What Does Your Computer Desktop Look Like?

[Mike S]

Not sure, found it when I looked for some nice beach wallpapers last year.
What part of Upstate? - I'm in the Mohawk Valley area.

I grew up near Ithaca, lived in Corning, Buffalo, Olean, and Niskayuna before moving to Connecticut. My family is still all over central and western NY.

 

[Willie T]

I've got the controls, but just a desktop computer with MS Flight Sim X. I think I better stick to that instead of the real life stuff! (as far as the helicopters are concerned anyway.) I can fly it some and usually take off, fly somewhere, and land again without crashing, but I've never been able to do it at all smoothly or to develop that "seat of the pants" feel for it like I could in the airplanes. The way I fly it, if it were real life with an instructor, I don't think I'd be given a second chance!

Try to remember that a helicopter has "delayed" responses in all controls except maybe the pedals, and things may start making sense to you in your FS flying.

 

[jasonc]

How do you find what you're looking for? I see desktops that look like this on my colleague's computers and I can't begin to imagine how hard it is for them to find what they are looking for.

windows 8.1 has the computer icon and I use it. or I go to the app style and look for the pics.

 

[Willie T]

After so many years on the sims I like to fantasize that if ever given the chance I might be able to fly a real airplane. Maybe not perfectly, but at least well enough not to die. But helicopters... All I can say is it's a very good thing I was never put in the seat of a real one!

Actually, you are right. The sim, basically, gets you used to doing all the other required things besides just the actual flying. And it is all the things that have to be done that frustrate most new students.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Obadiah said: ↑
I've got the controls, but just a desktop computer with MS Flight Sim X. I think I better stick to that instead of the real life stuff! (as far as the helicopters are concerned anyway.) I can fly it some and usually take off, fly somewhere, and land again without crashing, but I've never been able to do it at all smoothly or to develop that "seat of the pants" feel for it like I could in the airplanes. The way I fly it, if it were real life with an instructor, I don't think I'd be given a second chance! [/quote ]
I was trained on my initial experiences we were well over a thousand off the deck at better that 80 knots and in the way it is very much the same as a fixed wing. After an hour here and an hour there I had developed the feel for it and after I accomplished a few landings below fifty feet off the deck, my pilot often would tell me where to go and went to sleep. Chopper Pilots, Crew Chiefs and Helicopters all have one thing in common, they are not all that stable!

 

[Willie T]

An instructor at Rucker asks this one question of every class. "You experience an engine outage at night, you go into AR, and turn on the landing lights. Nothing below you but giant rocks..... nothing but rocks. What do you do?"

Anyone care to give an answer? There is only one answer he gives.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Actually, you are right. The sim, basically, gets you used to doing all the other required things besides just the actual flying. And it is all the things that have to be done that frustrate most new students.

I've yet to find anyone that does not mind the Preflight, Fluid checks and Engine runup... BORING! I always tried to have all of that done before my Pilot and Peter Pilot showed up, extremely illegal but what were they gonna do, send us to Vietnam? But I believed in them to take my life into their hands and visa versa.

 

[th1b.taylor]

An instructor at Rucker asks this one question of every class. "You experience an engine outage at night, you go into AR, and turn on the landing lights. Nothing below you but giant rocks..... nothing but rocks. What do you do?"

Anyone care to give an answer? There is only one answer he gives.

Had I reenlisted that was my next class at Rucker, see what I missed out on? I know the answer. It's the same as going down in a thousand year old triple cover jungle......... pray! Choppers are so darn much fun!

 

[jasonc]

Had I reenlisted that was my next class at Rucker, see what I missed out on? I know the answer. It's the same as going down in a thousand year old triple cover jungle......... pray! Choppers are so darn much fun!

they don't fly, they beat the air into submission.

 

[th1b.taylor]

The last night of February, 1969, we has First Flare and I and the gunner did the Preflight with the Pilot before dark and slept on the PSP because there were forty, one million candle power Flares on the deck and I was not to sit behind my gun but was to throw flares from between my legs every time one was about to go out so Spooky could see to clean the field of the NVA and VC.

I don't recall the Op Altitude but Spooky wanted the same level and tried to fly in my right Cargo Door with me and the Gunner needing a change of underwear. Like i always say, a wee it of insanity is not required to fly choppers but it don't hurt at all?
We kept 'um safe!!!!

 

[th1b.taylor]

they don't fly, they beat the air into submission.

No, no, no, no! Helicopters fly because they are so ugly the Earth just repels them!


Psst, don't ever say that in the presence of Willie, it makes Pilots see red.

 

[Obadiah]

No, no, no, no! Helicopters fly because they are so ugly the Earth just repels them!


Psst, don't ever say that in the presence of Willie, it makes Pilots see red.

LOL!!!!

 

[Willie T]

No, no, no, no! Helicopters fly because they are so ugly the Earth just repels them!


Psst, don't ever say that in the presence of Willie, it makes Pilots see red.

Yep, "ground effect."

And Willie is no pilot no mo. Age and the stroke say the best I'll ever do is fly low n slow in an ultralight.... and even that is lookin' doubtful anymore.

 

[Obadiah]

An instructor at Rucker asks this one question of every class. "You experience an engine outage at night, you go into AR, and turn on the landing lights. Nothing below you but giant rocks..... nothing but rocks. What do you do?"

Anyone care to give an answer? There is only one answer he gives.

Steal your co-pilots parachute?

Seriously, just a wild guess here (and forgive me if I don't get all the terms right), auto rotate with the rotor blades at enough of a pitch to keep them rotating as fast as possible while not descending any faster than necessary to do that. In the last seconds feather the blades enough to take advantage of the stored energy in the fast rotating rotor to give all the lift possible and slow the descent as much as possible before landing on the rocks?

Or was the right answer to simply re-start the engine?

 

[Jesse]

No, no, no, no! Helicopters fly because they are so ugly the Earth just repels them!


Psst, don't ever say that in the presence of Willie, it makes Pilots see red.

Haha

Helicopters swim through the air - like bumble bees. haha

 

[Willie T]

Steal your co-pilots parachute?

Seriously, just a wild guess here (and forgive me if I don't get all the terms right), auto rotate with the rotor blades at enough of a pitch to keep them rotating as fast as possible while not descending any faster than necessary to do that. In the last seconds feather the blades enough to take advantage of the stored energy in the fast rotating rotor to give all the lift possible and slow the descent as much as possible before landing on the rocks?

Or was the right answer to simply re-start the engine?

Nope, it was, "Turn out the light."

 

[Willie T]

Of course, the best thing to do was to pick the rock that looked the softest.

 

[Obadiah]

Nope, it was, "Turn out the light."

Of course, the best thing to do was to pick the rock that looked the softest.

Love it!

 

[evenifigoalone]

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You can also see what my deskptop image was before it was changed to otaku city.

 

[jeff77]

Well, I can't show you my desktop, but here's my desk.
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Very organized! I don't use my desktop computer anymore and there is so much junk on the desk that there is no room for the mouse. So I use my laptop on the couch in the living room.