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I've been partial to 24 hour watches for some time and I may well end up buying another one. The hour hand goes around the dial once in 24 hours.. I had a cheap, fake Raketa brand with a picture of the Lunokhod lander on it, which worked OK until I accidentally dropped it onto a hard floor! A quick internet search has led me to quite a selection.. and a selection of prices too!

I love watches and timepieces, but don't have the budget! I'm wearing a reasonable Sekonda quartz at the moment, my dress watch as it were: https://www.sekonda.co.uk/products/sekonda-mens-black-leather-strap-chronograph-watch-1395 My current workhorse is this, but the stealth one. The numbers and hands are in dark grey rather than white. Practical in daylight only or with a torch, but I paid £9.99 for it about 3 years ago. Like the guy in the video - I thought it was going to be a quartz movement, but it's an automatic so I was quite pleased. Yes, the time keeping drifts after a day or two, but it's no Bell & Ross. Which is the inspiration I believe. I do have an AVI-8 watch, but it no longer works. Unsure whether to contact them and send it back for a no doubt hefty repair bill (I've tried two local jewellers and they've not been successful). It was a present from my family for my 50th birthday.. The thing is, I really do like their styles and they don't cost thousands of pounds. It was this model but with a stainless steel strap: https://i.redd.it/4i2ayk3ok4p21.jpg Great subject @IAhawkeyeDDS

Malc, I'm guessing the A320 Neo is the one in MSFS? I can't help you with that, but Perhaps one of the moderators might move your post to gain more relevant coverage and hopefully a proper answer and solution..

ANY plane?? Hmmm..... ..crop dusting tri-holer..... well, there's a DC-10 water bomber IRL...

Yes I did (note the lack of a large green bar with a 90 minute countdown) - I bought the Widebody Prologue which includes the 330, the freighter and 330 MRTT and the 340 (CFM56 and RR Trent 500 powered variants). That's the only way to have real world liveries on the planes as painlessly applied through the Pre-Flight Manager I believe.

Having discovered that one can indeed import a plan from an online flight planner into the BBS MCDU (as long as the plan is FS9 format and placed into the Company Routes folder), I decided to have a go at a full IFR flight with a complex Airbus add-on and I was very pleased. No doubt you Aerosoft and FSLabs guys are giggling away at the back, but hey, I've never used anything apart from a freeware Airbus before... and it works for me. 🍻 Imagine a fantasy of flight... A certain brightly coloured A330 owned by Etihad (A6-EYE) has been brought back out of storage for a trip to Porto - one of the opponents of a certain football (soccer) team in 2021 apparently. Therefore here's a reconnaissance mission, not without its pitfalls.. Blue Moon Rising preparing to leave Liverpool John Lennon, bound for Porto in Portugal. Stanlow Oil Refinery in the background. (FSX NOTAM: Eh? Liverpool? Well it's smaller than EGCC so I'd hoped there was less chance of an OOM whilst I was faffing about !) Taxiing out to RWY27 OK. Lined up. Spool up the engines, listen for the "KER-LACK" as the throttles hit the detent for a flex takeoff (I just fudged a number into the MCDU just to try a "flex" takeoff). See that the notification comes up in the top left hand corner of the PFD (not shown here as I'd not advanced the throttles..). I'd also changed the pressure setting of the altimeter so that the amber CHECK ALT notification was extinguished. (I don't think the "B" command for default FSX alt setting works with this 'Bus. Bye bye EGGP. Once she's cleaned up and settled, then a warning bleep tells me to lower climb and I move the throttles back (KER-LACK!) to the CL detent - AKA Autothrottle. The MCDU knows that the limit is 250 knots below 10000 feet and then speeds up to 320 in this case above 10000. Turning on to course, overflying Stanlow. We'll be climbing up to FL390 today. Cardiff Airport off to starboard and Barry Island off to port.. (I know I've got the blurries, but my LOD is set to 4.5...) On up to FL350 initially.. the First Officer's getting ready to read Tractor & Farming Heritage magazine.. We all need our hobbies... Passing by the coast of Brittany, it appears we are not alone: How are you doing down there? Keeping pace with each other over the Bay of Biscay. The Spanish and Portuguese coast.. Beginning our descent towards Porto. FSX NOTAM I'll have to have another read of the "manual". When selecting a descent the Airbus decided she was going to exceed 4000fpm (OP DSC or something??) or so until I'd commanded otherwise - impressive stuff! I do note that the autopilot and autothrottle responses are very impressive - I'd left the descent rate at around 2500fpm and forgotten to reduce this a bit as we neared the selected altitude yet the plane didn't undershoot or porpoise about - I have to baby the Sky Sim MD-11 AP in this regard... At 10000 going through the murk.. This isn't pretty and it took a while to get here, but we'll be OK... Down.. and on the runway...added bonus! Interesting flight. Phew! I had an interesting flight for several reasons: After being cleared to 10000 feet or so, it appears that the default ATC forgot about us and I ended up cancelling IFR and using the autopilot manually to get back close to LPPR, then hand flew a visual into RWY35. Even with the autopilot turned off, the autothrottle is separate and it was interesting to see the engine readouts respond to my pitching up and down (I'd guessed at a reasonable approach speed of 135 knots!!). I had a couple of sink rate warnings on the approach, but you can see I was a little high and just left the descent rate as it was until closer to the ground. I retarded the throttles to idle before landing (she didn't shout at me) but I managed to get a "FIVE" callout on the altitude strangely enough I'm not enough of a pilot to know what's wrong with the "flare" law in the BBS widebodies.. Another good reason I had an interesting flight was the satisfaction in watching an electric jet do what it's supposed to do insofar as the displays and the throttles seem to me, to pretty much do what I'd seen from watching Airbus takeoffs on YouTube. Things to do - consult the AVSIM membership on how to fly this new fangled airliner....I'll have to see if I can reload a saved flight and see what state its in... I'll try and find a way of inputting departure and arrival runways into the generated flight plan - SIDs and STARs if I get that far too. Also see how it shoots an ILS. Cheers! 🍻

As far as I'm concerned - I definitely do not take any offence to your comments. Far from it. This was just an interesting little side-debate from the main topic.

Jean-Luc - correct. However, there's no denying that people sometimes expect other people "to take pride in their appearance" especially if there's peer pressure to do so. My assumption is that there would have been such pressure to look presentable, though perhaps it may have been the lady's own perception (her imagination).

Rob mentioned the word I was going to use in my reply:- "entertainment" . My opinion is that TravelRunner's mother did what she did because of pride and self esteem as seen from her peers. Many people like to put on their "Sunday best" to go to church, kind of a tradition as it were. It shouldn't really matter (without getting into a religious discussion), but I suspect (my assumption) that her peers might well have looked down on her for turning up in the same, old dress, even if it was well looked after and clean. She was doing what she did for pride, and perhaps misguided self-esteem, not for entertaiment. Now, pirating something just because you desire to be entertained by it is wrong. I'm no saint in that department - I had a twin tape deck hifi system as a teenager (I believe they were quite popular back in the day... ) and even hooked up a VHS recorder and a Betamax recorder to transfer rented movies... Even though it was for personal use, rather than me trying to sell 50 bootleg copies at a local market, it was still wrong. Funny - with the twin cassettes - I cannot recall ever making a tape from a bootleg - I used to borrow original tapes (and vinyl albums) from my friends and vice versa; I'd bought an original or my friends had. Granted, there was only one purchase and not two, still wrong, and all for entertainment..

LOL! Reviving an ancient post is nothing like sex with the dead I can tell you... I used to be into S&M, necrophilia and bestiality, but I had to give it up... because I was flogging a dead horse!.... ba dum tish.. Ahem. I'll just get my coat... and close the mortuary door on the way out.. for those who didn't get the joke and the smiley, I'm not into those activities (although trying to install add-ons into FSX can be quite masochistic!). However, thanks to the internet I am aware of such goings on..

I was only trying to help the guy. Perhaps he posted in the oldest MSFS forum which is on Avsim?

OOPS! In my eagerness I didn't fully read the spec on Lionheart's site re:- crew loading. It does state FS2004 only. Apologies for that.

I concur! What key do you press to cycle the undercarriage? Middle G? (Couldn't resist, sorry!)

I know, I know, it's not like me to buy much payware, but I've had my eye on this pretty little thing for a while, despite my liking for heavy metal & fast jets. I took advantage of a the recent Just Flight sale so that the Lionheart Creations Aerospool WT-9 Dynamic was mine for less than a tenner It appears to be very faithful to the real life ultralight. Thanks for viewing.

Glad that you fixed the issue!