Great AAR as always CP. Those photos you linked to were fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
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To translate it from my professional experience: It exploded and jammed itself stuck with a earth shattering kaboom.
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Sorry to hijack thread but as this was a quick question I didn’t see the need to start a new thread.
I only bought x plane this week and I’m still figuring it out. I really am enjoying the thread here and I fancy contributing to the aar stuff as well but I cannot figure out for the life of me how to take screenshots in x plane. Or if I have inadvertently found the key for the screenshot but can’t find out where they go! Any help gratefully received!
I feel I may be being dumb here so go easy if it’s something obvious lol. Can’t see for looking!
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They should be stored in your x-plane/output folder, and the keybinding I am not sure on, it’s in the options somewhere and XP-10 gives you a message saying “screenshot saved”.
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Thanks dude! I will check it out later. My flying needs some work on xp needs some work anyway and I only have the packaged planes at the moment. But I had some nice ideas for a short story thing that would of been interesting to fly out and write up. But as my landings are woeful at the moment it might be a horrendously short story… And possibly a sad one…
But what a step up x plane is from fsx.
Right question answered I’ll leave the thread alone now.
Thanks 
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Shift-space makes screenshots. They’ll be in X-Plane 11\Output
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Nah, stick around and just do it! We are here to celebrate simming and aviation in all of it’s forms! Doesn’t matter how good you are, as long as you are having fun!
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This. The Xmas thread is one of the things that really pulled me in to join Mudspike forums - and its the variety that makes it so fun, people ranging from lifetime real life pilots to complete newbies, enjoying a common interest (addiction? disease? We’ll call it interest, sounds better).
So get on with it, happy landings! Any landing you walk away from is a good one…and it has to be a pretty bad landing in a sim before you can’t, so 
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Hey an even better idea than my previous one (have a device like the Butt Kicker that electrocutes you when you crash)…instead, it can actually zap your mobo. Then you get the crushing feeling of disappointment AND the smell of burning electronics. Maximum realism. I could even hook it up to the ejection handle @Troll sent me…!
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Sure, that will work…but the “no chocolate cake for non-pilots” from the DCS 2.5 update thread is a much more dire a penalty …
What?! If anyone needs a @Troll made ejection handle it is me! I guarantee I have have ejected from more Viggens (and Mig-21s) that @BeachAV8R…and I’ve only been at it for less than a year! 
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Which is why I don’t want to make that process any easier for you…
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Update on the cake situation is I still have no cake.
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Mate, stick around! You don’t need to write 20-pages long AARs for each flight. Just have fun and share with us your adventures if you feel like it. No one is judging (especially not me). Everyone here is just as interested in reading about your flight than you are about reading theirs.
Skill is irrelevant. One guy did it in a boat. Another guy in a submarine. Another guy did in in a SR-71 Black Bird and a Space Shuttle last time. Even fails are interesting to hear about. In last years’ event I actually did a short AAR on a crash in Alaska I did, which was the sum of a series of bad decisions that culminated in the death of 100+ virtual passengers (that’s a lot of virtual letters to send).
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Admittedly, there was a panic that @TheAlmightySnark and @chipwich were going to drink all the remaining beer. All the sudden everyone was putting up 2,000 mile days… 
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Oh man…now you are bringing back some memories! I think I turned my old E6B into modern wall art or something a couple decades ago.
Looks like that jog to the west took you over some pretty high terrain. What’s the service ceiling on that corrugated tool box of yours?
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Well I will definitely plan some routes and get cracking in that case. If nothing else it will be great practice for using x plane!
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I am not saying everyone in MX has alcoholic tendencies… but… you know… right?
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I made a horrible mistake two days ago.
I bought AIr Hauler 2.
Spreadsheets, charts, graphs, flight schedules…
Xmas Flight legs will resume after I get this under control
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Was recently mentioned about this by @Cygon_Parrot… Originally I had planned to fly this in the 767 (CYEG-KLAX-PHNL-NSTU) however after much debating while staring blindly at coworkers, I opted for the TBM900. Nothing is more exciting than knowing you could fail to do a CL item properly and blow up a brand new PT6. Matter of fact, I’ve done it 3 times in the first couple hours of flying this bird!
None the less, started the flight out at a gloomy CZVL (North West of Edmonton AB) in front of the local school. Armed with 292 gallons of gas, degrading weather, no controllers in sight and a trusty PT6 I took off and went along my merry way…
Quite a long journey, at 30,000ft the winds were almost a direct headwind at 100kts, reducing me to very little ground speed. Fortunately as I continued on into the night the winds began to die down to a minor 50kts, saving me quite a bit of time.
I checked the METAR for CYXY and noted the weather was down to 5SM with snow, the original destination I had picked ended up being at 1SM vis and was below the minimums for the RNAV approach it had forcing me to opt for the longer flight but with an ILS to work off of.
a nice short stop on 32L and a quick taxi off of the runway and onto 19 and straight ahead, lead me to the parking stall I was to take for the next couple days. A few members of the VA I’m a part of are partaking, with most meeting up on the east coast and then heading up over this way.
The next flight I’ll be embarking on is heading out to PANC, from there some more planning and hopefully some more cooperative winds…
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That is a fascinating back story about the tango and Sinatra…!
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