Hmm,I believe I have read that, though we may not notice it, our sense of smell is one of the most acute of our senses, and is highly connected to our ability to call back memories. Certainly the many airplanes and airports out there have some pretty, shall we say, "memorable" scents. Has anyone ever thought of developing a scent creator addon for FS? Think of the possibilities.Now that would be "as real as it gets!"P.S. I wonder what our significant others would think of it?Thomas[a href=http://www.flyingscool.com/FC_StartJava.html] http://www.flyingscool.com/images/Signature.jpg [/a]I like using VC's :-)

Yeah, my wife would love that. She already cringes when she sees me pulling out the joystick and has to listen to the drone of an engine, slapping smells with that would put her over the edge, not to mention she's pregnant and she'd be in the bathroom in no time.Not a far fetched idea, but here's how it would go in my house: "Hey dear, smell that? That's Heathrow!". "Hey dear, what are you doing with that hammer?".Ian.

Well in RW, I learned what happens when a body is loaded "head low". Gravity has a way of,ahh moving fluids to the lowest point.Guys in white rubber suits and blue boots get called out......Also 500 pounds of spoiled Red Lobster seafood thats been sitting in a cargo hold in 100 degree heat all day has a particularly strong scent that will have you swear off fish for along time.Some rampers also use to play tricks on other locations. They would close off the toilet valve and then drain the tank filling up the line. When the next poor soul opened the cap, he turned into a toliet paper covered smurf.I want even get into used diapers being left in overheads, thats another story.

So in other words you're not promoting the idea of hauling freight as a time building job for a young corporate aviation hopeful like myself.

If having the work hours of a vampire, a diet of vending machine food and washing it down with 4 pots of black coffee excites you...Freight dont complain though....

I was thinking the exact same thing! For instance, the most memorable thing about flying out of KIAH for me was the popcorn cart that I passed every day on the way down to the crewroom. The smell of heavy fake butter smelled up the entire C concourse.At KEWR, the chinese food restaurant is directly adjacent from the gate C91 crewroom and (although rumors of miscellaneous furry four legged creatures mixed into the pork fried rice abound) it was (and still is) a favorite to grab a quick bite to eat while running to the aircraft.At KCLE, back then COA had just renovated the concourse and the entire placed smelled like new carpet. I LOVE the smell of new carpet!!! Unfornately it doesn't smell like that anymore. Now it just smells like....terminal.One of my favorites is the smell of Jet-A after a 4 day trip waiting for the crew bus late at night. Just the sounds of CFM56 turbofans winding down for the night, a cool breeze caressing your face and the smell of Jet-A wafting though the air to make you feel good about life.And as always there is the airplane smell. I never could smell it on my uniform, but when my wife came home from a trip her uniform smelled like the galley. The flight deck smelled a lot like the galley.Wait! Then theres the 'red eye' smell!!! That is the distint smell of sleeping passengers purging tonights' chicken or beef special in gas form into the dark cabin. Some nights it got darn right intolerable and thoughts of reaching for the pilot's O2 masks were truly entertained. Of course there's that famed airline coffee which doesn't smell like any other coffee I know of. But after a 20 hour layover in MSY or MIA and drinking hurricanes up until (and just a tad past) the '8 hour bottle to throttle' limit there is nothing else like it. Ah that distinct first class meal, coach meal, not so cleaned metal food container, bar cart, spilled lasagna on the floor smell is what I miss most. Okay, I'm getting misty eyed now. *sniff* *sniff*

Mike opined: "...and drinking hurricanes up until (and just a tad past) the '8 hour bottle to throttle' limit..." I'm a bit surprised you'd publicly admit to violating 91.17 - I don't think the regs say anything about "a tad past".Doug

How is this for realistic.Last summer while watching the Concorde Re-heats ignite in spot view from the rear ,a strong wiff of burned kerosene suddenly hit me right in the nostrils just as they ignited.For a second I was in heaven.Then I realised a small window just behind my monitor was open,and my oil fired boiler which has the exhaust vent just below the window had switched on as usual at 16.30.All that was missing was the jet blast.A true story.regards Jim