Sola - Wadders...

[DaveB]

Glad I landed when I did as it started snowing shortly after TD

FSX ACC
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Simshed Nimrod R1.
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DaveB

[Airspeed]

Hi Dave,
That's about 752Km in a straight line.
Did you just belt straight across the North Sea, or were you made to follow the coast and dodge around other traffic?
It does look cold!

[DaveG]

Nice shots Dave. I haven't flown the Rimnod for ages. Think I'll have to dig it out again.

[DaveB]

Did you just belt straight across the North Sea, or were you made to follow the coast and dodge around other traffic?
It does look cold!

I belted straight across Mile.. a fairly sedate FL250/255KIAS @ 212deg. AI traffic has to be limited (airline traffic that is) due to an aiplayer.dll error which has plagued this install from day 1. This doesn't bother me much as I rarely go to airports big enough to support airliners so statics are important. StavangerX doesn't come with statics so I had to add my own.

Never been to Stavanger IRL though I've sent signal traffic to the NATO base (via it) many times. You call them up on morse code (JWT) and they reply giving you a teletype freq to send traffic on. They acknowledge by morse. An excellent signal station
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[ChrisHunt]

Nice pics Dave. Re communicating via Stavanger, I suspect things have changed quite a bit since your days. Last time I spent any time with my old mob (about 5 years ago) morse (like its telly namesake) was pretty much dead. Still used occasionally but not at all often. It's a funny thing morse - kids love it - I did a thing at my local library which involved youngsters trying to decode messages encrypted using very simple to slightly more complex methods and we had a the local radio club who brought along a Clansman and a couple of morse keys linked to a sounder. We had to fight to get the keys back at the end of the session. It was one of the most enjoyable things I ever done.

[DaveB]

I can well imagine

Will morse go completely? I guess it may but there will always be a place for it. A 1khz tone on/off will travel vast distances and was always considered our last line of defence as far as comms go. Problem now is you need someone at the other end who can read it
I was based at NATO Comiberlant (Oeiras, Portugal) for around 22months and the Ship/Shore room was manned pretty exclusively by RN as we were the morse readers. A slightly different routine to Stavanger as ships would 'come in' on RATT and we'd answer via morse.

TBH.. unlike your kids.. most of us hated morse code and couldn't wait to see the back of it
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[ChrisHunt]

Me too (hated morse that is) - couldn't wait to get onto RATT but near impossible at night in those days. Voice not much better. As you say when all else fails morse is the option of last resort. Wait till the zombies take over and our civilisation falls to pieces - we'll be in demand then I can tell you!

[DaveB]

What a horrible thought

I've no idea how 'our lot' communicate these days. We had HF of course but 'weapon of choice' was SCOT (SHF). Whether that is still being used.. who knows. Our boats were using UHF satcom (burst mode) when I left and I'd not be surprised if this didn't make its way to the surface fleet. Like everything else.. the names have changed too. There are no Radio Operators (or radio branch) from what I gather. They're IT now
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[Aharon]

This plane looks COOL.

Is it freeware and if so, where please along with that livery, please?

Thanks,

Aharon

[DaveB]

It's still available at Simviation. Just type Nimrod into the search engine. You'll find one by UKMIL there too
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