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That is just fantastic ! Thank you very much, gentlemen ! Everything i always wanted to know about Schiphol's landing runways but was afraid to ask... 😎 I used to know, i even got a Bearcat scanner tuned in on Schiphol ATC but very soon i learned each day all the same so i lost interest quite quickly as well. Now, for quite some time already, all has changed, even a 'new' runway and everything called 18X instead of 19X and 36X instead of 01X and myself i just recently moved from one village straight underneath the approach path to 18C (i understand now thanks to you guys.. ;-)) to another small village slightly left of the 18C path. All clear now, not have to worry anymore about what is where and how. Thanks very much again for your elaborate explanations, guys ! Most highly appreciated ! 👍

Any Dutchies around here ? Or anybody who knows his way around EHAM, Schiphol, Amsterdam ? My inquiry particularly concerns the landing runways with a southerly wind i.e. 18L, 18C, 18R. From the ground it's not easy to see which of the 3 landing runways are used. During rush hour i often see 2 planes approaching side by side. I THINK the're on their way to 18C and 18R but it could maybe be 18L and 18C as well. Somehow i have a feeling that 18L is almost never used ( it was the first ever runway for EHAM Schiphol and now belongs to Schiphol-East more or less). Would it be possible for anyone here to more or less confirm my hunge that it is always 18C and 18R that are in use with a southerly wind and almost never 18L ?... And, if so, what could be the reason 18L is almost never used ? Thank you very much for any insight ! 😎

I certainly was too of course but still I'm a bit with Strahinja_2. I can't name any FS event i can't get out of my mind or it must be my first ever encounter with FS which was Sublogic FSII on a Commodore 64 and particular the two small books the came with it and taught me about VOR, OBI, ADF, DME, etc. Pure magic for me ! ( i suppose that's why i never got into GPS that much let alone FMC.. 😉 ) One thing though that DOES stand out and i'll always remember ! It happen to be with MS Flight indeed. Don't know the name anymore of the 'assignment' (if that was what they were called..) but it was a flight with the Vance RV-10 and a photographer/astronomer as passenger. I was to take him up thru the overcast so he could take photos of an astronomical event that was about to take place. Never ever have i seen and felt in ANY other FS version the sheer realism of flying thru the clouds and especially climbing slowly out of the murk with the sun shimmering thru the last clouds and making some scratches on the canopy glitter and sparkle as we finally hit the big blue yonder. Like i said Magic i have never seen before in any flightsim prog and never have seen after that anymore and certainly not in MS FlightSimulator 2020 neither. On the contrary, IMHO flying thru the clouds has never been an item to write home about in any FS version until MSFlight came about ! To begin with waaaay too slow ! No sense of the fairly significant speed we're suppose to be flying at at all. Not in a172 and not in a 747 or even in a jetfighter. Flying thru the clouds in any FS version including MSFS is just a dull uninteresting event that has nothing to do with the real world version. Unlike that one time in MSFlight !! Oh, and talkin about speed in any FS version including MSFS (you'd think they would've finally done something about it..) compared to the way too slow passing of clouds when you fly thru them the exact opposite is thru for when flying treetop height over or along cities. Even in a Cub or 172 the groundspeed according to the whizzing by buildings and streets and stuff is waaaaaay too fast ! In a 172 it's like you're flying a prop- or even a jetfighter. But that's all IMHO of course. The problem is i DO love to fly thru clouds and fly low over cities. That moment in the RV-10 with the photographer/astronomer, breaking thru the clouddeck, the outburst of the sun playing with the canopy, and the speed of the last whizzing by shreds of clouds with MSFlight was truly unforgettable. Must say i also loved the way the Boeing Kaydet flew in MSFlight. It certainly had great potention, a great pity MS made such a mess of it. I wouldn't mind installing MSFlight and just do that astro event again ! 😉 Cheers, jan

Hi Ted ! How are you my friend ? Long time no see. MGA, oh yeah ! You know i have a MG-TD, right ?.. 😎

Why ?.....

These are other days than FS98/FS9/FSX. No need to throw anything off of your hd. MSFS2020 will magically turn into MSFS2024 once you click the BUY button in your MSFS2020 Marketplace. It's just a major update. Nothing more nothing less.

I suppose ya'll are familiar with that weird looking guy sitting all on his own in that crowded VR bar. Well, that's me. My ever fav aeroplane in MSFS VR is Ant's Tiger Moth. It was my first too (just got into VR a few weeks ago, HP Reverb G2) and i almost choked to death because of what i saw and experienced. I just couldn't breathe anymore and i cried too so i couldn't see anymore either. I'm over the inital shock now and settled down a bit. Love the DC-3 too.

Thanks very much, ark ! Yes, tried various things like removing some of the devices (in any case atleast 3 are just for led lighting my fancy Honeycomb Bravo TQ 😉 ) and even disconnect them all via the little knobs (love that, a faint blue light shows if the hub is on or off) and remove the power. Nothing matters, the hub case remains very hot. Tried searching for a hub with overcurrent/overheat protection but nothing showed up. For my Lifegoods 7 ports hub there are 154 short reviews, literally all thumbs up, nobody says anything about overheating. Funny huh.... Could it be that it's a case of 'just my luck' and this particular hub is just faulty ?... Recently i bought a second one because i needed even more peripherals (started using VR... totally amazing !.. 😉 ) 3 devices are connected sofar. No sign of heat whatsoever. I think i'll try switching them, see if it makes any difference. Thanks again for your help, Ark, much appreciated !

Hey guys, I have an additional question about USB hubs: i have a 7 port 'Lifegoods' powered hub. Is it normal that it gets so extraordinary hot ?..... Almost can't even touch it. (all 7 ports are occupied). Thanks !

Thanks orchestra, Yes, going to look into the inibuilds docs for printing if nothing else turns up sooner or later. The videos are actually very nice and very well done but for me fail as tutorial because of the sheer complexity (not a contemporary jet airliner fan by heart but i had a lot of fun with the A310 in FSX. IIRC it was a wonderful freeware model). I gathered many manuals for aircraft i loved in FSX. Even found a company that would print and deliver them in a ringbinded hard cover for a very small price. My 'Piece de Résistance' has always been ' 737 Simulator and Checkride Procedures' by Mike Ray. Ok, payware but totally worth it if you ask me. I'd love something like that for the A310 too. Fat change i suppose. A written tutorial for the A310, like the videos, could also be done in parts. F.i. with the automatic ready to taxi option i could possibly make a first flight within reasonable time. A brief written tutorial for this would suit me fine. Anyway, i'll keep 'n eye on this, it's quite a wonderful model, isn't it, both internal and external and for free and all ! Thanks O. 😎

All great these video tutorials but how do you *print* such a tutorial ??.... My point is what's the use of a tutorial if you cannot have it beside you in the cockpit ? IMHO the best tut is just the 'old fashioned' written/printed one. Anything like that around for the A310 ??.... Thanks !

Ahh....thát one ! 😉 Thanks GCB, i'll have a look there. I am also a bit dissapointed here, reading about what I, for one, have been waiting for for just about the whole year. I mean finally a DC-3 in MSFS, a Beaver, an A310 that i loved so much in FS9, better sailing, better helicoptering ( Ok, hopefully..). And all free and all. What can be wrong about that. Personally i can't wait. 😎

I'm sorry but which one would thát be ?...

Well, if you'd want to go looking for the cradle of (MS) Flight Simulator the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is where you'd end up. Right there in one of the backrooms where computer engineering student Bruce Artwick and some of his enthousiastic friends gave birth to what he would then call "a versatile computer generated dynamic flight display" which he would then turn into the first flight simulator program for the Apple II some time later. The rest sure is history. Living in the Netherlands and being an avid aviation enthusiast and hobbyist one of the most exiting days of my life was to be able to trade my Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K for an Atari 1040ST and buy Sublogic Flight Simulator II (still have the booklets). IIRC there were 4 airports we could fly to from the main airport Champaign (well, just a grey area with a few runways of course), to the east Danville, to the south/west Decatur, to the north/west Bloomington and, to the north, my favourite just because of the name, Kankakee. All still magical names for me because, unlike now in our beloved MSFS virtual flying world, i had to imagine them. And how beautiful they were !! (later on Charlie Gulicks books "40 great flight simulator adventures" and " 40 more...." helped my imagination a lot ) Yes, Chicago was not there yet let alone Meigs. And Internet was not there neither yet so i had to travel to Amsterdam and visit my fav computer store to see what was new on the Flight Simulator shelf. Boy! Those were the days ! When Meigs became available ( FS5 ?...) it became my home airport instantly and while i haven't even been in the USA for real and never heard of one Richard M. Daley i was more then shocked to read about his terrorist action at the Merrill C. Meigs airfield. MY Home Airfield for god sake! The Nerve ! 🤬 I could not let this go by without making some sort of a statement in a flightsim related forum depicting spoiled little brat Daley in his little toy caterpillar bulldozing my beloved Meigs. A picture tells a thousand stories, éh ? Btw, thats a sceenie of Meigs' main building in P3D v4, my fav flightsim before our whole flightsim world went upside down a few years ago. And sure, if we didn't have it already (freeware at flightsim.to) i'd welcome back Meigs in MSFS with a big smile !

Hot Dang! Talking bout coincidence ! In a thread about the release of TSW3 yesterday i talked about the fact that there's still only *one* trainsim that correctly simulates the physics of a moving train. Making it standout to all other trainsims which all want us to believe that, as a traindriver, you're just hanging there in the cab air with the cab actually shaking and moving around you while of course it should be the *outside world* that should be shaking and moving around. Which was exactly the case with the one and only 'Boso View Express' or BVE. A brillant freeware 'cabsim' by the amazing Mr.Mackoy. https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/623851-trainsim-world-3-has-launched/?do=findComment&comment=4841451 So now, just a couple of hours later, right out of the blue, here comes 'JR East Train Simulator', something that overwhelmingly reminds me of Mackoy's BVE !! Holy Moly !!, Could this really be ???!! Excuse me for possibly being over enthusiastic but i loved BVE very much in the 'old days'. Mackoy made me finally feel like sitting in the cab of a locomotive, NOT ridiculously hanging on suspension in the cab as if i had absolutely nothing to do with driving the train, like with MSTS, Railworks and Train Simulator. I have always wondered why i seemed just about the only one having a problem with this. Anyway, PSolk, i can't thank you enough for your posted HU regarding this new Japanese trainsim !! So thanks a million to start with ! 😎 I have played the few seconds where the train starts moving over and over again (talk about a teaser !! ) and i absolutely LOVE IT !! (yes, Chock, it takes all kinds ... :-) THANK YOU, SIR ! Seems to me like MACKOY IS BACK !! 😄 ( sure, i am aware that we can probabely now 'drive' some of the many cabview video's and the setup does resemble the old days when we flown our precious virtual aircraft via a picture of a cockpit panel with working gauges. But let's see how this new Japanese trainsim (or possibly better 'cabsim' ) will develop. In any case, i have no interest in any of the other trainsims anymore because of the ridiculous 'physics'. )