For all the other turmoil in my life of late…I still love my job…and am fortunate to enjoy scenes like this tonight…
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I think you need to look straight ahead and hit numpad 5 to recenter. 
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Rctrl+numEnter to reset FOV too
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Garden in the Sky London. Free admission, I recommend pre booking a ticket on line. Do not eat here. Eyewateringly expensive.
Monument to 1666 Great Fire of London
HMS Belfast. WW11 heavy cruiser. Battle of North Cape and D Day amongst other actions
Tower of London and Tower Bridge
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Old shed on a farm
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Still more nice sunsets! Should have started with these, they don’t move around nearly as much as birds.
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Diabetic retinopathy not a new gadget for dcs. Routine check. Just had the vile drops put in the eyes. Now to look forward to them squirting a jet of air onto the eyes
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Its a yearly check. Have you booked your apointment with specsavers yet?
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The wife and i are going to book for next Saturday. To be honest, since i came off nights i havent really recovered yet. Thought I’d decompress for a week or so and then feel awesome but i still feel shagged.
I’m assuming the eye thing is a symptom of that as well so it definitely needs checking
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Visited the big SimBox yesterday and today.
This is after landing at ENSG, Sogndal.
Looks like we have a competitior… 
Sogndal is a cool airport in the Norwegian STOL network.
(Not me in the video)
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Ironically my eldest daughter is a manager at Specsavers, over the past year I have had 4 eye tests … they use me as a guinea pig for the optometrists when they are qualifying
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do they get upset if you virtually buzz the tower 
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Geez, I bet you’re glad she’s not a dentist! 
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Speaking for the training centers I’ve gone to, the official rule is “Don’t do anything in the sim that you wouldn’t do in the real airplane”. Some instructors/examiners/check airmen are more strict about that than others. IMO, it’s a good rule during the training and checkride, but I also don’t see anything wrong with after the checkride is completed, using the remaining time to goof off if desired. It is a big video game, after all.
Others would argue that that time would be better spent practicing some unusual emergency or maneuver (like a dual engine failure dead stick landing) that doesn’t get covered on the checkride or in training. They probably have a point too; that sim time is expensive, and if the company is paying for it they should expect to receive some value beyond the pilots trying out barrel rolls.
I did get to watch a pilot attempt to roll a CE525 in the sim, and split-s out of it. The instructor leaned forward and then demonstrated a perfect roll from the back, one handed, lol.
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I HATE the jet of air into the eyes. It takes all the courage I can muster to not go running screaming out of the exam room when it’s time for those.
Almost as bad as opening one of those Pillsbury biscuit dough containers.
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Or proctologist…
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you had to go there didnt you
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