Thanks! All is good, just haven’t been on the forums much lately.
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I just had a look at MAD status. It’s all good except it seems like we are leasing a DC-3 and we’re late on the payment. But I don’t to whom I should send the money?
A few months ago I purchased a Beechcraft-18 and gave it to MAD. I’ve put it back on sale with the intention to swap it for a DHC-2 Beaver since it’s now a default aircraft in MSFS. The Beechcraft is on sale for 360k and the cheapest Beaver is available for 270k so we might make a a little profit.
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Well, it happened quicker than I expected. Bye bye Beechcraft-18, hello DHC-2 beaver 
I also took the liberty to sell our PA-28 and C-172. IIRC both plane I had given to MAD, not that I consider I get to do what I want with those but looking at the logs nobody was flying them. I was the only one who ever flew with the PA-28 and the C-172 last flight was nearly 2 years ago, in february 2021.
I figured either of these were unlikely to see more action in the future and I replaced them with a Bell 407.
If anybody is upset with this, please let me know and I’ll do my best to bring them back in the MAD hangar as quickly as possibe.
So, I hopped on a plane for Toulouse since our Beaver is sitting on a small airfield a few km’s south of the city. Pierre, the former owner, was already waiting for me when I arrived.
“Hi! Hope inn” he said when he saw me walking towards his buggy.
“Take ze will, I have some payperwork to feenish”.
Pierre immediatly struck me as a very friendly guy. Very cheap too, as he was using his aviation GPS in his buggy.
When I inquired about the straight majenta line he replied “hey, don’t whorry. Dis sing will drive anyware”
So I proceeded across the small countryside roads
And finally arrived at the airport
I parked the buggy and after a small walk, there she was!
He did a small tour of the aircraft with me, assuring me everything was in top shape
The interior seemed a bit “lived in” and the smell made me wonder if someone actually lived there for some time.
But then he complained about violent headaches, wine-induced I assumed but I didn’t ask, and told me he needed to go.
Before leaving he asked if I’d be interested in ferrying 8 of his wine barrels sitting in a hangar in Toulouse. He needed them near the coast. We’re in business already
Time to start the old girl and head back to Toulouse
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Mudspike Air Delivery Re-Re-Rebirth
I’m not sure if anyone is still interested in FSE but I have slightly restructured the group.
I’ve sold most of the planes, nobody was flying them and the monthly fees were stacking up.
We still own a DHC-2 Beaver, a C208 Caravan, a Bell-206 and a DC-3.
I’ve built a few FBOs in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. To better manage them I’ve created 2 “subsidiaries”:
Mudspike Air Delivery - Alaska
and Mudspike Air Delivery - Pacific Northwest
If anybody wants to join you are more than welcome.
A few screenshots:
00W:
3WA3
0S0
OR64
ID90
ID94
I’ve also made a few liveries for aircraft we own…and aircraft I wish we’d own… 
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Nice! Cool liveries as well!
The thing that irks me about FSE is that it doesn’t let me fly from places I want. Rather you need to look for an aircraft and then fly it out of whereever it is located.
The result is that is takes a fair bit of time to get in pit.
I thought Beach set up an AI pilot to do some runs to keep the virtual expenses down or was that a different sim?
Wheels
True.
On the other hand it often lead me place I wouldn’t never have been. For me, this used to be an issue with FSX or X-Plane because I only wanted to fly where I had Orbx scenery or Orthos but it’s no longer an issue with MSFS.
I think that was with Air Hauler, as far as I know you can’t setup AI pilots in FSE
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