Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-) Date: 23 Mar 2024 20:11:22 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <17bc1de93bb4055f$981$3331982$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <65f600a1$0$8233$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 28fqD2aLxHc8QArbCNUy7wdplK4nZbnL4DYFY+FCH5sSNB6WPg Cancel-Lock: sha1:taN+waCxNkJg6f960zibaJGTqc4= sha256:T2uZYL39LFn6TaqxzawVH3oQaZtb+wp47FBztw15KA0= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 1870 On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:35:27 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote: > I agree that flying a real aircraft is easier than a simulator. Back > around 2000, we owned a Piper Archer III -- loved that thing, > wish we still had it. (It even had air conditioning. ) When I was in Ft Wayne I flew a couple of Tomahawks. The FBO had died and his wife was trying to keep the business together so maintenance was slipping. Nothing like being in Elkhart looking for somebody to jump start the plane so you can go home. The closest thing to A/C was when the latch on the gull wing door broke. Luckily it didn't start flapping its wing but it did get a little breezy. I almost bought a 150 but sanity prevailed.