New ground service option. Send John McClane.
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I sat in a Mig21 once in a kind of an open air museum and while I’m 184cm tall my eye level was waaaaay lower than yours in the pic. Not sure if the seat height is adjustable, the poor one I was in was in pretty bad condition, but my first thought was “you can’t see s*** forwards”
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Total props and respect for both the airport crew and the pilot. 
Been there, done that, and it’s not exactly a chocolate fondue party.
Question:
I thought that service vehicle colors were standardized by regulation. How did they get permission to paint the tug pink? Though I think it was totally righteous that they went to the trouble to do that.
This pilot must get a lotta’ respect there to have that many friends.
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Looks really neat! Grats!
Also a bit of ranting:
I’ve received a MiniFCU from a really good friend of mine, but I haven’t used it much, since it’s really limited in terms of compatible aircraft. I really do not understand why there is only one general autopilot module on the market. I don’t really like the Saitek one and as such there is just none left to choose from. I’d really like somethig like the autopilot panel in the HondaJet or the Longitude, or even something less sleek, like the one in the King Air or the CJ4.
I admit there are a few versions in the price range of a thousand euros and there are some home brewed solutions, but I means come on Thrustmaster, or Logitech make something proper and affordable.
Sorry about that, I needed a bit of venting…
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Makes one wonder how many of the new planes of FS24 will be in similar condition…
I don’t have that one either. The real tragedy of regional jets is that none of them are what I’d consider “complete”
The CRJ looks great, but was not meaningfully updated in ages. As far as I know it still cannot fly rnav approaches for example, which will probably stay this way.
The A220 is my personal favorite as a type, but even the dev team’s discord has not been updated for months with any news of progress.
The E-jets are sort of a middle ground as a tyoe for me, however that is the only one that is visibly being worked on, but still lacks a proper fms
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I’ve been wondering. Does aone of the ATRs come with a modern cockpit and the other with an older one? Or bith of them have it and you can choose cickpit options from the EFB?
On some screenshots, like yours in this post, shows the ATR with a big PFD/MFD almost like the Garmin ones, while on other screenshots it resembles more like the A310 with small displays showing barely anything.
What did I do today? And the last few days? Try to get MSFS to run again. But it keeps having gremlins built in. My community folder items load one day, the next they won’t. Guess what - I never changed the location of the folder. It sits right next to the official folder, which runs ok. 
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Preach it brother! Preach it!
I ended up doing a total soup-to-nuts reinstall of everything, (except for the CPU, Video, Memory, and Motherboard), because I thought 
it would be nice to share my “fancy” computer with my (teenage and game-loving) granddaughters while I’m not using it.
It got loaded up with so much [stuff that teenage granddaughters love to load], that the sim, (the main reason for this box), wouldn’t run!
Now, exactly one week later I’ve finished forking their installation to a different hard drive so they have an isolated installation, configuring a triple-boot environment (again), reinstalling Windows 10, MSFS2020, aircraft, purchased scenery, etc. etc. etc., and I’m just about ready to try a short “test” flight to make sure the controls and buttons are re-programmed correctly.
And then I noticed something. . . . .
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I’ve seen myself playing FS less & less over the last months. Between life’s issues, consistent lackluster Thursday releases, albeit a few good ones that I go try out for an hour, and the slow load times of 2020. The time it takes to start up the sim & get to hot start take off is terrible. So very much looking forward to 2024. I think I’ll play quite a bit more
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I think that fixing that kind of stuff is higher on my wishlist for 24 than actual gameplay issues…
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I have a friend who has a not-too-powerful computer, and he had to take it to the shop to have it set up with Win10 and MSFS, as he also had too much junk on the system. I do not. I keep using cleaning apps that remove junk files, and I also have extra free space on my C-drive. But - MSFS keeps me from flying with all the quirks.
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what is the matter with that cockpit? 
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That requires a bit of discipline, and a system for things other than MSFS, (and X-plane[1] 
).
Since this particular system was extremely expensive when I bought it, (stuff here is like 3x-4x the price everywhere else), and since the granddaughters also like to play CPU/Graphics intensive games when they are here, I thought it would be “nice” to “share” it with them since I don’t use it 24/7.
It became obvious that this kid of cooperation wasn’t going to work - things were either going to go my way to their detriment, or their way to my detriment - so I decided to “fork” the system.
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It is now configured with several storage devices:
“My” Stuff:
- 2x 2T M.2 PCIE SSDs
- 1 (bootable) for Windows 10 and MSFS.
- 1 (not bootable) for X-Plane 11 and 12
- 1x (bootable) 250 GB 3.5" SATA SSD with Mint 21 installed on it for when I need to do something administratively or maintenance-wise that Windows can’t do, or can’t do as efficiently.
- This also maintains the boot-manager for the entire system.
- 1x 5T “spinning rust” SATA HDD which is my “storage/download” volume. For example, my system’s “Downloads” folder redirects to here and this is where I place backup copies of everything.
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“Their” stuff:
- 1x (bootable) 3T “spinning rust” SATA HDD, with another copy of Windows 10, using a totally separate license key so that they’re separable if necessary.
- This contains the original installation of all the granddaughters stuff with all my stuff removed.
- This is also configured so that none of the other drives are mountable or visible when their system is active.
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The result is a triple-boot system, (managed by Linux’s Grub2 boot manager), where I have root access to everything and they don’t have access to anything other than their own stuff and the few network storage resources I’ve mounted for them, though they have full admin access to their own stuff.
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- I bought X-Plane before I bought MSFS2020, and I maintain the two X‑Plane installations as my “attitude of gratitude” flight simulators. Any time I get really frustrated at MSFS, I go spend a day or so flying X-Plane. When I come back to MSFS, I have a renewed sense of appreciation and gratitude for the Herculean effort they’ve put into this task.
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I ended up having a nice flight from KEFK (Newport VT) to CYUL via Derby line AutoRoute-55 and Autoroute-10.
Passing CZBM to the north, In real life, I had the opportunity to do some maneuvers (while vacationing in Montreal back in 2022) via Saint Hubert Flight school’s "pilot for a day’ in the S-621/ S-623 sectors.
Currently (In real life) my goals are confidence based (handling chop without over-correcting), regardless holding 6500 AGL (±100) without over-correcting does instill that there is an understanding of the fundamentals of flight)
Having John Williams “The Olympic Spirit” playing in the background while overflying Parc Olympic (and talking with Westjet (taxing from the gate to 24R) on CTAF, it felt right.
Landing on 24R objectivity I must have have been within +200 of the thousand footers (from the law of recency talking with Vatsim, I kept on rolling her down to B4 for 28/10/C)
Regardless the vfr landing just felt appropriate (was able to hold 65 down, back pressure on the roll-out); Self briefing the checklist items, with anticipation of holding short the parallel taxiway of 24R.
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After a couple days away from the sim(2020), I hopped in the Duke and flew from Kern Valley to San Jose.
Was a great pre work flight!
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I’m away from my rig for Thanksgiving but heading home soon… I looked up the filed flight plan for my flight home and have duplicated it via the new 2024 online flight planner so I can load it up tomorrow and try to fly it in the sim.
With luck nothing will explode during a 2.5-hour airliner flight
hm, i can see above it reset my filed speed and altitude from what i typed in before saving it when i reopened it
sigh we’ll see
and if i reset the speed to the real values, it resets my fuel loadout to 0 fuel \o/
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