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Reading this topic makes me a little sad. I have been in the flightsim-scene since 1982 and we have come a long way. Carenado does a wonderfull job. I am certainly NOT a CTRL-E pilot but I realize that I am not a pilot at all. I enjoy the virtual flying in beautiful scenery and I am amazed by the speed of computers and graphic cards these days. All comparison to real aviation are nonsense. You can not technically compare a 80 dollar flightsim to the x-million real thing or a x-million simulator of the real thing. The aircraft of PMDG, Aerosoft and Carenado plus the scenery of a.o. ORBX, combined with things like a virtual airline or/and FS Economy gives an enormous joy for countless hours of desktop flying. Nothing is perfect and it will never be.... but the aircraft of Carenado, especially the most recent ones gives the LOOK and FEEL of the real thing. Look at it in this perspective. We have beautiful aircraft, very realistic scenery and powerful computers. A member of the virtual airline FlyUK made a recent video about the Carenado Cessna 404 Titan ( recent release) that emphasis why I like their planes so very much and why I still, since 1982, fly sky-high in Flightsimulator. Please have a look and relax ;-) https://youtu.be/9GTysE-uXlw

No crashes here. Yesterday I flew from Christchurch to Argentina for 9.5 hours with the B777-200 with SP1. Two things wondered me, my first low fuel temp warning in the T7 (according to a KLM captain on the T7 impossible in a T7-200) and three times an ASN failure. But these are just minor things that keeps you sharp on the road ;-) Everything else worked as advertised by Boeing and PMDG. Hans Wildschut The Netherlands

For Steve, The right side of the PH-BQO.

Dear readers/painters, As all of you I am thrilled by the beautiful PMDG T7. So is my special friend, captain Ferry van de Geest of the KLM. He was a captain with KLM and flew the T7 of this company in real life. Because he had to retire with KLM because of age he made his last flight from Amsterdam to Johannesburg and back to Amsterdam last month. After a short brake he will resume as a captain on the T7 of Turkish Airlines from November. During his last flight for KLM the aircraft was stickered with his name Ferry "Murdock" van der Geest. "Murdock" was his tactical when he flew the F-104 and the F-16 in the Dutch Airforce. He was really moved and honoured by this. I photographed his final landing for KLM (See picture). My request: Can anyone of you make the T7 KLM-scheme with the PH-BQO and Ferry "Murdock" van der Geest on the nose like in the picture. I don't have the knowledge of doing this. It would be wonderful and Ferry would be very surprised to see this. Thank you very much for reading this. Hans The Netherlands