Happy July 4th to all the Americans out there. CoPilot Tweets and I
will be going into D.C. tomorrow to check out the Francis Bacon museum
(Folger Library) with all that Rosicrucian, Atlantis, and Shakespeare
stuff (yes we're amateur Atlantis hunters). We'll hang around to see the

I was watching the Toronto news last week and saw a feature of the
'birdman' of Pearson Int'l Airport CYYZ in Toronto.
This gentleman is in charge of an aviary housing 22 birds of prey,
some of which are released each day to deter other birds from being

I have not flown any flight simulator including FSX for about six months.
That's a long dry spell, and today confirmed for me why it is going to stay
this way for a while.    At the end of the day, I purchased Microsoft Flight
Simulator in order to have a fairly realistic and ...

Busses Blocking Street
Yesterday was a fun day, but I must tell this story. We arrived at 3rd
St SW on the Orange Line (Metro) and proceeded on foot up 3rd St and
notice city Transit busses parked broadside, blocking 3rd St at Maryland

Found this sitting on my hard drive and thought you all might enjoy
it. Don't remember where I got it and maybe you've all seen it before
but...
*   An airplane will kill you quickly...a woman takes her time

I need to reinstall MSFS. I have FS9 and FSX. I am tempted to go back
to FS9 just to avoid the slow load times that FSX promises. What can I
do to avoid the slow load times experienced in FSX? My hardware is not
the issue.

Found these un-documented air strips in Qld the other day. If not mentioned
before in this forum you may enjoy the trip. Make sure to 'VOZ' the northern
region.
Using a small aircraft of your choice fly out of Maryborough airport at

Loved this guys speech
http://www.greens.org.nz/node/18811
Bill

I just ordered the ever-popular CH flight Yoke (USB version) after
years of using a different flight-yoke which is no longer available
(G-Force).
With the G-Force, I had no problems securing it to my desk because it

Ibby suggested in another post that I should change to XP 64 to stop
Out-of-Memory errors. I've had that in mind for ages in fact, but have
always been a bit worried about hardware issues.
Anyone installed XP-64 and found they have had to ditch stuff as a

Hey gang,
Been running my BFG 8800 GTS 640 mb card, since April of last year.
Now that the GTX cards are out, this puts my card into about the third
generation category.

Hi..
Today I ordered a CH Yoke to improve my flightsim experience.....hope it´s
worth it, but that´s  my impression from what I have been written on this
newsgroup....:)

Well, it was just too sad ditching my PMDG etc. panels - throwing the
baby out with the bathwater. And I am not 100% convinced that the
freeware panels were much better in the end. So, I've restored
everything to the way it was, pre-rant, and have tried other

FS2004's Heading Indicator instrument has a button located at the
bottom left side of the dial labeled 'PUSH'.  Pushing it turns the
dial's face clockwise or counterclockwise.  What is the purpose of
this button?  Why would anyone want to turn the dial clockwise or

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news
/A400M062608.xml
The two-page spread photo in AWST seems to show counter-
revolving props on each side. Also advanced prop blades.
Any flight deck photos?