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hms_endeavour

Qantas

Hi,i'm going to go to the island of Bahrain in the persian gulf in my spring school holidays(in two weeks!!!! 😀 ). And I'm gonna fly on qantas on the way there and fly back on emirates!Does anybody have any comment son those two airlines?I haven't...

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jarred_01

A sad day in NZ aviation - mid air collision

Hey everyone, Watching the TV news tonight, one of the main stories was about a mid air collision just south of Palmerston North, New Zealand - a few hundred km south of where CT and myself live. Both pilots were obviously killed instantly when the 2 P...

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Insight

IL2 Movies

I have seen some movies being posted recently - and although they are not of FS i thought I would share some links with you guys. I know I shared 2 movies made by the IL2 movie makers a while back but this can be for those who missed the topics. Ple...

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Liono

Self Build PC advise Please

I'm in the process of planning my next PC. hopefull by Monday I should know if I have enough money (keeps fingers crossed). The question I have is, is it worth paying out for a sound card or do I use the onboard sound? Cheers Liono...

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yoyoman

Superb Aviation Music Soundtrack "Birds of War"

Hello dear members, I'm a composer of aviation music and my last track called "BIRDS OF WAR" features authentic sounds from WWII digitally remastered by Tomahawk Films. Today it is ranked number 5 in the charts containing 12.500 tracks. To fin...

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ceetee

Giant Water Spout near my house!!!

Last night there was a giant 800m high waterspout (Tornado on water) in the Hauraki Gulf, which borders the city of Auckland, New Zealand where I live. 😳 I could have seen it from my up-stairs windows if I had known it was happening but unfor...

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fourby

Windows Vista and Windows PE

Some links and reading you may find interesting about Windows Vista and Windows PE 😉 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/evaluate/hardware/vistahardware.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/deploy/winpe.mspx http...

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tomthetank

NASA Cover up ?

Have a read of this and watch/listen to the video/sound clips at the bottom of the page :dontknow: ➡ http://www.chrisvalentines.com/sts107/perception.html...

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SteveT

Being a Moderator

In one of my recent topics I have posted some plane spotting photos and one member, Tailhook mentioned me as a moderator! 😀 😳 What do you think? Do you think I really could me a moderator? I WOULD LOVE TO BE ONE and it would be a...

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PanAmerican

Favorite Aircraft to your airport

I see a lot of visitors here at McCarron. Here's my favorite aircraft that I've seen come in here: Airbus A340-Philipene Airlines Antonov AN-225-?? Air Force One Bombardier Challenger 600 Boeing 747-400 Virgin Atlantic Boeing 727-200 Champion Airl...

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jarred_01

Any scanner or radio junkies here that could help me?

Hey everyone, I'm looking to buy a base station scanner in the future to supplement my 72XLT handheld, and was wondering if anyone here would be albe to advice me on buying antennas? I'm looking to mount it on the roof so that it has a height advant...

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jarred_01

Are there any aviation photographers here?

Hey everyone, Just wondering if anyone here submits their aviation pics to airliners.net, jetphotos.net, or other online photography sites, I would be interested in viewing all of your submitted photos. Thanks, Jarred....

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CrashGordon

Paging Greekman72

There are two airports near Athens. One is southwest of Athens below Faliron Bay, near Glifada. The other is southeast of Athens, just west of Ziorti Bay. Just when I need Google Earth to labels on things, it doesn't have them. What are their names ...

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ceetee

Ultimate Off Roader Aircraft

https://forum.flyawaysimulation.com/images/forumimages/11589/ultimate-off-roader-aircraft_4f1e52ef586245951470768ca5c03bb3.jpg See what I mean? LOL...

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Greekman72

[ Poll ] What is your Monitors size?

Mine is PHILIPS 15''CRT....

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crosscheck9

scary

Ok, so I'm taking a break from studying, but take a look at the photo in this link....absolutely unreal!! http://www.airliners.net/open.file/995911/L/...

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Insight on
Insight

Mini party

For me as I passed my motorcycle licence test on Friday just passed 🙂 🍻 (obviously no riding after these 😛 )...

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Tailhook

Firefox Jokeys

I am looking for a free 'Download Manager' for Firefox. Nothing fancy but with a user-friendly interface. The only function important to me is to be able to continue interrupted Downloads. As I am not prepared to use another browser, it must be full...

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CrashGordon

Looking for an airport.

I am looking for an airport that is reasonably close to McLean, Virginia that is untowered and outside the multitude of controlled airspace in the Washington, DC area. It should have enough runway for a Citation-X...

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CrashGordon on
flightcheck

Pireps? Acars?

I've seen around things called Pireps and Acars and i was curious to see wat they meant?...

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Tartanaviation on
99jolegg

What is a block?

Hey, A bit of a strange question, but I was wondering, what is a block, as in the American term of distance? Its often used on American sitcoms to describe the distance of one place to another e.g. two blocks away. Is one building considered a 'block...

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PanAmerican on
fourby

Is The Parking Brake Off ??? DOH!!!!!!!!

May have already been seen, but thought I'd post it anyway. http://www.dauntless-soft.com/PRODUCTS/Freebies/USAirParkingBrake/...

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Tartanaviation

Man Sets of Fireworks at Aircraft on Approaches - Edinburgh

Take a look at this article. In my opion it is a crazy action. The reason as to why i am showing you this specific article is the fact that i live quite near to Edinburgh airport. (EGPH) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4650342.stm...

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ranald

performance decrease

Ever since I had the Pop up problem (which is now fixed) The flight sim performance has been really bad I get about 6 FPS when cruising in clear skies :x My commputer always seems to be loading something in the backround I can here it. I cant spot any pro...

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Greekman72 on
Liono

Any old school gamers form the 90's

If yes then have a look at this old Sonic game http://www.galaxy1056.co.uk/goout.asp?u=http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/fullscreen.php?game=sonic Enjoy...

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alohajoe on
PanAmerican

Do You Still Feel Safe

Read this story about a Northwest Airlines Flight Attendent: http://www.startribune.com/462/story/206533.html...

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Guest

SOMETHING SHOT ME DOWN!!

I Have sf9 and I was flying the new eurafighter and my traffic was on 100% I was flying alongside a 737, About 32ft and out of the blue came this white thing like a missile and BANG!! I was on fire could not control it anyway at all crash!! What the... ...

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Greekman72 on
PanAmerican

Has It Happened To You

Is your computer being watched by the local police. Mine is and it's a pest!...

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PanAmerican on
crosscheck9

A good idea to improve flights

Well, as you all know, there are many charts required for a single flight. All sorts of papers are required to complete one flight, and they have to be sorted in binders. You have to use many papers and waste all that ink, etc. etc. I was thinking, wha...

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ranald

loads of popups

in the last 5 days I have been getting so many adverts and anoying pop ups even on sites like flyaway and I have noticed a deacrese in performance on my PC has been running slowly and FPS are very low :x I have scanned with Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware both pr...

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Greekman72 on
RadarMan

End of support for Windows 98 and Windows Me

I thought that many of you with a second older computer might find this interesting, I did. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/support/endofsupport.mspx :radar:...

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Fire_Emblem_Master

Here's a zinger for ya.

Does anybody know the "phobia" for the fear of werewolves? If there is one, I think I've got it. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big kid, 6'3", 210lbs, quite muscular, but there's just something about werewolves that still to this day makes me sometimes hide, u...

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fourby

Aviation Humour

I've been reading some of these.. http://www.schiratti.com/humour.html I've almost stopped laughing :rofl:...

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Tailhook on
Liono

Does anyone here watch or like Anime????

As the subject says. If you do then what's your fav and what's in your collection. So far I have the following Ghost in a Shell (The first Movie) Ghost in a Shell 2 Innocence Ghost in a Shell Stand Alone Complex Complete season Dot Hack//Sign Comp...

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Greekman72 on
jarred_01

Air Start Units

Hey Guys, I was wondering why at airports they use the air start units instead of starting the engines with their own power? Have a look at the following links, and it also mentions they are used for filling the onboard air packs. Do they use the un...

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99jolegg

FsPassengers Upgrade...

Hey all, A new FsP upgrade is coming within the month for those that are interested. Details... ➡ http://www.fspassengers.com/forum/read.php?f=2&i=2156&t=2156 😉...

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crosscheck9

Flight Crew Meals

If you all don't mind, I'd like to ask, is it true that the pilot and copilot are obliged to eat different meals aboard a flight, in order to avoid risk of them both getting an infection. What if all they serve on that flight is meat products, and one of...

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tomthetank

X Plane

There is a free demo available for X Plane The screenshots look good ➡ http://www.x-plane.com/default.html Demo here ➡ http://www.x-plane.com/demo.html...

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verygom

"gliding configuration"

An Air Accident Report, concerning an Evergreen Intl Airlines cargo 747 en route for Wright Field NY from Ramstein Germany - (4/04/2004), mentioned with some concern that having lost one engine and the three others down on thrust passed over heavily popul...

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tomthetank

This is going to be expensive

OK,OK I know some of you dont like Dell PCs, :fear: but you have to like the look of this awsome bit of kit :drool: Dont ask how much,because if you have to ask,you cant afford it. :nope: http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_quadsli.html http:...

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jarred_01

Cool NOTAM Site

Hey guys, If anyone is interested in finding out NOTAMS for a particular airport, take a look at the below link and type in your airport code. ➡ https://www.notams.jcs.mil/...

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Tailhook on
jarred_01

NDB/DME Approach

Hey guys, My local airport (NZHN) has a training facility based there which is specifically set up for easyJet trainees from the UK. Recently they have been practicing a lot of VOR/DME and NDB/DME approaches, I know this because I have been listening t...

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MartinG

IL-2 FB Key Problem

Hi all-Just bought IL-2FB-Really like it but have an annoying glitch-when i crash or bail out or just want to end the mission i press escape and nothing happens-i have to ctrl-alt-del to get out of the game which is annoying-any ideas?...

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CoasterXtreme

Phoenix East Aviation

Hi I have acctually been thinking of going to Phoenix East Aviation to become a commercial pilot. I was wondering if anyone on this forum has acctually been to this school and if so what do you think of the school? I have also heard that airlines are hav...

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CRJCapt on
Guest

Ramp agents

I am 17 and looking for a part time job as a baggage handler or as they offically call them ramp agents. I am looking to be employed by servisair at a London airport (UK) but does anyone know the minimum age I can apply?...

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hms_endeavour on
SamIntel

Copywrites

How do I find out if a name or logo is copywrited?...

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Liono on
Chris102

Norton

I've decided I should uninstall Norton because it's taking up too much space. Is there a freeware antivirus program with firewall and real-time scan?...

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Greekman72 on
Chris102

Air Force One ATC

I recently found out that my old scanner can pick up AF1 ATC transmitions from anywhere in the US. ❗ My question is: would anyone know the time and date President Bush is heading back to Washington from Crawford from his Christmas vacation?...

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Chris102 on
Chris102

Evacuation Slides

Would anyone know if a 747-200 has emergency evacuation slides? I wasn't sure - I thought they were just on smaller aircraft....

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hms_endeavour on
Chris102

eBay Addiction?

Is there such thing as an eBay addiction? The reason I'm asking is because I'm now buying about 2-3 items per day on eBay, and my family thinks this qualifies as an addiction....

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