At the expense of everything and everyone around him, including his pilots & cabin crew? Now other major LCCs are following suite and our terms & conditions are plummeting as a result? The list is endless. That’s just not right Rob.
All he has done is open the window for CHAVS to fly to their chavtastic destinations such as Benidorm, yadda yadda.

Only because he knows Airbus will show him the door 😀

Come on chaps, keep the expletives down to a minimum please

ahem, that’s not the same chap who posted this topic is it? 😉

Sorry, never heard of the book.

That’s ok, appreciated, I am reasonably experienced when it comes to PCs and I have tried to build my own before but ended up buying one “off the shelf” as I could not match the price.
I guess alot depends on what machine you are building and how much patience you have 😉

Well here’s my spec mate, and I am running FSX with all sliders maxed out.

AMD Phenom 9850 Quad Core (2.5GHz)
4GB Memory
Windows Vista 64 bit
Nvidia GEForce 9600GT Gfx Card

I suppose you could work backwards from this, considering I have all sliders maxed out then if you look at anything similar to this then you should be ok.

Obviously alot depends on budget, I would hate to tell you to buy something and it turns out to be a dud, so anything I say that is ok please do some more research. The Avsim forums are a great place to source info.

Getting back to the PC, the more memory the better, so 4GB is the way forward, but ensure you don’t get 4GB with a Windows XP operating system because I am led to believe XP can’t utilise it.
Also if you could possibly get a system with a gfx card that is DX10 compatible then you are on to a winner. FSX is optimised for Vista 64 bit and DX10.

I got my PC from Mesh for £600.

Dean

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Whatever you do get your education first, the aviation industry is very fickle, and very volatile, I am flying for a reasonably safe airline yet we wonder every week whether our jobs will be here this time next week.

As for doing your ATPLs, timing is everything, on a personal level I don’t think the good times will be here again for the 150/200hr wannabe for years to come. Firstly nobody is recruiting at the moment (as you’d expect), infact I personally think it’s going to be a bloody winter for the airline industry, a couple of major airlines are expected to go under. There are hundreds, if not thousands of unemployed pilots right across Europe with the right to live and work in Europe. When the good times arrive these guys will need vacuuming back into the system, this could take 18 months, or longer.

What I am saying is that if you want to do your ATPLs then you need to time it right so that you finish training at the start of boom time. Do your research, make up your own mind, but whatever you do, get an education.

Dean

As soon as (when, not if 😉 ) this thread degenerates into smut, it disappears 🙂