I’ve got to agree with Cucumber Jones, your statement goes both ways. Corvette turns in early and aggressively. You can see the Ferrari behind him taking a later point for the turn in. You could argue that the R8 started to turn as well, but from the video that looks more like a reaction to the Corvette than anything…

Don’t you mean your track nemesis?

You can call it ‘avoiding’ Syria and Iraq, but in general, a great circle route would not pass through those two countries’ airspace anyway. They did avoid clipping a piece of Iran and mainly stayed out of Chinese airspace (which can have many different reasons, a lot of them more practical than political).

I don't know, I think Max Verstappen is having the time of his life as well :).

I also think that’s a typo and it should be 15.

I remember some fantastic planning and tactical games in Raven Shield (especially multiplayer) and it’s expansion as well. I would say it went downhill from there (with Lockdown) instead of after Rogue Spear.

I drove an Escape for a week and about 1400 miles in 2013, driving from Buffalo to Washington D.C. and then West and North to Madison, Wisconsin. It was a rental and I don’t know exactly which engine or option package.

I had no idea this existed and it is epic, thanks! I'm sure those Mario Maker levels require time to create, but this is just insane and makes the Mario Maker stuff seem like child's play :).

Aww yeah, real life Crimson Skies :)

God, I love these things. I remember very vividly the one time I’ve seen one perform it’s tricks. Amongst all the different noises at an airshow with all kinds of jets, the Harrier is in a league of it’s own. It turns heads even with other fighters nearby making their own noise.

OK, I will bite.

I am quite aware of stabilized approach procedures as I regularly get to deal with 30+ knots crosswind landings myself. The small corrections in pitch and heading should be taken with the prevailing weather conditions in mind. What you see in the video are pretty small corrections which look extreme due to the huge…

If you are implying European pilot's are not as good as US counterparts, I'd say you put too much value on flying around in small aircraft for 1500 hours... It's the same all over the world, there are amazing professional guys with 150 hours around and there are completely useless guys with 10.000 hours as well.

Yes, let’s make that observation from this one video. There is a balance between being cautious and being overly cautious. These guys know what they are doing and will have weighed the pros and cons having a lot more info at hand than you do from this video.

Some of those DayD images really remind me of the atmosphere in Trespasser. Desipite all it's flaws, I did love the overall feel of the surroundings in that game. A modern version should be like this artwork!

You might be missing what the C in ICAO stands for. Besides that, listen to US ATC for a minute, then read up on ICAO RT phraseology and remember that the next time you want to blame another country for not following ICAO :).

Hehe, no worries. I sim as well, to check out planes that I will probably never fly in person. And that particular addon is one of the best around in my opinion, but the engines blowing up is a touch dramatic ;).

The closest I’ve been to flying something factory fresh was when one of the planes from 1987 got a major engine overhaul by a mechanic who’s considered to be a guru of the type... He managed to finetune everything and set it up perfectly, better than any mechanic since. Such a joy to fly that plane afterwards.

They are cool planes (and stab in the dark; not as fragile as certain simulator addons make them seem). They really don’t catch fire that easily and the geared turbine doesn’t really have any huge problems that sets it apart.

Well, hunk of junk because everything is old and worn, things rattle and such. If mechanics adjust one thing, another thing accidentally gets ruined again. And it’s not exactly a passenger friendly plane.