Ken Q

Besides flying Orbx -Land, I've spent a good part of the last couple days reading the story of the ROORD "Ducks" team. That, and "escaping" the house to go for physical therapy (recovering from knee replacement surgery with complications), makes for a pretty good way to hunker down for the duration. Ken

I've done this flight too, a few times. Except that I landed at Greenwood Municipal (KHFY) which is a GA airport on the southeast side of Indianapolis (an ORBX freeware airport). You're absolutely right, it's a beautiful flight over great scenery. Ken

That's fine John, whatever suits best. Offer is always open, for you or anyone else. When outside of PiloetEdge coverage I use VoxATC, but I'm going to take a look at the program you're using. Ken

John, One nice feature of PilotEdge is that you can suspend your membership when you leave the coverage area, And reactivate it when you return. Look at the coverage map and you'll see that they cover a lot of the western half of the U.S. Although your Phenom could run circles around my Mooney we could do a flight together next week if you like.

You're now in the PilotEdge coverage area. PilotEdge provides real live controllers who can read a chart and know the terrain and the airports. There is coverage 15 hours a day, and the coverage area largely coincides with Orbx PNW, NorCal, SoCal and Rocky Mountain regions. They have an excellent training program, give a two week free trial membership. I love it, so much that I've been flying the West Coast for months. Take a look. www.pilotedge.net Ken

Folks, fear not! If you want Angwin-Parrett go to the Turbulent Design web page and download it. It comes with a great installer, and the installation is painless. This looks like a great little airport and a challenging one to use. Ken

Russ, I got their KBDL, and it's pretty good, at least for the time being, while we wait for ORBX to get to it. Much better than the default. A long time ago I made a little scenery file that added static aircraft and the NE Aviation Museum, which works with this. Not bad but a long cry from ORBX. Though I do like the fact that the proceeds benefit an animal shelter. Thanks again for the heads up. Ken

Thanks for the heads up, Russ. I'll take a look. Ken

There is a lot of really nice freeware for Connecticut, and Chester is GREAT, but we could do with a lot more airports in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania. I'd love to se a New England/Northern Mid Atlantic (NY NJ PA) Region, and I'll be very grateful for any free ware airports, and will buy in as instant any pay ware airports in this large geographic area. The sooner the better. I'd especially like to see, among many others: KDXR (Danbury, Ct) KHPN (Westchester Cty - White Plains) KFRG (Farmingdale Republic) KBDL (Bradley, Wndsor Locks) KPVD (Providence) KALB (Albany NY) KLNS (Lancaster, PA) KJST (Johnstown, PA, overlooking site of great Johnstown Flood) Ken

Simply put, "Time's arrow only points one way; everything runs down (sorry, no perpetual motion), including us. Shucks! I thought I'd just loose 30 years my problems would be solved! (Sorry, my comment should be AFTER the quote, so put it here). Ken

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N67 is now KLOM. I agree that this would be a great little field for the ORBX touch. Ken

Twelve out of the fourteen. Don't have a clew about the "Sweet Cigarettes". I don't remember "Party Lines" in my area, but that may be because as a tyke I was never, ever, allowed to use the telephone. A telephone call cost 10 cents, a letter only three, and besides, anyone I'd want to call, I'd just walk over to their house and knock on the back door. I do remember when we got a dial telephone; not that I could use it, but I remember Grandma making a fuss over the fact that she could now call Grandpa at his shop without going through the operator. This was about 1954, I think. Wash-tub wringers were pretty dated when I was a kid, but my aunt had one, and I found it fascinating. Our house was "modern", we had a washer with a spin cycle, AND a dryer!.. We had MADE IT! Ken

I'd like to see this too.

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Two observations: 1. Time flies when you're having fun. Except at our age time flies even when you're not having fun. 2. Getting old ain't for sissies.

This too is enhanced as a part of a Region, so won't be done separately. I've never been to the real life airport, but as depicted in the Orbx region it, and the area around it are very nice. Ken

Can't understate the importance of our four footed companions. I fully empathize with you, Spud. My wife & I have had cats all our lives, and each has been a dearly beloved companion. We've been lucky, except for one which died at 11, they have each lived to 20 or more, but losing them is hard. I hope you and Simon still have some time left together. Our current buddy is a 9 year old named Chessie Now, this is a FlighSim forum, so let's go there. I recently upgraded my FSX sim with a powerful new computer from Jetliner. I also added a Transponder from VRi, and made my own Communication Panel from Cockpit PHd components. I was showing it off to my wife today with a flight from Orbx KSAN to Thermal Ca. in the SoCal region. Chessie joined us from the start, first on one lap, then the other. Sure he couldn't figure out what his stupid humans were doing, and all the strange noises. But he had fun too. The family that Sims together stays together (I guess). Ken

To this list of MN airports I'd like to add KSTC, St Cloud (my wife's home town airport).

I'll join at the end of June. Be 70 then. Ken

KHTO is in the latest freeware pack, so now we have a few Long Island airports. I'm still hoping for KFRG.

KGRI - Central Nebraska Regional, aka Grand Island A medium sized regional airport with GA and some air carrier traffic, particularly interesting to me because: I'm currently in the middle of my annual jaunt from my base in NY (KFRG) to the west coast to enjoy the Orbx west regions. As much as possible I'm flying from one Orbx airport to another, spaced about 90 - 130 miles apart. I'm currently at Fremont (KFET), northwest of Omaha. The next Orbx airport to the west is North Platte Regional, (KLBF), almost 200 miles away. This is a bit long. Another airport in east-central Nebraska would be great, and this is an interesting one anyway. Josh Flowers, who does the MrAviation101 YouTube channel flew from Texas to KGRI to observe last summer's total eclipse - three nice films, the second of which feature nice shots of this airport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77CvL2cQXMY Thanks, Ken

Spadaro/Lufker and Fishers Island are already in the NA freeware collection, but I fully agree with you on all the others. I also agree with your comments about lighthouses. This is a major problem in flying VFR in this area, especially at night, because the lighthouses are as much an aid to navigation for aviation as they are to shipping. There's a lighthouse (race Rock, just off Elizabeth Field Rwy 11, which helps in the approach. Then all up and down the Sound and the South Shore of LI. Montauk, Fire Island, Ambrose tower, Brenton Reef, Pt, Judith, Great Gull and Plum Islands - the list goes on. Please? Ken

Two requests for the future, interesting airports, but I also have personal reasons: St Cloud MN (KSTC). Fair sized regional airport serving St Cloud, the town in which my wife gre up. and Atlantic, IA (KAIO). My father was born in this town. I don't remember him (he died when I was two) and the family (what I know of it) has long gone elsewhere, but I like to stop here on my cross country jaunts to honor his memory and wonder "what if?"

I'd love to see KMGJ too. So much of south eastern NY could benefit from the Orbx touch: KPOU and KFRG, among others. Ken