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Some random, buttock-clenching action from Cadwell a couple of years ago.... I dunno but I'm starting to get to the end of my tether with lockdown. I KNOW it's the right thing to do but I just want to get out and...do stuff. I invite my fellow Dogz to post any other random, out and about stuff they may care for here...

Nope and I hope they don’t try and turn it into one either. For myself at the moment I seem to have lost my mojo for ‘kersplosions and shootin’. I think it’s a combination of the workload I’m under and the number of Lateral flow tests I have to take🤔. What I do really crave is a flight around the block in a Cessna or a Piper Warrior or something like that. Unfortunately all my mates who had PPL’s have either let them lapse or in one case have actually moved to Portugal in order to be able to keep flying affordably. So for myself, it’s the flying not the fighting that floats my boat atm and this thing seems to hit that spot. I originally started computer flying with my eldest son and FS95 so in a way I’ve come full circle and to be able to take to the virtual skies, over places I’m very familiar with, in aircraft I’m familiar with has been wonderful these last few months.

It's out now https://flyingironsimulations.com/products/spitfire-l-f-mk-ixc-for-microsoft-flight-simulator It's twenty squid...ahh, I'm so tempted. I believe there are another two or three Spitfires nearing release or under development. Must summon the strength to wait and see....or not What I really, really want is a Mk. I. Some piccies of things in the near future....

Cornwall this morning! Gina and I take a short hop between St. Mawgan and Culdrose.

Fantastic!

Wasn't that Captain Mainwaring?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company

You mean....the bondage club is closed too!!!!!

I play golf...and I miss playing golf.

Hmm...#2

Wow. At these prices I'm starting to wonder about renting a virtual machine instead of owning a box of components that will be obsolete by year three?

Yes, they're all making that universal signal that means "Gentlemen, start your tumble-dryers"

Very many congratulations Major https://www.stephanniecamossephotography.com/post/2019/06/22/tyler-kendall-bozeman-mt-engagement

Looks pretty good. I've updated and installed the UK scenery - a six and a half hour process - but other than a little, local trot around I've not explored it yet. With the new height map the Jurassic Coast looks very authentic except for the freakin' trees! Not only has it trees on the beach a' la CLoD but also trees up the cliffs! Interesting to see Heathrow in the near distance at the end of your movie. I wonder if Boris will one day be able to afford the courage of his convictions and build a new London Airport out in the Thames Estuary?

There are shortages of all chips at the moment. The car industry is on short time working all over the world at the moment as supply cannot keep up with demand. Chip manufacturing is not an on-off industry. Think of a steel works. Once production ceases it takes time to get all the processes going again. Many closed down during early lockdowns last year and the added demand for devices during lockdown was not anticipated by the industry. They're struggling now to reach pre-lockdown levels of production but it will come back.

Just no. Thats just too much. Prices and availability will come down eventually. I don't think it's due to bit coin mining so much as a world shortage of chips at the moment.

Followed this Airbus from takeoff in Gibraltar in realtime and live weather as it climbed and headed north. i can just imagine the drinks trolley on board doing a roaring trade. "When do we touch down in Birmingham, Miss?" "In an hour and twenty minutes sir" "Great. I'll have a treble brandy and coke, the wife will have a double vodka and granny will have a large gin and orange."

Interesting...looks like we'll be getting a wide selection of cold war heavy metal in the near future....

Must get myself some pedals some day.... In a moment of weekend lockdown boredom I took my now old toys out for some exercise today. Not far down the coast they're trying to protect what Brunel built in the middle of the nineteenth century from the effects of climate change in the early twenty-first. The only way to protect the line whilst keeping it open is to use this floating rig which can 'walk' itself along the foot of the embankment pile-driving as it goes. A couple of miles further down the road provides a splendid view of some of the very large ships which have been anchored off Torbay and Lyme Bay for the last ten months. Most of the cruise ships seem to have come here from the Med. to enjoy the free parking but further out are tankers and bulk carriers with nowhere to go either. This is all a shocking twenty miles from where I live so I expect I'm breaking some sort of rule but this is the furthest I've travelled from my home in about five months!

Luuurvley! Are you waiting on a 3070 or 3080 Crash?

The real thing is much, much more scary.

Quick lunge around Dartmoor in the MB....woteveritis. Takeoff from Exeter heading west, then hang a sharp left to follow the M5 south over the river Exe and follow the A38 up over Haldon hill at the delightfully named Splatford Split.