Shhhh. Don’t say that. What he doesn’t know won’t hurt you. Long Live the Boring Company! Genius idea!
There is no doubt the man is a genius in some areas but recently he has been hell bent on proving that he’s lost the plot. And that is as close to politics as we should probably get here. 
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Agreed.
But I am taking this and claiming it as my own!
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I have a challenge to you real nerds out there. Watch the opening to the video @HiFlyer posted above (“Just throwing this in”) and think: “Mystery Science Theater 3000”. Tell me I’m wrong.
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Im dying! And I cant unsee it now! Awesome!
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@Harry_Bumcrack I cheated and read your deleted post. I am reading the Expanse too! What a great ride, just like the show. Re: Starlink, the trip that I just finished today was with a former Navy A-6/F-18 guy who now consults with a major military contractor (he says that his airline flying is just a side-gig). He couldn’t say much and I don’t like to pry people who have even the lowest of security clearances. But I mused along your lines of Musk and Starlink; particularly his power to pull the plug at his whim. He nodded in big agreement and added that It is a big BIG concern within his circle.
Anyway, you obviously deleted because of the thread drift and I maybe should have kept this private. But I thought it was a fun detour. FS2024. Amirite?
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I can’t wait for this game. I’ve been wanting a career mode in MSFS forEVER.
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Were you able to participate in the beta a couple of weeks ago? It gave a taste of the career and, for my part, it was exactly as I had hoped. I think it will be worth the wait.
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I was able to, yes! Lost the whole weekend to it. It was everything I too hoped for.
You could use the NeoFly for msfs2020
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I’ve tried third party tools and they’ve just not done it for me.
I used Neofly and it did help somewhat, especially the missions that fail on a hard landing. It forced me to put a bit of effort into my landing technique, which is still terrible but much better than it was. However, there was something about the mission generation that just felt a bit arbitrary. I’m not sure I can put my finger on exactly why, though. 
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I thought NeoFly was quite well done and I found it more user friendly than Air Hauler 2 (but not as deep). Evidently the NeoFly developer seems to think it is still worth continuing after taking a look at the MSFS tech alpha.
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Arbitrary is going to be a feature regardless. There is only so much variability to civilian flying. Heck. ANY flying. The key is weather.
(WARNING! Old Man Story Ahead!) The most interesting flight of my early career was flying Sen. Bob Dole and his wife, Elizabeth, to her home in Salisbury, NC for the holidays before the start of the 1st Gulf War (which Sen. Dole had just voted to authorize). We were single-pilot in a 58 Baron. The weather got low enough that the VOR approach to Salisbury was not possible. The options were Charlotte and the Doles rent a car. Or, my idea, divert to nearby Winston-Salem, where I was based, and I drive them. Bob, a famously quiet man, chatted the entire drive. (He had thought that his vote would soon send thousands of American soldiers to a chemical hell.) I got a $50 tip! I tell that story for two reasons: 1) it is almost unique in my career for being worth telling, and 2) weather is almost the sole reason why old pilots can’t be idiots. A career system that uses weather to assess a pilot’s skill and decision-making is one that will be infinitely replayable.
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I question a mans decision making when he first decides to go to war and then decides to charter a light twin piston, flown by a inexperienced pilot, in bad weather… Or maybe he was just fearless. 
My take on being a commercial pilot is that it isn’t so much about the flying skills. You have that down pretty soon.
Where you need experience is how to know where the corners are, so you can avoid painting yourself into one, and say no when someone tries to paint you into one.
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Thank you. That answers one question that I always wanted to know the answer, but was too afraid to ask.
‘There is at least one Cowboy living in New Jersey’
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Yep. Hints of Kobe Bryant in my story. At that point I had an ATP and about 2500 hours, with nearly a thousand in King Airs and Barrons. The company had a good reputation. And probably it was his wife Elizabeth, a local lady, who booked the charter. Maybe ironically, she would go on to be Secretary of Transportation. (Or maybe she was already?).
But yeah. Different times. Today a Senator wouldn’t be caught dead in anything smaller than a challenger.
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Judgement, yes.
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