Not too familiar with the forum details. But, I will give it a whirl.
First of all, JohnFromOz, I was driving by those fields in the Skagit Valley, about the time you posted your entry. No tulips then. But there will be in April, when we will be back again. I think we are kinda far apart normally, when I am in Anchorage, Alaska, where I normally live and work. But a couple of years ago, we bought a vacation home on a hill in the middle of La Conner, with a great view of those fields. So, when I am in La Conner, I suspect I am a couple of thousand miles closer to you. We will be in La Conner for two weeks in April, tulips will be in bloom, my youngest daughter and her husband will join us for awhile.
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I have been into simming since the '80s, but not in a very intense fashion until the last 10 years. I spent a couple of years playing around with scenery, and then joined a small virtual airline and did all their plane painting and all their custom scenery objects for a few years. Being a young 71, but very busy guy, still working, I don't have the time I would wish, but still do a lot of simming.
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Now, you got to know, my wife and I had kinda fallen in love with La Conner. We had haunted the place for 15 years before buying a house. So Skagit Regional looked so inviting.
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Soss.....I look at the airport, plunk down a few objects, and extended the apron a bit, so that there would be room for my personal virtual airline, SkagitAire. Already had a livery, purloined from another fleeting romance with a location in Alaska, but my heart wasn't with it. But La Conner, close to Skagit Regional, that looked perfect.
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So, naively.....how could a 71 year old guy be naive?
......yup.......it happens.
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.......I go looking for pictures of Skagit Regional. Of course the orbx people, they got more out there about the virtual Skagit Regional than there is about the real airport.
Hard to miss.
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OK, so I downloaded all the four regions in the Northwest. And of course Skagit Regional, Anacortes, Concrete, and Darrington. I have an associate in my business that grew up in Darrington!!
So, now......got to figure out how my personal virtual airline, Skagitaire, is going to work out in this scenery.....
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.....let me tell you, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 is gonna be a tight fit. When we come to La Conner, we fly the Dash 8 into Bellingham......
May have to forget the Dash 8.........
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What do you think?
　
　
　
