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Meigs is fine, though only about 300 miles from here. Perhaps a good excuse for an ultralight flight, or even an airship (my F-16 could be there in about half an hour, lol).

Boring ... monotonous .... soporific We removed the wings from my Beech D17 and loaded her into a C-5. Flew at around 35k ft from Perth to Hawaii to Columbus. (No desire to follow my path from Columbus to Perth in reverse.)

Only works if the engineer is also the company head. Otherwise they are looked on by those boardroom bumblers as glorified mechanics. (At the ripe old age of 25 I found myself VP of Engineering for Western Electric. Was quite proud of myself ...and came to loathe that job with a passion. Couldn't have been happier when my contract expired.) This has been true for ages. People have thought of many things where it was years, or even centuries, before the technology existed to implement those thoughts. Steam power was first demonstrated nearly 2000 years ago; it took 1800 years for someone to build a practical steam engine. The first submarine was demonstrated in the 1770s, 150 years later submarines were practical. With the geometric expansion of technology today we are bound to have some developments hitting the market before they are "ready for prime time". I've heard it said you must be the first, the best, or the cheapest, otherwise you're a footnote. On a personal note, some of my income is still from two proprietary patents; the circuits were developed back in the 1920s, I made them work in the 1970s.

Have engineering schools stopped teaching Murphy's Law

The continuing saga of a nitwit and his aircraft. Have made it to the nether regions of Scotland, sightseeing Scapa Flow (switched to a civilian Cierva, modernized with lights and radio; the RAF aircraft only has the front beacon) What the sailors saw Heading north through the islands at a blazing 55kt A good spot for a respite Approach at 30kt BTW G-ACIN was a real aircraft

I would enable UT USA again, then remove a handful of files at a time until the OOM disappears. If it's not an interaction between UT and some other file, or between several UT files, you should be able to isolate the offending file; then either live without that file or, if it is corrupt, get a replacement.

Been known to duck under an occasional bridge myself

The ultimate goal is merely to have fun....

Many were owned by large radio stations or newspapers to quickly get reporters to the scenes of news stories.

Purists would recoil in disgust at the AI in my FS world. Bleriot crosses the channel every week. A Do-X flies from Germany to Rio every week. WWI era fighters and scouts tool around farmstrips in the US and Europe. The Hindenburg makes a world cruise every two weeks. The Jupiter 2 takes off from a "hidden" base in New Mexico, slowly climbs to 40k ft, then takes off at Mach3 for another "hidden" base in Australia. A UFO departs "Area 51" and tours the world, making several stops before landing on a floating "platform" 30K ft above Antarctica. The Sighing Flub ...er, Flying Sub (from Voyage to See What's on the Bottom") flies from Bremerton to San Diego every day. What will I see next? Fireball XL-5? a Klingon battlecruiser? a WWI bomber putting me in a holding pattern while it spends a seeming hour landing at LAX? The schedules of all these are such that I can fly for days and never encounter any of them, so it's always a treat.

That's the one, but the image I found was about half that size.

The FS2004 Rotodyne is a nice model, no idea how accurate is the flight model, no VC if memory serves me well and the 2D panel was quite incorrect. I started work on a better panel but the only photo i could find was a small (business card size) grainy black and white image useful only as a pattern to draw the thing by hand; still have the remains of that project somewhere. The Kellett was a license built Cierva, though Kellett eventually made enough modifications to the basic design to claim it as a separate aircraft. Lack of payload and range was the major reason the military lost interest.

The Wallis autogyro was made for FS2002 but works fine in FS2004 (many homebuilt replicas of this flying today) - Three fictional autogyros - ultralight, homebuilt, and a modern twin rotor And the Pitcairn (there's also a payware model of this)

A novel and fun aircraft; top speed around 130kt, cruise is anything you like from around 35kt to 120kt, stall is about 25kt. Takeoff is a breeze, release the brakes and give 20% throttle, it will taxi maybe 50 yards and start climbing; a good pilot can land in the same space (I require a margin of error ....you must wait for the tail to drop on its own, and don't even think about brakes above 20kts or it will stand on its nose). Autogyros are quite popular today as kitplanes, though I've found none for FS9 All my England scenery is freeware except Visual Flight London; new mesh, LC, several object libraries, UK2000, a collection of RAF bases, farmstrips, etc.

Perhaps I should have said I'm circumnavigating the island.

My current flight is circumnavigating England/Scotland in a Cierva C30. Started at Portsmouth, going counterclockwise, following the coast at around 3000ft altitude. A diversion up the Thames to sightsee London - Then back to the coast to continue north.

Use military aircraft to stalk commercial aircraft, "shoot" them with camera (screenshot), must get close enough and in position to clearly read the registration number.

I would save replays of vintage races in a race sim and play them back with the color turned down; like watching TV in the sixties, quite strange on a computer.

Backup that folder and reinstall the default from disk temporarily. More difficult to isolate will be if something replaced default files in the main texture folder; a giveaway is often sorting by date and look for default names with newer dates. I've long used the Airport Environment Update package, it replaces most of the building and light textures but isn't 100% compatible with add-ons; occasionally textures don't map properly, or flicker on approach, or the ground will be a mosaic of grass textures. I could probably correct these issues one at a time ...but I'm insufferably lazy.

From some other scenery library, or possibly some scenery replaced some default textures.

I was the first back to Jandakot.

Lol, another segment of my world capitols tour

Imagine trying this on one of Zhyhulskiy's helicopters, with the entire cockpit in Cyrillic.

There is an autosave module you can install and it will save your flight at whatever interval you select (5min, 10min, etc.); so in case of a crash, aircraft or computer, you just reload the last good save and continue.