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I have an easy feeling in believing of UFOs and life from outside this planet, however, I have an extremely hard time believing of space travel of anything organic. Even if wormholes and such made it possible to travel great distances in short time, even if traveling at light speed was a thing, the logistics of travel by anything that needs food, medicine etc is where everything falls apart for me. Perhaps because to an advance civilizations I am but a small mind.

I'm no solar expert but I do live completely off grid and have 1.3kW of solar panels and 14000Wh of battery bank with 2 of the 3 of them being EcoFlow power stations. Only thing I didnt like about the OP video, and while its not his duty to point this out, is the lack of protection from the solar panels to the inverter. I'd highly recommend and inline fuse connected as close to the panels as possible and then a circuit breaker between the panels and the invert. That allows ease of access to turn off the power coming in without having to unplug the panels from the inverter to do so. Runway DC power is no joke so fuses and breakers are low cost and great protection.

That SOB?!..yeah he was a great one. Its a lot of the breed as they love to work with/for you. He was a Brittany. That video was when he was young and in training from back in 2005-06 era but shortly after he was always off leash and I could leave him on a bench or golf cart at our busy marina for an hour and come back and he would still be there bc he knew his release word. He worked with me everyday at the marina and rode around on my golf cart. He had a great life for sure and I said goodbye to him back in 2017 where he was 14 and health to the end. Yeah, I'm looking at getting force feedback pedals in the future. Will be my last upgrade to the simpit. Going to add a roof a/c to the hangar next year. I'm just finishing my van build for my home and that set me back but totally worth it.

I finished my hangar and updated my my simpit from previous seen videos and just wanted to show all who are interested in getting ideas on building a simpit or place to house one in a new video. For the hangar, I poured and epoxy floor and redid the walls and lighting to give an executive hangar look. The only thing left to do in the future is put a roof mount a/c on. as for the simpit, its the extra 430/kln90 gps, Comanche flap bar and a few other items that have been added or switched out.

You have a valid point but I feel it was misdirected on Peter. Peter is an OG in flight simming. I worked with Peter at Cape Air on Nantucket back in 2000, him as a pilot and me as a second job ramp agent but both simmers. I'm happy to see him back in the forums but also feel your viewpoint is respectful and noteworthy, just one that I dont agree with in this case.

I went to do some gliding yesterday and I no longer have a wingman and can not get the tow plane to move by wig wagging my rudder. Any thoughts? I have assistance on for airport vehicles.

Well its great to know that they are looking to create some staples in GA and showing most of their entire GA fleet. So lets get those out on the market so they can focus on the real fun planes from their catalog starting hopefully in 2028.

Guess its gonna be double windsocks for me!

Thanks for this post as I too am interested in this.

New to me is the Garmin FAA Data Comm feature starting on GTN750Xi and working its way up the Garmin suite of glass cockpits. https://www.garmin.com/en-US/aviation/fltplan/faa-data-comm/overview/ Heres a demo video of it which is basically CPDLC for small aircrafts. Can you imagine having this feature working with the TDS GTN750Xi for Pilot Edge and Say Intentions maybe working through SimBrief?! This is the list of airports where its available in RL. ELIGIBLE AIRPORTS Airports eligible for DCL service include: (Triangle ∆ indicates DCL. All are PDC eligible unless indicated by x.) ADW ∆ Andrews AFBx LIT ∆ Little Rock Adams Field ANC Anchorage International MCI ∆ Kansas City International ABQ ∆ Albuquerque International MCO ∆ Orlando International ALB Albany International MDW ∆ Chicago Midway ATL ∆ Atlanta Hartsfield International MEM ∆ Memphis International AUS ∆ Austin-Bergstrom International MIA ∆ Miami International BDL ∆ Windsor Locks Bradley International MKE ∆ Milwaukee Mitchell International BNA ∆ Nashville International MSP ∆ Minneapolis Saint Paul International BOI Boise Air Terminal MSY ∆ New Orleans International/Moisant Field BOS ∆ Boston Logan International OAK ∆ Metropolitan Oakland International BUF ∆ Greater Buffalo International OKC Oklahoma City-Will Rogers BUR ∆ Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena OMA Omaha Eppley Airfield BWI ∆ Baltimore Washington International ONT ∆ Ontario International CHS ∆ Charleston Internationalx ORD ∆ Chicago O’Hare International CLE ∆ Cleveland-Hopkins International PBI ∆ Palm Beach International CLT ∆ Charlotte/Douglas International PDX ∆ Portland International CMH ∆ Port Columbus International PHL ∆ Philadelphia International CVG ∆ Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky PHX ∆ Phoenix Sky Harbor International DAL ∆ Dallas Love Field PIT ∆ Pittsburgh International DCA ∆ Washington National PVD Theodore Francis Green-Providence DEN ∆ Denver International RDU ∆ Raleigh-Durham International DFW ∆ Dallas/Fort Worth International RNO ∆ Reno-Tahoe International DTW ∆ Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County RSW ∆ Fort Myersx ELP El Paso International SAN ∆ San Diego International-Lindbergh EWR ∆ Newark International SAT ∆ San Antonio International FLL ∆ Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International SDF ∆ Louisville Standiford Field GSO Greensboro Piedmont Triad International SEA ∆ Seattle-Tacoma International HNL Honolulu International SFO ∆ San Francisco International HOU ∆ William P Hobby - Houston SJC ∆ San Jose International HPN ∆ Westchester County - White Plains SJU ∆ San Juan Marin International IAD ∆ Washington Dulles International SLC ∆ Salt Lake City International IAH ∆ Houston Intercontinental SMF ∆ Sacramento Metropolitan IND ∆ Indianapolis International SNA ∆ John Wayne Orange County JFK ∆ New York Kennedy International STL ∆ Lambert-Saint Louis International JAX ∆ Jacksonville International TEB ∆ Teterboro LAS ∆ Las Vegas McCarran International TPA ∆ Tampa International LAX ∆ Los Angeles International TUL Tulsa International LGA ∆ New York LaGuardia VNY Van Nuys

Can someone answer what that round menu is in the video posted by St Mawgan? Is it a chaseplane thing or something? Found it. Flow by Parallel42.

Still havent gotten a chance to look at my scenery but was the fix specific to your install or is there now a patch out for it?

I'll see what I can do but I had no issues with the scenery. Got any areas of interest I can use to send you a comparison shot?

Where I live, a drink out cost about the same as an addon airport. So its easy to rationalize investing into my hobby. Now with MSFS offering the world in true to life texture instead of landclass tiles as well as Say Intentions offering AI and local accents for both IFR and VFR, I'm doing flightseeing tours and purchasing as many good quality airports as I can along my routes. The only main freeware airports I use are from Vincent Bazillio and I have sent him funds for his contributions as his work is highly worthy of it. Being an eye-candy enthusiast and lover of small GA planes, mega sized airports don't interest me unless they have a great modeled FBO area. So the few airports I added to my collection in the past few days have been: KHIO 7S3 KPVD (Dreamflight) I usually pickup airports on sale unless I'm "in the area" and will be flying there in the near future. I had to make a Google Earth map just to keep track of the airports I have installed. I know I've brought scenery in the past for P3D on sale and never even visited them as I had plans on it but then MSFS came out. My goal is to have airports that are close enough to go from one to another in the Comanche or Baron within 2 hours of each other and my main areas of flying are the West Coast and New England in the USA, Greece, Oz and New Zealand.

I like the ideal of being able to start based on a set location to the plane. I would use this with the default C172 with the REP addon. I'd be interested in seeing if you could do a proper preflight walk around mixing the walk around of this with the preflight of REP?

Thanks for the heads up and I filled it out. Some good survey questions in there so it will be interested to see the results. On the one question about what one product was most notable for the year (or however it was worded) had me struggling. As its hard to compare a plane addon vs scenery and while some products that existed last year, they added completely new aspects to their product that wasnt part of last year for some of the utility addons. At the end I went with a plane addon and for the reason that it was a plane that was new to us all in the history of addon planes, highly system rich and from a developer of one that rivals those with more. My vote was to recognize those that work to deliver us something completely new with no lack of quality even though I brought it but have never flown it in the sim.

Nevermind I found it. Its in bold below. [GTN] ; comma separated list of gauges gauges = GTN_750_1 [GTN_750_1] ; comma separated list of render targets. drawto = WINDOW, PANELS ; is the master device if true. MasterDevice = true ; aviation db: 0: nav_db2_grm, 1: nav_db2, 2: nav_heli_db2_grmn, 3: nav_heli_db2 NavDbType = 1 ; connects to: 'PFC_GTN' or any '#PID' (#D067 for PFC_GTN) ; no value connects to first found, 'OFF' disables connection. HardwareDevice = ; hardware selector number or -1 to disable. HardwareIdx = -1 LinkCrs = true [GTN_750_1.WINDOW] ; display window if true. visible = true ; show screen only gauge if true. nobezel = false (I changed this to true) ; display type: WINDOW,PANEL2D,PANEL3D,PANELS frame.type = WINDOW ; display position and dimension (left,top,width,height) frame.rect = 5120,2337,600,777 ; screen only border size (pixels). border.size = 0 ; screen only border color (#RGB or #RGBA). border.rgba = #000000 ; enable mouse clickspots if true, disable if false (use SHIFT to override) usemouse = true ; left mouse button on the screen toggles popup window if true (requires SHIFT+left mouse button). popleft = false ; right mouse button on the screen toggles popup window if true (requires XP11.1). popright = true ; VR mode position and dimension (left,top,width,height) (requires XP11.20) vrmode.rect = 0,395,415,395 ; display as popout window if true (requires XP11.1). undocked = true ; display mouse tooltips if true. tooltips = false ; freeze display position if true. locked = false ; auto hide in external view if true. autohide = false [GTN_750_1.PANELS] ; display window if true. visible = false ; show screen only gauge if true. nobezel = true ; display type: WINDOW,PANEL2D,PANEL3D,PANELS frame.type = PANELS ; display position and dimension (left,top,width,height) frame.rect = 0,0,0,0 ; screen only border size (pixels). border.size = 0 ; screen only border color (#RGB or #RGBA). border.rgba = #000000 ; enable mouse clickspots if true, disable if false (use SHIFT to override) usemouse = true ; left mouse button on the screen toggles popup window if true (requires SHIFT+left mouse button). popleft = false ; right mouse button on the screen toggles popup window if true (requires XP11.1). popright = true

I have the RealSim Gear GTN750 and using the defualt C172 with REP and would like to have no bezel (only screen) for my GTN750. This is my ini info [GTN] ; comma separated list of gauges gauges = GTN_750_1 [GTN_750_1] ; comma separated list of render targets. drawto = WINDOW, PANELS ; is the master device if true. MasterDevice = true ; aviation db: 0: nav_db2_grm, 1: nav_db2, 2: nav_heli_db2_grmn, 3: nav_heli_db2 NavDbType = 1 ; connects to: 'PFC_GTN' or any '#PID' (#D067 for PFC_GTN) ; no value connects to first found, 'OFF' disables connection. HardwareDevice = ; hardware selector number or -1 to disable. HardwareIdx = -1 LinkCrs = true [GTN_750_1.WINDOW] ; display window if true. visible = true ; show screen only gauge if true. nobezel = false ; display type: WINDOW,PANEL2D,PANEL3D,PANELS frame.type = WINDOW ; display position and dimension (left,top,width,height) frame.rect = 5120,2337,600,777 ; screen only border size (pixels). border.size = 0 ; screen only border color (#RGB or #RGBA). border.rgba = #000000 ; enable mouse clickspots if true, disable if false (use SHIFT to override) usemouse = true ; left mouse button on the screen toggles popup window if true (requires SHIFT+left mouse button). popleft = false ; right mouse button on the screen toggles popup window if true (requires XP11.1). popright = true ; VR mode position and dimension (left,top,width,height) (requires XP11.20) vrmode.rect = 0,395,415,395 ; display as popout window if true (requires XP11.1). undocked = true ; display mouse tooltips if true. tooltips = false ; freeze display position if true. locked = false ; auto hide in external view if true. autohide = false [GTN_750_1.PANELS] ; display window if true. visible = false ; show screen only gauge if true. nobezel = true ; display type: WINDOW,PANEL2D,PANEL3D,PANELS frame.type = PANELS ; display position and dimension (left,top,width,height) frame.rect = 0,0,0,0 ; screen only border size (pixels). border.size = 0 ; screen only border color (#RGB or #RGBA). border.rgba = #000000 ; enable mouse clickspots if true, disable if false (use SHIFT to override) usemouse = true ; left mouse button on the screen toggles popup window if true (requires SHIFT+left mouse button). popleft = false ; right mouse button on the screen toggles popup window if true (requires XP11.1). popright = true What do I need to change to remove the bezel and have the screen fill the 750 screen of my hardware? Thanks in advance for any and all help. Nathan

Looks like a great update with lots of new and important features. With so much being covered for the tubliners, it would be nice to see a GSX for small a/c for charter ops. Stretched golf carts, limos, SUVs for pax. Hand push carts, side by sides for luggage. Optional attire for pilot from formal to relaxed attire. Marshaller for engine start and departing taxi from parking.

I heard tell of a scientific experiment where they gave mice everything they needed to live happy with abunce in food, comfort and no threats of harm. They ran the experiment serval times all with the same outcome. While they thrived at first, they would end up turning on each other and take on all kinds of rolls that were anti-social behaviors thus they stopped mating and died off. Every time was the same result and all with a year or two. The lack of risk and reward removed along with all other challenges just gave little to live for. Often times when you hear about those who seem to "have it all" struggling with depression, it hard to understand but it makes sense.

I asked over on the Say Intentions Discord and found out that its the RAAS feature that is part of SI. Got no idea how long SI has had this feature but its the first time I've heard it. Great addition.

Something new happened for the first time yesterday and I have no idea what app or feature caused it. I'm flying the BS Baron in MSFS2024 in Australia on Say Intentions but i dont think any of those are a factor. I'm also using Garmin Pilot and have my Bose Aviation headset bluetoothed to my phone where I'm listening to Pandora and have SI ATC audio set to go while my computer speakers play all the other sounds. While I have Garmin Pilot on my phone, I;m using it on a tablet and not sure if its bluetoothed to my headset or not. So as I'm about to takeoff I hear over the headset what runway I'm on and how much feet is left. Then when I came in to land, I heard an announcement that I was lined up for the runway I'm landing on. I've never heard these announcements and have no idea what app it is. Anyone have any ideas? It was coming over bluetooth and not over my main speakers and even when the TDS GTN750xi announcement goes to my overhead speaker when the system is booting up as i also have an overhead speaker like in a real plane.

I used many over the years. FSCargo, FSPassengers, FSEconomy, OnAir, AirHauler, NeoFly as well as been part of some VAs. While no longer supported, FSPassengers was a great one. FSEconomy used to be a great community in the forums (and still could be as I have drifted away a few years ago) as well as a free and Pilot For Hire setup. I like that NeoFly offers banner towing which is unique. However, I've settled with OnAir for about three or four years now. It has the right amount of balance and big enough sandbox where you can take on the role of strictly a pilot showing up and just flying to being a owner/operator from mom and pop to a major airline. It offers various types of jobs, need for maintenance and repairs, plays friendly with all kinds of airport and plane addons. Having come from FSEconomy where I learned about burnout, I took my company building in OnAir at a slow and enjoyable pace. Having spent a year or so just being a solo act, I started using AI pilots and growing my ops. I fly only small GAs so I was doing cargo jobs and enjoy occasionally doing air tours or sightseeing tours. Theres just the right amount of blend or realism and ladder building to have a challenge but not so much that its a business simulator. Additionally they offer 4 different categories or worlds which offer more or less realism. I've "retired" as a flight line pilot in OnAir and just use it as place holders for myself and a few planes. instead, I've taken on a more enjoyable role as a Flight Dispatcher and Fleet Manager of a few C402s for route flying and TBMs for VIP charters. I found it so enjoyable that I created a light board wall of the airports my company services since AI pilots will divert to the alternative is the weather is below mins and a few map boards for the coverage area my VIP pilots service. I love how the lights are always different and can show the TAFs as well as why fields are MVFR. IFR or LIFR. Heres a look at my setup where I use the laptop as my dispatch computer. Some pics are with the hangars lights off to better see the boards. So yeah, there are many options and I recommend using one or more if you are looking for reason to fly since at its core, P3D, XPlane and MSFS are all just simulators (with MSFS now offering a career mode, although still buggy as I read it).

So shes been working on her TnG's and I realized that the Comanche was a lot to learn on for getting the basics down. She hasnt done any ground school leassons but I have been using each lesson to introduce various stuff to her that would fall under ground school. So I switched her out of the Comanche and into the Cessna 172 in MSFS and then The C172SP with REP in Xplane12. I gave her the option of which 172 she liked and she said the Xplane on. Anytime I've let ppl use my sim, its almost always been a real pilot friend and they just need to learn the sim, or a sim pilot friend who gets it. So watching her as someone who is very focused on learning but making all the learning pains I remember seeing in myself when I was completely green, is a refreshing feeling. I get where her head is and it allows me to relive my student days. Shes nailing her landings but going to Xplane12 with the REP for the default 172, with the knowledge that XP is known for its better physics, I can tell it certainly handles more realistically then the MSFS C172, Now the A2A Comanche is a heavier plane with a wider main wheel base so the ground roll feels right for it but she is struggling (like a new ppilot would) learning how to dance on the pedals and stay in front of the plane on the rollout. I didnt have the REP prior to her and have been looking for a reason to get back into flying XP as I enjoy it for different reasons as much as MSFS. We will get back into the Comanche at some point to do cross country flights using the real world below and go old school with no GPS, no moving maps and sectionals as I find that important to know and easy to practice in the sim but with the XP C172 with REP its also a great trainer.

It will be highly welcomed to have have a system rich float plane finally in the sim. Last one I can think of was the A2A Cub.