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  1. As always thank you for that clarification.
  2. The term ARROW has Radio Station License! My question is does an FCC GROL - General radiotelephone operator license can take place of a Radio Station License internationally? I understand in the US you don't really need one!
  3. Boeing up until P3D... Because I live in the US so that is what I preferred plus I like the yoke. However, I have been flying the Airbus in MSFS on occasion. Have flown on the the A380 6 times in real life almost half way around the world. Despite what the market says about the A380's future, it is a magnificent airplane both from inside and out. If PMDG makes an A380, I will definitely purchase and fly it along with all the Boeings. My bias towards the Airbus is eroding.
  4. LOL that is funny! Your profile name indicates you are a male. So we can all safely assume you are the worst pilot in your flying club. I bet none of the females want to fly with you as well. LOL
  5. Women in aviation are analogous to men in nursing profession as Registered Nurse. Working in a hospital I have known and worked with some awesome male nurses who are great at what they do. They too face many challenges working in a majority female dominated profession. Fact still remains, however, women won't be flocking to aviation as men, and men won't be flocking to the nursing profession as women. Whether man or woman, if you have the drive and passion for any subject, then just do it.
  6. But if I may go back even further than "star fox", my first flight simulator was really make believe, imagination! I had this lawnmower in the backyard, it was a manual device and only had two wheels in the front. I was small enough to put a little chair on in and it had two cardboard wings I had placed on either side and a "stick" in the middle, not a joystick but a regular stick from a broom. It resembles a biplane.... It didn't have rudder pedals, because I didn't know about them. I just pretend I was flying. I use to fly that thing everyday for like 2 years.... Until I grew out of it. There was a neighbor girl that saw it too and we use to play airplane. She use to come over and made her own plane next to mine. However mine was better.
  7. Yep, Hadouken... Street Fighter, man that brings back memories. Same here, right after school. Every day, $0.50 cents on Street fighter....
  8. I noticed it, and was going to login to edit the typo, but you beat me to it.
  9. The very first "flight simulator" I played was Star Fox on Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). I was totally blown away by the graphics and played every day after school. Then I learned about a game called Pilot wings on SNES, this was a bit more realistic because it involved taking off and landing, it it was completely 3D, which was crazy for 16bit SNES system. In a video game section, I found a PC game called Pro Pilot and I bought it and tried it out. It was awesome but it was limited to United States only but it was an amazing sim. Here I figured out how to navigate using VOR and NDB and also figured out ISL by trial and error. There was a book, manual that came with the game which I still own today. Then a friend in school introduced me to FS98 sometime in 1988 and I was like holy crap you can fly around the world!!! So I started flight simming since early 1999 and discovered this site around the same time. I had a user name but I lost its password as I was away from simming because FS2000 requierd some super computer. Then I came back to flightsimmming and have been using it ever since.
  10. Just departed Nuuk Greenland to BGKK Greenland. Distance 381 nautical miles. At 8000 ground speed is 148... will have to climb due to the ice sheet getting higher... but for now am loving it.
  11. Awesome, welcome to the world of flight simulation. This is the place where I have learned a lot about aviation, as this is the place where it all started for me. If you have any questions or need any help regarding aviation, there are many knowledgeable folks here to help, as they have helped me. And wife bought you flightsim gear!!!! Wow, I have to do my flightsimming in secret when my wife is not home. She hates airplanes. Lucky Man
  12. https://support.foreflight.com/hc/en-us/articles/204115275-How-do-I-connect-Microsoft-Flight-Simulator-FS-X-or-FS-2004-to-ForeFlight- I use flightevents (1st one on the list) to connect to foreflight... At the same time, their website has also has a moving map with you airplane and all other flyers. For instance if, you step away from your computer you can still see your plane on the map on your phone or tablet.
  13. If you want you can join from Nuuk to Kulusuk both are in greenland a distance of 381nm from Kulusuk to Keflavik BIKF iceland is 348nm easily doable in 172
  14. Made it to Greenland after trying for two weeks. I got a rainbow for the first time... Did it in real time, had I moved away from the computer, it would have certainly crashed. Had to climb 3/4 into the flight to avoid clouds. Made it in a Cessna 172 from Republic Airport to Greenland Nuuk. Next stop Iceland into Europe. The circle around the aircraft on foreflight is my glide distance should the engine fail. Had 10 Gallons remaining...
  15. On medium settings I get a max of 35. In some dense scenery like NYC I get 15 - 25. In any case, anything above a 25 is acceptable for me based on my machine and setting. My medium setting has way better scenery than I had on P3D using Orbx. So I am happy. What I have noticed is that MSFS runs much better now with updates then it did when I first got it back in August. Back in August I could never approach NYC, now I can... so there is a lot of improvements. It is a work in progress.
  16. Correct - that is why it has taken too long to do this flight. I believe in the real world if you were to do this flight, the Cessna 172 will definitely have ferry tank.
  17. Departure airport: CYFB (Iqaluit Airport Canada) Arrival airport: BGGH (Nuuk Godthab Airport Greenland) Departure date time: Friday 12th March at 14:00 Zulu Time (9:00AM Eastern United States) Estimated distance: 450 nm MSFS server: East USA Airplane preference: Cessna 172 or any other piston that will not go too fast or too slow. Route of Flight: YFB - MUSVA - 6460N - 6458N - 6455N - KU Flight Plan: IFR (Real Time & Weather) MSFS UserName: LaluSheru I have been trying to do this flight for almost two weeks and it needs to be done...
  18. I had to leave I joined only for 2 minutes, I did not see any airplane around. This was like 10+ minutes ago!
  19. I cant join you for the whole flight but I am joining to see... loading FS now!
  20. I was going to try it today but Nuuk was IFR and it was really sketchy so I just did some touch and go's at Iqaluit. Up until here, I use to fly after work starting at 4pm My legs are short, less than 150 nautical miles. Now going west, it gets harder because in NY when I start a 4pm it is 5pm in Iqaluit, and in less than 1 hours its dark. And I don't want to fly in the dark. So I plan to attempt the flight on Friday as it is my day off. This will give me a chance to figure out the group flying and I will post that info here. My aircraft call sign is N18AC, it was the same C172S I did my first solo flight.
  21. I would go west. There is more land airports. Russia, Asia Middle East Europe Africa... at the tip of Africa you can get to Antarctica and from there to South America and up north to United States and Canada. Enjoy which ever way to go...
  22. I have the full paid version with georeferenced plates and and synthetic vision. https://support.foreflight.com/hc/en-us/articles/204115275-How-do-I-connect-Microsoft-Flight-Simulator-FS-X-or-FS-2004-to-ForeFlight- You can use this link.
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