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vanderlay

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  1. It’s well worth it, but if I’d wait for one of their airshows for the best bang for your buck. Nothing like the size of Avalon of course but very good all the same.
  2. I guess they were their “away from home steps”, the set at HARS were quite nice. Not sure how long they’ve had them but like everything else there they look like they’ve had some time put into them. The other thing they had there was the Southern Cross replica which looked like it was brand new. Extremely impressive!
  3. Yep, I’ve been there a number of times, and was last there a few weeks ago for what they call their tarmac weekend. They run the engines on some of the aircraft and also have tours through the place. We sat in the F-111, had a tour through the Connie, a Dakota and also a very interesting one through the 747 by an ex Qantas captain who had flown that particular aircraft numerous times. A really interesting bloke who knew seemingly all there was to know about it. Like you say, the volunteers are extremely dedicated and a lot of them ex Aircraft Maintenance Engineers from the airlines and Defence Forces.
  4. I should have included the quote in my last post and it might have made more sense. Damn feeble brain.
  5. I’m not entering into this except to say I think there was a railway nearby, and also concrete around in the form of a couple of large water tanks.
  6. Sorry mate, I didn’t see your question early enough to respond.
  7. Well done, that’s very impressive work. Wollongong it is!
  8. I think it is. I’ll say Gold Coast (although it will always be Coolangatta to me).
  9. Haha. Apparently someone took to it (his house) with toilet paper the other day, so you’re not the only one thinking along those lines.
  10. Have you been looking at 737 stuff maybe? I saw a story recently where Buffalo have bought a 737 freighter. Just a thought.
  11. Agreed. I’ve been on question 1 for the last 8 hours and don’t seem to be any closer to getting it than when I started.
  12. I remember reading once that they never knew this as Echo Alpha Oscar Uniform, or whatever the phonetic alphabet was at the time, they knew it as God (h)Elp All Of Us.
  13. Hi John, If you haven’t had a look at this already, you might find it interesting. http://www.aussieairliners.org/b-707q/vh-ebf/vhebf.html
  14. Sorry Don, I’m of no help I know, it just annoys me.
  15. The whole MSFS 2020 manual situation is poor, a decent PDF manual wouldn’t be too much to ask for I reckon, for aircraft and the sim in general.
  16. Hi, there seems to be one here https://flightsimeindhoven.com/linda/, hopefully that’s what you’re looking for.
  17. The technology looks impressive but why do it people. You can’t beat natural vision for want of a better term. A bunch of controllers have to be somewhere, they may as well be up the tower not relying on every screen and camera and the link between them to be working perfectly 100% of the time just as our eyes do. I think it’s a little opposite to us simmers, we spend our time trying to make it look like less of a sim and more real and they are making it look less real and like more of a sim. Plenty will disagree, but it’s just my thought.
  18. I think it was the brilliant “Kelly” Johnson of U2 and SR71 fame that designed the P38, Howard Hughes did design a similar looking aircraft which I can’t remember the name of, but it was a much bigger aircraft.
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