vanderlay
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1 hour ago, Scott Harmes said:
I never flew in it, but I got to see the Connie fly at Avalon Airshow a few years ago, and also had the opportunity to take a tour on board. From memory it was a $5 donation and you could climb the stairs to board and pretty much stay on as long as you wanted. It wasn't overly busy so after wandering around the plane for a bit I was sitting in a seat and chatting to a couple of the volunteers, I think one was the pilot. I suggested they should take it up for commercial joy flights, but they said it wasn't allowed, I guess due to the strict regulations around commercial flights of any type. The main thing I remember is how tall those landing gears are. It was a bit hairy just climbing the steps to get on board, as they were quite narrow and seemed twice as high as regular steps you'd climb to get on a 737 or A320. Such a beautiful plane!
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!
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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.
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5 hours ago, Stillwater said:
That looks like a classical airport surrounding, Graeme. Concrete everywhere, all the car parking facilities - just the railway connection is missing. I assume this is not Yakutat?
I should have included the quote in my last post and it might have made more sense. Damn feeble brain.
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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.
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2 hours ago, paulk said:
This is not easy, I will start the ball rolling, looking at the aircraft on the ramp are we in Australia or NZ area of the world?
Sorry mate, I didn’t see your question early enough to respond.
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1 hour ago, Stillwater said:
And they look somewhat historic, may be Longreach. But this is not Orbx. So I´d go for Wollongong?
Well done, that’s very impressive work. Wollongong it is!
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Yay. OK here goes.
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7 hours ago, boetie said:
Hopefully the tower is enough
I think it is. I’ll say Gold Coast (although it will always be Coolangatta to me).
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6 hours ago, chumley said:
Get the Leprachaun to give up some of his bonus or threaten to egg his roof.
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.
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Have you been looking at 737 stuff maybe? I saw a story recently where Buffalo have bought a 737 freighter. Just a thought.
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45 minutes ago, John York said:
You're all too clever for me! I couldn't make head nor tail of any of it.
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.
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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.
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I’m very glad you did! Thanks
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Hi John,
If you haven’t had a look at this already, you might find it interesting.
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Sorry Don, I’m of no help I know, it just annoys me.
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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.
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Hi,
there seems to be one here https://flightsimeindhoven.com/linda/, hopefully that’s what you’re looking for.
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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.
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HARS
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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.