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Trivia question for a slow day. :( What airline was the first domestic operator of jets in the United States?Roger

Its crapitude must be experienced to be believed. :(I hope ACES is watching this title so they can see just how crappy a flight game can be.Get underwhelmed by the demo here.

I recently purchased the sailplane video that was announced on the Avsim headlines and have to say that it's a great film for sailplane fans. It was a mere

Hello,In April I plan to give my MSFS Gateway links site a spring clean - repairing any broken links, removing old sites and adding new ones.Do you want any changes made to layout, categories, the listings? Anything I could do better?Please let me know - all suggestions welcome... but not too much extra work for me please! e-mail: [email protected]

Am I the only one who still prefers FS2004 over FSX? Will FS 2004 remain the sim of choice for some time to come for most simmers? or will X-plane displace MSFS eventually as the sim of choice for the majority?Macs

I'm a flightsimmer using FS9 and I find it easy to take off in a C172 and fly a pattern and land the plane in one piece. I prefer the F1 C172. I'm curious about what would likely happen in if I would enter a real C172 at the end of the runway with engines running and try flying a pattern in real life doing as best as I can? In FS9 I immidiately apply full throttle. Would that kill the engine? From FS9 I would expect the plane to tend to turn to left and I would try to correct with some right rudder pedal. Is thast likely to keep mr on the runway? What would I experience in real life and how bad would this go? Would I be able to takeoff? I would look at the speed and push …

Hello to one and allWe are hosting a Flight Sim Convention here in the UK, May 16th, 17th 2009The venue is at the world's famous Helicopter Museum, Weston super Mare, near Bristol EGGDAll are welcome to join in this amazing event at such a prestigious venue Its about FS communities getting together rather than making money All proceeds are donated to the local air ambulance and the museum which are both regd charitiesFor more information please check out this link www.flightsim2009.com

Hello A starting up company is searching for it's Porto (North of Portugal) office for the software developers in order to participate in building a new PC (with professional extension) flight simulator from scratch. The job description:+ Develop the aircraft systems, gauges and related software using MSVC++. This will include both coding and creating mathematical models+ Perform the CFD analysis of the aerodynamics of numerous aircrafts, with subsequent integration of the results in a flight simulator runtimes+ Develop the simulated ATC related software (client and server side)+ Develop the airline management simulated software+ Creating the weather simulation systems…

Saw this on Yahoo! and thought I'd pass it along. Malayisa Airlines has a blogging contest for a new ATP pilot position with no experience necessary!... An answer to someone's dreams here??? (note: you might need to learn a new language too!)http://ibnlive.in.com/news/just-blog-and-b...ne/87442-2.html

I trust this section is the same as Letters to the Editor in the newspapers. I don't know where else to post this observation.I was checking out the Just Flight discount with the intention of purchasing some addons. Looking at their products however, I found them to be grossly overpriced. eg: FS9 - $45, FSX deluxe $60. FS9 is available locally for $30 and FSX Deluxe is priced at $40. What other items are they overcharging on? That 15% discount doesn't seem to mean much.CaptLou

I can't believe it. It seems like it has been at least a week since I have seen any complaints about forum performance; no grumbling, no name calling, no aspersions cast on us, no challenges to the legitimacy of our fathers.... What gives? We were getting used to all that. Now I feel like I am going through withdrawal. :( Given the peace and quiet, I think it is time for me to start experimenting with some kewl add-ons to the forum software. Yeehaw!

Captain held responsible for unauthorized actions which resulted in crash says F.A.A. NTSB report on Flight 1549US Airways violated Federal migratory bird regulations by hunting geese with an A320 Airbus jetliner, claim anonymous government sources. The pilot of flight 1549, Air Force veteran and avid hunter Chesley B. Sullenberger, tried combining both of his interests by bagging a brace of geese over the wetlands near New York's LaGuardia airport after takeoff, on his way to Charlotte, North Carolina.The imported European $77 million A320 airliner is not certified for either waterfowl or upland bird hunting, so it was not surprising that the aircraft malfunctioned. W…

Those of us who enjoy Tileproxy would have a legitimate explanation for blurred textures, at least :( http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/11/google....rnia/index.html

Was the Curtiss Jenny ever used to fly airmail in the early days of aviation?--Roger

Hypothetically thinking, here...With the suggestion that MS may have been considering leaning more toward "gaming", there's some thought that FSXI, should it ever see the light of day, may end up on 360.Hard drive capacity is easily enough; I don't have the technical knowledge to know whether the hardware can "keep up", butThe ifs:IF FSXI were released on XBOX 360 or the next iteration,IF all navaids and airports were included,IF a joystick/yoke/pedals became available,IF the graphics ran fluidly on an HD TV,Would you buy a setup?Personally, I have an XBOX now; however, I'd say that the experience of running FS fluidly on a widescreen TV seems pretty gripping to me, enoug…

Almost all modern jets offer autolanding capabilities right to touchdown and autobraking using wheel brakes. But apart from everything being auto the reversers are still deployed by the pilot even on the newer planes. why dont any aircraft offer an option for something like autoreversers?

This animation is absolutely mind boggling! It's hard to imagine so many aircraft in the air during the day over the U.S. Watch the progression start from east to west in the morning. If you have Quicktime on your computer, click on 'watch animation' under the top picture for watching the clearest views in the first link.http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/Here's the youtube version, but it's not as clear as the one in Aaron Koblin's site.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCEM-ZcB14AKim

I don't know if many of you have seen this animated recreation of the US Airways Hudson River ditching, but it's interesting to watch. They've overlaid the radio transmissions to correspond with the flight positions of the aircraft and show the vectors the pilot took during flight. One damn good pilot!

It's winter, and I know that many cars will need ABS, Traction Control, Stability Control, etc.Do plane's have any of these types of systems? I know some airliners have an Anti-Skid switch, does this do anything?I'm just curious to know. :( Thanks!

Please send me an email from your current email address and I can complete fixing your account access. tom at avsim.com

I'd like to know how the lists are defined for each category. How do items make it on their respective list while others don't?

Eclipse just went Chapter 7 (liquidation)This is a sad day as a lot of people are going to lose a lot of money on this.Did anyone ever make an Eclipse 500 for FS?Cheers,

I am trying to locate a A-7D flight manual; preferably on cd in pdf format. I have the USN NATOPS on cd, (A-7A/B/C/E), but not the USAF variant.If anyone has one, and is willing to make me a copy, please let me know. Or, if someone has a paper copy of this manual, that would be of help.Please reply, or PM me?Thanks in advance!!!Navy Chief

Nothing new, but may be of interest to some: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7902468.stm

Since it seems that most of the simmers fly the airline-heavies and simulate flights into and from the major airports, I felt this article would be of interest.http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/...currentPage=all--Roger