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Boeing rename for the 737 MAX to 737 8200 on Ryanair aircraft.

Hi Guys. Is anyone aware of a link to download repaints from aussiex? Seems the site is completely defunct now. There are a couple of repaints for the carenado 210T I'd like to get hold of. Thx

Does anyone have any thoughts on this offering from Golden Age? I really like flying taildraggers, but I often find, after my purchase, the taildragging part is not modeled at all. A recent release from M_____ comes to mind. (I should have asked before pulling the trigger...) I'm looking for something like the A2A Texan, for example, which has a great flight model. Thanks

Lately I've been eyeing the FSL A320 which is odd because I've always considered myself a confirmed Boeing guy. Maybe it's because I finally feel so comfortable flying the NG and Queen and I miss that uncomfortable excitement and near panic when I didn't really know if I could pull off a landing. Philosophically, I prefer the Boeing approach to flying: the feel of the control surfaces, the cowboy pilot who is in control, not a sidestick and a bunch of cold computers. Taking some time to admire the FSL Airbus I can see it's fantastically well done. Reviewing the FS2Crew SOP and I'm completely baffled, it's a totally different way to fly. It seems so foreign and would b…

Hello, I'm looking for a member by the name of Robert Williams, I'm not sure if he has an account here but his repaints are in the library. I'm looking for him to get in contact with him for a question. I apologize if this was asked at the wrong place. Thank you.

Follow Apollo 11 real time 50 years ago: https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

Hope I can share this from Alan's Face Book, Three weeks ago I returned back from holiday in Italy. But I brought back Legionnaires disease......possibly from poor hotel water/AC cleanliness. This lead to pneumonia and multiple organ failure. If it wasn’t for the excellent NHS I wouldn’t be writing this now. Almost two weeks in a coma......but getting better every day. But still in hospital. I just want to thank all who have gone the extra mile for me..... ......But most importantly I want to thank my friends who visited me even when I was unconscious. My family who sat with me every day, I remember nothing though. And especially my wo…

And they've got a live cam set up to watch the planes come in. Thought I'd drop it in here so everyone could torpedo their Friday productivity. 😉

Aircraft motors had to originate from somewhere. Enter Daimler/Mercedes and the first working motor car, even with a four stroke engine. I have a scale model of this car I fo5und on ebay incredibly cheap, a 1/18th scale model of the car, knowing one day it will be a collectors item (actually it already is). Without the car pioneers, powered flight would not have been provable, it was all about the motor required to move the weight of the car or aircraft. I love it when car museums include aircraft on display, or when aircraft museums include cars, given what they owe each other for pioneering transportation as we knew it then and know it now. First car I ever rode in…

OrbX should hopefully release an OpenLC covering Africa this year. Good timing. We will celebrate next year the centennial of the first flight from the Med shores to the Cape of Good Hope. This is a short account of of this flight. Epic, funny, moving. When men were men . http://sthp.saha.org.za/memorial/articles/across_african_skies.htm I partially reconstructed van Ryneveld and Brand' s journey on Google Earth (some names have changed). That would be : Derna (Lybia) - Sollum - Cairo (Egypt) - Abu Simbel (approximation of the the city of Kurusku north of Wadi Halfa where they crashed) - Khartoum (Sudan) - Nimule (South Sudan) - Kisumu (Kenya) - Mbala …

Hello again, this year is the 30th anniversary of another, yet more miraculous crash. 30 years ago this coming Friday, United Airlines flight 232, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, flying from Denver Stapleton airport, in Colorado to Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania via a stopover at Chicago O’Hare airport in Illinois, made an emergency landing in Sioux City, after a blowout of the tail mounted #2 engine disabled the hydraulic system, rendering the trijet nearly unflyable. Amazingly despite the violence of the crash-landing, over 170 of the passengers and all three pilots survived the crash. Flight 232 started off perfectly normally in Denver with the boar…

I'm curious about how many of you time accelerate your flights either using the option in P3D or the one in your aircraft if available. Personally, I can only remember having done it once when I was desperate to finish a flight before a football match was due to start on TV. That was a long time ago. I fly a PMDG737 and limit my flights to around 1.5hrs maximum but always fly in real time. Same with my Concorde flights but let's face it flying that aircraft is like 2.5 times acceleration anyway with no flight longer than 4 hours. I appreciate many of you have limited leisure time so it may be a necessity if you want to hop over the pond. Do you do it purely so t…

When I select the checklist in the Aerosoft A320 and press No1 to start it, the checklist does start but there are voice commands. I have checked the sound in the FMC and P3D all set to ok. Any help would be appreciated Regards Konrad

Just tongue in cheek of course, but I wanted to share this. Just when I get used to flying Xplane11 I get the itch to fly P3D4 again, and it slaps me in the face, in a good way. It is the add ons both sims offer, which is why I chose to go the two sim route because I am serious about completing my Light Sport license probably by the end of next year once I am fully recovered from the pain of my getting run over a few months ago. Simming, especially with aircraft I would have to rent in real life, and over photo scenery which adds immersion, where finding an airport takes a keen eye, is so important as a pastime. But some days I get so indecisive about which sim t…

Interesting. Looks like fun while staying at a hotel! https://www.techspot.com/news/80886-tokyo-hotel-installs-flight-simulator-guest-room.html

I received the Samsung T5 2TB SSD drive I ordered two days ago and put it to the test, porting all my P3DV4 MSE Photo Scenery to it. WOW! A huge different, P3D used to take five-ten minutes to start up in a photoreal area, now it takes about a minute. And flight is so fluid and stutter free, I have always felt the rare stutters I got before were due to i/o off of a slower hard drive. And I know Samsung products last, my twelve year old monitor is a testament to that, still at its best since I bought it twelve years ago. It is said Samsung has new battery technology, solid state, just around the corner. If such technology is to come, I know it will be from Samsung. …

...But to hell with it! These are actual comments made on students' report cards by teachers in the New York City public school system. All teachers were reprimanded....but they are funny! 1. Since my last report, your child has reached rock bottom and has started to dig. 2. I would not allow this student to breed. 3. Your child has delusions of adequacy. 4. Your son is depriving a village somewhere of an i.d.i.o.t. 5. Your son sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them. 6. The student has a 'full six-pack' but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together. 7. This child has been working with glue too much. 8. When yo…

Chris, the developer of Deadstick, came on Discord last night and shared some bits of information. I copied and pasted (and edited) most of his remarks and replies to make things easier to read and follow. It's a bit random but it gives some nice new information. Trees Deadstick contains 2.3 billion trees. Up close they are fully 3d and animated, we have 3 lod levels so trees are 3d but decrease in complexity as the radius gets further away from you. Beyond a certain threshold we use imposters and beyond that we render them on to the base terrain mesh which then fades out as you get closer so you never see trees painted on to the ground. But you see trees as far …

Hi Mates, When you are eager for something, speaking about it can make the wait easier 😉 Alternatively, you can just forget it and enjoy the simulator as is. Then things can happen very fast before you realize it. So here are my 'wishes and hopes' for 2019: New Aerosoft Geneva LSGG The return of Taxi2Gate 'to activitity' with for example an update of VHHH and LTBA for P3Dv4 FlyTampa Grenadines update for P3Dv4 OpenLC Asia PMDG 777 update (with EFB, etc.) XtremePrototype GLJ V3 Dodosim 206 for P3D UCGX Pushback addon And also the continuation of the excellent FSElite news and reviews portal, without forgetting A…

http:// This is LSGS Sion Airport in the Swiss Alps (useing LNM new maps) Constellation? L049 / L1049? The triple tail caught my eye, aswell the stairs at the rear also..and nice oil trails across the wings 🙂

Hello all, reading lots of topics about the future of flight simulation, especially with MSF2020 and the possible subscription costs. I'm wondering if more developers will be taking this route. And now with the announcement of Parallel 42's the Skypark charging 14.99AUD per month for their product, it seems that's where we're headed. Although a lot of us do spend quite a bit on quality addons, this approach makes me a little nervous. True, we already have Navigraph charts and NAV subscriptions, but these seem to be more of much-needed navigational aid updates. Is it just me or does anyone else have the same concerns?

Just wanted to wish my American brothers and sisters in the flightsim community a very happy 4th: May God Bless America

Hi folks, Did they disappear completely now? Have no access to anywhere on the side and they removed every other entity of existence. Did I miss something?

Here is my girlfriend Fifi, being a nutter (a not uncommon state of affairs with her). She's put on my flight suit, helmet and goggles and has one of my percussion sleigh bell shakers. She was dancing about in this get up, ringing those sleigh bells in the sweltering heat. She's as mad as a box of frogs lol 🤣

FlightSimLabs and Airbus Industries did it: Beaming technology is active (PMDG Boeing remains pre-warp...) Three uneventful flights and landings in an FSL A319 vs. 2.024. While shutting down at the gate on switching off the beacons, this triggers a new flight loading, and a few seconds later I'm sitting safely on 08R at EDDM (which I hadn't visited yet). Well, location could be worse. This happens on a new PC with full updated versions of Win10, drivers, and especially P3D including all commercial addons. No issues else, and P3D works flawlessly. It is not yet tested with A320, however it seems to be related to the beacon switch.