Erik

You guys can do whatever you like. If you want a Two Eggs Over My Hammy section it can be done. My point is feel free to create.

A humble request for a mission/campaign to nuke the Microsoft Campus. Now that's hilarious and iOS might use such a venture for their in-house humor roll. I've officially seen it all now. I can rest easy tonight that someone officially just broke the internet. May the force be with you.

I will be happy to use the advice from the moderators of this forum to rename, move, or otherwise manage the forums for better use. I do not know what you need so therefore it needs to come from someone who does. As for merging older posts and changing them to read only content ... I'm not sure I understand the need for this. Pruning happens on boards where the resources of the machine need to be freed up. We do not need to prune for that reason. All our topics are generated in chronological order so if new posts are what's needed then by all means post away. The boards here will keep up with your demand. We don't prune old posts for another very important reason. Research and history. This is a community wide philosophy because answers come from posts 2 days old and 2 years old. We believe in protecting that asset. I don't know about moving OFF to a sub-category of WWI. OFFers have always wanted to be set apart and NOT lumped into a group with other sims. This may have changed but that was the last take I had on it. As a recap most of this stuff your moderators can already do. I do hope they will keep with our philosophy of preserving history when they do. If they need a course in managing their tools for this board I will be happy to help them with that. They have a staff forum where any questions or concerns can be posed. E

Most recent posts in these forums are links to content elsewhere and "most" may be an over exaggeration of the facts since I'm hyper sensitive to such things. For every link you provide to SimHQ on our site that link back to them from here it promotes them and degrades us in search engine ranking. In non-technical terms it's much like stolen valor. Hence, my un-appreciation for such things. It's unfortunate but I'm not going to sabotage your community by forbidding it or pulling our content. I have no vast illusions and I'm not trying to lure anyone. If you guys want to use the services here great. The door is open since it was never closed. I think we can be more flexible with your needs, provide more services, have a higher search index (explains the traffic count) and do it all in a cohesive manner but those are my opinions and it's why they make chocolate and vanilla ice cream. I've enjoyed having you all here and have done what I could when I could free of charge with no strings attached. As far as membership is concerned you guys have to decide what you want to do. Pick a leader. Start posting information that traffic wants to see. It's your community and ultimately I can't do everything. I handle paying the bills, handle all the equipment and technical issues, and take care of the day to day which provides the things you guys need for your community to flourish. Anything else you'd like for me to do to help you in your quest please let me know. As for my response the OP I quoted made it sound as if I was sitting on my hands and solely responsible for the state of affairs the OFF community is in. I wanted to set the record straight.

Frenchie ... I just posted a topic about this exact thing a few days ago. http://combatace.com/topic/89231-cessna-ground-speed-check/ It was an excerpt from Brian Schul's book. Read the above link for the full story.

I don't remove content unless specifically directed to by the forum leaders but in this case since it appears to be a thorn I've removed the sub-forum. Now Dutch is going to be pissed when he never receives a reply to his question so Dutch see JFM for the information. Sorry to hear about Kelsey and his dry fruit. E

On a dismally overcast low ceiling morning at JFK a British Airlines crew were about fourth in a long queue waiting to take off in our larger Boeing aircraft. The JFK ATC allowed a B737 on a local flight to take a short-cut and start his takeoff run by joining the main runway from a taxiway causing us to wait for him to take off and clear. "How do you like them apples?" The B737 keyed up over the radio as he started his takeoff run. Boeing aircraft had a warning horn for major problems that you can test. Half-way along the B737's takeoff run, 'someone' held their cockpit mike to the horn and pressed it as they tested it. The B737 abruptly stopped takeoff with full reverse and full braking and shuddered to a halt, tires (tyres) smoking. A few seconds later we heard a voice come over the radio from another pilot in line: "How do you like them apples?.." Karma sometimes bites you in the arse sooner than you think.

Don't mess with witty pilots they'll make your day. On a fairly calm and beautiful afternoon in Georgia the pilot of a Cherokee 180 was told by the tower to hold short of the active runway while a DC-8 landed. The DC-8 landed, rolled out, turned around, and taxied back past the Cherokee. Some quick-witted comedian in the DC-8 crew got on the radio and said, "What a cute little plane. Did you make it all by yourself?" The Cherokee pilot, not about to let the insult go by, came back with a real zinger: "I made it out of DC-8 parts. Another landing like yours and I'll have enough for another one."

Because my Braille translator is out getting fixed. Could you be more specific about what I'm blind and incompetent about? Without slogging through my almost life ending drama from five plus years ago that caused a blackout for twelve days things since haven't been the same in this forum. Our uptime before and after that incident was and is flawless and I've repeatedly offered to be involved in the re-migration and help anyway I can. I hate more than anything that every other post here is a link to SimHQ with little to no content but what can I do? If the guys that hang out here weren't so incredibly awesome I probably would have closed the doors long ago. They and my commitment to the aviation community are the only reasons the doors remain open. I have and do stand ready to be involved at whatever level the community needs to which as of today I thought was simply to be left alone and free of my involvement. I have never given up on any of you and my PMs and this forum remain open exactly for that reason. If the WOFF community decided to come back they'd be welcome with open arms as if they'd never left and their moderators still retain all their abilities. I look forward to a constructive review of my inabilities. -Just me E

The A-10 is one incredible piece of flying armor no doubt.

I don't disagree with any of that. Personally I've been surprised just how much I don't need to get to a desktop with the release of Dex for Samsung 8. All my personal stuff is now mobile and secure behind two bio-metric locks. Short of someone killing me and injecting my severed body parts with saline, things should be good.

Then again even the smallest of idiots can bring the whole thing crashing down.

I suppose that was Will Smith's motto in Independence Day but damn why haven't we harnessed the shield technology from our UFO collection is beyond me.

Windows as we knew it is dead with the upswing of mobile devices. It looks as though they will phase out independent system and go to a cloud and terminal configuration before long. One thing is for sure the industry has changed forever and MS missed the boat entirely. Android and iOS are the ways of the future.

This is the transcript of a radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-95. Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a Collision. Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision. Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course. Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course. Americans: This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, the second largest ship in the United States' Atlantic fleet. We are accompanied by three destroyers, three cruisers and numerous support vessels. I demand that YOU change your course 15 degrees north, that's one five degrees north, or countermeasures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship. Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call. The US Navy has unfortunately debunked this urban legend. Sadly, it never happened.

'ole Jong Un has possibly one of the worst hairstyles. I wonder if we should have a hair'off to see who wins because Trump could probably give him a run for his money with his orange complexion topped with that piss yellow comb over. Hysterical.

Things we learned today ... Mr. President your "armada" can't be in the Sea of Japan when the last "official orders" they received had it sailing through the Indian Ocean on their way to train with the Australian's. Ownership matters. It's not "YOUR" anything let's remember that. Those vessels are the sovereign property of the United States of America they represent "OUR" interests where ever they are deployed. If you're going to saber rattle with other countries have your really big stuff in order otherwise you might look silly and it won't be beautiful. Is armada even still a word? Mr. President you need to learn to talk more better. Words like armada downplay and sound far less impressive than the "Pacific Fleet Carrier Strike Group led by the USS Carl Vinson". I'm sure the men and women serving aboard those vessels deserve and would appreciate the proper recognition.

Before going into a McDonald's drive through and ordering McNuggets and Fries you need to make sure you aren't on the top 10 most wanted list. Apparently McDonald's employees go all CIA on your ass and bring in the popo for a $50K reward. Guess he should have went to a Burger King where he could have had his way. He needed to get got but to be taken out by Mayor McCheese and Officer Big Mac, that's just plain karma. Oh and if you hear the window tell you it's gonna be a few minutes on your fries, RUN!

We're making up for all that in one election cycle. See you on the backside.

Any type of inclement weather approach / departure that was designed for this circular runway would require a larger circle of land around the entire airport that would be free of obstructions since you can approach and depart from any point on the circle. In other words all the land around the airport would now be considered an approach / departure corridor. This means the airport would be isolated all by itself somewhere and what if the airport needed to grow or could it. Imagine all the airlines and passengers stuffed into a tiny hub in the middle so the facility has a growth limit of zero. Most airports are not simply runways and passenger terminals so a round airport would have no support buildings around the outside of the runway. The only good thing about this design is that it's most certainly going to be purchased and adopted by our defense department for either the deployment of Osprey or Harriers and maybe even adapted to use on our Nimitz Supercarriers. Now if he designed it in an oval he might have something because when the airport goes bankrupt at least NASCAR can purchase it and make some money.

Let's not forget one of the most important things ... not hitting another aircraft on arrival or departure AKA the most demanding time of any flight. Standard Instrument Departures (SID) Standard Arrival Routes (STAR) are designed around aerodromes to coordinate traffic for both phases of flight with an optimal aircraft distance for avoidance and emergencies. So you build an endless runway so what. At any one time only two directions of flight can be used as a prevailing wind only blows in one primary direction and given that aircraft want to depart and land into the wind this 360 degree brain fart would only be used in two directions at once. Now I suspect something like this might be okay for general aircraft in an absolutely calm valley somewhere but it will never scale to a commercial level. This thing is dead on arrival which is not an aviation friendly term. Still funny though. I mean how much time has this guy put into the design, prototyping, and selling the concept, gotta be a pretty huge number. He must not have kids.

Pilots have a hard enough time with a straight runway I can just image the SNAFU a round one would cause. That aside can you image the nightmare of PAPI/VASI lights and electronic landing aids like a glide slope and localizer. Pilots are so used to flying the computer that half of the pilots would have to be fired. The young pilots today aren't Sullenbergers that's for dang sure. Round? How about nahhhhh. Funny concept though.

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The OFF moderators will pin topics they find of significant value to the community (read: most important). That's not something I would handle it's above my pay grade.