i.e. How many: pushbacks, buses, stairs, tugs, food trucks? It came up in conversation the other day and I am completely clueless. Thanks, Matt

Here's another one of my boyhood stories. When reading this you might think we were a poor family. Well, we were kinda poor, but we didn't know it. The Stamps It was the first day of Christmas vacation. We were sitting at the kitchen table where Mom was addressing the last of the Christmas Cards while Lee and I pasted Christmas Seals on the backs of the envelopes. The family opened a Christmas Club account at the bank in January, and we had been putting a dollar a week into it. The account had a fifty dollars in it. This money would be spent on gifts, a tree, decorations, and the rest of the Christmas trappings. Lee and I saved about a dolla…

https://www.newswise.com/articles/uah-modeling-the-spacecraft-for-nasa-s-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-idea Seems a good idea to me. And nice to know there's a low risk if there's an accident. And aprently, the radiation from the nuclear propulsion system is less than the astronauts would receive from a longer duration conventionally powered mission. "Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) can help achieve the goals of low weight, high power and good economy. An NTP engine uses low enriched uranium (LEU) to heat a lightweight propellant such as liquefied hydrogen to 2,800 degrees Kelvin through channels in the core. The expanding gas exits the nozzle, providing t…

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1210357.shtml Seems the Chinese are getting worried about the prospect of nuclear reactors on the Moon. I like the way they define "may" as will. 🙂

There is now a whole sub-genre of videos of people all over pulling these sorts of stunts. I could say the obvious things, but you all are probably thinking them for yourselves without any help from me.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/18/scientists-looking-for-aliens-investigate-radio-beam-from-nearby-star

EGLC London City has brand new Parallel Taxiway and 8 new airliner stands. WEB LINK :- London City Airport Ups Capacity With New Stands And Taxiway - Simple Flying Wonder when it will show up in MSFS2020... and will UK2000 or ORBX update their versions any time soon ?

Oh boy! 737 Max tests during recertification

EVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING Ampere Graphics Card https://www.scan.co.uk/products/evga-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-ftw3-ultra-gaming-24gb-gddr6x-ray-tracing-graphics-card-10496-core-1395 Just ordered one! Putting it here as well as in graphics card forum. As its a big deal. Hope mods don't mind but didn't want anyone waiting to miss it.

Post your favorite addon aircraft here. I will start. Alalebeo Cessna 421C Golden Eagle. I particularly love piston twins in general. Also like the Friendly Panels Aspen upgraded Baron 58. For the price it's a very good addon.

Would anyone recommend any of the passenger/crew add-ons for a business jet? It seems like they are all only geared for the larger planes. I have a Phenom 300. Thanks.

https://www.jpost.com/omg/former-israeli-space-security-chief-says-aliens-exist-humanity-not-ready-651405?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

I am posting this because I read contradictory reports from and about RW pilots and how they see MSFS 2020, so I thought why not hear from RW pilots themselves, hopefully lots of them, and see how it shakes out. I can't vote as I'm not a RW pilot. I'm coming from the bias that P3D offers a far more realistic airline cockpit management simulation than does MSFS currently, so I did not pose questions that get at that per se. Mostly the idea for the poll spawned from this thread reply: https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/591815-but-its-not-a-real-simulator/?do=findComment&comment=4434009 The first question I feel is valid to restrict to default aircraft, sin…

This time going off the runway. These guys need some serious pilot training. Lion Air Boeing 737 skids runway due to heavy rain in Indonesia - Aero World (aerospcworld.com)