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About Alicatt
- Birthday 06/20/1956
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Flight Simulators
DCS, IL2 Cliffs of Dover. Sturmovik
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Eating in Eksel or ice cold in Alex
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cars, bikes, planes, boats, cinema, archery
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retired
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My late younger brother got a huge bonus from the company he worked for in IT, he found a way to keep compatibility between the new systems having to be introduced and Netware 3.** that the company used globally, saved the company 10s of millions and as he said "all I got was a lousy meal " Yeah it was a good few years ago...
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The tipping point for me came at Afghanistan, whoops Amazon had to deliver a 2TB NVME to replace the 1TB DCS one and then a clean install
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No smoke without fire
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It's not just the range at H-H, between Leopoldsburg - Hechtel-Eksel there are the tank, artillery, and rifle ranges as well as the Sanicole airstrip. Leopoldsburg is where operation Market-Garden was planned and set out from. The dark line that runs from the north down and crosses the road at Molenheide is now a cycle path but during the time of the map it was a railway line, we use it frequently to visit our daughter in Zolder There are also many military bases and infrastructure dotted around the area, some still in use and some still there but derelict and some have been built over now. This was/is heavily militarised area. Eindhoven is not that far to the north from here.
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And also no mention of Sanicole Airfield, the tank piste and shooting ranges there between Hechtel and Leopoldsburg, Sanicole was a training field associated with Kleine Brogel up to recently and the ranges are still in use, we hear them almost every day They still drop paratroopers over Sanicole. Then there are the training areas at Molenheide and Houthalen-Helechtren, the H-H range is used by aircraft to drop ordnance and while the A10s were here they used it for tank plinking I could hear the Brrrrt of the GAU8 in Eksel and while I was working in Zonhoven they regularly flew overhead.
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Nice! Can't wait for phase 3 and our local airbase to be included KeeBee and some F16 to fly out from there, now if/when the F104 is released... Goetsenhoven is that not a small grass strip? I go there regularly as we have friends that live there, it is not even as big as Sanicole that is not included, and Sanicole has an annual big airshow which I have been going to every year since 2012. I live about half way between Kleine Brogel and Sanicole and am directly under the flight path where the F16s turn from downwind to base. Bitburg! Yahoo! drag raced there a number of years ago with some USAF friends
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Thanks for the info I will get to it when I get back home. No, not solved it, it will be November before I have the time to look at it. Such is the life of a pensioner I will be out the country until then so no PC- well one that is too old to run DCS so same thing
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Well with this last update I have run out of space on the SSD, 40GB short to complete the update I did miss the last 2 or 3 updates so that might be it.
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That was back in the days when a flight was £21 per hour and I worked for an engineering company at the airport, had to give it up when my first kid came along, that and the prices in 1980 went through the roof, in a mater of months it went from the above to over £60/hour couldn't afford it!
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yeah, thank goodness they removed the need for front number plates in the UK round about then, my Honda CD175 had the same arrangement for it's front plate, they got removed shortly after the pic was taken. I have another pic of the bike on the peri track of the local airport, have to dig it out. We were allowed to use the peri track for all sorts on Sundays back then, I also flew model aircraft there on a Sunday, Wednesdays were my day for Cessna 150/152 flights to Orkney for lunch fill the tanks up and fly back to Wick.
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Never met my mother's father, he passed away the year before I was born, my father was the baby of the family and his father was old when I was born, he was over 90 when he passed and I was 4. My father was in the RAF at the end of WW2 and he took us to the airshows Our family history is more with the sea than the air though, and even now being a retired marine radar tech I still mess around on boats and have just got a new one
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Thanks Always do, been going with my grandson since he was 2 he is now 16. I have been going to airshows for 60 years now, started when I was 8, got to see the Gnats, Lightnings, Mosquitos, F104, even a Beverly once
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I hear she is coming to our local airshow at Sanicole this year too.