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  2. Just in time. My subscription to SayIntentions is on its final days.
  3. If I were to ask you (no need to answer...๐Ÿ™‚...), what would you prefer to visit, in the natural world, given a choice of Lakes, Rivers, Mountains, and Seas....what would you say...? And no combination is allowed...๐Ÿ™‚...noting that Mountain, my top preference, goes smoothly with each of the others... (i.e. Mountain + (Lake, or, River, or Sea) indeed creates an irresistible attraction). I can vouch for it personally e.g., after my most recent virtual (and long-gone RW) visit to Sausalito...because I recall when I was driving along the heights of Sausalito, with the roads often meandering past (and very near) the private residences, I was looking down on the Bay below, and was saying to myself, this is indeed breathtaking...! My state Illinois has "3,000" lakes (including the "big" Lake Michigan seen in my previous post). Alaska, the un-disputed leader, has 3,000,000 lakes. The next two states, Wisconsin and Minnesota, across which I'm flying today, are (#2 and #3) behind Alaska, with 15,000 and 12,000 lakes respectively (unofficial numbers from yours truly...), because whether a body of water is a lake, or a pond is somewhat subjective. For folks outside U.S., these two (upper midwest) states exhibit some of the coldest winter temperatures in the country. I recall a fascinating experience once (and once was enough for me...๐Ÿ™‚...) with "Ice Fishing" in Wisconsin, at the invitation of a seasoned (and veteran) Ice Fisherman friend. Most of the lakes you see (sparkling blue) in my pictures below, probably get all frozen over by mid to end December...with the fish merrily swimming along below the ice with help from some interesting physics...๐Ÿ™‚...The Lake Winnebago (Wisconsin's largest lake, see its pictures below) may have a (winter) ice depth of about 6-7 inches. I trusted my friend (somewhat cautiously) when he told me, "I would need about 4 inches of ice to walk on it or 8 inches to drive a car on it..."...We never drove a car on the lake, thankfully... So, here, I fly, starting out from Chicago (KORD) to Minneapolis (KMSP), heading in a northwesterly direction (the highway I-90/94, that I'd driven a while ago, between these two cities, actually runs more north than west...). These two states are major residences to people of Scandinavian descent. So, I recall, when I'd started out on my trip to Minneapolis, a colleague had suggested (and reminded) me, just before I got under way, "Don't forget to visit "Norske Nook"", which is a "Norwegian" diner off the Highway, supposedly famous for standout pies, for hundreds of miles around, so, I did visit it...not sure what (pie) I ordered there... Please find 20 pictures, as I fly over the multitude of lakes (small and big) across the state of Wisconsin, including its largest inland Lake Winnebago (shot #s 9-11). Then I tracked, for a bit, the mighty and beautiful Mississippi River (shot #s 12-14), which runs along the border of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Past more Lakes, I finally reached Minneapolis, and not surprisingly noticed several lakes around the airport area. I have then landed in KMSP (Minneapolis-Saint Paul) Airport, an airport I've never flown into, in RW, but have visited it once to drop off a friend there...so, it felt nice to get re-acquainted to KMSP, here, again... Thanks for viewing...! Hope you enjoy these images from my trip in the U.S. Midwest...in Spring season...!
  4. I always start the AIG Traffic Controller & MSFS at the same time and AIGTC is always up and running long before MSFS is fully loaded. By the time I set up my flight and am sitting at the gate the airport is full of traffic.
  5. I couldn't resist buying it. Even before I finished watching their promo video. It just looks too good, and I'm sure I'll enjoy the challenge! London City here I come!
  6. If only Asobo would implement this , so we AMD users can use it properly also. although I a m happy at the moment with my smooth fps without FG, but it is a bit ironic that it's not yet available for AMD
  7. And 1 month after release MS2024 will come out and everything starts over ๐Ÿ™‚
  8. Avsim today: "Release it NOW, iron the kinks LATER!!!" Avsim in a month: "I can't believe they released an unfinished product. Absolutely unacceptable."
  9. Given its primitive automation (compared to modern airliners) it is certainly more of a challenge to fly and stay ahead of than the A320 or 737. However itโ€™s oh so satisfying when you get it all correct.
  10. It's a fantastic update, can't wait to come back to the Bae146. And even more incredible, it's a free update for current users. Thanks you Just flight and I definitively will buy more of your produtcs in the future.
  11. There are a couple of things going on. First, even if I maintained True airspeed with altitude, the indicated airspeed would still decrease due to lower air density into the pitot static system. Secondly, due to the fact that speed of sound decreases with altitude, the upper limit on airspeed ( True, and hence Indicated ) needs to be lowered with altitude to avoid exceeding mach limits.
  12. I think it's pretty rare to use the VR controllers outside of Aerofly or X-Plane... Msfs seems to be pretty hit-or-miss on implementation.
  13. FSLTL...because AIG takes ages to load traffic ๐Ÿฅฑ (I hope to be proven wrong) I only keep AIG for when I feel like using FSHud for ATC (instead of PF3).
  14. I installed everything using OCI a few weeks ago. Just ran manager 30 mins ago and it did download quite a few new flightplans (and models I think). I'm going to test AIG at different airports now. Interested in what traffic volume my hardware will allow me to run at the biggest hubs. And how the airline variation will be (currently the AIG folder is 52.5GB). I wonder if I will ever see any Hobby Lobbys? Or Hokkaido Air Systems? Or perhaps Queen Bilqis Airways? The automated download system is much improved. At least during the 1.5 years ago since I actively used it. And yes - you need both AI manager and Traffic Controller. The former to install models and flight plans. The latter only if you want to use their proprietary injector. Traffic Controller: AIG Manager: When updating flight plans, it occasionally fails to do so automatically, directing you to a website for manual download. I usually skip this part, although it's not tricky to do.
  15. Thanks to everyone for their two cents in this thread. I'm tempted to give AIG another try out of curiosity but I'm intimidated by their download structure, the last time I had to go through each model and change a code, has this been updated? Also, if memory serves me right, do I need to download the manager and the controller just for simple injection? Cheers
  16. It's more complicated compared to an Airbus & Boeing for sure. But like for everything, there are tons of tutorial videos on YT to master the beast.
  17. Interesting. I've been doing a lot of challenging approaches in the Fenix lately, with autothrottle off. Not as tricky as I originally thought. But doing that for about 5-10 minutes is one thing - for a several hours long flight though... She's certainly pretty, can't argue with that!
  18. Thanks, seen him before but he doesn't use vr controllers, he uses a mouse only.
  19. As the saying goes; when one door closes another door opens
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  21. I've had the same problem for a long time, but I have not seen it for the last 2 weeks. I'm not saying that this is a fix, and it may be a complete coincidence, but the problem has not shown up on another Fenix flight after I installed the "2023_TFHT_2 + Firmware [System Requirement: Windowsยฎ 10 / 11]PC" package from Thrustmaster's T.16000M support page. I didn't even know this driver existed as I simply plugged in this stick and started using it last summer. The only change that I notice is that the Windows Control panel now opens up a customized Thrustmaster control panel instead of a generic joystick control panel.
  22. The bae146 has a TMS, which is a poor mans autothrottle. You basically set a target (N1 or egt) and the TMS will do it's best of maintaining that target (for each engine I might add!). White up / down arrows will indicate if you manually need to adjust the levers to indicated direction in order to achieve set target for TMS. It's very intuitive once you get the hang of it though, you just need to remember that it can only adjust each thrust lever for small ranges. Think of it as a screw handle in a vernier mixture lever. the TMS is doing the fine adjustment (screw) you are doing the coarse push/pull. TMS is disengaged for landing. I was part of the beta for this bird in P3D back in the day so I'm strictly talking about features found there and from memory, but the MSFS variant is probably the same.
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