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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.
    2. November 5th Continue with Backups and download same until complete.
    3. November 6th 7:00 turn over server to hosting company to move system to new server
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    If all goes well we should be back online on November 8th.

    To keep you updated we will post updates on AVSIM forums.

    Thank you for your support.

Too much, Too fast..

warchild

warchild

Charter Member
As many of you know, I havee an attraction to flying in really bad weather.. Well, this time I maybe bit off more than I could chew.. Truly, it made me wish i was with the gentleman in the other post, relaxing in british columbia..

I took off from the Dominican republic.. The first airport i tried was just inside the outer ring of Hurricane Maria, and my plane was quite litterally, and immediately flipped over on its back by the 130 some MPH winds. I next tried a little airport called Cabo Rojo, which was was west of the storm, and headed due east into its maw.. I thought i'd take some photo's from inside the storm. Sorry. There was no time. Most of the time my IAS was pegged at 700MPH, and i was working my butt off just to keep the plane flying. I do admit, that there were a couple times when I wished my mommy was there.. This is a horrifying storm, even in FSX. The eye was gorgeous tough. Calm as calm could be, but then, it was back into the teeth of that thing, and a fight to stay the air. What an amazing flight it was.

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Navy Chief said:
I wonder how a larger aircraft would fare in such storms? I.e. P-3s? NC
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OHHHHHH, Just absolutely horribly.. Horribly I say ::roflmao::
Believe it or not, the P-61s were the first weather research aircraft as the aircraft used in Project Thunderstorm.. At nearly thirty thousand pounds, it seemed a good bet that they could stand up to whatever a thunderstorm threw at them, but they were never flown into the teeth of a hurricane.. Still, I'm crazy as a loon and just cant resist a challenge,..

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