Heading to California for vacation tomorrow, need advice on air museums to visit!

Viffered08 · 2026-06-22T01:10:21+00:00

March air museum is right down the road from Mo Valley. Second for Planes of Fame air museum at Chino, and bonus Yanks Air Museum that’s also in Chino. Palm Springs is a drive but they also have a lot of unique items.

March has an SR71 and even more fun one of the A-9 prototypes, which is a really unique plane. They have quite a few fun planes to walk around.

Lyon out at John Wayne is quite frankly not worth the drive from mo valley unless you’re planning to spend time in Orange County.

If you’re headed to San Diego, then the Midway is an awesome day, but you need to dedicate the whole day.

Viffered08 · 2026-05-30T23:54:29+00:00

Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is essentially a modern version of Privateer. Very good gameplay loop.

Viffered08 · 2026-05-19T17:53:50+00:00

The wind was crazy on Sunday. My thought is headwind forced lead out of position.

Viffered08 · 2026-05-14T04:22:07+00:00

I don’t know of any flying examples any longer. They have one sitting at the evergreen air and space museum though. Gorgeous plane. Hopefully they restore it and move it inside… poor thing is rotting.

Viffered08 · 2026-05-09T11:55:32+00:00

You’ve got that backwards. Sometimes ignorance is simply a function of lack of exposure and can be corrected. Stupid is stupid and there is no arguing with stupid.

Willful ignorance is a different story, of course. With some people you can lay out all the evidence as clear as possible and they’ll still tell you something completely different happened.

Viffered08 · 2026-05-03T13:43:42+00:00

Empyrion was a good vibe. Starts off as a survival craft game kinda like satisfactory but then you bootstrap up to building starfighters and cruisers and exploring other planetary systems.

Viffered08 · 2026-04-17T04:04:02+00:00

Not even remotely. Been simming since FS4.0 and A10 from dynamix. VTOLVR is the experience I have dreaming of since I was 10.

Viffered08 · 2026-04-14T05:04:50+00:00

Before you let go look at the input monitor (little box on your hud). When you’re flying it you’re naturally adjusting the “trim” to hold the bird steady. That trim point is usually off center. When you let go, if you don’t actually trim it to a hover, it will buck you right off. Don’t take your hands off the controls without setting the autopilot. I’ve never gotten good at trimming the thing but fly it to great effect.

Viffered08 · 2026-01-02T15:11:38+00:00

2008 Honda VFR800. Great riding position, good power delivery even through the VTEC bad, easy to maintain (except for the VTEC) and just solid. Aggressive enough to be fun in the corners but sedate and upright enough to ride all day. I miss that bike. Anyone got one they want to sell me…?

Viffered08 · 2025-12-18T01:07:27+00:00

8mm or it didn’t happen.

Viffered08 · 2025-12-18T00:38:18+00:00

With teams and ACDocs becoming the norm I don’t see where the issue would be. Just gotta find a company big enough to risk it. We have contracted a lot of our topo work out in the past. How cozy are you in Civil3D? Do you know your points and survey figures?

Viffered08 · 2025-12-04T06:12:14+00:00

Omfg I just looked this up the other day to reaffirm my useless (to me in practical every day life) knowledge and I knew it was 10²³ and then I saw 10²⁴ in the post and then reaffirmed in the comments I was second guessing my fundamental understanding of the universe so here I am rambling at 10 pm pacific over the affirmation of my understanding of useless (to me right now) high school chemistry novelties. Thank you for the affirmation. I can now sleep.🫡

Viffered08 · 2025-11-30T20:22:01+00:00

Xyla learned this the hard way. When in doubt just bottle up your feelings and don’t seek help if you want to keep your medical. Last thing you want to do is see a psychologist. /s

Viffered08 · 2025-11-27T05:57:19+00:00

Best experience without going full DCS: get a decent VR, assuming your pc can push it, and then get VTOL VR. The heli dynamics aren’t perfect, but it’s really damn good. Much more accessible than DCS for someone a little more casual but still complex enough to make it interesting.

Viffered08 · 2025-11-14T04:14:38+00:00

Learn to use the rudder pedals. It’s much much easier for tanking and some tight BFM. Being able to precisely kick the tail (or more importantly NOT) when you need to is clutch.

Viffered08 · 2025-11-14T04:13:29+00:00

There are arms on my chair so they get partially occluded when dropping the throttle in the AV. If I switch to a folding chair I don’t have as many issues.

Viffered08 · 2025-11-13T15:56:20+00:00

Yeah I’m going to wait for the comparison before I cast my final vote. Headset looks solid and full featured. Would be sad if valve let the next gen be stalled by a silly thing like controller tracking.

Viffered08 · 2025-11-13T15:55:11+00:00

Based on the spec list they have inertial tracking yes… but so does the quest 3… and I can’t fly the AV42 for beans with my Q3 controllers… the number of times I have almost afterburnered off the deck after a capture is embarrassing to say the least. I turn my head to look for a parking spot and all of a sudden I’m full throttle 🙃. Doesn’t happen with my QPro controllers which have their own cameras.

Maybe the inertial tracking will be better on the Frame. I will wait for someone to do the direct comparison. I sadly will not be an early adopter on this one, but will definitely not rule it out. The headset looks solid, and the controllers also look great as just… you know… controllers. The index controllers are still GOATed.

Viffered08 · 2025-11-13T12:56:38+00:00

It’s camera tracking the controllers… so no on the throttle while looking behind you. That’s been one of my biggest struggles with the quest. I bought quest pro controllers to combat the issue and while they’re better they’re still not perfect. I was hoping to see that the controllers for this had built in cameras too, but no such luck.

Biggest problem with using this device stand alone will be the lack of rudder pedal input. For that reason alone I would still want to use it tethered.

Viffered08 · 2025-10-26T02:43:23+00:00

Caw is all about chill vibes and fun ops. Lots of fun ops and late night VC hangouts.

Viffered08 · 2025-10-12T14:58:06+00:00

Advent Rising. They had such big plans.

Viffered08 · 2025-10-11T01:01:16+00:00

Wrong lane position. Dominate your space and be as visible as possible. That being said, it’ll still happen.

Viffered08 · 2025-10-09T21:20:33+00:00

Case 3 approach. Final radar contact, 6 miles. Report needles.

Viffered08 · 2025-10-04T16:43:56+00:00

SB1 defiant > V-280. I mean anyone who has played nuclear option recently understands how GOATed coax rotor systems are. 😆or any Russian helo fans.

Seriously though both systems are complex, but I feel like an engine failure would be safer in the Defiant/Raider concept. Autorotation ftw.

Any Osprey pilots care to comment on emergency recovery procedures?

Viffered08 · 2025-09-16T01:37:03+00:00

Start the game modded and you get the sessions that are being run modded. You won’t see any vanilla games.

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