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Tough one, I grew watching TNG on BBC2 in the early 90's but I do love TOS too despite it being super cheesy in parts. Voyager is decidedly MEH but I absolutely love DS9, which is what I'm rewatching currently! I've got all of TNG/TOS on Blu Ray, it's really sad they aren't remastering DS9 because they made the switch to digital. The Dominion War would look pretty spectacular in full HD. Yeah some people get it so a food will smell like raw meat or eggs etc and can make it very unpleasent. I just lost my sense of smell and taste entirely, which was really weird. You're eating, but it's just completely tasteless. I was trying to just eat things with different textures and colours with fruit/veg etc just to make it feel a bit more interesting. It surprised me just how much it affected my appetite to be honest.

Hey folks, just letting you know I'm over the worst of it now. Symptoms are much imrpoved and am starting to smell and taste things slightly again. Lost almost 2.5kg in the last couple weeks which was pretty surprising, I wanted to loose weight but this was definitely an extreme way to go about it lol. Just allowing myself to rest and recouperate at the moment, really knocked me for six. Was a bit scary at times and has given me a bit of a pep talk in some ways to sort my health and fitness levels out. Brain is still rebooting I think, so just sticking to watching repeats of old Star Trek shows on Netflix and waiting for Brain OS updates to finish installing hahaha. Hopefully be back in the pit by the end of next week.

Hi folks Sorry been absent from the forums and flight nights of late, works been busy and on top of that I've managed to catch the dreaded COVID. Currently waiting for it to bugger off and die. My symptoms are realtively mild at the moment, but the next few days will tell which way things will fly. Thankfully I received my Pfizer vaccine, however it doesn't reach 50% efficacy until 10 days post injection, which is tomorrow. I'm on day 7 of COVID since becoming symptomatic so I'm hoping that it's done something to keep my symptoms from progressing to the point where I need any more intensive treatment. Just feeling completely knackered with a fever and slight cough, and today I've got nasal congestion like your typical cold/flu. Hoping to be back in the skies before long, need to try out the new updates to the Hornet! Hope you're all well! S!

A belated Merry Christmas to you all. Wishing everyone good health in 2021, hopefully we'll hit COVID on the head by the end of the year and get back to normal!

I'm so relieved, I was worried I was going to be out of action until at least Febuary next year because they're simply sold out everywhere I look. That and it would have been darn pricey to replace it. Just went for a short flight in the Harrier and had a good time :).

IT'S ALIVEEEEEEE!!!!! Rejoice!!!!

It's always handy having somebody around who knows what they're talking about lol. I'm free on TS whenever you're available bud. Still trying to coax some life into this throttle.

That's fine by me. See you then.

Say 14:00 CET?

I just tried what you suggested. Uninstallted target, unplugged my devices and did a fresh install and second reboot. Reinstalled HOTAS drivers. Joystick and Rudders are showing up fine in devices. However, the throttle still shows up as "Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed). Target however is showing the stick and rudders but no throttle. EDIT: Now it's showing the throttle in devices but still has a driver error. I'm not very good at working with this software, possible to meet on TS sometime tomorrow perhaps and try to troubleshoot it?

When you say backup files? What do you mean precisely? I've removed it under my devices in windows settings. Do you mean tinkering with the registery?

I have a really bad feeling my Warthog throttle quadrant is fried. My entire rig is plugged in using a surge protector, so it should be fine. However we just had a power outage, when I booted up my system a while after it came back on the throttle has no signs of life. Target GUI doesn't register it at all. Win 10 settings under devices shows it still, but just says "driver error". I've tried reinstalling the drivers, but to no success. It doesn't seem to be powered up either none of the LED's are working. I'm really worried it's been fried and is just a paper weight. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I can't afford to replace this right now!

I feel your pain. Just paid out for a MOT and full service on my car, as well as getting the front two tyres changes AND brake pads. It's safe to say I am now broke beyond compare! RIP wallet.

Just a heads up, in case anybody is looking for more storage space. Amazon currently has some mad discounts on the Samsung 970 Evo range of M.2 SSD's. The 1Tb stick is currently 50% off, at £120 with the 500Gb only £69.99. For their performance it's pretty nuts how cheap they are. I just snagged the 500Gb one, as I can't even install half my modules atm because of a lack of SSD space! I can finally get the Syria map!

Thanks for the tip, I seem to be unaffected thankfully.

Is anyone playing this? I picked it up today out of curiosity, and an itch that needed scratching for those old X-Wing vs TIE Fighter games. So far it's been bloody good fun, although I feel like there could be some performance improvements. Frame rate feels half of what it should be, like the renderer is only pushing to 60 FPS or something despite running 144mhz refresh. Optimisation issues aside, it's pretty faithful in many ways to the older games... although not perfect by any means. My biggest gripe, is that there's no Track IR support... despite it being able to fully support VR. Seems odd to have VR but no headtracking.

I do wonder what shape this will take. The F-35 is only just coming into service for many nations, touted to be the "next-gen" for decades to come and potentially one of the last manned fighters. It's as bad as the GPU market, you just ordered the current range and bam the next series comes out xD. It's interesting what they say about work flows and how they're prototyping stuff. The JSF program has been going on for YEARS now, taken far too long really. I mean the Typhoon was started in the 80's and took almost 20 years to get out there if I'm remembering right.

Teds I would imagine that will absolutely happen. There were plenty of military aircraft available to fly in FSX, so no doubt this will be the case in FS2020.

Snaggle you're really making me want to get this game lol... my backlog is already completely unmanagable haha! Crusader Kings III just came out too... ahhhhhh.

From what I remember of my flying days the 152 feels very realistic for stalls. I never did spin recovery but for a regular stall with wing drop it felt very lifelike. I'm trying to learn how to use the G1000 systems but all my IRL flying has been with the traditional six pack of instruments. I bet guys who are used to the SA afforded by the moving map display get REALLY disorientated when they're forced to fly without it. Being able to place yourself on a map using traditional methods is a skill every pilot should know like the back of their hand. GPS is cool until something happens or the company/state that owns them decides to not play ball. Germany in particular has spent a lot of time and money investing and upgrading their VOR stations as it's still very much needed.

You're welcome .

@Firefly Seeing as you mentioned it I thought I'd check out Warsaw from the airfield you listed. How does this look for a comparisson? Perhaps not quite the perfect position for a 1-1 comparisson but close enough I'd wager. This isn't a "hand crafted" location either, the building/tree placement is purely auto-gen based off of satellite imagery.

Painfully accurate. I do honestly wonder what rock home buyers are under when they buy property along the flightpath of a major airport or military installation then complain about said activity. The aircraft were flying overheard long before you arrived to the area, yet now you feel as if you have the moral authority to complain about it? Le sigh... In relation to the trees. Asobo have said they're already working on improving the AI for tree placement (and the types of trees it renders). So I would perhaps expect things to improve as they gather feedback from a wider audiance. It would seem that they have quite a bit in the pipeline yet, including rotary aircraft. I do wonder if they released this a little too early, perhaps under pressure from Microsoft to release prior to the new console launches. Maybe in the hope it would garner more interest in the XBSX.

Have you gents had much chance to do some flying? I'm hooked, been flying all over the place. Been doing the Yosemite bush challenge, flying VFR in the Cub which was very gratifying. No radios, no GPS. Just you in the most basic aircraft you've ever set eyes on... and a MAP. Completed the first leg with no issues, great fun! Note: I'm flying on primarily "high" settings, with a few "ultra" for things like volumetric clouds at 1080p resolution. Getting upwards of 75-80FPS here. Can recommend flying out of Innsbruck to Fusen, via the Neuschwanstein castle. I visited Fusen a couple years back with my dad on our motorcycles, the place looks spot on. Could even spot the location of the restaurant we had some amazing salmon before heading back! Really spectacular terrain flying through the alps. If you do the flight in the Icon A5 you can also make a water landing on the lake just next to the town. Flying out of Reykjavik was pretty spetacular too, the tonal variations in the terrain over there are crazy good looking. Oh, and here's my house! We've got a couple of trees by the house, but the AI really went overboard here lol. Fun fact, when we moved here in 1996, there was part of a BAC Lightning fuselage in the field to the right of the house. I'm afraid for my wallet, I feel like I'm about to dive down a rabbit hole with an infinite number of terrain/scenery and aircraft packs soon to start releasing. Already bought the ORBX pack for Innsbruck airport and the city itself, was tempted to get another but have to restrain myself for the time being!

From my understanding there isn't much at all in the way of water physics or effects sadly. I watched a video I think from Obsidian Ant which is just a few weeks old in the icon, he set it down on the water fine but there was no wake which was a little disappointing. I guess as it's the only amphibious aircraft currently they decided it wasn't a priority feature for the time being. I just did my first flight out of Fenland (EGCL) in the Cessna 152. The runways were just as they are IRL, however I was a little disappointing the club building was just a flat texture. Seemingly not picked up by the AI as only the maintenance building was present. There was also a ruddy great big 150ft high tree at the end of RW36 lol which will make approaches a little awkward. I did however manage to fly VFR all the way to my front door. Obviously there are some issues with buildings not being represented correctly, despite that though I was able to pick out land marks such as the BP garage on the A17 from the flat green texture in the courtyard by the road. Was quite remarkable really even with the discrepencies. Trees seem to be a little over the top though, they're way too high. My house was surrounded by several 150ft or higher trees like I'm in the forest moon of Endor or something. Impressed so far, will have to go flying around an area I'm not quite so intimately familiar with so I can't pick flaws with it. Audio was phenominal the Cessna 152 felt and sounded just like the real deal which was excellent.