macca22au
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IN SPITE OF, OR BECAUSE OF MYSELF I have gone to MSFS. NEARLY 82 AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE SHAKES, IT HAS SUDDENLY BECOME EASIER to use the simpler version. I admit as an old professional Geographer I love the photogrammetry, old and coarse that it is in MSFS.
But remember Glencoe, never trust a Campbell or a man with his hair parted in the middle.
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All complaints change; someone tells us how to fix it, or it fixes itself. I am a happy little Vegimite, Orbx Central cured itself, and all scenery is happily reloaded in v5. However I am hesitant to go the MSFS way until Orbx redoes the Gold Coast.
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Hi John, I am on a powered wheelchair now, but still getting around. I have had my computer done up, and it is a total flop. Foolishly uninstalled 4.5 in the hope that v5 would be better, but no joy. I suspect it is worse. Didn't know the Library had reopened, even limited, things are looking up.
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Dexthorn: all our political leaders in Aus are in favor of a tough approach so your list is my .list. big-time.
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I have found LMv5 a pain in the arse. Can't install Orbx. I'm in a race to still be here when Microsoft comes out.
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I am happy and I look forward to release. I agree, facsimiles are the only possibility given the rapidly changing world of airports and landscapes.
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Fizzelle: to be deservedly corrected by a Yorkshireman is a saddening experience. However, as it is now an ambiguous statement, and I think I will leave the reader to insert or not a comma. It means I can't be wrong.
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Doc Z: I am a full-bodied Scots descendant on both sides....but by the 18th Century Mc and Mac became interchangeable, though mac meaning 'get of" with the word get having a special meaning in this context. We are McPhails or MacP, McVailes, McVaille, McFail, McPhain, septs of Cameron of Lochiel, as a result of the vagaries of spelling, indenture forms (that was a tough way to come, Rodger), clerks, and a general British disdain for anything Scots. No Mc is acceptable in Scotland as well, the change from a non-literate Gaelic speaking community to one of the best educated in Europe because of the Presbyterian concern for personal interpretation of the scriptures led to these variants becoming common-place.
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Doc_Z I can fully understand the father's problems. The Duke of Argyll, chief of the Campbells fought on the side of the English. He was wise and did well, but of course McDonald, Lord of the Isles on the other side lost everything except continuous dislike of the Campbells. My mother was a McDonald, and my grandfather remained a gimlet eyed hater of the Campbells...never walk in front of a Campbell we were told X generations later.
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Thanks Triplane, I was going to post a correction to my poor Scots. Yes clishmaclaver, a hullabaloo ending with no-one remembering what set it off....
Just a 'wee' typo...Triplane are you recently from Scotland or did you grow up in one of the areas of the US heavily settled by the Scots after Culloden and the Highland Clearances?
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For what it is worth I still don't know what started this, but what a satisfying mishmaclaver.
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Oh dear, and some of my best friends are POMS, and I also like a couple of Campbells.
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Nick: your political antenae must be sensitive, I've hunted for such an implication. The only one I happened to note is "Oh and as I've said before, the English are best too."
That is not political, just stupidly wrong.(LOL)
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Worry not, Dale and Roger.
There are no pockets in shrouds.
Hence while I can sim I will keep spending money on go-fast bits, and unnecessary gadgets like my new Samsung S10+
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Rodger: how apposite...
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Lawrence I must say that we downunder get a lot of financial assistance from governments for the medical treatment of our ageing bodies. It is my former high taxes at work, and I am delighted I paid them. So for old age, the second law is postponed. However the Reaper will arrive. Rodger I do find, after having lived and worked in the States, our system just a little bit more socially (not socialist) compassionate. Of course our very rich complain of having to pay the taxes which they claim to be exorbitant, although they can write the private jet off against business expenses! And Dale, I can only reinforce Rodger's wise comment, my wife and I downsized, we are happy with our new limits and it took very little time to adjust we found. Get the sim going, I find a good flight each day is great therapy, and I have a mobility scooter which gets me to the local shops and coffee often enough to give my family a break.
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Someone may have mentioned it, but in good old Australia, all states have a version of the blue sticker for disabled parking, but Fizz bad manners are not restricted to England when it comes to other users.
All states have Senior's Cards, where discounts are available in many establishments especially coffee shops, and on public transport etc. Quite valuable. My grandkids call them wrinklies' cards.
Also over quite a wide band of income, the federal government has a Seniors Health Card, and that gives among other benefits a really good discount on pharmaceuticals. For regular pills that come our way at this age, it really is a huge saver. Thank the Lord for close run elections and preferential voting....keeps the political offers going. Mind you never withdraw from private health insurance the public system is overburdened and underfunded and staffed by nurses who don't like people!
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Only missed one: sweet cigarettes. Maybe because during my childhood my parents were heavy smokers and we children hated it. So there might have been, probably were, the sweet cigarettes but we never tried it. PS my parents gave up cold after they attended the first illustrated public lectures on smoking damage......
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It does Nick, and UTC which is for all intents and purposes the same as Greenwich Mean Time is I believe the official form used for aviation. The English, of course, deemed that the 0 meridian ran through Greenwich and from this time was fixed. Being fixed, daylight savings time and any other variants have no effect. It all started back in the old sailing days, when fixing longitude was very difficult because of the lack of accurate time keeping. At midday every day at Greenwich Naval Depot a gun fired, and a ball on a flagpole was dropped and all ships within range reset their sandglasses and time pieces. The story of the first really accurate timepieces can be found in a book rightly titled Longititude. Aviation after the war moved into IRS although celestial navigation was still used into the Constellation days. Now atomic clocks and GPS have made us much more accurate and safer.
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Gentlepersons: I have posted on the appropriate site a request regarding settings to minimise the bloody blurries. If any of you with good running can help, I look forward to reading your recommendations on the other thread. Mushy thanks. But don't suggest changing complex files, I am scared of that, but I will alter the cfg as well as the in-game and nvidia settings.
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He's a natural...
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I relate absolutely to Ken Terry's and Ken Q's observations. Oh how accurate.
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Rodger, I have already posted my EV Harley replica motorised wheelchair (as our law requires us to call it, and it is governed to 10mph),
The machine is great and allows me to grow old disgracefully.
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JL I think that you asked for a link to the AS A318 Shared Cockpit video. I am not much at saving links, but you can find it in the preview section of FSElite. Good watching.
The Old Coots Club
in The Neil Hill Memorial Lounge
Posted
A mere child.