DD_Arthur

Cardiff to Heathrow. One of KLM's more obscure routes...

The clip is from a 1962 travelogue movie called 'The Flying Clipper'. It follows the cruise around the Mediterranean of a group of Swedish merchant marine cadets. One of the cadets was invited onto the Shangri-La for a few days. The production values and photography are just outstanding. Check out their visit to the Monaco grand prix,

USS Shangri-La; air operations in the Mediterranean 1962. Outstanding quality...

Doh! I never knew military jets had them!😃 I thought it was all aircraft specific GPS systems and tacan. Silly question; how extensive is the destination library in DCS? I know a modern C-130 will have almost every civilian airport in the world in its data base...

😃 FMC; Flight Management Computer. That thing on the top of the pedestal that looks like a desktop calculator (it was modelled on the classic Texas Instruments one) is the fmc. Very broadly, it's what you put a course into that your auto pilot can follow. Every airliner since 1980 has had one. All large military aircraft have them these days. Very interesting that someone has taken the time to model one in DCS. I'm curious if it's fully functional.

Has it got a working FMC?😃 Where's he pulling the chart up from?🤔 Welcome to my world Friar!

The B1 entered service in 1956. Along the way they had upgrades to produce the B1A. These had different wings(?), electronic counter measures and capability of in-flight refuelling and uprated engines. In 1960 the B2 entered service with all the changes the B1A had plus different, more powerful engines and lots of detail differences to accommodate them. They also had a great deal of radio and nav equipment updates. As Soviet missile and fighter development advanced the Vulcan's operational profile was changed in the mid-sixties to a low level attack and B2 airframes were strengthened to reflect this. As our primary nuclear deterent was about to change to submarine launched Polaris missiles it was judged not cost effective to upgrade B1 aircraft to low level work and they were all withdrawn by the late sixties. When I was at school we had a maths teacher who had been a v-bomber navigator in the RAF and he could occasionally be persuaded to talk about it. For all bomber crews, whether they were British, American or Soviet, nuclear war was a one way trip. No one had the range to return home after bombing their enemies major cities. The Vulcan's fuel use at extreme ranges in combat use was apparently a bit of a mystery and it was generally accepted that the Vulcan force would run out of juice somewhere over western Poland or East Germany on the way back. There was some debate over whether they'd get a better reception from the Poles or the Stasi....

Cor! That's a blast from the past. Whoever thought of putting an Asteroids machine in a pub table was a genius!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg1z42pkj8o

As you're all no doubt aware, now they've gotten rid of Jason Williams the 1CGS team have been working on their new Korea sim. You might be less aware they've also been making...other stuff.

FT’s robot floor sweeper

Not really. Bypassing the ‘connect to internet’ bit allowed me to complete the windows install and access this ‘armoury crate’ business. This checks for the relevant drivers and installs them. I think I needed a LAN driver for Win 11. At my level of expertise the best analogy is fumbling around a completely dark room full of furniture until you find the light switch. Good news; installed TrackIr without problems and my hotas and MSFFB2 stick were plug and play. Disabled hyperthreading, downloaded the 380 gig monster that is MSFS 2020 overnight and gave it a spin this morning whilst monitoring temps and fans and everything’s groovy. Bit more than groovy actually; freakin’ bonkers! At the moment it’s set up in the living room temporarily - which is verboten - so I’m going to have to break it down and put it where old faithful lives. After I’ve done that I’ll start on DCS. I can see another ‘shall I get a big, 4K screen or shall I get another VR headset?’ situation ahead.

Oooooohhh.....Aaaahhhhh......it works. Now I've got a vast amount of stuff to transfer/download/remember how it actually works...

Quick update; I’ve managed to bypass the online registration stuff by finding a command prompt bypass. I’m now installing ‘Armoury Crate’ and a Lan driver - hopefully. This is all completely new to me but I hearby promise that if I can get all this stuff working I will load DCS. Shouldn’t be a problem; I’ve got 3 TB of storage to play with…..🤪

Hello Colin, the router has a list of all the devices that have ever connected to it but I don’t think there’s a list of approved devices. Network cable works fine with my other pc and yes, I’ve restarted the new one several times but no joy so far.