For once, I’m just fixing it… no driving for me. I did load it for them. But only because they were fannying about last night
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Maximum respect…
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Yay some good flooding here …the bus driver just dropped the eldest daughter off the other side and she walked through knee deep water …but she made it home …and seeing a bmw stuck always gives me a little chuckle 
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It hasnt been too bad here to be honest. It snowed a bit last night but soon turned into rain and slush. Nothing worth noting though.
I couldn’t sleep at all last night despite being absolutely shattered and played reforger till it gave me the hump about 4am. I did ambush a couple of unsuspecting players from a rooftop. That was fun but didnt help me sleep with my heartrate being about 200bpm whilst that was in progress
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Thats where the money is earned that gets spent in Lisboa. Or so I‘m told.
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Teaching the young fella important life lessons.
It’s my old ute but I let him lead. He learned two important things:
- Power tools make things easier… until they make things much much harder
- Always make sure you’ve got the right bit properly engaged before applying power
He then learned how to use the car’s tire iron and a mallet to reshape the lands on the wheel nuts, and I’d like to think he also learned that when Dad says something it might be worth listening to, but I’m not so sure on that one
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Good luck bud, not that you needed it…
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I don’t know, the sims always seem to have every problem under the sun crop up in a single flight
Good luck!
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Nah. “What’s the worst that can happen?”
When I was teching, I saw guys come out of those sims wringing wet from sweat, and everyone always complained about V1 cuts. I’m sure this will not be a leisurely cruise.
Good luck
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Managed a quick 10 minutes between breakdowns to play tanks with the boy and his new truck https://youtu.be/xanrOQbF78c?si=XNfdqprCj6ehUBPU
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Guess what. Everything bad happened. Go figure.
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We got it pretty easy in this PC-24. I mean…it is still exciting (initially)…but we have stuff like auto-yaw trim and rudder bias… So once the initial gyrations are over…you hit the autopilot on and it does some magic stuff and gets you all trimmed out (well…properly trimmed out with a bit of bank and a half “ball” out). Back in the day (oh man…I keep using that term) in the King Air 200 the instructor would fail the engine and you’d pretty much just have to stand on the rudder for awhile until you could get enough aerodynamic flow to allow the manual rudder trim to start helping out. Fun stuff. Came out of the sim with my leg shaking a few times. I think sim instructors are less sadistic these days…or I’m just way more comfortable in airplanes…maybe a combination of both. I think at some point the psychology of “load them up until they break” went away in our industry. It wasn’t really useful training…because that rarely happens in real life.
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Cheating!!
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The bottom of those PFDs remind me of that show, The Floor is Lava.
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We had an instructor, a real old school 727 guy, who used to laugh about doing just that in the Citation Mustang. His favorite thing to do was a bird strike at V2 (cratering an engine & smashing the windscreen) and “smoke in the cockpit” with foggles.
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