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Oh yeah, I remember now. KLAX is one of those places where the big jets land. I should have known that wasn't KLAX because I didn't see any of them there and there is no smog obscuring the mountains. Silly me.

KLAX?

I just reinstalled FSX and it won't run here either. CTD's on full screen and I have to reboot to get the box running again. When I get a chance I'll set up the Win10/7 dual boot again and go from there.

I feel like one of these guys..........

There's nothing like a free Stones concert to draw a crowd. I wasn't there but I lived only 25 miles away in San Ramon. And that's a day we "locals" remember too (if for nothing else than the traffic on 580). December 6, 1969. Wow...where have all the years gone? Sigh. The story of the Stones concert that day at the Altamont Pass Speedway will always be remembered by so many people for so many reasons...both the good things and the bad things. For all the many who have no idea what we're talking about there's more info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert . P.S. How long did it take you to get there Rob? And to get back home?

Over the weekend I decided to clean up some of the "junk" on my 47TB of HDD. On one of the drives I ran across my old FSX add-on files. All 927GB of them. As I hadn't used FSX in years I started to delete them. But then I looked again. There was some really good stuff in there. Sort of like old friends. But now it's a whole new ballgame. Or is it? The lightbulb suddenly came on. Why not just reinstall P3Dv3 and use all your favorite FSX stuff there? And that's what I'm doing. I don't know how much of the FSX stuff will run in P3Dv3 but I suspect most will and it's looking good so far. Fingers crossed.

Sure. We go back a long way. She picked me up at the county fair carnival 64 years ago. She was 12 and I was 14. We've been married for 55 years and she's still putting up with me So here we are...the ideal couple...a grumpy old man married to a tough old broad.

Interesting. I never found any noticeable difference between Name and Stealth. Probably just my lousy eyesight.

Sign me up too. I've been playing golf for 64 years and simming for 43 of those years so my wife REALLY knows what it's like to live with a grumpy old man.

Good question. There is a lot of "defrag hype" that has carried over from the days before Windows went to the NTFS file system. Back in the "old days" defragging your drive(s)was much more important than it is today. There is no general answer as to how often a given drive needs to be defragmented. Drives which have few write operations can go for a long time without any defragmentation (even years). The more frequent the write activity to a drive the more the need to eventually do a defrag. For the average home user about once a month, at the most, is just fine. As far as what program to use, unless you have a known need for something more sophisticated the built-in defrag utility in Windows will do the job as well as anything. It's all that 95% of users will ever need. I have 47TB of HDD on this system and as most all of it is used purely for storage I seldom even bother to defrag these drives after the initial defrag is done. I have my flightsim(s) on a SSD but when they were on the HDD's I never worried about periodic defragging there either. As long as there is minimal write activity all will be well.

From here it looks like the a***m.com domain registration has expired. Anybody else see the same thing?

Unless you've had some experience(s) in troubleshooting the myriad of problems that may occur otherwise you really, really need to consider a complete reinstall. It's not the fastest nor easiest solution but it's the best solution (IMNSHO) as it works 100% of the time.

After having a bit of a tough time with a recently-released flight sim I decided to "go back to the basics". I reinstalled P3Dv4, the PMDG 747-400, and FlyTampa's Kai Tak. Now I can go back to flying the IGS Rwy 13 approach exactly as I learned it from a golfing buddy who was a retired Northwest 747 pilot and had done it in RL many times. Indeed, flight sim heaven. Life is good.

Dave Brubeck at the first Monterey Jazz Festival back in 1958.

As a good friend told me many years ago...waiting is the perfect vaccine for those things that have no place in your life.

My second has to be my only flight into Kai Tak. That was over 40 years ago now but I'll never forget the approach on the Rwy 13 IGS. It was about midnight when we landed and I have no words to describe the incredible views on that that landing. I feel so lucky to have had the experience of being there. I'll never get back to Hong Kong again but it really doesn't matter as it could never be the same. Life is good.

The first time I touched down all on my own. I was only 16 then but I'll never forget the landing that day.

No wahala. One day ne one day, im tori ge geti bow leg .

Hurricane Charley in 2004. I was in Orlando, FL, and was really wishing I were somewhere else. Sustained winds at 85 mph (137 kph) with gusts up to 105 mph (169 kph). When the peak intensity of that storm moved through it was the longest two hours of my life. I never, ever, want to go through anything like that again.

My first choice (which is also the most fun) was deleted so here's my second choice. I walk five miles every day and hit the gym three times a week. The discipline part is easy...my wife is a nurse and if I don't keep up the health routine I'll find my stuff out on the street and I'll be eating TV dinners every night.

Mine's a Fitbit Ionic. If I don't walk at least 250 steps every hour it reminds me. At 10 minutes before the hour I get the "vibration" and it tells me how many steps I have left. This watch is just one of the many programable types out there. Fitbit makes a bunch of models as do Garmin, Apple, and a host of others. But the thing I like most about my watch is that isn't made by Apple

That's what I like about my watch too Rob. At 10 minutes before every hour the watch will remind me if I've sat on my butt too much in the last 50 minutes.

Maybe this will help you young people understand.........

It depends on how well things went a few hours before,,,,,

On the other hand many of us don't want to know what the total cost is. If I ever added up what I've spent over the years I'd probably give up flight sim and go back to whiskey and women.