Most team sports are just battle analogs. Love football? You war-monger!

OTOH, I think of warbirds as sportscar analogs. Would your rather drive a bus or a Lamborghini? 

Edited September 3, 20214 yr by odourboy

1 hour ago, odourboy said:

Most team sports are just battle analogs. Love football? You war-monger!

OTOH, I think of warbirds as sportscar analogs. Would your rather drive a bus or a Lamborghini? 

Actually I'd quite like to have a go at driving a bus; I've driven a few Lamborghinis and lots of other flashy cars like that when I was a motoring writer and taken quite a few of them around racetracks and stuff, but I've never had the chance to drive a bus. Well, strictly speaking I did drive fairly small 12-seater bus once and I had to take it right over the Moors in foggy conditions on roads which were pretty tricky when delivering it to Sellafield nuclear power station during the lockdown, but I'm talking about driving a double decker Routemaster or something like that. I'd love to have a go at that. 🚍

Edited September 3, 20214 yr by Chock

3 minutes ago, Chock said:

Actually I'd quite like to have a go at driving a bus; I've driven a few Lamborghinis and lots of other flashy cars like that when I was a motoring writer and taken quite a few of them around racetracks and stuff, but I've never had the chance to drive a bus. Well, strictly speaking I did drive fairly small 16-seater bus once and I had to take it right over the Moors in foggy conditions on roads which were pretty tricky when delivering it to Sellafield nuclear power station during the lockdown, but I'm talking about driving a double decker Routemaster or something like that. I'd love to have a go at that. 🚍

Well then you go girl! I'll stick with Enzo and Mr. McLaren. 😜

Just now, odourboy said:

Well then you go girl! I'll stick with Enzo and Mr. McLaren. 😜

Wouldn't wanna do it as a living, which I guess I could if I really wanted to that badly. But it is kind of fun driving unusual airport vehicles; I'm redoing all the stuff for those licences in about a week's time in fact, because I had to hand over my airside driving permit when I got furloughed from the airport owing to the pandemic, but since I'm back doing that job, I've gotta do all that exam stuff again. Some of the new vehicles are all electric too, so it's gonna be quite interesting seeing how those things handle pushing out A330s and other big stuff like that.

I think the maddest car I ever drove was a Dodge Viper; that was around Caldwell Park racetrack; the throttle was like an on/off switch, so it was really hard to not wheelspin the thing. I used to do work for Westfield as well, some of those things are absolutely mental, very similar to a Lotus 7. Nicest car I've ever driven though was an Aston Martin DB5, they're actually a bit archaic as far as handling goes, and the brakes are cack on them by modern standards, but it is one of the coolest-looking cars ever built, although I would want one with machine guns, revolving number plates and an ejector seat. 😎

8 hours ago, psolk said:

The irony of worrying about military fans in the MSFS forum...  You do know who makes P3D right?  LOL

That was one of the reasons I chose XPlane after Flight’s demise.

I nominate the post closing the thread on the official forum to The Most Hilarious Post of 2021 Award

If you would like to inquire about the status of the DLC in light of Paramount’s decision to move Top Gun: Maverick’s opening date to mid-2022, please open a Zendesk ticket. Thank you.

 

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Actually I'd quite like to have a go at driving a bus

One of the 'rites of passage' at the gliding club is being checked out to drive the bus to the launchpoint in the morning.

Run the engine for 10 minutes or more to get the air-pressure up enough to operate the brakes...once moving fast enough use the brakes firmly to clear out the rust...once arrived stop the engine by stalling it in gear 🙂

To be fair, some of this is the old bus, the 'new' bus actually has an off switch..

10 hours ago, keithb77 said:

One of the 'rites of passage' at the gliding club is being checked out to drive the bus to the launchpoint in the morning.

Run the engine for 10 minutes or more to get the air-pressure up enough to operate the brakes...once moving fast enough use the brakes firmly to clear out the rust...once arrived stop the engine by stalling it in gear 🙂

To be fair, some of this is the old bus, the 'new' bus actually has an off switch..

Used to be a similar thing at the Derbyshire and Lancashire Gliding Club at Camphill, where they had an old bread delivery truck which was converted so you could sit in the back of it at the launch point if it was cold, windy or raining. Pretty sure you'd need an HGV licence to drive it on the roads since it was a pretty big truck, but being on a private airfield, anyone could drive it.

Yep delayed

https://www.flightsimulator.com/top-gun-maverick-expansion-update/

6 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

Yep delayed

https://www.flightsimulator.com/top-gun-maverick-expansion-update/

May 2022 👿