Waldo Pepper

Aviation can be a cruel mistress.

One hour and 45 minutes until soaring over Oeventrop, Germany. Anyone interested? Flight Plan and WPR on my google drive. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OqCbLzl1qUmW5L3iZtTm2UCPn0oNQZbU/view?usp=sharing Link to the even at SSC, https://discord.gg/Bdg9sEy

Fun Fact: In the USA, greater than 98% of ALL federal criminal trials end in a plea bargain.

I about to leave for work, but that video link doesn't work for me.

Reminds me of this, Edit: Bob Hoover at 2:22, amazing pilot.

The PLN and WPR will always be posted a few hours prior to the event, to discourage people from "studying" the course and the weather preset prior to the event. Link: https://discord.gg/BqMWf9TK?event=1105765725878108212

Curious if you were you in the region when Mount St. Helen's erupted in 1980?

According to Nick Zentner, the quakes along the San Andreas fault are 7.0 on the Richter scale, give or take a few decimals. A 9.0 would be 900x more energy than a 7.0.

Windows used a deferred procedural call system which allows the os scheduler to give time sensitive workloads a higher priority. The cpu or gpu performs it's calculations in batches, and then the OS can either choose to interrupt the system bus immediatel and transfer that data set with immediate priority, or it can choose to place that data in a buffer and transfer it in a more convenient time. This allows the system to give more immediate access and more bus time to high priority tasks like graphics and audio, and provide less resources to background tasks. A poorly written driver or process, a bad driver installation, or missing driver, can cause high interrupt latency or severe lag spikes. I use Latencymon to check system latency, and figure out what might be causing it. Often you can track it down to which driver or process is offending. Look for drivers or processes with high execution times, look for page faults, etc. Page faults occur when the CPU needs to process data which isn't resident in the system memory, and has to receive it from a hard drive across the system bus. This can also cause massive lag spike as the CPU and GPU wait around. https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon_using If the symptoms disappear when latmon is running, I'd start to think about cpu power management issue like a bad chipset driver install.

Wild. I can picture a 3,000 to 4,000 foot mountain ridge once being there. Maybe 5000.

What does LatencyMon say?

This is so close to being a C-130, which is something I really long for in this sim. /Crapt'nSim's C130 doesn't count.

https://discord.com/channels/876123356385149009/881093883075915827

Keep an eye on the big blue arrow, which is your relative wind direction.

Forgot something important,

Forgot to mention, that I prefer the DG808s. It's just so fun to fly with it's 3 notches of negative flaps, zero flaps, and 3 notches of positive flaps (one pos position is landing). It also has speed brakes. Very fun to manage energy in it.

The Sim Soaring Club just concluded their weekly Saturday flight. We flew over Norway, departing at midnight. The lighting, scenery, and terrain mesh were simply stunning. A pure treat. Beautiful lighting and reflections of the canopy. Approx. 35 pilots attended today, and it was cool seeing all the nav lights in the Norwegian moonlight. They gave me permission to repost their flight plan and weather preset here. The weather preset is particularly good, nice ridge lift on the upwind side of ridges. Fly it without a glider if you want, but it's so fun with a glider. Very challenging, constant decision making. Here is the .pln and wpr. hosted on my google drive, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XAqx8N_53OvX2bmOEVR9SMaFGBNzDhwu/view?usp=sharing SSC's .pln's contain tasking data such as min/max waypoint radius, or altitude. For example, this task had a start line with a 3000ft altitude cap, and a 2500m max radius. The tasks are created with B21 Task Planner, https://xp-soaring.github.io/tasks/b21_task_planner/index.html The default nav system in the AS33ME can load B21's task data. The LXN nav mod for the DG808s, Discus 2c, and DG1000e can also load that tasking data. https://flightsim.to/file/15090/as-33-me (tasking system built in, no nav mod needed) https://msfs.touching.cloud/mods/ms-dg-808s/ - https://flightsim.to/file/41698/dg808s-lxn-nav-replacement (needs the nav mod) https://flightsim.to/file/41623/discus-2c-lxn-nav-replacement SSC has been able to create some great weather presets since the last sim update. Gliding is beginning to be very nice.

Here's me, https://corbeau.com/gaming-base/ https://corbeau.com/racing-seats/fx1-pro/ I use the wide for my wide butt. I went to home dept and bought some 1 inch box tubing. Welded two lengths of it to the bottom of the gaming base, long enough to build a pedal platorm. Bolted on a front mount for my stick, and used the unutilized side mount bolts of the seat to mount small side panels for the switches and hotas. Call me weird, but I hate flying in everyting isn't in the same place.

I'm glad I wasn't one of the guys who went around bagging up all the hot topsoil. The Japanese exhibited an extraordinary will to persevere. It's predominantly mountainous, they have a lot of people, and their isn't a lot of flat land to spare. I

If you think about it, 250 miles of coastline suddenly dropping 2 ft, and enough forces to move the entire mainland eastward 8 feet, basically "shoved" the Pacific Ocean away from the coastline. First you see the ocean water recede drastically away from the coastline, then return in four distinct surges. In the next 2 or 3 days they had something like 211 aftershocks, up to 6.7 Richter. Between the blackouts, no news, no water, no food, no idea of what happened. Freezing temperatures too. Then when you finally get news, it's all bad. The loss of cooling at Daiichi, the hydrogen deflagrations. 18,000 deceased or missing. Debris everywhere. I was thinking about the logistics of bringing in the rescue helos, and keeping them fueled. They say that day 3 had the highest number of rescues. Japan actively prepares for such quakes and tsunamis, most of the world is completely unprepared. I have to give them respect for how they handled it. Shinzo had to make about some difficult decisions about venting radioactive gasses over Japan, a nation with it's unique place in history. Then in July of 22, a man walked up to him through a crowd.

I also listen to Nick Zentner when I fly over the Pacific Northwest. I live in a geologically region, which is flat as a pancake. I have to credit Nick for getting me interested in geology, he posted a ton of material during the quarantine. I often let science videos play in the background while I work.

Salinity and temperature are a factor too. Something I never really thought about until I saw the Plimsoll Line on a ship. Same here.

I wouldn't call physics a mystery. . 😁