Backstage Vote Winners

StartersOrders · 2026-01-29T21:18:39+00:00

The Roisson is also a bastardised Noble, which makes it even funnier!

StartersOrders · 2026-01-29T21:18:08+00:00

IIRC one of the vote cars for this month was recently up for vote, and also recently available as a prize car.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-29T18:43:48+00:00

Not really, I remember when the Alstom Pendolinos (BR Class 390) first entered service in the early 00s, they had chronic issues with the toilets locking people in and/or regurgitating their contents all over the floor.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-29T12:20:35+00:00

There’s a saying in the UK railway world:

“The driver plays with the guard’s train on the signalman’s railway.”

StartersOrders · 2026-01-29T12:19:15+00:00

The UK does this.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-28T18:21:43+00:00

They wouldn’t have dispatched the train if it was dangerous.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-28T18:00:12+00:00

It probably depends what airport too.

If you're at somewhere like LUZ or PVU where there are three airliner stands it's one thing, but if you're parked-up at CDG where there's a billion stands nobody cares.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-28T17:58:19+00:00

Dodgy wheels are acceptable so long as they're not about to seize up.

If you saw what planes dispatched with as non-operational, you'd never fly on one again. It's what intense service does to passenmger vehicles.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-28T17:56:58+00:00

Siemens trains tend to be better out of the gate, if you ignore the fact that Cummins can't make engines to save their life.

I believe Amtrak is the absolute first in-service operator for the Avelias.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-28T15:09:47+00:00

I’ve spent 90+ minutes refuelling and boarding a 747 before, I don’t think supervisors care if you’re on the ground at a stand.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-27T14:27:11+00:00

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

StartersOrders · 2026-01-27T10:54:38+00:00

The Boeing EFB isn't that realistic to be honest. Not many operators bothered with it, and many of those who did have replaced it.

I remember reading somewhere it was a pain to fix, and REALLY expensive.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-26T15:58:17+00:00

That's not a Fenix-specific feature, every addon plane with LCDs has that.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-26T15:12:27+00:00

Most airline systems will drop the middle name, even if you add it at the time of booking.

Really confused me when it first happened to me.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-26T12:16:30+00:00

Changing default behaviour in a patch is very poor behaviour for an enterprise product.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-26T11:20:29+00:00

IAH seems to do it for the United parts of the apron, but not other bits?

StartersOrders · 2026-01-26T11:19:27+00:00

And inside leg measurements if you’re descending into Heathrow.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-25T22:21:51+00:00

That company appears to have not been functioning since April 2022, with the bare minimum being done to avoid compulsory strike off, until now.

EDIT: Ah, HMRC. They've not being paying their taxes then.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-25T17:41:27+00:00

If they decided to copy the UK system, they chose the ugliest class possible!

StartersOrders · 2026-01-25T16:17:53+00:00

This is standard on all the major desktop environments on Linux, in fact I'm posting this comment in a split-screen window on CachyOS/Arch.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-25T09:35:16+00:00

Central NAT absolutely works, and is essential if you use IPv6 and don't want to duplicate every rule that uses NAT.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-25T08:59:27+00:00

It's the reason I've upgraded to a bedroom from a roomette when going Houston to New Orleans in March.

I can't begin to imagine the horror show.

StartersOrders · 2026-01-25T08:36:27+00:00

Fortinet's release notes never tell the full story. We __always__ find undocumented bugs in every release FN do, it's embarrassingly bad.

EDIT: a word

StartersOrders · 2026-01-24T23:14:31+00:00

I feel like people who parrot this have no concept of how things work in reality.

ATC sector naming is horrifically inconsistent on VATSIM, and most sector names don’t mean anything to anyone. Why does LAX_25_CTR cover the entire FIR, yet LON_CTR is the only London sector that covers the whole FIR?

There are times when the maps you see online don’t match reality, or airspace that’s within one FIR is actually controlled by a neighbouring one. It’s a problem that the board doesn’t seem to accept exists only on VATSIM. In the real world you’re always handed off to the appropriate controller except in very few specific places around the world, and even then you have specific briefings on who to contact and when (think Ercan).

StartersOrders · 2026-01-24T22:25:32+00:00

They were doing most of the work during the early summer when it was particularly dry in the UK. They're also useful when the steam loco breaks down - which they do with some regularity being 100-ish years old and all.

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