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by TobyV
30 May 2023, 22:24
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Happy Birthday TobyV (vintage unknown)
Replies: 7
Views: 568

Re: Happy Birthday TobyV (vintage unknown)

Thanks guys. I did remove my age from here a few years ago for data privacy type reasons although this year is a significant one. And if Mr Madge, formerly a regular in these parts, were reading this, he might realise he's been chatting to me for more than half my life!
by TobyV
22 Feb 2023, 21:45
Forum: CNB Forum
Topic: Antonov 225 Mriya
Replies: 2
Views: 1427

Antonov 225 Mriya

I was looking for something else on this website and came across this headline which might be of interest https://www.aviation24.be/manufacturers/antonov/the-antonov-an-225-is-coming-to-microsoft-flight-simulator/ "For each aircraft sold in flight simulation software, the profit will be used in...
by TobyV
01 Feb 2023, 23:53
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Rivet Joints now escorted?
Replies: 3
Views: 282

Re: Rivet Joints now escorted?

I think they probably always were escorted, it's just a question of whether the transponder is switched on and broadcasting ADS-B Mode S (I believe, could be wrong here I am not an expert). The Russians, or others could have a variety of electronic means of knowing that they're there, but the FR24 m...
by TobyV
30 Oct 2022, 22:37
Forum: Payware Heads Up!!
Topic: Fancy a DH Vampire?
Replies: 5
Views: 509

Re: Fancy a DH Vampire?

I guess this is the latest version of FlightSim? I've not kept up. Graphics and lighting look vastly better than anything I remember. I recognise a few of the locations in that clip, obviously the Matterhorn towards the end. The jazz saxophone was kind of annoying though. The engine provides suffici...
by TobyV
13 Oct 2022, 22:04
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Amsterdam holiday snaps
Replies: 18
Views: 915

Re: Amsterdam holiday snaps

Thanks for all the positive comments :thumbsup: . Hopefully off to do something aviation-related next week, so might have some more photos and be slightly more relevant (if not classic, nor British, nor simulated...)

Toby
by TobyV
12 Oct 2022, 01:06
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Amsterdam holiday snaps
Replies: 18
Views: 915

Amsterdam holiday snaps

Mostly posting this here because I know some of you like my photos and also to thank my "local" Amsterdam tourism adviser and resident forum member, Jelle (aka "Archer" who runs the VC10 website). Due to "Mixed content delivery" problems (my own website where these imag...
by TobyV
25 Sep 2022, 19:27
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Video of a recent (real) flight
Replies: 8
Views: 466

Re: Video of a recent (real) flight

Thanks for sharing that, Toby The landscape is is far more interesting than what I see flying over FL. Note . After take off, - the video cuts to above the clouds.. I was a little - :-O - inside myself.. The Prop Stopped Spinning! But then the video cuts again and the prop is spinning again so I fi...
by TobyV
25 Sep 2022, 16:24
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Video of a recent (real) flight
Replies: 8
Views: 466

Video of a recent (real) flight

Hello all, I know I don't pop in here so regularly as I used to, but I thought some of you might enjoy watching a video I made of a recent (real) flight from Zürich to Bolzano/Bozen in a Bombardier/de Havilland Canada Dash 8 / Q400 whatever it should be correctly known as these days! https://youtu.b...
by TobyV
04 Jun 2022, 09:53
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: What have I been up to?
Replies: 6
Views: 492

Re: What have I been up to?

It’s funny (peculiar) how the last two and a bit years took so long, and yet have all but disappeared. ... Hope all is good now. It is strange. I feel simultaneously like my life was on pause for two years and prefer to think of these years as not having happened, but at the same, clearly time has ...
by TobyV
03 Jun 2022, 23:46
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: What have I been up to?
Replies: 6
Views: 492

Re: What have I been up to?

And if the images are not displaying for you, try viewing this page in Firefox. Seemingly it's a "mixed content issue" to do with this site being "https" (secure) and my site being being only "http" (not secure). I need to ditch talk talk and move to something better *-)