JRMurray

Nice! Great to see my hometown, Vancouver, featured. By the way, poutine is more a Quebec thing--although you can find it in Vancouver. It's just not as good as what you can find in Montreal or Quebec City. I suggest wandering into downtown Vancouver for a JapaDog, going to Granville Island for some candied salmon and a Lee's donut, or going anywhere in Chinatown or Richmond for authentic Chinese food. 😀

I'm seeing this phenomenon here in Canada. 😀

I'm using the free version AdBlock Plus (for the first time ever because of Avsim), and it's working well.

I just tried Microsoft Edge, on which I don't have any ad blocking extensions, and the intrusive ads are still showing.

Okay, so I just installed the AdBlocker Plus extension to Chrome and Safari ... and it works! At least, so far it works. Weird. I didn't have these ads on any other website.

I'm getting those ads now, too. They just started; it wasn't like this yesterday or even earlier today. It also doesn't matter which browser I use, Chrome or Safari, it's the same on both of them. So .. an ad blocker extension will work???

Wow! Thanks! I do have 2020 installed, so I'll try this.

I used AivlaSoft EFB v2 a lot with P3D, but I converted to MSFS 2020 last year and MSFS 2024 this year. I haven't tried the program until MSFS 2020/2024 at all, as I thought that it didn't work. Can it still be used in the same was as it was used under P3D?

A Metroliner would be really cool...

Darn! I was in San Antonio in December 2024 for about a week to attend an ACTE conference, but I didn't know that there was an Air Museum there. I would have loved to see it. Anyway, the San Antonio River Walk was lovely: my hotel was right beside it, and I walked along the river just about every day of the conference and sat outside in the evenings at some of the restaurants along the walk. I even saw the Alamo, though I have to admit that as a Canadian, it's significance was mostly lost on me.

Absolutely! I see Q400s all the time flying to and from YVR ... and as a passenger I've flown on plenty myself over the years.

At the gate, cold & dark. I love the feeling of the realism when I see aircraft at other gates as well as taxiing to the runway while I'm setting up the aircraft.

An update on the weather here in Surrey, BC, just across the Fraser River from Vancouver, BC. Yesterday's high reached 14°C (57°F) and it was a beautiful, sunny day, and today the temperature is expected to be about the same. Yesterday, my wife and I went for a walk in a park along the Fraser River and saw three large bald-headed eagles. Although we do get some snow (around 1 inch or so) every now and then in most winters, it looks as if we may have the first snowless winter in 43 years, according to the CBC.

To return to the weather around the world ... Currently 4°C (39°F) in Surrey, BC, Canada which is just south of Vancouver. It's supposed to start raining tonight and continue to the end of the week, with temperatures increasing to as high as 10°C (50°F) by the end of the week. The rest of Canada is getting hit pretty hard, I understand.

Agreed.