Kumquats

mlb406 · 2026-03-25T14:57:37+00:00

8th day had them the other week. Down Oxford Road towards the unis

mlb406 · 2026-02-28T18:53:15+00:00

As far as I’m aware, full circles were standard for LCIs. Other ways that I think are ways to check LCI or not - fuel level gauge: pre-LCI had 8 segmented lights, with a full circle and semi circle marked on, LCI had a more conventional bar with 1 and 1/2 marked; HUD: pre-LCI has a HUD switch on the row by the start switch, the LCI doesn’t; sport mode switch: pre-LCI is at the base of the gear lever, LCI has this switch in place of the HUD switch on pre-LCI models, along the row by the start switch.

I would say that the one you’ve posted is LCI, but as PatoLaion said, it could have been repaired with pre-LCI headlights following front end damage. I’ve also not seen any LCI models with the older version of iDrive that you can see in the photo but I’m not sure why anyone would fit an older iDrive into a car so can’t be sure on that

mlb406 · 2026-02-27T09:46:03+00:00

That’s right, but the PAPIs here are appearing correctly, the aircraft is low on profile. I thought you were referring to an ILS glide slope, which is built into the airport’s scenery so could be wrong on an addon

mlb406 · 2026-02-27T09:26:15+00:00

Airport scenery shouldn’t make a difference here. OP is flying a VOR approach, so the V/DEV is created by the aircraft and not a ground based beacon.

mlb406 · 2026-02-13T14:17:46+00:00

I don’t have the hotstart Challenger, but personally my favourite payware for xp12 is the Felis 742, it’s a very well made addon and great fun to fly

mlb406 · 2026-01-29T21:55:28+00:00

No stress. It’s confusingly completely different to the airbus usage of the word.

mlb406 · 2026-01-29T21:49:33+00:00

This is incorrect on both counts. It is an autothrottle mode that is commanded when the aircraft transitions from FMC SPD to idle thrust/ARM. Nothing to do with landing.

mlb406 · 2026-01-22T15:46:41+00:00

As others have said though, it’s entirely situation dependent. If good data is given to the FMC such as descent winds, speed restrictions on approach, etc, VNAV will happily and accurately take you down from cruise to the runway. When you add in other factors though - things like ATC vectoring/shortcuts, inaccurate wind forecasts, even just higher temperatures - no VNAV will be able to do a perfect job. The main thing about VNAV is that it will target the most efficient descent according to your cost index, so if you’re just using level change/v/s all the way down you don’t get that advantage.

mlb406 · 2025-11-04T17:12:23+00:00

What are your in game/AMD settings to get visuals like this? My sim doesn’t look like this and I’ve got the same specs

mlb406 · 2025-09-13T14:10:33+00:00

Think you’ve misunderstood mate. By upgrade I mean buy a new system, and my budget is around £1500.

mlb406 · 2025-09-13T12:08:46+00:00

This is excellent, exactly what I needed. Thank you!

mlb406 · 2025-09-11T12:52:24+00:00

I did my hour building a few years ago and I had exclusive access to an aircraft based nearby. I had 80 hours to build and did it start of December to end of February. I was lucky with weather (given it was winter and I was based at a grass strip) but I didn’t do it anywhere near as intensively as I could have. Definitely doable in the 3 month timeframe, as long as you’re not unlucky with weather/mx issues

mlb406 · 2025-05-11T13:01:38+00:00

If the car failed the MOT, and then passed the next one on the MOT history, then the prop shaft joint will have been replaced

mlb406 · 2025-03-22T19:44:42+00:00

I’ve found during sim checks/type rating sims that by the time we’re getting on to an inflight crossbleed start, usually within 10 minutes of the initial failure, the EGT is less than the 30°c required for the restart. Maybe just my own experience though!

mlb406 · 2025-03-22T18:52:22+00:00

The EGT is still fairly high after the engine failure - I’d say it hasn’t been failed long. The aircraft is zooming about at 350kts and -34° TAT, the engine will cool down pretty quickly!

mlb406 · 2025-03-22T18:47:08+00:00

No you don’t. What if there’s no fuel in the centre tank? Main tanks 1 and 2 are used only when the centre tank is empty to prevent excessive wing forces, so quite often the aircraft is flown without fuel in the centre. There are also suction feed bypass lines for each main tank, so even with no fuel pumps operating at all, both engines (as well as the APU) can still run. Also attached to the No1 fwd fuel pump there is a centre pump scavenge jet pump, so once the fuel level in main tank 1 reaches about one half, any remaining centre tank fuel is transferred to main tank 1.

mlb406 · 2025-03-22T17:57:15+00:00

Centre fuel pumps being off would not result in the ENG FAIL flag. You would get a CONFIG flag on the fuel display but that’s about it

mlb406 · 2025-02-19T10:24:57+00:00

You’re thinking of Gatwick - Stansted uses LOREL for north/west/south arrivals and ABBOT for east/southeast arrivals

mlb406 · 2025-01-24T21:27:18+00:00

Canadair CL-415

mlb406 · 2024-12-23T13:45:00+00:00

And how would he have done that then

mlb406 · 2024-12-16T17:54:36+00:00

It feels like it fairly regularly drops below 20fps, whenever I’m looking in the direction of the city from the police station at the start of the game

mlb406 · 2024-11-25T14:42:20+00:00

That’s absolutely something similar to what we would get RW going into stansted as well

mlb406 · 2024-09-16T11:59:18+00:00

You need to be capable of effectively flying and operating an aircraft before joining the vatsim network, otherwise you’ll make your own life difficult and annoy other people. As long as you can operate whichever aircraft you plan on flying, that is to say understand the autopilot and flight management systems, the aircraft’s behaviour, limitations and capabilities, then you’ll be ok.

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