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    Just when you think you have everything running some what better...

    You get a message from the Hosting company. Short story they need to move us to a new server. I have been working with them to plan a good date for all concerned. Here is what we have come up with as a schedule.

    1. November 4th 17:00 -5UTC shut off the forums and start backup proceedures. During this time there will be no access to the forums or the Resource Section.
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    If all goes well we should be back online on November 8th.

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Took a spin in the Gripen this evening. Handles nicely and seems stable trimmed at cruise (no autopilot). Good looking pit, but I don't know how functional it is. (Pit picture got a little over exposed...the HUD is quite nice.)Screenshot 2026-04-12 194845.pngScreenshot 2026-04-12 195029.pngScreenshot 2026-04-12 195416.png
 
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Did something a bit different tonight. We all have one or two, okay, seven or eight birds sitting in our hangars we've never touched. I took the Blackbox Britten Norman BN-2 Islander up and about tonight out of Middle Wallop. Slick little kite. I see a few more hours of bending throttles and pushing pedals in her future.

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Not my usual place to fly but thought I'd try out the Seattle area for once and naturally some seaplane stuff. For this I choose the Beaver floater. The aircraft is great but my god the scenery is shockingly bad. I thought this was heartland Microsoft territory - the trees are awful and there are ugly triangle blocks of buildings all round the air harbour. Back to the high desert for me !

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I went to bed feeling a bit...funny. Sure enough, I woke up in a French sort of mood. So, the best thing to do was to roll the C.160 out of the hangar at Orleans-Bricy. As soon as I got home from work, I started doing some area flights, intermixed with touch-and-goes on the main runway. I wrapped up, so far, with a full-stop landing on the grass strip used for practice tactical approaches. Every time I fly the Transall, I'm impressed. Every landing is smooth as butter!

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collensr said:
Not my usual place to fly but thought I'd try out the Seattle area for once and naturally some seaplane stuff. For this I choose the Beaver floater. The aircraft is great but my god the scenery is shockingly bad. I thought this was heartland Microsoft territory - the trees are awful and there are ugly triangle blocks of buildings all round the air harbour. Back to the high desert for me !

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Turn off Photogrammetry. Let Autogen do the work. it will look better (But you might lose some site specific details) and you'll get better framerate.
 
collensr said:
Not my usual place to fly but thought I'd try out the Seattle area for once and naturally some seaplane stuff. For this I choose the Beaver floater. The aircraft is great but my god the scenery is shockingly bad. I thought this was heartland Microsoft territory - the trees are awful and there are ugly triangle blocks of buildings all round the air harbour. Back to the high desert for me !
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Turn off Photogrammetry. Let Autogen do the work. it will look better (But you might lose some site specific details) and you'll get better framerate.
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Thanks Brian - that made a huge difference ! I'm going to try this in a few other locations where the trees and buildings are bad. Cheers Richard
 
Nice landing with a beautiful landscape !
I've been driving through the whole valley three years ago, and it's quite nice. Somewhere along the way, the highway stops and you continue via roads, and the experience becomes even greater.
Fun fact: this is actually the valley of the Rhone river, which ends up in the Mediterranean sea... in Marseille in France ! :D
 
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