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Title says it all.I want to know how working as a pilot for a real airline works in terms of assingment to a plane and/routes.I assume that you have to work your way up to the heavies starting with turboprops or whatever your airline operates in the small range.And when you are assigned to a specific aircraft-type how does your day to day, week to week routine look like? Do you fly only one route between your hub and the destinations or do you take turns?Basically what factors decide what aircraft and what route you fly from day to day?

I just rediscovered the golf simulation genre.I started out with Links for my 486. At that time you couldn

United Airlines should add these routes to airports where they are the only major U.S. carrier that does not fly to:ORD-TOL, ORD-EYW, ORD-BGR, ORD-LIT, ORD-JAN, ORD-HSV, ORD-MGM, ORD-MOB, ORD-FNT, ORD-ERI, ORD-EVV, ORD-CHA, ORD-CUN, ORD-YQB, ORD-NAS, ORD-CUR, DEN-LIT, DEN-JAN, SFO-GUM, SFO-LGB, LAX-ACA, LAX-GDL, IAD-AVL, IAD-TRI, IAD-POS, IAD-SDQ, IAD-MAD, IAD-LIS, IAD-VIE, IAD-SCL, IAD-DUB, IAD-FCO, IAD-BGI, and IAD-ANU. I would not care if any of these routes would be serviced by United Express or United.

SALINA, Kansas (AP) -- Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett took off Monday night on his attempt to become the first person to complete a solo trip around the world in an airplane without making a single stop.http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/02/28/globalf...t.ap/index.htmlGood Luck and God Speed Steve!bt

Reading the UK press there is a disturbing article on super volcanos.These make Vesuvious look like a damp squib.There are five potential sites for the supervolcanos, Taupo New Zealand, Toba Indonesia, Naples Italy and long valley California and Yellowstone.The most worrying and potentially biggest of the Lot is Yellowstone which is due to erupt anytime. An Eruption from Yellowstone would throw Magma 30 miles high in an eruption 1000 times stronger than normal volcanos.All life within 600 miles would be detroyed. Ash in the atmosphere would drop the earths temperature by 15 degrees.The last time yellowstone erupted was 2.1 million years ago the blast leaving a crater 50 m…

Anyone ever stayed here?St. Marteen. Can't be better.Man, have a swim!http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?i...499&count=falseWife & I are hoping to stay here in 2008.Man that's a long time.JimCYWG

With the talk of the recent tsunami, and the super volcanos. Came across these stats in Popular Science Magizine...Nature's Weapon of Mass Destruction...2.5 -Engery, in exajoules (exa=10 to the 18th power), released by Indonesia's December 26 earthquake, in four minutes2 -Engery, in exajoules, consumed by the U.S. in one week.600 -Megatons of TNT needed to generate the energy equivalent of the Indonesian earthquake.28,500 -Number of 20-Kiloton atomic bombs needed to generate the energy equivalent of the Indonesian earthquake.4.4 -Estmated impact force, in tons on a person of average height and weight hit by the tsunami.4 -Estmated impact force, in tons on a driver of ave…

Not long ago I found a site that had every approach for Canada available online. The approaches were actually grouped by region and I downloaded fairly large files that contained all of the approach for that area. Somehow I deleted the files and I can

Is there an official list of the way points the Global Flyer used? Something we could use to build our own flight plan and see if we could complete the trip?Terry

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For all you Airbus fans it is no secret that there are weight problems which Airbus are working on.This picture was shot in a secret location of an aircraft which might give FS developers an insite as to what they need to be doing to their FS release ;-)Peterhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/108602.jpg

Just one per person please, we want everyone to have a chance of telling us their favorite!Mine? British Caledonian: love the dark blue with yellow, 'cause every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed plane! :D

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Hi,Have been wondering why new commercial aircraft still has No Smoking signs and ashtrays installed?Isn

Boeing Boss Harry Stonecipher resigns from his position.Official reason is his love affair with a female manager in the Boeing company, although romurs in some european media say, the real reason was the current economical situation of the Boeing Company.Wolfgang

I thought these were cool pics. http://www.pbase.com/rbndave/pictures_from_my_job

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Here is the latest trailer link for this movie;http://www.ugo.com/I have been waiting on a movie version of Douglas Adam's classic since I first read the books back in the early 80's. I am so excited!I just had to share...hope I'm not the only one who knows what this is. If you have never read these books...I highly suggest reading them. They will make your body hurt with laughter! IMHO...

Seems that AVG did appalling badly in Feb's virus Bullitin Report.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/106071.jpgOut of 28 products tested, only 4 passed with 100% detection rate, as you can see from the above table, AVG did badly, so please people, if you are using AVG consider changing to a more secure system.Not only will it protect yourself better, but will stop the spread of viruses and make everyone who you have in your address books lives easier.I post this here as I think that the majority of people only visit this "main" forum.Dan.

As far as I know, it applies to all Flight1 products. At least, it's applied to all the ones I've purchased. Not that I've yet felt the need to take advantage of the offer mind you. :)

i've just learned that one of my repaints is on fsplanet.com.even though the readme says this:"RNLAF/KLu repaint of the DC10-30F by SGA.repaint by JP Visser.this is conditionware.this archive is only to be hosted on Avsim.com and Flightsim.comi do expressly forbid FSPLANET.COM and SURCLARO.COM to host this file.any other can email me to request permission if they wish this paint on their website.unless written permission is given,you are not allowed to host it.all altered textures are © JP VISSER/VAA,nobody can use themwithout asking me first.do not make money with this file,it is free.now that is out of the way,i do hope you'll enjoy my paint.JP Visser"but obviously,he h…

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I'm not looking to swap meet and not sure where else to else to post this. I just need info on where I can purchase this radio for 118-136MHz frequency so I can tune in and monitor ATC, ground and pilot radio transmissions. I'm a student pilot and this would really help me. The cheap models costs about $20.

Ok I have finaly decided to start trying to fly the shuttle.I have downloaded and am trying to use the Shuttle Fleet v3.6.I read that it has an accesnt (launch) autopilot,So far I cant figure out how to enable it.So I did a search on it on the forum but didn't find anything.So perhaps someone can clue me in as to how I enable it.I have read the .pdf that came with the shuttle fleet 3.6 and it justgave some commands, didn't see anywhere that said auto pilot.Reason I want it is because I am a visual learner.I watched the DG2 and 3 auto pilot get into a good orbit 4 or 5 times and then tryed it myself. I attemted to use the same method on the shuttle... didn't work...Anyway …

Check out this rig...Glenn"When a man learns how much he doesn't know compared to how much there is to learn, he starts getting smarter."