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hello,I thought this documentary which Premiered today on the discovery channel in many countries was excellent, you can really tell a lot of time, effort, and money was put into this documentary. Definitely the best documentary I have ever seen. You can tell the difference between a half ___ documentary and a well made quality one. :-) This was a great documentary everyone should see this one as there are going to be a lot of encore presentations. Im curious, if you have already seen it, what did you think of it?Andrew

Having read the "lame excuse" thread I felt compelled to address another issue but did not want to go off topic in that thread. I want to address the quality of payware products vs. that of freeware, and, hence, why the substantial payware market exists. Quite simply, payware has usually been professionally designed and adequately tested, while freeware seems to suffer from a lack thereof.This post will discuss freeware authors who feel compelled to release files that have obviously withstood minimal beta testing.Please do not get me wrong. I like freeware (for obvious reasons) and I have minimal payware because I think the default MS aircraft and available quality free…

Just wondering if anyone is a member of any Investment Clubs in Southwest Florida and even any other ones across the US. I live in SWFL of course and the thing more important to me than simming is the ability to KEEP simming by affording it so money takes precedence.Thanks!

Here's something you don't see everyday (thankfully!).http://www.msnbc.com/news/928052.asp?0cl=c3

New to forum. Downloaded file iranair_312.zip by Mostafa Ayoobzadeh this evening. File has virus "VBS/Redlof@m".My virus scan detected it. If this is the wrong place to post this, please pass it on so others can be aware.Thanks, Frank

just found this in my Flying magazine, it just does not look, huh, flyable - somthing about the proportions.your thoughts??http://www.aerospectives.com/default.html

Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 Fleet Takes Wing with Sleek New LookTuesday June 17, 6:01 am ET - Aviation Partners Boeing to Provide 169 Blended Winglets Shipsets - Boeing Offers Blended Winglets on In-Production 737-700s http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030617/sftu030_1.html

Hey Everyone, (Preferably Real Pilots/Student Pilots)So my time has come, to train to get my license to learn- My Private Pilots License. As soon as the school year is over (Seven days as of 6/17/03) I will schedule my lessons at KBLM. I'll be flying a C152 :) :+ Question Time... :+ 1) I have already taken introductory flights, what am I to expect during my first lesson? (I already have a 90% idea of what is going to happen as my instructor has told me)2) What materials / objects will I need? (I.E. - Are headsets supplied free- or are the rented hourly? In the intro flights they just gave me one so I can't be sure. Yes, I know to bring my logbook :-lol )3)Would you person…

Hey gang,I started wondering on my recent trip about the beacon and strobe lights on airplanes (and the nav lights too, for that matter): Has the idea ever been brought up of using LEDs for the lights rather than conventional bulbs?I know that most towns in the US are starting to use LEDs for the traffic lights, and they seem to provide a clear, strong light. Then again, I don't know that much about them, so maybe they wouldn't be good for an aeronautical application anyways.

Just saw this interesting piece of technology on Future Fighting Machines just now and I thought I'd share it with everyone. Its call "Metal Storm". A company in Brisbane, Austrailia has been developing systems that fire ONE MILLION!!! projectiles a minute. It involves no using electricity to fire these weapons, like a rail gun. It can be fitted with grenades, cameras, shells, almost anything that can be shot out of cannon. The launchers look like the VLS tubes on US Navy crusiers and destroyers, but there are as much as 10-20 projectiles in one tube, each one firing by a burst of electricity. Also they are making pistols out of the same technology. It would be like 10 ro…

Since when has the A330 had LCD screens? I found this over at airliners.nethttp://www.airliners.net/open.file/364426/L/

I moved this from the "help with avsim forums". I think it is more appropriate here. FYI.http://saltydogfly2.avsim.net/images/avsim_sig.jpg

Does anyone know what happened to Project Airbus? they never released their A319 and 321 did they?

Hopefully this question will be unusual enough to generate some responses....Looking at the Landing Gear selector in the 737 - why is there a detent for OFF?Surely it is either UP or DOWN?Probably a simple answer here, but I can't think of it...ThanksAllblack

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=3665...D%3D&static=yesHope the link works. Robb

I know there are several folks on here who work for Delta, Northwest, United, and so on, so maybe they can answer my question.What I'm wondering about is, essentially, a typical pilot's schedule on (let's say) a weekly/monthly basis. How many days on duty in a row? How many days off in a row? How many flights per day? What would be a typical "trip" in terms of destinations?For example, at my VA lately I've been flying the A319 and A320 out of LAX. My last flight left LAX at 7:10 Pacific, landed at DFW at 11:51 Central (so 2 hrs 41 min gate to gate), took off from DFW at 13:00, landed in Memphis at 14:10 (1 hr 10 min gate to gate). At that point, for a typical Airbus…

Sad to see the front page today announcing the long standing FSUIPC is becoming payware. (You knew this post was coming didn't you) I must send a sincre thanks to Pete for all his hard work in the past, and I look forward to even better things in the future from him.There comes a point in any hobby that things change and not always the way we would like them to. For the serious simmer we knew that this was going to happen at some time. I feel that we were on borrowed time with Pete's stuff, for some time now. In this particular case I can see only good coming out of it. For the "general" simmer this is not a big deal. Open the box, slip in the disk, fly the plane, somewha…

:-) Thanks there Splash!My HTML is sorely lacking.

Hey all,I'm a simmer and generally do very well. But every now and then I botch a landing by landing at an angle to direction of flight, hit hard, screech and swerve etc etc. I figured the sim was very forgiving and I just planned to do better next time. I figured if it was real life I'd be out of a job.Anyway, I was visiting www.airliners.net (now the source of all my desktops!) and I discovered quite a few photos of bad landings (not crashes). So some questions I have are in real life about commerical flying:How common are less than perfect landings? Are bad landings really that evident to the pax? Or does a bad looking landing not really feel like much?What are the…

Does anyone know what the average cost for an Embraer EMB120 is? I know they vary widly based on configuration and quantity ordered, but whats the average cost? I've tried to find out myself, but haven't had any luck. (And just so you know, I'm not planning on buying one, lol) Isaac

I don't know why it surprises me. There 1000's, if not hundreds of thousands of aircraft flying each day. But just to see it in print of how many crash or have trouble each day, well, it puts a whole new light on things.Check it the last 10 days:http://www1.faa.gov/avr/aai/iirform.htm#datatableMore, goes way back to 1962:http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/month.asp[div align=center][link:www.jetdoc.com/STO/]Visit The Bookstore & Gift Shoppe][/b

:-sword"Excuse me, Sir.""Is that you again, Moses?""I'm afraid it is, Sir.""What is it this time, Moses; more computer problems?""How did you guess?""I don't have to guess, Moses. Remember ?""Oh, yes; I forgot.""Tell me what you want, Moses.""But you already know, Sir. Remember?""Moses!""Sorry, Sir.""Well, go ahead, Moses; spit it out.""Well, I have a question, Sir. You know those ten 'things' you sent me via e-mail?""You mean the Ten Commandments, Moses?""That's it. I was wondering if they are important.""What do you mean 'if they are important,' Moses? Of course, they are important. Otherwise, I would not have sent them to you.""Well, sorry, Sir, but I lost them. I co…

Hi,I was wondering if anyone could possibly help me with information on flap extension / retraction schedules in relation to VRef.I know that, for example, a Boeing 767-300ER has the following flap retraction schedule:Flap 15 to 5 - VRef+40Flap 5 to 1 - VRef+60Flap 1 to 0 - VREf+80and I also know how the reverse works for calculating flap speeds for landing.Can anybody please supply me with this information for the following aircraft:BAe 146-200Boeing 717-200Boeing 757-200Boeing 767-200ERBoeing 777-300Dash 8MD82I would be very grateful for any help on this as I have searched the web and just cannot find it, but I guess it has to be out there somewhere.Many thanks,Steve.

Good grief.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...phony_airline_2How did he think he could possibly pull this off?:-hmmmKevin

So in your minds whats faster and more reliable, The new High Speed Cable Internet Service, or the tried and true ADSL?Had a guy call and wants me to switch back but I'm a little reluctant. Could use some input as to your own experiances.