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  2. Microsoft FlightSim 2020

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

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    16 hours ago, Crash said:

    Can you blow up/shoot stuff yet?

    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.

     

     

     

     

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  15. Microsoft FlightSim 2020

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

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    Looks pretty good.  I've updated and installed the UK scenery - a six and a half hour process:huh: - 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?

     

       

  16. New Toy Mmm

    in Jim's Place

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    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.

     

     

  17. New Toy Mmm

    in Jim's Place

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    6 minutes ago, BluBear said:

    That is eyewatering

    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. 

  18. Microsoft FlightSim 2020

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

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    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." 

     

  20. New Toy Mmm

    in Jim's Place

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    Must get myself some pedals some day....:sheepsmile:

    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.

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    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. 

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    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!:huh:

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  25. Our Clod Server: Changes To The Currently Running Mission

    in IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz and Desert Wings: Tobruk

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    11 minutes ago, Don_Quijote said:

    Thank you @DD_Arthur, should have properly read the thread.💋..Well,no stats mean,no one will ever know how often I mess up starts/landings,blow up myself with my own bombs,hit enemy  forces but forget to arm bombs,hit friendly forces without forgetting to arm bombs...fine!

    Lol.  

    You should join us Don_Quijote.:salute::salute:

     

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