Absolutely have enjoyed sharing the adventure with you.

Kit, When you settle down with a mug of hot tea in your favorite chair, exhale, and realize there's no yoke in front of you, what's next???  😄

And I FINALLY made it home! 🙂 And no apologies for this leg being pic heavy...........   Starting off the MilOps side if the Gib runway required taxying all the way back down to the west end before turning for take-off.     Naturally there was one suicidal car driver who dashed across the road right ahead of me! 😟     Sitting there at the 09 threshold makes you realise just how BIG that lump of rock is!     But I was soon up and away, and it was bye-bye Gib.     Because of the Spanish air space restrictions I had to fly up the coast quite a way before I could turn in on a more direct path home.     But as soon as I made that turn off the coast the true nature of mid-Spain became apparent. It's a very rough and bleak looking country, and hardly farmed at all, at least not that I could see any farming from up there.     Toward the centre of the country, and passing west of Madrid, the capital, I came across this hefty river, and it turned out it was called the Aulencia River.     Heading on further north and approaching the northern Spanish coast at Santander, I came across this inviting looking lake, called Embalis del Ebro apparently, but I was eager to be home and didn't do a 'splash and go' there.     And shortly afterward I reached the coast at Santander, a major ferry port for sailings from the UK and Ireland. I went there once en route to see my youngest brother who lives in the South of France, and it's a much shorter drive from Santander than it is from Le Havre or Caen!     From there it was a straight north flight across the Bay of Biscay, well known for its rough weather, which I luckily missed on this occasion.     And the coast of France loomed up after 2 hrs or so of Flying. That's the southern coast of West Brittany there, and very welcome it was too.     It took a very short time to cross that narrow bit of France and soon it was 'Next Stop England' time as France receded into the distance.     And before long I was back over my home country! That's Portland Bill down below me, and a very welcome sight it was too.     Naturally, this being England I'm flying over, after a very short while it started to cloud over and soon I was out of sight of the surface yet again.     And pretty soon after that I was out of sight of EVERYthing, total IMC conditions!     Carefully letting down, I cleared the cloud base right over Chew Valley Lake, a reservoir built in the 50s to feed Bristol's water supply and has since become a wild life centre as well.     Travelling further north west, and just to the west of Bristol itself I crossed the M5 motorway on its massive bridge across the River Avon (That's NOT Shakespeare's Avon, there's 4 of 5 of them in the UK....) before heading out into the Bristol Channel. The FSX bridge is nowhere near as impressive as the real thing sadly.      By now I was down to less than 100 ft above sea level and as I turned up-river I came down even lower, to 50 ft or less,  to do my usual 'Bridge Pass Flight' on suitable occasions. 🙂   Here I'm just going under the New Severn Bridge, an architectural monstrosity to my mind........     An then turning a little to the north east toward the older and much better looking Old Severn Bridge.     This one too was treated to an 'under fly' before I turned onto the approach for Dean Forest Regional. One plus point about doing such bridge passes in an amphibian is that it doesn't matter quite so much if I get a little TOO low. 😉     And here it is, my 'home field', and a very welcome sight it was too. My house is just about under the red arrow there.     Naturally I plonked 'Austral Rose' pretty well right on the numbers, as so I should after all the practice I've had there!     The Tower View shows just how much the two Bridges dominate the scenery around here.     Before long I was on the Scanman Airmotive ramp and shutting down at long last.     And the very first thing we had on our list of stuff to do was get that socking great over-load tank out of the cabin, and maybe we can do some proper air taxi flights again!      It's been a long, weary but very rewarding series of flights, a) getting out there, b) meeting all you guys again and competing in the Oz Rally, and then c) getting back home again the long way by completing a total round-the-world flight, the first time I've ever done it in FS., or in any other way, come to that. 🙂

The only things I can think of are USB 3.0 to 2.0 interface for the Ports, or something in W11 is reading/mapping the Joystick differently. If you've got other Peripherals like a Throttle Quadrant or Rudder Pedals they could also be the cause, but hard to say. I have an Issue with my Logitech Extreme 3D Pro; Joystick Properties show the Throttle works through its entire Range, but in Sim the Throttle only goes to 40%. I had to use two of the Joystick buttons for Throttle Increase/Decrease.

Well I guess this one is a tough one to solve.

Hi all. I fly the T-45 Goshawk form Dino Cattaneo. Starting up the flight, I can see the HUD without any problem. But, when I zoom out to have a better overview, the HUD stays as it is and both sides are no longer visible. Is there anything I can do to have the HUD zoom out along with the rest of the cockpit. Thank you. Hans The Netherlands  

Bombardier CL-415T (43-33) 2069 firefighter taking water at the Altea bay during the wildfire in Tárbena April 2024  

Not in that colour scheme! XX201 was the only 208(R) Squadron aircraft at Farnborough that week, and Howard Curtis's photograph of it shows '201 to be in its standard training black.

ah that's exciting!

That's one of the issues with Windows 10/11. I mentioned it somewhere. Windows is not checking anything, the exe just doesn't work and the reasons for it are more than one.

British Aerospace, BAe Hawk T Mk1, 208 Squadron,  2006 Display at Farnborough Airport, EGLF, UK

Yes, that's typical. There are other factors, such as runway length.  John

HJG APRIL 2024 RELEASES   HJG (Historic Jetliners Group) has pleasure announcing its release of another 56 "NEW" and "UPGRADED" files for both FS2004 and FSX.   This latest release is entirely composed of textures for the HJG offered B707, B727, B737, BAe 146/ARJ, C-135, DC-9, MD-80, and MD-90 virtual flight line .... this time featuring liveries from Angola, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Malawi, Portugal, Rwanda, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, the USA, Ukraine, Venezuela, and former Yugoslavia .... for sked/non-sked PAX/air freight, tourist charter, and military service operators covering the 1970's/80's/90's/and present day .... and among which an aeronautical development as well as a scientific research aircraft are also both included .... along with a couple of "concept" aircraft type/livery subjects too that nearly, but ultimately didn't", become a reality due to circumstantial changes within the corporate civil aviation world of the late 1960's and early 2000's.   This's a modest sized release by recent HJG standards but one which is non-the-less composed of some interesting, colourful, and historic aircraft subjects .... whilst work continues with the advancing of other projects slotted for 2024 release.   For further information concerning these latest HJG offerings refer to the groups following forum announcement ..... "HJG New Files Releases - April 2024" https://tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/thread/10543/files-releases-april-15th-2024 All this .... and a whole lot more is available for "FREE" download from the HJG website located at the following address : HISTORIC JETLINERS GROUP (HJG) https://simviation.com/hjg MRC HJG/Historic Jetliners Group

Thanks, I'll look there. No, I'm working on the Piasecki/Vertol facility in Morton PA.