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    Grumpiness Index aka Bellicosity Ratio

    in Grumpy Tales

    Posted

    I'm still grumpy and occasionally become bellicose, but I have found that speaking up in forums leads to higher blood pressure rather than relieving it. This is particularly frustrating when the person who is causing the grumpiness is a respected member of the FS community as well as being a blithering idiot. So I read drivel or even worse, total ignorance, pig-headed intransigence or just plain wrong answers and I say nothing. I stay grumpy but it keeps the fan-boys off my back. (For clarification purposes, I am not talking about these simFlight forums.)

    Virtual Friendships

    in Grumpy Tales

    Posted

    Fantastic Responses - it is good to see such diverse views!

    I feel that I already made some new "friends", I'll be round next Sunday for tea and bikkies! :D

    I'll put the kettle on...

    Here is a "quickie": Is it easier to initiate and sustain friendships on the Internet than it is in normal social networking? It certainly seems that way for me. Is it because people we communicate with on the web have like interests, in this case flight simming? Or are there other reasons, ie we feel less inhibited on the web that we do in real life, due to the anonymity.

    Perhaps easier to initiate, though even of that I am not certain. I used to be shy but it wore off.

    I'm thinking about various social networks. School was 45 years ago but I still have friends that I see regularly (though fewer and less often) both in person and on the internet. Church is much the same. Though I have drifted away, I still see Church friends. Work was 7 years ago but I buy my groceries there (3-4 times a week) and maintain many of the same friendships I developed over the years I worked in that building. Plus many of those friendships have continued BECAUSE of the internet. I think [people I worked with] is a bigger group of friends on Facebook than is [flightsimmers]. Many have moved away from Bangor, with or without the same employer. They are scattered from Maine to Florida and the internet allows us to continue to interact. And since Bangor is a small city, School, Church and Work all overlap. There is even a guy who I competed against in High School, attended Church with for a few years and now talk on phone & internet and see in person, both here and in Florida. He's also a flightsimmer.

    I think the biggest non-internet social network I am in today though is the coffee shop. My friend Don & I go to Tim Horton 3-4 times a week and we meet up with many of the same people. Some wave and say hi, some invite us to sit or come to our table. It's a casual deal, much like the internet.

    I'm not (and I have not seen too many mature individuals who are) less inhibited on the net. Perhaps because I haven't been anonymous since about 1993 :)

    Virtual Friendships

    in Grumpy Tales

    Posted

    To me Internet friendships are not 'substitutes' for real friendships. They ARE real. The passing of Jun has made that more clear than ever to me, recently.

    I agree with you on this. There are people on-line who I have known for 15 years or more. Some I have never met in person (and never will,) some I knew BEFORE the internet (family members who have moved to warmer climes,) and quite a few have visited here or I have visited there.

    Online friendships come in all shapes and sizes and like in-person friendships, they ebb and flow as interests shift and circumstances change.

    Flightsim and internet for me came together in the early 90's when AOL was first formed from Apple-Talk. It began as a DOS app and I was a beta tester for the original Windows version. FS4 days :) There on AOL I met two guys, Mel from near Montreal and David from near Miami. Both flightsimmers who congregated in the FS interest group. Years later, Mel taught me scenery design using a voice chat program called PowWow. Amazing. Mel passed away about the time FS98 came out, but David and I still exchange e-mails and though I have passed through Miami a couple times we have not yet met in person. And he no longer uses Flightsim. When FS98 came out, I met Bill Lyons on-line and we had a long association. We still correspond and occasionally talk on the phone, though we have never met in person. At the same time, because of Golden Wings, I met the gentleman known as Bookman online. In those 11 years we've met many times. I've stayed in his house, he has stayed in mine. We have traveled together from Eastern Maine to Southern Ohio and I chatted with him about 6 hours ago. Leon and I chatted daily for about 6 years. I don't believe there was a subject we missed. I even know his real name. We joyfully murdered Franglish at every opportunity I've traveled several times to places around the country with other people I have met on the internet and yet there are those who, for whatever reason I am not likely to ever see in person.

    But despite all that and Facebook too, my entire social life is not on the internet. I'm out and about nearly every day and though my circle of close friends is shrinking by attrition, I'm still happy to run into the survivors at the coffee shop. And I try to have dinner with my ex-wife at least once a week. I am on a first name basis with almost everyone in the supermarket. Of course I worked there for 30+ years. :)

    I suppose there are sociopaths who can't carry on a face to face relationship, but I don't think it is as common as one might think. I believe most of us are "normal" and the internet is just another dimension. I do make fewer trips to the Public Library.

    What is it like these days?

    in GA & Bush Flying

    Posted

    Mike-

    If you still have your FS2002 stuff, just reload that and wait for FSX. There will be loads of new stuff right in the package and I am sure plenty of freeware to follow. If you do decide to go with FS9, there is plenty of freeware to choose from at avsim and flightsim. You can have a great bush flying experience without spending a dime on payware. Then, just skim through the forums here and you will see several payware items that many think are worth the price. Take your time and be prudent. In your position, I would wait for FSX to get any payware.

    Hey all. I've been out of flight simming pretty much since I came to college 2 years ago, but I'm thinking of getting back into it this fall when I get a new computer. However, one of the concerns I have, besides whether or not I'll have time, is the amount of freeware left for bush flying, particularly in Alaska. My interest in the hobby really peaked back about 3-4 years ago when freeware was the rule rather than the exception and everyone used FS2002.

    Nowadays, while I haven't looked at the market much, it seems like a lot of today's products are payware. Is that true? If so, how much decent freeware is still out there, and how much payware is actually worth it? Since I'm a college kid, I don't really want to spend much money on payware scenery and mesh and such (or aircraft, but thankfully MS is including a Beaver in the next version), I'd love to get back into this, but I'm not ready to throw money at everything I see just to be able to download it. Thanks in advance for the help.

    OT: But I gotta know ???

    in Emma Field Flying Club

    Posted

    Drinking coffee in your car? Drinking coffee is some kind of a pause. We just park our car near a place where they sell coffee, walk the short distance to it and drink coffee sitting at a table or something. Anything to be out of that car for a while.

    Cars are not that holy to us :roll: :wink: .

    I agree 100% and I live in the land of drive through everything. When I travel, I look forward to the stop for coffee. I want the calm of sitting in a restaurant, having a conversation without the road noise. I like having a chance to relax and look at something other than the road ahead. But you have hit it right when you compare the automobile to religion. The automobile IS religion for much of the population of North America. :roll:

    Good Cargo Planes to Use with FS Cargo?

    in FSCargo FS2004 Support Forum

    Posted

    This is the plane in question at Avsim. the Bill is the author.

    Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Original Aircraft

    Piper PA22 Tri-Pacer

    File Description:

    The Tri-Pacer is a remarkable aircraft with performance that matches or exceeds that of its contemporary all metal Cessna 172. It is a full seven feet shorter in length then a 172 and takes off in a shorter distance with a higher cruise speed. The Tri-Pacer wins over its pilots with its performance and it is a delight to fly an aircraft that can get airborne fully loaded in 1,220 feet and land over a 50 foot barrier in 1,280 feet. It stalls at 48 mph and best rate of climb is at 84 mph when it can get 620 feet per minute. At 7,000 and 75% power it will true out at 132 mph and its service ceiling is 15,000. Today it remains popular as a classic aircraft. By Lynn and Bill Lyons

    Filename: cc13p22f.zip

    License: Freeware

    Added: 18th August 2005

    Downloads: 14232

    Author: Lynn and Bill Lyons

    Size: 12519kb

    Leon Louis

    in Emma Field Flying Club

    Posted

    With a great deal of personal sadness I must inform all his friends, that Leon passed away on the 14th. As one who has known Leon since before his first scenery or aircraft re-paint I took for granted that he would always be around. His passing reminds us that we all are going out through the same gate, so enjoy every moment.

    Can't import new areas?

    in FSCargo FS2004 Support Forum

    Posted

    Secondly there appears to be double entrys for at least 9 airports which are Aberporth, Aldergrove, Alderney, Andrewsfield, Barkston Heath AB, Barra, Baldoon, Barton and Beccles off which the second entry for Aldergrove is spelt Alsergrove.Cap Man (Keith).

    Yes, it needs editing, but that's Daniel's job :) I'm happy to have the default UK so well covered.

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