Ray Proudfoot

There’s always a result in football matches. One side wins or it’s a draw.

To all you Americans there’s a phrase you need to become familiar with for the World Cup. I doubt you’ve come across it before… Parking the bus! 😁

Several hundreds of millions around the world. It’s the world’s most popular sport. Looks like you’ll be streaming Netflix for the next five weeks.

England should make the quarterfinals minimum. If all goes according to plan they’ll meet Mexico in the last 16 then possibly Brazil in quarters. Get past Brazil and anything goes. Brazil are not the Brazil of 1970. Who could forget Banks’ save from Pele and the final beating Italy in the best ever final. USA will do well to make the last 16.

I’d like to go Chris but when no one will be using the simulator I use and no one will be flying FSL Concorde it seems not exactly futile but very different to Cosford 2019. I would expect FS Labs to be there since they have staff located in England. I’d be surprised if anyone from Aerosoft turned up. It’s tailor-made for Fulcrum to clean up with his yokes and throttle quadrant. 😎 I do chat with fellow enthusiasts each month at Heald Green. We’re all male, have grey or no hair and are enthusiasts! You’d fit in perfectly! Just 99 miles away!

@Christopher Low , every month the NWFSG has a meeting in the village hall in Heald Green, right under the flight path into EGCC. Seeing the A380 at under 1,000ft is quite a sight. We have one tomorrow and Chris of Fulcrum and me will be there. Visitors are welcome. £10 with food and drinks included. We have several members who bring their computers and WiFi is available. https://nwfsg.co.uk

@Christopher Low , there’s been no announcement about which companies will be attending. I would expect Chris at Fulcrum to attend as it’s an ideal opportunity to sell his kit. @tutmeister ? I’m 16 years older than you. Whilst I can drive okay the return in October would necessitate an overnight stay as it’s too far for a single day. Let’s see which companies are going to attend.

Looking at the site on Google Maps the Aerospace Bristol building is around 100 yards away from the Concorde Hangar. Perhaps some clarification is needed as to which building the show will take place in. Birmingham is 100 miles from Manchester, 90 miles from London. It too was very easy to get to. It’s a 160 mile journey for me to this site.

When I first became interested in flight simming in the early 90s the venue for the UK show was the National Motorcycle Museum in the English Midlands not far from Birmingham Airport - EGBB. Its central location made it convenient for visitors from the south and the north. When the Museum was destroyed by fire in the early 2000s it switched to the NEC for a few years and again, not far from EGBB. In 2006 it went to Blackpool when Microsoft attended. FSX had just been released and as the date coincided with the Blackpool Air Show it was a great success. Some time after that a hangar at RAF Cosford became its new home and with an excellent museum on site it continued to be highly popular. Britain’s withdrawal from the EU in 2019 and the COVID pandemic the following year put an end to these shows. It was simply too difficult for European companies to bring stock to the show. The Bristol Show is hopefully the beginning of a new era. However its location makes it difficult for those from the north of England or Scotland to visit in one day. It appears to be in a different location to where British Airways Concorde G-BOAF - the last to be built- is housed. It’s not far away and anyone who hasn’t seen Concorde closeup should take advantage as various tours are likely to be available. https://aerospacebristol.org/visit If it’s a success maybe a future show at Manchester Airport might be considered where G-BOAC is housed in a large hangar where shows have taken place.

What’s your weather program? I use Active Sky. I’m away from home currently but can’t think of a reason why that would be broken.

I doubt you’ll see anything significantly better. If you want to boost your frame rates the most effective way is to buy Lossless Scaling on the Steam platform. For under 10 euros it will double them. https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

@Emile , why do you want to do this? I’ve never used anything other than a standard shortcut with Admin privileges. Anything more than that is unnecessary.

@donet , nice story. 👍 It reminded me of the two sessions I enjoyed in the Concorde simulator at Brooklands Museum, 20 miles south of Heathrow. It was used by the trainee pilots at Filton prior to getting into the real one. There are various packages available and @Pete Dowson and I opted for lunch with two former Concorde pilots and four other paying customers. After a Concorde lunch we walked over to the static simulator. The options were a circuit out of Heathrow flying under Tower Bridge, departing JFK and flying under a bridge I’ve forgotten the name of before the curved approach and landing on 22L. The other option was the approach and landing onto Rwy 13 at the old Kai Tak, Hong Kong. I opted for the first two and enjoyed hand flying through the Bridge whilst the Concorde pilot in the right seat handled the throttles. A marvellous experience. If you or anyone else finds themselves in London a trip down to Brooklands is well worth it. Multiple packages are available but booking for the sim is mandatory. The software used for Concorde was written by Andrew Wilson known here as @MachTwo . Now working for FS Labs.

Maybe he’s not around any more. The latest version is still available on SimMarket. https://secure.simmarket.com/pilots-fsg-fs-global-ultimate-2024-ftx-p3d.phtml

Assuming you’re referring to the FS Labs Concorde this video may be of interest. https://forums.flightsimlabs.com/topic/40753-interesting-concorde-video-everything-done-manually/