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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. And it is Fizzelle Now can I remember?

Finally, Fizelle....

Fizzelle...oh dear Old Timers disease.

Frizelle: great video, still laughing.

Whoops Frizzelle, I put my foot in it, but then, Yorkshire isn't part of England is it?

Fizzelle, if you disturbed the Poms no-one in Australia would lift a finger to help them.

I had an old single-pot Triumph 500...and before the day of key starts, it could take the skin off your ankle. The compression lift was something else. But I wasn't meaning to be a Me Too, but because I really want to have a whinge, or maybe our North American colleagues call it a vent. My Windows system wouldn't take the so-poorly named very large Creative Update, but it also wouldn't stop telling me to do it, Then finally the machine would take over doing the upgrade and failing at the same spot each time as I had done manually. To avoid the endless notifications I got a geek, commercially, to come and install the update. Since then everything is a mess, and getting worse. I hate the darn thing. But I cannot find a restore point before the update, they've all vanished. I managed to get hidden folders back, but some Apps and their icons have disappeared, Search can't find them and the web offers cures more complex than a colonoscopy and about as pleasurable. Simming is becoming a horrible experience, with FSL starting with black and blank gauges, and the PMDG FMC freezing and after fiddling trying to make things work, a CTD...which I had never suffered from under normal circumstances. Sorry about the vent, and on Monday I am going to pay a known expert company to re-do the thing. I hate it, I hate it.

Hi Roger, I was in the Bay of Islands at New Year, DV (Deus Volente..God Willing, an old phrase that suits us well) I will be there again in less than a year. I'll try and set up getting together. Pat and others can we multiplay Skype or similar, and have an on-line drink to each other. May be the Old Coots will learn further skills. Now I have just to learn how to access the Wrinklies Discount on Orbx, too good to miss.

Virtual reality has its limits, virtual beer is not quite as satisfying.

Just ensure that you have pitot heat turned on....it is still fun.

And this Old Coot will be buying Gold Coast Cityscape as soon as it is released, and landing illegally at YSPT ( a private very expensive membership airfield). Also looking forward to YBCG when it is complete........

TeeCee: you're right, regrettably some of us do live so long that diapers become necessary and so do special nursing homes. Fortunately I am still among the Romeos - love that acronym. Sitting around claiming the world was better back then, while enjoying a thoroughly modern computer game and hanging on every upgrade.

My wife and daughters have christened me FFB, Fat Fossil Bones, when I reached 79 yesterday. There is no respect these days.

And it's great to see so many Australian and NZ residents still alive, kicking and simming. Jim NZ, which High School?

79 next week, bits falling off, but I can fly, fly and fly on the sim. Had a great work life, also ran up 2000hrs flying and did a lot of offshore yacht racing. Tee Cee I have never understood shared cockpit or on-line flying but I am willing to learn. I loved RW flying, now I am happily stuck on computer aviation. Fortunately, like many of us, my wife encourages me (she also held a licence), and also is happy that I change my CPU and graphics cards every couple of years. That makes a difference to simming, because the modern airliner add-on and the fantastic advances in scenery realism means to enjoy them we need lots of grunt.

Hi TeeCee I thought shots of the planes I have flown might be more interesting than my wine-blown face.

WE note OUR comment....

Here is another view. Believe it or not, I just googled VH-RNH and got a lot of hits. So if this is inadequate, you could have a look for something better. Many thanks

Yes the FSD. VH-Romeo November Hotel ..... sounds like an assignation.

I would cherish a repainted..seriously.

And here she is, neat and tidy. I note that it is registered to a company in the Brisbane region so it is probably based at Archerfield. With a little bit of effort I just might go out and pat it, once again.

At the entrance to Parafield Airport,South Australia They say "age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn", but .... to have a plane 'spiked' is something to underline my present age. I clocked only 36 hrs, in her but she was a delight to fly on both engines, but a handful in an EFATO test... I am still hunting a photo of my 'truck', VH-RNH a Piper Navajo that I loved dearly. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to be private pilot holding a multi-engine, first-class instrument rating (whatever they are called nowadays).

You both have beautiful girls.

Hey, High Ground Akubra is Australian. Wide brim to keep the very hot sun off the face. They were always worn by the boss, the grazier, not the stockman or farmhand. Some private schools in Australia that educate the sons of the rural rich, our landed aristocracy, also affect the Akubra as part of their uniform. Make sure you get one that suits your build, otherwise like a previous Prime Minister of Australia, you can look like a roofing nail. They look best on tall, strongly built men ... and that's not me.

Oh Antonvs, I flew over Point Lookout probably hundreds of times, it was en route to Coffs Harbour used extensively on nav tests and flights from Armidale, where I learned to fly. Also it was a warm winter destination for us from Armidale to escape to, and not run up too much by way of flying costs. I only wish fate had allowed me to take you on that flight, but the years and health have removed my license, and my career ended us up in Brisbane, well the Gold Coast really.