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So they really can get the last word.

And the chances of getting a spare slot at Heathrow for an F1 charter flight is......?

Oh and I forgot... you can do a few practice laps at the Donington Park circuit while your are waiting. It's just over the fence an was at one time slated to host the British GP but they ran out of money. https://www.donington-park.co.uk/

Luton is a pig of an airport with inadequate taxi-ways and an overload of regular traffic as it's a major UK base for Easyjet. If you want an underused airport capable of handing big jets, then you could try East Midlands Airport EGNX. Busier at night than during the day as a big cargo airport but with a passenger terminal and car parks too. The M1 motorway is right is nearby so it's just an hour down the road to Silverstone, which is a word not allowed sight easier than dragging your VIP's a quarter of the way around the M25 before you even start. https://contrail.shop/products/egnx-east-midlands-airport-msfs?bg_ref=ivhBwCq6Mv

Wow. Did you see how close they are to the buildings on the RHS as they pass through 400 ft or so? Very impressive.

Any problems are most likely to occur on arrival not departure because you'd think all of the various sources of data would agree on departure, but it may take you several hours to get to the other end, by which time they may have diverged. It's probably wise (I don't always do it) is to look at the overall structure of arrival STARs. Do some or all connect to multiple or all runways? If so, they are preferable. The ones to be wary of are the ones that only connect to a single arrival runway. If SimBrief is giving you one of those, it may be worth changing the SimBrief route to give you more options at the other end. It's not always possible. Faro in Portugal (LPFR) is a good case in point. Coming from the north, routes run either to the east or west side. It's not just the STAR, the whole route is dependent on which end of the runway is being used. The good news is that BeyondATC will attempt to vector you to the right place but it can be a bit of a kerfuffle getting a different set of charts out and the relevant data into the FMC when you're also trying to manage height, speed and course. After all, a simulated co-pilot isn't going to be much help as a real one would be! Beyond ATC does give you access to ATIS for the arrival airport. If you listen to that just before TOD, then that will give you a chance to prepare. I have to say though that some of the regional accents are quite challenging if that's the right word. You may need to allow enough time to listen several times!

This guy has a much better racket going on:

Well that plays straight into Volvo's long standing values doesn't it: families and safety, young creative professionals - note the document rolls and drawing paraphernalia as she breaks the news - advertising, architecture? And of course the young need the environment cleaned up more than anyone. Do we then think Jaguar's new target market are people who wear weird clothes?

There are 41m vehicles in the UK, of which about 1m are zero emissions. The average price of an EV in the UK is £54,300 and the majority have been purchased as company cars because they don't attract the penal income tax benefit on driving an employer-provided car powered conventionally. There is no such benefit to a private purchaser. The CEO of the company that owns the motorway service area on the M5 at Exeter said some while ago that in order to provide electric charging required at that site if all vehicles passing through it were electric, the power supply to the city of Exeter would have to be increased by one third. One third. That's likely to be replicated across the country. All those pylons. More than one third of houses in the UK were built before 1944. Because private car ownership was rare then, many do not have off-road parking and therefore cannot provide off-road charging. This is a major obstacle to EV ownership. As I'm sure you know, charging at a public charger is much more expensive than doing it at home on a suitable tariff and much less convenient too. I do understand the need to reduce carbon emissions. Whether EV's are the right solution compared to producing green hydrogen at wind or solar power sites and transporting it to filling stations is debatable. I don't know the answer. What I do know is that there will have to be a vast investment in the electricity distribution network to get a convenient charge to 41m vehicles. In thinking we can take the electricity to people's homes for home charging, we completely reversing the current system where the car goes to the energy at a filling station to one where the energy is taken to each individual car. That's the scale of it. In that context, for Jaguar be abandoning their existing market entirely and to be basing their entire future on the very uncertain prospect of a comprehensive charging network being available is a gamble to say the least and rank stupidity at worst. Also, don't be naïve, The Chinese are flooding markets with state subsidised EV's. You know what'll happen next.

Well we've had 6 Jaguars in this household over the years, all bought new or as ex-demonstrators, and we have never had to make a single warranty claim or had a breakdown. There won't be any more though. Forgetting this truly bizarre and ridiculous advert, their new product strategy is nothing but a suicide note. They're going 100% electric when most manufacturers are rowing back from similar plans due the withdrawal of financial incentives to help overcome the very high price of EV's and the slow provision of recharging points. They're also seeking to raise their average selling price from around £50,000 to in excess of £100,000. They'll become another Maserati, making beautiful cars but selling only a handful every year. There will be a market for the large limo in the UK: government ministers and the CEO's of big companies will take the opportunity to show both their green credentials and their support for British industry in one purchase. Who else though? The electric sports car is going to be interesting. McLaren have said it's currently impossible to make an electric super-car. In order to go that fast, you need massive batteries.... which means it's too heavy to go fast, let alone go round corners as a super-car should. There's only one word for it. Bonkers.

I'm presuming that to the best of his ability, the OP is comparing like-for-like. Thanks - it's an interesting comparison. What I do like is that there's more variation in the buildings in 2024. They are very homogenous in 2020 and whilst there are styles in different regions - where it's hot, buildings are often white to reflect the sun for example - but in 2020, the non-specific buildings all look a bit samey. The railway station is much better modelled in 2024. That does look like a lot of trees though!

In life as well as the sim, remember always that a pioneer is someone lying face down in the desert with an arrow in his back.

Great plane, great liveries. It was the last propellor fighter in the UK, going into service in 1945. If you've ever seen one fly, its performance is astonishing, certainly the fastest thing I've ever seen that's not a jet.

Don't start jumping to conclusions about people. Discord is a typical techie solution. No structure, part cartoon show, designed for the benefit of the techies not their clients.

Age? IQ?