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Yes, I'll come in for that too Col.

I'd be happy to assist Colin - when were you thinking for the test?

This probably better than the real thing

signing in...

Definitely squeaky bum time - impressive stuff. Hopefully I'll be able to get some footage of my lap of the Donington Park circuit when I'm there for the classic meet later in the Spring.

Yeah, we kinda screwed up a bit but everything will be fine now - you're in charge!

Thanks Chris, that's great!

Ask them if they'll ship it for a reduced cost without the RAM and SSD and source those from elsewhere?

Replacement pilot 2nd Lt Roger Over posted to 402nd.

Mick's PC is still working!

No mate - from reports it would appear that the miners have grabbed most of the available stock and the scalpers had the rest - they never even came up for sale on Scan. Scan did previously say that they'd only sell the stock they physically had (no pre-orders) so it looks like they hadn't even managed to secure any for launch day

I am pleased to confirm that Mr P's new rig (with bits of old rig) is up and working. Or at least it was at 10pm this evening - time will tell what happens tomorrow.

No, Shadow (at least) say that you can use your regular peripherals. The problem is that Shadow are not currently taking new customers (you can pre-order and start paying now though).

This option is definitely starting to look promising.

Is this the bondage club again?

I'd do a straight swap for Painless' set mate - it's a better idea than mixing different types of memory

I feel quite a lot older 😉

I think travel restrictions are the main concern at present, but I suspect Bunter's speech tomorrow will give us some better ideas regarding the feasibility of Legends - looks like a lot of people will have been offered the jab by then at least.

I probably won't be absent

Like I said Kev, each to their own - I know I couldn't justify that, but I'll be interested to see how you get on with yours. And yours Crash too.

Although crypto-currency mining is undoubtably a thing, I think the bigger issue is that the countries where there are big markets for these components currently in lockdown so instead of spending cash on holidays, days out, airshows (cough) etc people are building/upgrading PCs and so stocks get tighter as a result. Scalpers also are a problem and there is evidence that some companies are supporting this trend (MSI were called out on it recently). The shortage of memory in the wild has lessened over recent months as factories in the Far East have come back on stream. Certainly I had no issues purchasing a 32GB kit a month ago. Each to their own Kev, but I think 2K is too much to spend on a graphics card when soon you'll be able to spend half that and get an overclocked 3080 and have change. I'm not sure that the extra cost for the 3090 is borne out by the performance gains. What is happening for definite is that manufacturers and suppliers are hiking the prices of the cards they have which does sound rather like profiteering to me. Fortunately. in my case my antique 980 will give me 100+ FPS in GBS at 1080p with all the bells and whistles on so although an upgrade would certainly be nice, in the current insanity it's not really a necessary (or viable) course of action. In the meantime I have a big servicing bill coming up for the car and it'll need new boots before the summer so...

Me too!

Thanks Llama, I'm in the market, but for now am happy to wait for the current insanity to calm down.

Hey AOB, it's also worth ensuring that you have a button set up so you can feather the prop if you have an engine failure - leaving the prop windmilling causes a huge amount of drag so being able to feather the prop is important. Having made two single engine returns so far in this campaign I can vouch for this. I have set up two buttons so I can select either engine 1 or engine 2 plus a third button to feather/unfeather the selected engine.