Your mom probably didn’t appreciate you were actually practicing “counter manpad” maneuvers in the Mi-24P you were obviously visualizing during the lesson. It happens but if she were able to view you in DCS now, piloting that Hind, she would be proud. 
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Earth, man! What a place!
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Is that Denali and the Broken Tooth I’m seeing in that fourth pic up?
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I’ll answer nerd-friendly. NAT Track “Charlie” Feb 14, roughly 61North 30 West.
I’ve got a cool video I’ll post when I get it on YT.
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That puts it squarely in the NOT Denali area…
Looks like Greenland to me (I guess I could plot it to confirm)…. Usually I see nothing but a solid cloud deck when I cross Greenland!
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I posted the wrong coordinates anyway. A picture is better. Don’t mind the Track ID’s. They’ve changed since the flight.
I know! It’s such a rare treat. The wx was awful the entire first half of the crossing. The skies parted for us just prior to the first shot.
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It’s great to see that there is enough traffic crossing the Pond to justify a Track Charlie… 
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Tell him you already watched the preflight video. Twice.
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Dallas?
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Yup. Airlined in to do a stand-alone .297, then back out next day. The worst part is remembering Primus 1000/Universal, but it comes back pretty quick and this one went pretty perfect. Always neat when you come out feeling good. 
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Sounds like you earned yourself a Citation for being Excellently prepared.
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Ugh! Drive by check rides. I’m glad I get to do the full recurrent every 6 months tbh, although sitting through two days in class rehashing the same material is painful at times…not to mention another 5 nights in a Marriott 
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Every time I see a photo of that PC24 cockpit, I feel like I am flying a dinosaur … I still miss my giant Sperry Mechanical ADI though…
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I just wish I could figure out how to keep the cockpit windows clean. 
Our guys washed the plane last week and there is some sort of residue on the outside of the windows that gives a slight fog. I’ve tried washing them with chamois and water, but it won’t come off…and I wouldn’t consider using any kind of cleaner. So I’ll have to see if they can figure it out. We also get a weird film building up on the inside of the windows…I suspect it is a combination of static electricity and maybe either off-venting from the new plastics, or something coming through the ECS from the engines…but pretty much after every flight there is a residue on the inside of the windows that needs to be wiped off with a dry cloth. I think it is new plane stuff.
Could be a coating that’s reacting to a cleaning agent. Hopefully not.
Honestly, in this airplane, flying it every day and no longer flying any other jets at the same time, I think the standalone works pretty good. The last two recurrents have been boring as watching paint dry; no new material or case studies, no new emphasis items. Morristown on the CE525 program used to always have something new to talk about or focus on; maybe it’s because the larger pool of various 525 models, or the pilots that fly them were always finding new ways to screw up. The 560XL program seems to be stuck where it was in 2018 when I went through initial, even the slides and handouts are the same. Not that I’m Chuck Yeager or Mr. Wiz, they’re just very simple jets with simple systems and few bold-face items or gotchas. Whenever there’s an accident, it seems to always be either stab position or parking brake left on.
I’d be up for another day in the sim every 6 months, except that the sim is so markedly different than the real A/C. Unlike the CJ3 sim that was pretty right on (and in great shape), flying the XL sim at CAE is flying a video game, and the sim has too many miles on it. The control yoke is even worn-in at the sweet spot for steep turns, like it has a detent there! Honest! 
So for now, I doubt I’d see much value in spending more time in it. I do always insist they give me at least one T/R deployment at V1, since that can be pretty sporty to keep on runway heading.
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