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There's an App called FlyingCalmly, that shows enroute turbulence. They've got a website, flyingcalmly.com might do the trick!

Last Friday, near Bournemouth UK. "The wife of an electric unicycle rider who died in a crash on a dual carriageway said he was the "kindest and most caring person I have ever met". Benjamin Franklin Wells-Lane, 46, died on Friday after the crash on Wessex Way, between the Bournemouth West Roundabout and the Richmond Hill Roundabout at about 16:00 BST. Originally from the United States, he moved with his wife to Poole in January 2025 after they married in July 2024. Dorset Police said no one has been arrested following the accident."

I like these olden days restored videos, but the emphasis is mostly cars, roads and driving, not many people in them.

The autoland doesn't work for me, noticed it didn't work for AvAngel either. I end up going round and round in a holding pattern on the final approach. Is there a trick to get it working, or just the luck of the draw?

Installed it yesterday, and agree, works fine - no issues - surprised they flagged at as not recommended in VR, could be losing sales! Yesterday was the last day of the free download for 2020 purchasers, "Lucky" I saw your post! Many Thanks

Thanks for that, the website said not recommended for VR due known limitations - so I took them at their word, and have never tried it. Anything it's useful to know, before I give it a go? An issues?

Thanks, been happening to me for years, assumed it was just a quirk, but now it's fixed, excellent!

I have it, but unfortunately doesn't work in VR, also true of Chaseplane, so no good for me.

Gawd! Just noticed the original post was from August last year!☹️

If the Pimax play software is showing the Crystal Light connected, run MSFS2020, make sure you've got a joystick or something, with a button that's bound to the command that will take you into VR (as you won't see your keyboard with the headset on!), and another button bound to reset the view, to the normal cockpit view, and you're good to go. Not sure I'd go for auto FPS from the word go, see what you get without any tweaks for starters? Also a million words have been written about all the setting adjustments available, but maybe just go for the bog standard settings of low, medium, high, ultra, to begin with, see how they look, Asobo would have put in a lot of work tweaking those settings, they're a good starting point.

Don't think its been mentioned, but you don't use elevator trim on the bus, when flying manually, just pitch and turn as required, if you leave go of the controls, it should just stay there. I also found the Boeing to Airbus transition a steep learning curve, and although I can use the MCDU for all the basics, never got into the fancier things. But if you make full use of all the automatics, it is the easier jet to fly.

Similar story - Did 1700 hours on the "Bandit" in the 90's, last flight October 98, happy days! E110 A 001 — Postimages

From Prune.org, a website visited by professional pilots: "The broken away front NLG doors on the tarmac is a telltale sign that the NLG was being manipulated. Contrary to the shorter aft NLG doors with the part tail number on them, the longer front doors are normally closed on the ground. They only open on retraction/extension."

I have both Spotty26 and Flightcontrolspotter, I find FCSpotter the easiest to use from a spotting point of view, especially as the software can be started from a toolbar icon, and used in VR. Also if you have a spare Xbox controller, all the movements needed once outside the aircraft are mapped to it. I found both quite complicated, especially Spotty26, but maybe that's just me.

Just for info a couple of responses on the PPrune forum, from pilots discussing the same event there: I feel this fella's pain as I was once in the same situation trying to land in pee-poor weather at Kennedy..... except the motion lotion was depleting at quite a rate as I worked at getting confirmation of protections being in place for a Cat III autoland. The answer was.....that nobody was prepared to say! Rather than turning into a glider we shot the approach and landed without incident or further issues. Turned out when I rang the Company Duty Pilot he said he would have done the same as I did. The upshot is, in The States they assume you know that its SOP for LVPs to be in force when minima drop below Cat I. Why can't they just add a one-liner to the ATIS FFS😡? Anyway, I learned about flying in the USA from that. Hope this is of use. The correct question would have been "are low visibility procedures in operation?" not "are you declaring LVOs" which are the procedures that aircraft operators follow. However I suspect the JFK controller knew exactly what was being asked but was too pig headed and up his own rear end to give a sensible and useful answer.