Either London City because it’s just plain different in its operation, Barra for it’s lunar controlled opening hours or Alderney for the communal knitting!

Originally posted by Wingflaps2
Is it me or does the Beech Starship in the photo you posted have no tail fin?

It has 2, one on each wingtip as shown in the picture.

Well I seem to be on my own here but I think it is a big improvement and makes their aircraft look about 20 years younger!

There are 2 important timings for flights, block time and sector (flight) time.
Sector lenth or flight time is the time the journey will take from take off to landing. Block time is the time allowed on the schedule for Pushback, start up, taxi out, flight time, taxi in, parking and shutdown. When you are given your departure time it is referring to the block time not flight time.

For example, last night I went from LGW to IBZ. Block time 2.20, flight time 1.55. Departure was scheduled for ten past midnight. We pushed 5 minutes early (good baggage loaders), got to the hold in 10 minutes (no other traffic in the middle of the night), flew down in 1.50 (little other traffic so plenty of ATC short cuts) and taxied in in 5 minutes. Scheduled arrival time was 0230, actual arrival time (on stand) 0210, so 20 minutes early.

FS is very good as a basic platform but is so limited in what it is able to model. For example, if Microsoft bought out a ‘place your head in the lions mouth’ simulator it would all look correct but somehow completely miss the actual point. This is the situation when you try to factor in specific local weather criteria to FS. FNC weather (like many other oddball microclimates) cannot be replicated in £50 PC simulators. Neither can the peripheral sensations required to register that pitting feeling in your stomach as you sense windshear taking effect.
FS allows many people to become very knowledgeable with respect to the button pushing side of commercial aviation with the downside in that it creates quite a few armchair experts! I’ll never forget a flightdeck visit when I was on the Saab 340. This guy came up front, it was his first ever flight in a real aeroplane and yet he spent the next five minutes he lectured me on how the Dash 8 was so much easier to land than the Saab 340 and had I tried using a delayed flare technique!!!

regards
wys

Originally posted by Cyprioteagle
I dont think those times they knew or they ever considered ETOPS! as the first model that was allowed to fly ETOPS was B757…

I wasn’t suggesting they were flown etops, in fact I said quite the opposite!

regards
wys

Originally posted by mongu
Then, your pilots will demand pay rises every week 🙂

…in order to edge their salaries closer to those of the accountants 😉