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MaxLegroom990

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    Grafton, VA

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  1. It's kind of sad that they've passed us by here. I went there, and found some interesting things to download later. The computer I'm using to post this is my FSX computer, and time (and MSFS2020) has passed it by, too.
  2. Both of you have a point. What I have reacted to is really a problem related to Avsim's file system, which has a section for original aircraft, which is mostly filled with anything but original aircraft. There are lots of textures, some AI flight plans, and a few original aircraft. Perhaps the reason I looked at this is that adding aircraft for MSFS is largely a payware experience.
  3. Has anyone noticed that what we used to consider repaints are being placed where completely original aircraft used to be found on our favorite download sites?
  4. If they've gone out of business, I haven't heard of it yet. The stories I've read were interesting...
  5. I get what you're aiming at here. What you're describing is a VA that tests you to a high level in certain categories, but has pilots that can barely land an airplane. While others answering this have described the technical problems of measuring landing rates in a ACARS system, I'd say that it often works better than you'd think. At Eastern Airlines Virtual, when we used the VAFS system, it had a few anomalies that resulted in positive vertical speed at landing, usually we had reasonably accurate data. That means that what was posted by the system closely resembled what I last saw on the vertical speed indicator. When I was the Washington hub manager, I was very pleased with the smooth landings that the pilots were pulling off, and was willing to help those who weren't pulling it off with whatever advice I could give. After all, it couldn't be much fun, I reasoned, for a pilot to constantly rack up damages to the plane. With the assigned flight system we had, it was more involved for me, and I hope they're better virtual pilots for it. Of course, we have to realize that this is the experience of flying, filtered through a computer, often the cheapest one we could get away with. On the idea that there's too many VAs out there, you may be right. But everyone has a right to try, and you never know what might succeed. Everyone has an idea, and many want to be the CEO of a VA. In a way, the VA with no pilots beyond the founders is like throwing a party and no one coming. It's a sad thing to see, usually. Unless you're someone like lavochkin, who does one for his own records, and his own pleasure. He's right, joining a VA is an enhancement to flight simulation. I'd add that it can be a social experience, it can fire the imagination a bit. Novels have been written describing the story of one flight, or the career of a pilot (to describe advances in postwar air safety), or a crucial moment of a pilot's life. But if you don't enjoy the flying itself, what does any of it mean? In the last year, the VA I've been part of for about ten years (hard to believe) has lost its longtime CEO, and the ACARS system we used all those years. The result is a bit more laid back, and the pilots get to fly what they want to. One thing we do that I prefer is that you can see if people are flying online from our front page. You know there's activity going on. As I'm typing this, four of our pilots are online. It doesn't matter to me if you have a pilot roster a mile long, if it consists of pilots who haven't flown with you for years. In fact, Eastern clears the deadwood off the roster regularly. But if a VA like that works for you, great. In any case, I've toyed with this too long, and it's time to leave Charleston (where I last flew to with Eastern).
  6. Beautiful website. My helicopter flying, however, more closely recalls that scene in View To A Kill where someone fires off a smoke grenade inside a helicopter, and it spins out of control. Okay, not that bad, but not far off.
  7. There are other forums that would yield you better results than this one, which is for people interested, one way or another, in virtual airlines. There are design forums where you would have better luck.
  8. You may have been trying to figure out why few if any people have expressed further interest in your VA after your post. It may have gone to the point of surveys, charts, graphs, and Excel spreadsheets, all in the pursuit of just why pilots aren't signing up. In these calculations, you might consider this: You've given the wrong URLs for your own VA. The correct ones are transloadairlines.site and transloadvirtualairlines.com. Why make people Google for it?
  9. If you only found one, your search isn't complete. I'm not sure, but vnorthwest.net might still be a going concern of sorts. Looking, I found several dead VAs including one that loaded Lenny Kravitz's Fly Away every time you loaded a page. It was annoying, even considering that I like his music, and if no one joined, I wouldn't have been at all surprised.
  10. Someone else will have to tell you what happened, even after visiting the Twitter and Facebook pages, I don't have a clue. The Flying Tigers Group Twitter is an interesting airline news feed, and the Facebook is a chronological mess. It reminds me that there's someone else who could pay more attention to their twitter feed, as it has been long neglected.
  11. I can't say that I've found a limit, either. I add planes as I please, and when I click "Change Aircraft", it takes several minutes for FSX to chew through it all. The collection includes several payware aircraft with multiple liveries, almost any propliner you can think of, most of the better known turboprops, almost all of the flying boats Pan Am flew, and a smattering of military aircraft, and any general aviation or executive aircraft that seemed like a good idea at the time. Now, where's those Trident 3s when you want them...
  12. ...and the people running that VA are probably wondering why the lack of interest.
  13. This is a file I'd been wanting for quite some time, and it's looking good. One thing I'd add is that modelling the old terminal building correctly is the step to doing a retro version of the scenery. CalClassics would love that...
  14. It's interesting to fly, but perhaps it should be a project of someone to develop a proper Falcon 10 and 20 for FSX.
  15. And the reason you don't buy the mattress used is the same reason you don't buy the other used...
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