John Heaton
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12 hours ago, wain71 said:
let the testing commence....on a different though related subject, is there any reason for the name Gold Coast? any history there or was it just a name chosen? the area not just the airport that is...
@wain71 + @Stillwater - Originally - the name was Southport - and still is officially - but as time went by - the thousands of visitors that came
to enjoy the miles of GOLDEN Sands and the Surf Breaks - it became what it is today - a tourist Mecca - with high rises - canals - very similiar to
Miami
You might just spend a moment comparing this with the crappy 10 year old Bin produced on MSFS
Miami
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50 minutes ago, John Dow said:
Yes it's a new policy, while the scenery is in beta, you can pre-order at the place holder price, or you can wait until the scenery has passed beta testing and the price reverts to normal. 🤣
Thanks, John, for that.
Without labouring the problem - which is still shown - 3 mins ago - still at the same price - where does it say that in the introduction at the start of this forum
of the software for sale - that advertises this NEW policy of Beta purchases - which seems to be creeping in all over the market these days.
Did I miss an anouncement at some time recently
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6 hours ago, Nick Cooper said:
Hello John,
I am feeling a distinct sense of déjà vu.So in a nutshell, due to your own prudence, there have been hardly any purchases made with only the 20% senior discount applied.
déjà vu. indeed - thanks Nick - for the reply which I do remember quite well - despite the seniority --- and the prudence really stems from
my Lancashire / Yorkshire upbringing
It tends to serve to assist others - that are not so acquainted with Orbx idiosyncrasies as we older persons are
However - I wonder what would happen if I had pressed - "Buy and Install" ?
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5 hours ago, John Burgess said:
At least it means we've got a build to test
I'll suggest a pensioners discount when I put my report in
All the best,
John
The thought is good John
However - I have been entitled to such a discount for years - but I never seem to get it - on all my full price purchases
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Earlier suggestions are that I would be very pleased to see a new GC airport at last in MSFS
Yes I am - but I cannot afford the price shown in Central at over $ 1085.92 - out of my
old age pension - but probably the 92cents - if it is worth that
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Thanks for the thought Wolfco - but it's not really for JH - because JH as had a very good modern GC airport for
some time on the Marketplace
However just for thought that someone else has gone to the trouble of making what is probably a more update
version of my own airport - it will be a purchase👍
Now ------ if only someone can satisfy my real beef about MSFS - and it's now10 years old depiction of Australia
-and the Gold Coast - and give us a new UpToDate version of both
I took a flight yesterday - in P3D4 - there was my house - on the Orbx Gold Coast scenery from later - than MSFS's
BING - where my house that I have lived in for 10 years is only shown as a building site
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Thanks for the thought Wolfco - but it's not really for JH - because JH as had a very good modern GC airport for
some time on the Marketplace
However just for thought that someone else has gone to the trouble of making what is probably a more update
version of my own airport - it will be a purchase👍
Now ------ if only someone can satisfy my real beef about MSFS - and it's now10 years old depiction of Australia
-and the Gold Coast - and give us a new UpToDate version of both
I took a flight yesterday - in P3D4 - there was my house - on the Orbx Gold Coast scenery from later - than MSFS's
BING - where my house that I have lived in for 10 years is only shown as a building site
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What all the above have wished you - with knobs on
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On 1/5/2024 at 9:39 AM, gumbypickett said:
I usually stick within Australia but I would like
to see more of New Zealand north and south islands.
I don't seem to do much flying lately but hopefully
I'll find the time this year.
cheers
Gumby
Gumby reminds me of a fight I did about 4 years ago - in P3D well before the birth of MSFS
It was a - "Keep Australia on the Left" sort of flight - passing over the 4 cardinal extremities of our "Island" (12000miles)
flying the Nomad - PA 34 (wish we had one in MS)
Maybe I will do it again - post MS2024 - in the FSR 500 - a great aircraft - even though it has Glass instruments
however - maybe the TBM 850 - or maybe - the twin 414 - steam gauges - for safety
Decisions - decisions -
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On 1/2/2024 at 4:06 AM, Stillwater said:
If there was a need to import deadly animals to Australia...
This article will probably delight you - so be more careful - next time in God's country
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2 trips - when 2024 arrives with its promises - both replicating my flights from UK to Cyprus for my military service in 1956/57
DC6 via Luqa in Malta - and via Munich and Athens in a Viscount - will need a substitute - probably the old Boeing - but no jets
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13 hours ago, Ken Q said:
This seems like a very nice tradition. I'm surprised, not only that my family did not observe it, but that I've not heard of it before this. For most of my childhood I lived with my grandparents, both of whom were born in England (Southampton and West Hartlepool). We also celebrated the New Year 1991 in Beccles with friends, but no mention of this custom, either. Then again, we celebrated the turning of the year in the bell tower of the 14th century church where our friend was a bell ringer ringing in the New Year. Is this perhaps a more regional custom? But this is a wonderful story.
Happy Birthday to your wife!
(My mother's birthday was also New Year's, my grandmother's was Boxing Day, and my wife's is Christmas Day).
Happy New Year to all!
Ken
Hi Ken - I suppose it was much more a Northern tradition - stemming from Scotland - Hogmanay celebrations - but as John Says
- very much a Lancashire /Yorkshire tradition - with coal mining a major part of lives - so coming from the deep South - you wouldn't
see much coal for your fires except in winter
Big coincidence on the birthday's - my wife complains because it reduces the chance of 2 pressies
BTW - Beccles /Norfolk Broads is one of my favourite parts of the world - I learned to sail there and had a boat on my last trip to the UK
as I do every time and my first was back in 1945 - PIc is 1968
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2 hours ago, adambar said:
Not a great place to walk around in your bare feet I suppose. 😀
thats why ozzies were the famous thongs
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10 hours ago, Rodger Pettichord said:
The Japanese have learned how to eat puffer fish which are highly poisonous. Maybe Australians could find a way to make cane toads into a daring delicacy to sell to tourists in expensive restaurants?
Well -that's one way to keep the pesky tourists that invade our facilities here on the Gold Coast - if they could'nt get rid of the poison
Personally though - sod the tourists - I enjoy a feed of frog's legs - and snails - now and again - monsewer Rodger
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2 hours ago, gumbypickett said:
Certainly ugly and in plague proportions as they make their way
further south into NSW. It's a losing battle.
cheers
Gumby
You will be safe in Tassie mate - the Bass strait will see to that -or by the time they get to Victoria - they will have learned to cross water
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Most people outside of our country - love to comment on the fact - that we are somewhat Blase about our poisonous snakes - huge spiders
- and a multitude of sharks - and other creatures that like to take bites etc out of us humans.
Sometime in the 20s (?) - some bright spark decided to import in North Queensland - a few creatures called a Cane Toad - into our sugar cane fields
to assist in getting rid of a pest damaging the crops.
Not only do we risk poison from my earlier critters - these ugly toads carry a poison in their sacs - enough to kill a dog - which loves to chase them around
the back yard
This little video demonstrates the stupidity of that decision - to the extent that Queensland is now unindated with the little sod.
The mass that is shown in the video - is just down the road from where I live - and very - very close to our mate - Graeme aka Boetie.
As also can be seen - they can grow to an enormous size - and theoretically - we are not supposed to kill with - say - with 5 iron - but catch
them and place them in one's freezer to give them a "Humane "death so say the Wokers
Needless to say - the cane field pest they were imported to kill - still exist - and the toad just increases exponentially.
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I'll go along with Gumby HB to you all - especially Renault - who we probably haven't seen for a while
HB Renault - may it be a "colourful" one for you
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Most of you blokes from GB know of the tradition for the male of the family to go outside before midnight on NY eve - close the door -
and then after the stroke of midnight - come back in carrying a piece of bread and a lump of coal - and "LET the New Year" into the household.
Last night was the 65th time I have carried out that very tradition in our household - and then wished my wife --
a Happy 87th birthday - a Happy New year - and a Happy 71st anniversary of our first meeting at a dance on New Year's Day 1953
You see guys - the tradition brings with it - a whole pile of luck - long health - hopefully for another year.
Happy New Year to all my fellow Lufters - simulated or otherwise👍
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@boetie - Graeme - ET AL - FYI -
see - 33.56 --- 52.54
the software package includes the Venice race course
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3 hours ago, boetie said:
It's an ugly aircraft IMHO. At first I thought you meant 350 knots! Will have to download her and give her a spin. Thanks John.
Cheers
Graeme
I did ! - just try to slow her down for landing - make you give yourself time to do so - or don't land 😱
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Over on Community Screenshots - are 2 recent additions including Orbx Cityscape
These just show the quality of Orbx scenery - when they try! - Brisbane is another
I have a New Year wish for Orbx - please -please do something with the
Gold Coast in MSFS including the airport - of course !
The one they did for P3D was almost identical - timewise - to the present garbage on MSFS
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4 hours ago, BradB said:
Spit shine shots . 😉🙂
Thanks John - spoken like a true army man👍
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A few pics of the Schnider Trophy winner against a modern backdrop of colonial splendour
and yes - checked - it is the Orbx one ----- couldn't find an Orbx of Southampton Sound
Careful - she's a cow to take off and fly - but she's fast when you get her up and reaches 350 in seconds
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I seem to remember a strip called Jane - very popular with my army mates
It wasn't what you might call "a comic" - but sheesh - she did strip ! 😱👍
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A very expensive Gold Coast airport
in Microsoft Flight Simulator
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whoops
- plastic back in wallet with the moths