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After years of flying combat sims and even flying as a member of a virtual WW II fighter squadron (virtual VMF-124), I "retired" to civilian flight sims. It is a different world, stress is mostly caused by weather, terrain, AI aircraft proximity, and the ever present danger of a crash to the desktop. I actually find GA sim flying to be relaxing, but I still sometimes get a hankering for high-g maneuvers.

Holy loose wheel! 😲

That could have been really bad if someone had been directly beneath the nose or if passengers were boarded or deboarding.

That, or they are discussing their plan to align themselves with the machines and conquer the humans.

When I bought my house, I had a professional inspector conduct a very thorough inspection. This guy was supposedly on top of everything. He said this house had no problems. Wrong! After I bought it, significant problems showed up, like insufficient support for load bearing walls and PB pipe. Much of the PB pipe had been replaced by the previous owner, but only in areas that were easily visible. PB pipe and its decaying joints were still within the walls.

Things like that have been happening in the U.S. for decades and it seems to be getting worse. We seem to have far fewer skilled tradesmen working in construction and a whole lot more day laborers.

Internment camps, lizard people, secret government facilities... riiiiiiight.

Hollywood may soon undergo a massive change. Gone will be all the actors and massive studio lots, replaced by computers and AI artists.

Well, that was a... spectacular test. Kaboom par excellence.

Yeah... uhhhh... I dunno. I try to not get into conspiracy theories, but sometimes I do have to wonder.

Are we establishing Moonbase Alpha and will we be storing nuclear waste on the moon? 😉

Well, the Blue Angels have a really good safety record, they train for precision flying.

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Successful launch, successful mission, and ended with a big kaboom in the water.

Flying in such close formations displays the abilities of the aircraft and the skills of the pilots. It's good public relations and a good recruitment tool.

I'm happy that no one was killed or seriously injured.

1. The autopilot... that's my multi-tasking switch. It allows me to fly and do other things at the same time, which makes me more efficient. 2. Graphics settings... yep, been there and done that, learned my lesson, leave it alone... well, maybe one more adjustment. 3. Same old CH Products controllers for me for around 20 years now. F-16 Fighterstick, ProPedal, Throttle Quadrant. Plus Track-IR 3 Pro, I've read that TIR 4 is much improved, but the old one works well enough for me. 4. Nope, stopped tinkering long ago. I did learn that once it runs and runs reliably, don't fix it! 5. Yep, guilty. I have only one payware scenery, tons of freeware, and once I learned how to use ADE, I spend most of my time improving, adjusting, and updating airports. Yeah, for every hour of flight time I probably spend 20 hours in ADE. I think I need help. First step is in admitting you have a problem, right? 6. I have not ventured into VR... yet. 7. Add-on aircraft? Yep, tons. Lots of freeware and a good number of payware, most of them I have not flown. Yes, I still think about buying even more and if a freeware aircraft comes along that looks interesting, it gets downloaded and filed away. Oh, and I'm just using FSX (Steam Edition), that's my only sim... for now.

I miss the 80's, it was a fantastic decade, at least for me.

Welcome to Avsim! I also started with various combat flight sims, then graduated to civilian sims. I'm still using FSX, but I have migrated to the Steam Edition of FSX.

Evidently the posted video has nothing to do with the actual incident. Here is what I found. https://ew.com/eric-clapton-ends-concert-after-fan-throws-large-object-at-his-chest-11972262

There are unexplained things flying through our atmosphere, I've witnessed a couple of them. I can't believe that the various governments of the world do not know more about them than they are telling us, but secrecy and control are in the nature of government. I doubt that governments will ever be open and transparent regarding UFO's.

It's a sad day when your AI girlfriend declares it has outgrown you. 🤣

There might be a good reason that some sperm cannot successfully seal the deal.

I've played lawn darts, perfectly safe so long as you are not playing "catch the lawn dart". We were safe about it, no one allowed in the landing zone and we were not trying to see how high we could throw the darts.

From what I understand, that scene was one continuous filming, no editing and splicing to create that scene.