CaptainGabe
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Looks gorgeous!
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Leaving KIAH for KORD. Having fun in a project of mine.
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Starting a longhaul... ;P
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Enroute to SFO!! With the amazing freeware SSP 777-36NER that I painted myself
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Yea, in my life, seen 2 motorcycle crashes, and lost my brother in one. Car crashes, Ive seen about 4 my whole life.
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CNN has many issues that doesn't help with anything in any story lol Well, it is possible...VC25's are the perfect example...take a regular passenger plane, dish up millions of dollars and tada! WIll we see that issue come up? If CNN keeps bragging about possible air strikes towards civil aircraft, one of their "experts" will bring it up.
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So, after spending the past 40 minutes going through comments on facebook news posts of the recent air crashes, something kept bothering me greatly: All the people saying they wont travel anymore and the world is ending! As someone who loves aviation, it bothers me how three crashes close timed to each other can affect the public so greatly. So, here is what I posted to my personal Facebook. "I'm tired of everyone saying "Oh my all these plane crashes, never flying again" and "All these plane crashes...why is the world ending?!" First, flying is the safest way to travel. Period. In 2012, the U.S. alone lost about 33,000 people in car crashes...compare that to 360 of flying AROUND THE WORLD. Now all these recent airplane crashes, that is just all bad timing and bad coincidence...and really, none have any connection to each other other than aircraft models and airline which is also just coincidence. Also, MH17 was just at the wrong place at the wrong time, God rest all the innocent souls on that flight but no, that is no excuse not to fly. So, I just wanted to say, flying is still much safer than flying and nobody should be seeing this as a end of time or a warning to not to travel by air." Does anyone agree? I know I'm not the only one seeing these ridiculous comments. Please feel free to leave your opinion. I left some questions to ponder on. -Is the public over reacting with the safety of air travel? -Are airlines assuring the public enough it's safe to fly? -Is air travel still as safe as we think? -Am I having too many late night philosophical moments?
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The wants never stop coming from the simmers!!
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Very proud of this bird.The real -9 is coming to Houston by the end of August, so, I will make a version 2 that will be even more accurate for the model. But for now, version 1 looks pretty dang good. No link, maybe you can find it on this www, as the original file was removed...but I'm sure someone re-uploaded somewhere. Oh the video to go with it: Insert Youtube link here
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Right then...I've also heard they refuse to give the black boxes to anyone except the Russians. If this is true, are the Russians willing to let the US aid in the investigation? After all, we are involved with this since there was one American on board.
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Isn't it good that the rebels are keeping it away from Ukraine? Im sorry, been busy the last 24 hours and hard to keep up with everything as it develops so fast.
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The white house issue was from a unattended package at the gate. Not related.
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I guess it's a good thing I have not invested money into a new system yet. I'll wait for this thing to happen before I do! I'm still staying positive about all this.
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When I intercept the GS, I disconnect the A/T, find a good trim that will keep the plane level and use the smallest adjustments to increase or decrease my descent rate along with the help of engines.. When you watch videos of planes (Especially 737's) All you hear the entire approach is the trim wheel clicking. When I fly, (In real life) Once I find a good trim, I dont use the yoke to control pitch THAT much. What I do is, if I am too low, increase the throttle...too high, idle it and let the plane lose it's own altitude. If necessary, pitch over a little. This works well with most planes in FS, but really, each plane is different and requires a different amount of controlling for a approach.
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That is why my current simulator is FS2004. Sure, it has it's limitations, but it was my first sim and it isn't as bugy as FSX.
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This explains it clearly for southwest http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2010/04/a_closer_look_inside_southwest/
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Actually got some free time tonight! Flew on VATSIM. KSAT-KIAH ^_^
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Thank you guys! I'll have some more after this weekend.
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Yes, United does have different cockpit setups for different planes. The newer ones have full PFD and ND configurations. I thought GPWS callouts were to be turned on or off at pilots discretion?
