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So a couple of weeks ago I had to say my farewells to my best friend since fifteen and a half years. A rather unremarkable 15lbs poodle (but with loads of personality). After all those years coming home to a wagging tail he is no longer with us, and I miss him to such a ridiculous extent I can't really describe it. The little guy knew me inside and out. If I was 'angry' at him for something he might or might not have done, he just saw right through me. On the rare occasions I was angry 'for real' (not necessarily at him) he took it REALLY easy around me. I remember this one time, some 12-14 years ago, I was home from work due to high fever and feeling like absolute garbag…

Having been in the Flight Sim Community since the early 80's, I've done a great many things and enjoyed countless hours in flight simulation. I've run several groups, and I've introduced and taught a great many flight simmers how to fly various airliners and fly online. In hopes of enriching someone else's flight sim experience, I'd like to share three bits of advice. If you're reading this specifically for the Cross the Pond advice, please skip down to the bottom of this post. Flying Online First and foremost, if you're not flying on VATSIM or IVAO, then for the love of Pete you simply must invest the time to do so. Recently, someone posted a video abo…

This is a channel I'm enjoying at the moment.

Somewhat lengthy but quite good article on Boeing. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/boeing-planes-problems-stock-price-shareholders.html Noel

https://europa.nasa.gov/ A vast ocean is believed to be beneath the surface of Europa with more water than all of the Earths oceans. Europa Clippers goal is to determine if the conditions are suitable for life. Launch is in 6 months.

And many more builds!

I just watched the Challenger Disaster on Amazon In the movie the door seal was the cause of the accident…right after takeoff Just like the Alaskan 737 Max

Fiound this, though it was funny Hope its ok to post After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form, called a “gripe sheet,” which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight. Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor. Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by UPS pilots (marked with a P) and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers. P: Left inside main tire almost needs rep…

The war is over. No more rations. Only a dime!

Good morning, Quick question regarding Flusiboard. Does anyone know if it is still active? I wanted to download something from there site, but you can only do if you are a member. Fair enough. I've completed a registration a couple days ago, but have not received a confirmation from them yet. Thanks, colin

Last night had no issues than open up pc and had noticed all my icons had green pointers and my mouse pointer kept spinning blue circle every few seconds was wondering if it was some thing to do with my traffic addon or fs2crew etc loading, turned them off and kept on appearing, did a search on internet found a solution on how to stop it than found out all the green arrows had disappeared from my desktop icons. Least the spinning circle has stopped 🙂 very strange on april first day

I have some questions about B747-400 landing lights. For instance, why are there four – two inboard and two outboard - and why does each light have its own switch? According to the FCOM, only the inboard lights should be switched on before takeoff and before landing. It doesn't mention the outboard lights at all. In practice, I see mostly inboard lights for takeoff and all four lights for landing. Occasionally, though, I see the reverse, all four lights for takeoff and only inboard lights for landing. I should mention all these instances were in daylight with good visibility. I have one question about the landing lights on Alaska Airlines B737-990 in the link…

The history of the implementation of science and technology for good also has a history of the same implementation of science and technology for evil. As we close in on mind control for good how can we prevent that good from being used for evil? I don't think we can. This one is truly scary. While a miracle for it's use as described in the following link it also has potential for great evil if misused in the wrong hands. https://www.ign.com/articles/first-human-patient-to-receive-a-neuralink-brain-implant-used-it-to-stay-up-all-night-playing-civilization-6 This can go orders of magnitude beyond The Manchurian Candidate. Is the risk worth it? The futuri…

Is this guy is practicing in real life in order to get himself ready to complete activities in MS2024 with a high score?

Captain — 27/03/2024 14:07 @everyone Happy Wednesday everyone, we'd like your opinion! It's been about a year since we've started working on BeyondATC. The project has come so far in that time it's amazing to look at where it was to where it is now. We have been diligently working on improving the program across all dimensions and thanks to our amazing beta testers we're nearing our goal of a stable IFR experience. Because we've been so focused on stabilizing the core experience, we've not had time to work on traffic much, which is in itself a completely separate piece of software inside BATC. I would say it's about 50% complete. This is where we need your help. Wh…

For the mega lazies......

Skynet seems less and less unreal. And why do these Ai's keep making homicidal statements and having to be modified?

Known for ages, but always nice to watch a nice documentary:

https://www.foxnews.com/world/mysterious-ufo-like-monolith-found-wales-hiker-video-shows Utah in 2020 March 12, 2024 Wales. Hiker takes images. These days people have cameras with them in the outback. Maybe some of the sheep herds are aliens?

Short but interesting.