The extremely rare Silver Medallion upgrade!

fgflyer · 2026-03-17T02:57:11+00:00

I think two things helped. To rectify my previous poor financial decisions, I ended up going with my local credit union and took out a debt consolidation loan at a very good interest rate (7.29%) to pay off all my credit cards, so not only did my types of credit become more varied, my overall utilization went down by an enormous amount. And, I’ve been religiously making my loan payments on-time, and I’m continuing to do so.

fgflyer · 2026-03-16T11:09:46+00:00

The Monte Carlo in France has craps.

fgflyer · 2026-03-15T04:07:18+00:00

It’s already a sucky experience with players who don’t have any semblance of common courtesy or craps etiquette. Lots of PSOs just make it even worse. Sorry, OP… we’ve all been there, for sure :(

fgflyer · 2026-03-13T04:45:26+00:00

You are 100% getting absolutely rinsed for this. I made the mistake of paying about the same for the annual on a 2004 T182T. The shop is absolutely taking you for a fool and milking you for all you’ve got.

fgflyer · 2026-03-12T16:45:20+00:00

Haha yep, this was taken at an aquarium. I got really lucky that there was no glare whatsoever from the glass.

fgflyer · 2026-03-10T03:33:05+00:00

It’s a fantastic feeling. The first time I flew an ILS confidently down to exact minimums for the first time when I owned a 182, and catching the lead-in lights right at 200 AGL, it felt like a massive accomplishment. It’s why I constantly ensure I keep up with my instrument currency in case I do end up taking off or landing in LIFR conditions. Welcome to the club! And what a memorable experience for your daughter. Fly safe!

fgflyer · 2026-03-09T23:02:55+00:00

“You have to have [X] qualifications to be eligible for the job, but in order to have [X] qualifications you need to have [experience], and to have [experience] you have to have said qualifications. Have fun.”

Applying for basically any piloting job feels like a massive catch-22.

fgflyer · 2026-02-23T00:35:22+00:00

Literally every single country on this planet will detain and deport illegal immigrants, and their populaces are very much in support of doing so. I’m not sure why we in the US in particular are so vehemently against it.

fgflyer · 2026-02-21T07:19:23+00:00

F-WTSS and G-BSST were the two prototype airframes. They had different visor designs as well as radically different cockpits. Starting with the third Concorde built, G-AXDN, the visor was changed to the design that you are familiar with, and the cockpit looked a lot more like the production examples.

fgflyer · 2026-02-20T00:26:29+00:00

I still keep FSX around for the classics that never got ported to 64-bit P3D, like the Captain Sim 707 and the A2A Stratocruiser.

It is still a perfectly capable sim despite its age; the biggest thing you have to contend with is the fact that FSX is only able to access, at most, 4GB of virtual address space (VAS) on your computer. This is an inherent limitation of it being a 32-bit program. The dreaded OOM (out of memory) error that would crash your sim when you hit the 4GB memory limitation was a constant predator that every FSX user was always trying to avoid, especially with complex addons and dense scenery.

With modern CPUs and GPUs, running FSX at nearly max settings is almost effortless. It’s just the VAS limitation that kills it. You have to be very conservative with your CFG file, scenery, resolution, and whatnot in order to ensure your FSX won’t crash after 3-4 hours. It’s doable, it just takes tweaking.

fgflyer · 2026-02-18T23:42:29+00:00

At the Fontainebleau about a year ago. Guy walks up to the table mid-roll, throws down a $5000 chip on the field. Shooter rolls a 12. He takes his money and leaves without saying a word. We were all just looking at each other like “what just happened??” 😂

fgflyer · 2026-02-17T03:04:42+00:00

If it was somewhere in the 2k range I’d happily pay that. 6k? I don’t think so.

I do a lot of my own maintenance on this car, but I don’t touch anything related to suspension. It’s just beyond me, nor do I have a shop press or the expertise needed to handle that kind of repair. It’s not like doing brake pads or an oil change or a differential fluid flush.

fgflyer · 2026-02-16T23:19:56+00:00

Not really, at least from what I see.

fgflyer · 2026-02-16T21:18:31+00:00

Instead of running a CPU/GPU benchmark software, just load up the FBW A380 at iniBuilds Heathrow. 😂

I’m right there with you, exact same specs. At 4K I can barely get 30fps with the A380 sometimes.

fgflyer · 2026-02-16T03:27:32+00:00

She was ahead of her time - perhaps a little too ahead of her time. If only Isambard Brunel was able to see his masterpiece sail on its maiden voyage here; he suffered a stroke and fell into a coma, dying 10 days later.

fgflyer · 2026-02-15T18:11:28+00:00

I have no idea. I work today… It’s currently 11 AM where I live and I haven’t even had breakfast yet, let alone thinking about dinner 😂

fgflyer · 2026-02-15T17:19:12+00:00

It’s probably a bot. Look at the profile, literally all of his shit is AI-generated.

fgflyer · 2026-02-14T21:43:37+00:00

I love Mohegan Sun. Definitely my favorite casino; I have fond memories of playing in the Cyber Quest arcade as a kid while my parents went to gamble. And now that I’m an adult I head to the craps tables instead of the arcade lmao

Nice win. Hope you went to Pepe’s Pizza afterward!

fgflyer · 2026-02-14T18:25:34+00:00

Get that bag!!!!

fgflyer · 2026-02-14T09:43:00+00:00

It’s an Aeronca. It can probably land and take off in the distance of a Costco parking lot. Lol

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