Captain_Barfbag

The screenshot is very surreal. There is also a small utility called jabbgl which you can find in the library, I think. It allows you to correct airport elevations when the solution isn't as simple as it was in your case.

Tom, was this something that was intentionally inserted into the image, or did some unintended combination of bits in a pixel map just happen to be an exact match for a malware signature? If intentional, I'm not sure a warning is strong enough.

My system doesn't take very long to initialize at all. Have you tried restoring the flight, and then restoring it again, right away? If your problem is slow load time for a lot of scenery, this might alleviate it because the loading is done the first time and, depending on how memory is utilized, it might not need to reload it the second time.

Have you tried pausing the sim before you save? Either that or just save it a bit earlier.

When my hard drive crashed 7 years ago, I gave up simming. I came back earlier this year and AVSIM still remembered me. As for blood pressure? Read up on the meds, and particularly be aware of the side effects. They will try to give you the cheapest ones first, which is actually better for your bank account, but if those make you feel bad, go back and get something else. I had to reject two of them before I found one that didn't make me feel like crap, but now I'm fine.

Pan Am used to. Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, was Clipper Maid of the Seas. RIP.

Yeah, I have to remember that. On Tuesday, after most of the storm passed us in Massachusetts, I remarked to a co-worker that the worst thing I had to do was go downstairs and manually start the coffee, as there had been a brief power dip during the night and the digital clocks were all blinking. Later that day, our power went out and it's not back yet. It's relatively warm, though, so the worst problem we're looking at now is a prolonged shutdown and all the stuff in the freezer thawing out.

Out on the edge of this one, in the western suburbs of Boston. A bit windy with rain, but where I am there's no problem with water or power -- yet. It's now 4:30 PM local time.

And Microsoft justly deserved to be screwed for that. The browser wars have resulted in better products for all of us. If Microsoft can't compete fairly, they shouldn't be allowed to compete unfairly.

In our corporate environment, I don't control what's on my desktop. We have the IT Department for that, and they don't want us to use anything but IE8. I received a nasty-gram from some corporate bot that found Firefox on my machine. (I tried to remove it, but they've messed up the Windows 7 "temporary admin password" system, so I couldn't take it off.) Yes, Dilbert is alive and well where I work. AVSIM is keeping up with modern browsers, and dropping support for outdated rubbish like IE8. Our Corporate IT Department, on the other hand, maintains a lot of corporate stuff from HR to Benefits to Payroll to Training, and they have gotten locked into old webware that won't work on newer browsers. So, they don't want anyone to upgrade, because that means more work for them. I set my home page to Dilbert.com, but every week or so I find another corporate bot has come along and hijacked it back to the company's home page, which is comical but not very funny.

I still run XP at home, intentionally. The Corporate types at work have us on Windows 7, but we've got to live with IE8. Personally, I'm happy with a desktop machine, most of the time. I don't need a smart phone. I don't want to watch movies on a 3-inch screen, either. So, all these tablet and smartphone oriented systems with app buttons have very little appeal.

Eastern Airlines ran a Boston-New York shuttle hourly in the 1960s, and they put on extra flights during holidays. A a student, I could fly half-fare for $7. I still remember the flight where we took off from Boston, circled for an hour and then diverted back to Boston after the NY airports closed for weather. Electras, maybe? I saw it as a free airplane ride, but others got nothing but a stomach emptying the wrong way.

Is it just me, or is it my IE8? All of the topic titles are "Started by....." and a screen name. The actual topic titles are not there. It makes browsing a sub-forum kind of difficult.

I use Firefox at home, but at work I'm stuck with IE8 by corporate policy. This is a new PC with Win7, but it came with IE8. I'm not surprised at the low number of mobile users. After all, we're gamers who like our big screens. And, we even have big screens, along with keyboards and mice. I shake my head in bewilderment at those who pay huge monthly fees to watch movies in HD on a 3-inch screen.

Do these things determine your position and then report that back automatically? I could imagine some embarrasing situations..... "Hi, Honey. Don't wait up for me. We've got an 8 AM deadline tomorrow and I'm stuck here late. Sent by Blackberry from the Happy Endings Lounge, Reno, NV @19:32:30"

Same here. My computers plug into the wall, and I'm proud to have a cheap dumb phone. No self-respecting thug would mug me for my shoes, either. Sent by just thinking about it from my TrueWireless Cranial Implant.

I had a very short layover in Phoenix before the long ride to Hawaii after a flight from Boston. I only had time to grab a burrito at a fast-food place before boarding, knowing there wouldn't be anything worth eating on the plane. They let me on with the burrito, but siezed the packets of salsa. Man, what was in that stuff, anyway? Sure glad I didn't eat it.

While we're here, I'd like to point out the sceneries by Rob Touchtone mentioned earlier. He's put up a handful of new sceneries over the past couple of weeks. I appreciate the addition of some of these smaller airports for those who tire of flying between major hubs and the same old routes. Thanks, Rob.

I came back from France along with my bicycle once. The guy at the desk wanted to know if I'd been riding off-road. I hadn't, and my bike was strictly for road riding (narrow tires,) so he was OK with it. He was worried about soil in the treads of the tires that might contain bugs or microorganisms. It seemed like a reasonable precaution to me. Coming into the US, though, I wonder how much of the paranoia is justified, and how much stuff is not allowed just because they want to collect taxes on it, or protect a domestic supplier who makes big campaign contributions.

Allegheny Eastern Midway Northwest Aloha (maybe. I forget.) Aspen Airways Rocky Mountain Airways

That happened to me. I had an extensively hand-tuned FS2002, with custom AFCADs tweaked using the old "radius" system for gate parking, long before there were AI "installers" available. I had replaced all the Landmark and Orbit planes with country-specific airlines, over most of the world. My hard drive crashed. I gave up, put the yoke and pedals in the closet and left them there for 8 or 9 years. I bought an external USB backup drive. Now, 3 times a week, a program wakes up at 2 in the morning and backs up my entire hard drive, saving all the new or changed files to the backup drive. So, out there beyond where any internal disk crash could hurt it is a copy of my entire FS9 directory, all my add-ons and even my saved flights. All the photos from the digital camera, too, and the Turbo Tax files. That's a lot of security for about a hundred bucks. It's been said many times. It's not if your hard drive will crash, it's when your hard drive will crash. And there's no good answer.

I don't wonder why you use Firefox. No, not at all.

My wife used to complain about all the time I spent in front of the yoke and pedals. She suggested I pull the old model trains out of the attic, to get me away from the computer. Now, she complains about how much time I spend with the trains. OK, OK, after 6 years I've got yoke and pedals set up again. But, you're right. Don't miss nice days sitting inside. Save that for the rainy days. Don't miss your kids' games, or dance recitals, or plays. There will be plenty of time after they've left the nest.

The new company would be more like Boeing, combining aircraft and military aerospace,

RIP, Majel Barrett. She also played Deanna Troi's mother on Next Generation, and was the wife of Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek. As for Vulcans, they have something called the Pon farr, when they must mate or die. The rest of the time, they are very logical.