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It's not even that their systems are light, it's more that even stuff that's supposed to work doesn't e.g. their B200 (IIRC) had gear indicator lights that didn't work. When they can't even manage an unambitious level of fidelity such as functioning gear indicator lights... Regarding ABBA I like some of their stuff but also can't stand some of it. As I've got older I've got less into bands and more into tracks, giving me a music collection with bits of everything from Alphaville to Zeppelin. It's been decades since I listened to an album. 🙂

I'm still on MSFS 2020 with the Black Square analog King Air and I can't see Carenado coming close to that in quality, apart perhaps for eye candy like opening doors and for me that's not a good enough reason to support their business model. Also, there seems to be an intention by Black Square to do a ground up King Air for MSFS 2024. I can't remember the last time I bought a Carnado offering.

The Boeings and Buses are, but I have a soft spot for the BAe RJ's and the MD80. Not enough to actually fly them, but they do have plenty of character compared to the others, and I get the impression that they're a bit more hands-on. My Black Square Bonanza keeps me busy enough for now...

I used to play FPS gams and had a blast playing Duke Nukem and Unreal Tournament over the LAN at work. I also enjoyed Far Cry, but that was as much the tropical setting, I think. I've moved away from FPS's since, preferring open-world RPGs along the lines of Fallout 3/4 and Skyrim.

That's the one - I didn't have time to find the URL when posting.

Black Square hinted on the Just Flight forums that a ground-up rebuild of the King Air may be in the works. It didn't say anything about having it in 2026 though.

The only surprising thing to me is that they ever worked together. Thranda is known for good-quality add-ons and Carenda is know for cranking 'em out as fast as they can turn the handle of the sausage-machine. One of the parties was going to have to undergo a Damascene change in its business model.

Black Square has hinted that a ground-up version is on the to-do list.

I've never been mad about the Caravan, but in the absence of a decent Twin Otter and with the Caravan used for similar work, and if it's made by Black Square, it's an easy choice to make. The only black square aircraft so far that I haven't got is the Starship and I've only put off buying that because of my existing to-fly backlog.

I'm curious why there would be three stop signs at a T-junction. In this part of the world that would be managed by (a) the road crossing the T having priority, with the stop sign on the "vertical" road only, (b) a mini-roundout or (c) traffic lights. Neither of those arrangements prevents rule-breaking of course. (Mini-roundabouts do occasionally provide entertainment when three cars reach it one the same time and each stops waiting for one of the others to make a move and you get a scene reminiscent of the Sad Hill face-off in The Good The Bad and The Ugly. 😆 )

An organised crime group operating in the craft fair circuit.

Maybe the Raffia was behind it.

On holiday in Italy last year, we had purchased 2-prong round adapters for our plugs (3 x rectangular prongs - Ireland uses the UK system) only to find that some places we stayed in used older style Italian power sockets that the adapters didn't fit into. After a bit of hunting we got the correct adapters-for-the-adapters and all was well...but the end result looked awful. 😃

It's when one military unit moves through the position of another. Not a big deal nowadays, I suspect, since soldiers are so well spread-out, but in the horse-and-musket period, when men were shoulder-to-shoulder and a line had (usually) three ranks, it could be tricky to do without leaving both lines disorganised, not a good thing if the enemy is in close proximity.