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The DCS Huey is on offer, $20 USD until 30th June, by the way. (Apologies if this is against the rules to mention here!)

:D But 24 isn't metric?

mhmm. So the race is on: which will arrive first: Ubuntu Gizmo 64-bit, or my rudder pedals from the UK? When I have both, I'll be able to enjoy the new MU-2! (Or I could buy a modern Windows licence. But there's a lot of things for me to pay for first.)

Gizmo 64-bit works with Ubuntu now doesn't it? So I'll probably be migrating from XP9.7 on 32-bit Vista to XP10 on Ubuntu. Absolutely I'm not spending money (or obtaining an illegal licence) for 64-bit Windows right now.

Let the record show, my GT620 didn't get this problem!

Morten and TomK are secretly the same person actually, Tom... Tom Knudsen... Tom K... Aah! You're one of them too! You're part of MortomK!

Can that conversion be to replace the entire Garmin code with the Gizmo equivalent of "return 0;" and then put a nice little U/S sticker on the cyanic horror? (boo to GPS in simulators! )

Quaternion maths! I was working on that when my plugin inexplicably decided to crash every time I loaded it, no matter what I removed - that was the most recent time my X-Plane dev progress stalled. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's my fault for coding in C++ instead of Gizmo (Is that even an option for non-professional use anymore?) The Citation looks very nice indeed. Good work all! Do you envisage this as being a 'full-strength' project like the Saab, full of systems modelling, or will this be a lighter simulation, nice 3d and texture work on a mostly Planemaker flight and systems model?

Good for you staying upbeat, SAAB340! I haven't been following this project closely, but even making small changes to a 3D cockpit can take a lot of work. I'm not a 3D modeller, but from conversations with friends who are, if the SAAB is using baked textures (shadows pre-rendered into the textures, which make everything look more realistic without the processing cost of real shadows) then the cockpit would need to be re-baked after removing those switches and features you mentioned. Then, ongoing, the team would need to maintain two separate versions of the project. That can be a lot of effort. Hopefully, once the passenger version is completed, they might consider making the cargo-specific cockpit as a bonus feature in an update perhaps. And I really hope Cameron won't carry through that threat to take the freight version and go home

I tried WoT years ago but got fed up with it - I hate games where you can pay real-world money to gain a limited in-game advantage.. Game I've played the most recently is Max Payne 2. There's something satisfying about walking round corners in slow motion shooting people in the head. And Microsoft Access. I love that game.

Yay indeed!

A friend of mine has the nose section of a DH Comet, converted into a fixed-base flight simulator. Does that count as real? The hardware is real. Some of the instruments are real I've flown in the usual succession of Boeings and Airbuses, not remarkable. As a pilot I've flown gliders. Currently I'm blatting about the skies of Tasmania* in a K-13. Last week they let me fly solo straightaway, instead of having a check-flight with an instructor first, which made me very pleased.

I have fond memories of watching glider pilots dodging a Norwegian 737 at Lasham airfield during a gliding competition a few years back. I hadn't encountered that airline before. A very distinctive and attractive livery!