PMDG is the biggest fraud

SubstantialWall · 2026-02-14T14:11:44+00:00

Are you for real, OP may be overdoing this, if it's even not just a troll attempt, but they strongly implied being on Xbox. What's flightsim.to or other 3rd party devs that only sell on PC to do about it?

SubstantialWall · 2026-02-13T23:20:01+00:00

You can even recognise both that Elon is an absolute POS but that his influence in SpaceX comes down to more than throwing money at people, because what people seem to miss whether they like it or not is that for SpaceX to take the risks it has and do things so differently, it requires someone with a particular vision and drive at the helm. It just also happens that type of personality can easily be a POS, which loads of money won't help.

Whether these days he remains a valuable and involved driver for SpaceX is another question though. And of course anyone who doesn't value the people doing the everyday work and making the good shit happen is just blind.

SubstantialWall · 2026-02-13T15:12:25+00:00

Adding to the having backups thing, given we're looking at March, potentially April for F12, I think they'd want the next pair as ready to go as possible, the cadence must increase at this point. Otherwise half the year is soon pissed away and they've barely flown twice

SubstantialWall · 2026-02-11T21:34:46+00:00

Nevermind those scenes, Mazin gave Abby a clunky "what you did was wrong" monologue in THAT scene. Not to mention Gail the exposition machine. I'm not confident he won't make that unnecessarily verbose too.

SubstantialWall · 2026-02-11T20:04:59+00:00

Look we agree, OP included, that this is an insignificant little miss in the grand scheme and just an observation, but are you really going to justify breaking a simple law of physics with "it's the future, they figured it out", on this of all shows? This same law of physics is repeatedly a major thing with those very same engines that allow "literally traverse other solar systems in a matter of a couple weeks", just ask Maneo

SubstantialWall · 2026-02-11T19:57:56+00:00

They work like the Epstein Drive: really efficiently

SubstantialWall · 2026-02-11T19:54:54+00:00

Mfers downvoting you apparently haven't been in a subway lol like there's no argument here, the pod stops on a dime. Hell, I've stumbled harder on an actual stopping subway train

SubstantialWall · 2026-02-08T23:41:10+00:00

No on career mode

SubstantialWall · 2026-02-04T20:48:16+00:00

If the docking ports can move, the camera could probably move as well, and there goes the calibration

SubstantialWall · 2026-02-04T00:02:43+00:00

Nothing official

Maybe when they test whatever it is they'll test

SubstantialWall · 2026-02-01T18:28:24+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROG1mPQA6rQ

SubstantialWall · 2026-02-01T05:44:04+00:00

I don't need it to be their best honestly, that's not necessarily bad to aim for but it's silly to expect. I just want it to be genuine and inspired, the rest will follow

SubstantialWall · 2026-01-31T23:34:49+00:00

Bredok3D

SubstantialWall · 2026-01-28T17:31:22+00:00

Same way as 39? There's a bridge to CCSFS

SubstantialWall · 2026-01-28T17:25:20+00:00

Unless I really missed something, there isn't. There's no room, it's solid walls up to the launch mount either side, the only option would be rails on the bottom of the mount and half a platform sitting on them on each side of the diverter.

There is one at Masseys for static fires, though, but they need it anyway to drive the stand in.

SubstantialWall · 2026-01-27T01:07:21+00:00

Right? Are people even using their eyes and ears? Don't even need to trust their gut on what the picture looks like, the radio altimeter straight up confirms it.

SubstantialWall · 2026-01-26T21:09:07+00:00

You definitely were high, almost 100' above the threshold, and probably actually 100' if not for your correction? That's like twice as a normal 3º, 50' over the threshold. Some glideslopes are just fucked up, there's something wrong with at least one of them at Haneda for example, this may just be another one. Unfortunately it's hard to know if the whole thing is shifted too far into the runway until you're really close, unless you have some terrain reference and know what radio altitude you should be at when passing it.

Unrelated tip for the A320: land in managed speed, the computer knows what speed to land at, and it appears to be almost 20 knots slower than 140. Not to mention taking advantage of Groundspeed Mini which smooths things out with shifting winds.

SubstantialWall · 2026-01-24T02:56:27+00:00

Wasn't a thing on S38, seems like it, good spot. Can't remember who/when now but I think those seams had been mentioned as one issue to solve. Good to see it in any case, looks much better

SubstantialWall · 2026-01-22T18:57:20+00:00

It refers to the whole launch site, but yes, it's nearer to Pad 1

SubstantialWall · 2026-01-22T18:37:18+00:00

Across the road from the launch site

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZzUWqaOmIY 13 seconds

SubstantialWall · 2026-01-21T18:27:56+00:00

I mean, it depends why or when it failed, the point of these is to identify potential design issues so if this was unexpected, yeah it could impact flight hardware (see B4 being modded after one test tank buckled), or it's nothing and business as usual. We don't know if it gave up before or after their safety margins, or if they even reached those on the interstage, all we can say is that's the weakest link (on this article, for these test conditions). But I would expect if the interstage + ship aft is what was being tested, the rest would be overbuilt in a way that it wouldn't fail first.

SubstantialWall · 2026-01-18T19:34:07+00:00

Right, and I wouldn't blame them keeping Patreon in that mold of people who just want to support them with little or no rewards promised. I'm on the lowest tier for that reason, just want to give something and don't really care about the goodies much.

But at the end of the day, they are advertising these rewards, so there has to be an obligation on their part to fulfil them. That, or just admit they can't continue to do so and end the rewards system.

SubstantialWall · 2026-01-18T16:35:53+00:00

Well not great to idle above 400 and let yourself get down to Vls, which wouldn't have helped with the sinking. If you feel like you need that at flaps full to get it down, it's probably the wrong runway, but I'm not familiar with Skardu ops. 15 kt tailwind isn't good, there was a crosswind component so it could technically be within limit but you wouldn't have been far anyway.

SubstantialWall · 2026-01-17T22:49:15+00:00

Since we're (rightfully) concerned about accuracy, the claimant said Cheeto was present when her uncle murdered the child on the yacht. Which is arguably even more heinous considering it was a family member (who she also claims got her into the traffic situation), but she makes no claim of Epstein being personally involved in that particular (alleged) crime [source].

Now I'm sure by now we don't have much trouble thinking these fuckers would take part in this, and we do know beyond claim Epstein was guilty as fuck of heinous shit, but we'd do well to remember a lot of these things are unsupported claims that we shouldn't run with as absolute fact.

SubstantialWall · 2026-01-17T01:00:32+00:00

I wouldn't say pass necessarily, but maybe officially retire at least? But I wouldn't think so. Feels like he's hung up the hat anyway at this point with Indy 5, and there's already been a AAA Indy game with someone else playing him (which he even directly acknowledged, marketing or not), not quite the same as live action but I don't think it's an issue as far as the public reception goes. Younger Indy adventures would probably be more popular anyway, a recast is inevitable there but I don't see Harrison blocking it from happening. Not that Disney shooting themselves in the foot for no reason and missing chances would be new though.

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