2 aircraft!

1 hour ago, MySound said:

Ey….. Aircraftz is pretty nice. 
 

🙂

aicraftz go brrrrrrr……

Lol, sorry I didn't see your post 🙂

careful though, you're almost sounding like BJ 😛

It's complicated and depends on the aircraft type.

If you're talking about multiple Grumman G-21s, for example, you would call them a gaggle of Geese. A group of DHC-1s, on the other hand, is a scurry of Chipmunks. Several A-10s would be called a passel of Warthogs. And, of course, if you saw a formation of B-17s passing overhead, that's simply an Aluminum Overcast.

3 hours ago, orchestra_nl said:

A flock of aircraft perhaps?

Or a Flock of Seagulls.

2 hours ago, WestAir said:

There's the Queens English, which uses aeroplane, and American English, which uses airplane.

It's like color and colour, or aluminum and aluminium.

As much as 'aluminum' irritates me as a 'proper English' speaker, I have to begrudgingly point out that 'aluminum' (from Latin via French) is actually an older word than 'aluminium' (proposed in 1812), and therefore Britain is actually responsible for giving that pronunciation to America and, by osmosis, to the world.☹️

GDP = Ground Delay Program

😆

Flugzeuge

4 hours ago, Rockliffe said:

And there are many native English speakers who still can't speak the language, like, innit!

Oh dear - I got censured in the FS forum for contributing to this same topic there. "Innit" is Estuary slang having mimicked and come from the cockney of the East End.

 

Innit can be used many ways:

1. in ignorance of the correct "isn't it" or "is it not"

2. by clever people (according to themselves) who like to pretend they're "ordinary" or in tune with the "common man"

3. as a time-saver (2 syllables rather than 3)

So I thought I would look it up and found this which sorta sums it up innit.

 

Derives from the chav/townie/pikey sub-culture, but falsely over-labelled on the British Asian Communities. Innit is a shortened version of is it not, in context, it would be "is it not?" which we can see is a question due to the required question mark and change in the pitch of the voice to indicate a question is being asked. Chavs, however, due to their lack of education (zero GCSEs) and ignorance towards learning English at school because "i already speaks it, innit", tend to, more often than not, use the term innit when a statement has been used, rather than a question.
Linguists and scientists have studied chav language and have determined the following:

1) they have tried to invent their own language
2) this is because they do no understand standard English
3) they use their "pikey-speak" to communicate with other like chavs
4) they speak in a pattern:
5) (noun), (obscene word), (verb), (subject), (innit)!
6) the pattern of speech repeats itself
7) the order may be altered according to IQ of the chav

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=innit

19 hours ago, Mace said:

Not to mention "craftsman" vs. "craftsmen"

and to make things more complicated, isn't it now "craftsperson" in this politically correct age.

3 hours ago, Fizzelle said:

Oh dear - I got censured in the FS forum for contributing to this same topic there. "Innit" is Estuary slang having mimicked and come from the cockney of the East End.

 

Innit can be used many ways:

1. in ignorance of the correct "isn't it" or "is it not"

2. by clever people (according to themselves) who like to pretend they're "ordinary" or in tune with the "common man"

3. as a time-saver (2 syllables rather than 3)

So I thought I would look it up and found this which sorta sums it up innit.

 

Derives from the chav/townie/pikey sub-culture, but falsely over-labelled on the British Asian Communities. Innit is a shortened version of is it not, in context, it would be "is it not?" which we can see is a question due to the required question mark and change in the pitch of the voice to indicate a question is being asked. Chavs, however, due to their lack of education (zero GCSEs) and ignorance towards learning English at school because "i already speaks it, innit", tend to, more often than not, use the term innit when a statement has been used, rather than a question.
Linguists and scientists have studied chav language and have determined the following:

1) they have tried to invent their own language
2) this is because they do no understand standard English
3) they use their "pikey-speak" to communicate with other like chavs
4) they speak in a pattern:
5) (noun), (obscene word), (verb), (subject), (innit)!
6) the pattern of speech repeats itself
7) the order may be altered according to IQ of the chav

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=innit

Hee hee, very funny. Thanks for the post.

16 hours ago, Fiorentoni said:

Why would anyone post this question in a forum? This takes literally 0,2 seconds on Google.

Because MSFS prominently displays the pseudo-word "Aircrafts" atop its banner display when starting up the program.

21 minutes ago, David Mills said:

Because MSFS prominently displays the pseudo-word "Aircrafts" atop its banner display when starting up the program.

I have no idea, but maybe in French the plural form is correct.  Regardless, in general I could never "use" a foreign language as well a most of the folks at Asobo use English!

Al

...Aircri'

On 12/19/2021 at 3:52 AM, DaveCT2003 said:

Same as it is for Deer (any type of deer).

 

 

Nope. What about the type of Deer that are tractors?🤣

12 hours ago, Fizzelle said:

17 hours ago, Rockliffe said:

And there are many native English speakers who still can't speak the language, like, innit!

 

You're right right there, guvnor !

Aeroplane(s) is the answer (although my spellchecker won't accept it and suggests airplanes instead).

But my all time favorite on any flight sim forum is "hanger" used instead of "hangar" though on my keyboard these two letters are not next to each other... Never understood that "typo", or is there such a place where an airplane can be put in (on) a hanger?

Edited December 20, 20214 yr by Bernard Ducret