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I would love to do it again - I went to Pearl Harbor back in '95 and missed the ferry over to the Arizona, so I decided to tour the Submariner's museum instead and did the walk-through of the USS Bowfin. While the Gatos were considered large for their time I gotta say it sure is tight in those things! I have always found submarine warfare to be a fascinating subject. It's pretty cool that you have the Silversides so close at hand to explore.

I would suggest you at least email Virpil via the support address and let them know you had this problem so they are aware of it, if they are not already. I have talked to them several times in this manner addressing little tweaks I made to my Mongoos T-50 grip and they were very open and cool about my input.

I was always impressed with a little scene from Battleground where a couple of GIs are bitching about the food and situation at Bastogne. They toss the leftovers in a barrel nearby and then a little old woman comes out and starts scrounging those leftovers from the barrel. I agree that war movies often ignore the effects of combat on civilians who often take the heaviest casualties in most conflicts. I'm looking forward to checking this flick out soon.

I like this idea, especially when I consider all the time one spends in various flight sims setting up there controllers, HOTAS, and KB commands in a bewildering variety of UI setups. And some of those UI are just plain infuriatingly confusing, often poorly implemented or overly complicated. This is an interesting approach and if nothing else eliminates some of the guesswork involved in other UIs. Don't know how easy it would be to implement, but it is worth considering.

I'm jealous! I should've ordered mine when the price was $50.00 lower. Now I'm afraid I won't get that cool mug....

I went through a lounge music phase about 15 years ago and Les Baxter was one of my faves. When I need to take a break from rock 'n' roll he definitely fills the bill.

Drachinifel's vids and the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War vids are my weekly highlights! My lunchtime addiction on Sundays and Tuesdays. The current Q&A sessions on Unauthorized have been really fun.

Video killed the Radio Star. I remember actually seeing this IRL at my friends house while smoking a doobie. I was there! Gawd, I'm getting old.

Damn, I have to wait till after the Holidaze before I can order mine! You know $$ due to the season. My ancient Thrustmaster Hotas is getting old and I want to ring in the new year with something bright and shiny.

And then there's the classic Eight Miles High by The Byrds, especially the extended live version on the 2 record Untitled album.

Gone Flying by Ray Manzanera (of Roxy Music fame) on his solo album K-Scope.

I read the book shortly after seeing this the first time and I gotta say the book is outstanding too.

All of Montemayor's videos are informative and very well done. I hope he makes more.

They both served in the PTO as well in real life!

Well, I figured it would be a mad house download grunge party on the first day, especially for any new and popular PC game or sim (have to remember that MSFS has millions of users as compared to combat flight sims), so I studiously avoid even trying to DL and install for a day or 2, or 3. I do the same with MSFS updates and even my IL2 Box updates as things always go more smoothly if I wait till after the gold rush. Expect some bugs, but some of the early comments I've seen already are pretty positive. Some devs have also already noted where there might be some bugs in 2020 addons, but even some of those aren't to bad, or as bad as expected anyway. I've also been taking the time to do a little homework on optimizing for 2024 before I DL in the hopes I can forego some issues. All in all I'm looking forward to some fresh bush flying next week.