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The weather here in Duluth was great today. Smooth skies, blue skies and perfect for "birds."http://www.airnav.com/airport/KDLHSince I work in the tower I thought I'd give Cirrus a ring and see if I could get a flight today. Well it worked out and my first impression was - wow these things are larger than they appear from the tower haha. And secondly, it was a lot harder to find my way around the airport from the ground! Jeeese, now I can see how some unfamiliar pilot would need progressive taxi. There's slopes and slants and elevation changes on the taxiways. It's just weird. First time I ever was on the ground in an airplane at DLH.The PIC was one of our awesome test pi…

Hi all, as far as I know, today will be Champion Air's last revenue flight. I will surely miss those 27 flying passanger charter service.http://www.championair.com/PressRoom.aspRegards,Bill

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/science/...gin&oref=sloginNew Challenge for Space Station Crew: A Broken Toilet bt

Looks grim!:-roll http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=90957062but, there's a bit of humor here, though. Scroll down to the paragraph that begins with, "Frontier Airlines even raised..." :-lol--Roger

While surfing another FS site, I came upon a thread where someone posted the following:"Well, if FS11 is more graphics intensive than FSX, I won't have enough proccesor power... Too bad..."But what really made me cringe was Phil Taylor's response to his post:"two things should help with that:1) the fact that FS11 is still a ways off gives folk a chance to get fundage ready for upgrades2) we are doing a lot of performance oriented work in the engine"I can understand point #2, but point #1 simply baffled me. I just hope I can build up some equity on my mortgage, which will allow me to refinance and "upgrade" my PC so I can run FS11 at half settings.

Can someone recommend a good virtual airline, with some structure, but with not too many rules, etc... as I have a pretty demanding job, but would like a bit more structure than Westwind... I posted something in the Virtual site also about my probs with Air France, but thought that I'd get more feedback here.Tks

NASA scores a touchdown, literally! :-)bthttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7411113.stm"The Mars Phoenix lander touched down in the far north of the Red Planet, after a 680 million-km (423 million-mile) journey from Earth. The probe is equipped with a robotic arm to dig for water-ice thought to be buried beneath the surface."

Anyone remember what today (Monday) is? Some are too worried about why Phil was/is here and so on.Thank you to all past, present and future members, from all countries, who work 24/7/365 to keep us safe.Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/banners/hifi-community-sigbanner.jpghttp://www.hifisim.com/

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,358041,00.htmlCargo Plane Splits in Two on Runway Before Takeoff in Belgium"Vermeiren said the pilot told rescue authorities he heard a large noise while trying to take off just after midday. It was not yet clear what caused the crash."bt

Hi there everybody,This is my first post on the Avsim forums. First of all I must say what a great community we have here. No end of times I've found answers to issues I've had with various things to do with FS.Anyhow, onto the question in hand.My lady is off to London for the weekend on a Hen weekend (woohoo!!!) Therefore I have time on my hands without being nagged about trivial issues like, "clean the decking", "wash the cars", "decorate here, decorate there", "we've got a leak!"....yes a full weekend on FS awaits!I've just had a new machine and now am able to fly with all my sliders up to 100% with some great add on scenery and aircraft at a good frame rate.I'm lookin…

Hi all,just downloaded and installed this latest offering from feelthere.But on trying it, I cannot get past the DirectX check window.It says I do not have the minimum version installed and to press OK to install version5.0. This I cannot do as the mouse disappears behind the window and the only option left is to close the application from the status bar.On checking DXDIAG, I not only have version 5.03 but also version9.0 and no problems shown. Anybody got this running on XP? or any ideas as to what is going on?Regards JohnT

HelloAs a flight sim fan,but a person of limited real world aviation knowledge i was wondering why some airports that are capable of taking passenger aircraft(not talking tiddlers here)don't have an ILS landing system?(certainly the case in fs9)as it seems to me to be the best and safest way of landing aircraft.(again i am talking sim here.)I always get a bit of a cold sweat up when i am told to expect vectors visual as my ILS landings are (usually)pretty good,but my visual approaches still leave a lot to be desired :-) (although i am improving) did a good visual landing at YVCG (COOLANGATTA Australia) last night as there was no ILS at this airport.Andy

In case anyone is interested, its finally released.http://www.towersimulator.com/I will have to wait till next pay check to purchase...Oh wellBill

Hi, just curious to know why pilots do not use the Fokker F-100 rear brake on landing as much as the Fokker F-28, and F-70s. I searched airliners.net and found 1 or 2 photos of American F-100 using with airbrakes. Not too many for USAirways either. Just courious to know why.Thanks,Bill

The UK Air Accicents Investigation Branch published their latest results relating to this accident.The investigation is still ongoing but "Restrictions in the fuel system between the aircraft fuel tanks and each of the engine HP pumps, resulting in reduced fuel flows, is suspected." http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/cms_resources/S...08%20G-YMMM.pdf

So excited about completing this I had to post it here!http://www.offtraining.com/pilot.htmCessna 152 C-GQSYCYGK, Kingston Ontario.Glenn

This is a question for the real pilots out there. I was flying the 737-800 in FSX on a flight from Miami to Los Angeles. I noticed that from my fuel consumption, I was not going to make it to Los Angeles with the fuel I had remaining.I know that American Airlines flies the 737-800 on the Miami-Los Angeles route so it does have the range to make the flight. My plane was fully loaded and I was flying at FL320. My question is can a fully loaded 737-800 make it from MIA to LAX or is AA flying the plane with less than a full load? Or are they flying at a higher flight level which is more fuel efficient or do I just have lousy flying skills?

I want to simulate a small on demand cargo companythat would fly important documents to major cities in each state.how much would you charge for that? so $x/Lb/nm or a flat rate or ?? what do the real pilots/companies do?I would be using C206, C208, KA300, B1900C, etcthanksciao!Brian S

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on the ck37 navigation computer there is a mode setting:VIND RUTA MAL (swedish) can anyone enlighten me as to what that means &/or what it might do??

There are some great videos here...http://www.flightlevel350.com/aviation_video.php?id=7578--Roger

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defen...fc-10f2622b4029Looks pretty cool, hoax or not.bt

Guys-Just to say I am feeling the pinch now cos my house is coming up for remortgage.Looking at recent payware releases which are priced at half the cost of FSX I feel that unless these prices go down I wont be able to afford new addons for a while.Does anyone else feel the same or am I a poor,complaining simmer?Jay

Is there any SOP for cockpit lighting at night? If an aircraft has a red floodlight, would it be used in all phases of flight? Or is it not advisable in taxi, or cruise, etc?RhettE8500, Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro, ASUS P5E3 Premium, BFG 8800GTX 756 (nVidia 169 WHQL), 4gb DDR3 1600 Patriot Cas7 7-7-7-20 (2T), PC Power 750, WD 150gb 10000rpm Raptor, Seagate 500gb, Silverstone TJ09 case, Vista Ultimate 64