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lovely vid. great find Alan. thanks for posting the link

nice catch of a tiffy. Awareness is everything, you'll see them before they see you. When they're low the workload is phenomenal. It's good to stay out of known flightpaths and of course well away from the loop during the week (esp when NOTAM'd) safe skies

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i reckon you want to get your first year under your belt before you try that one

ahhh! G'wan!! you know you wanna

as has uk to france (both international flights)

The loop is fun. Rarely used at wknds. You can always call up and ask. But the mountains produce all sorts of gusts.

Lundy being national trust & has quite a few birds on it so there's most likely some serious restrictions to flying over it. Well worth giving the NT a call first tho.

Welcome to the forum mate. Sorry I can't help you with the question but wanted just to say Hi

if you're in a low level corridor? no Minimums is normally 100' but they're cleared to go >0 <250 higher than 250' and they're not doing a good job.

[*] When they're low? Closing speeds are fast. Very little collision avoidance. Which is why you gotta stay clear of the low level routes particularly during the week.

Fast jets won't see you. They see very little other traffic. But most everything else will get a chance to avoid. Unless you're already in close vicinity (such as in the circuit) and it'll be you trying to avoid the balloons

Sure dude, just give me a shout when you're ready. Thanks for all the help and encouragement. You know how long I've been building this.

Cheers Barry, happy to help. We'll hopefully address some of your more unique requirements in future releases. You do realise though that you'll have to tell folk we did not pay you for your endorsement Thanks again.

Barry, sent you an email with what I believe the fix to be. Can you let me know when you get it

I think you'd be better off adding each VM as part of your CloudStor account to achieve a granular level of backup. Be an interesting test at the very least.

hi Barry, can you email me a screenshot of the problem etc? i'm trying to visualise it.

Hi Barry, the short answer is yes we can scale up as required. I'd need to understand the requirement a bit more such as the numbers of vm's involved. But I'm sure I can do you a deal. ping me an email with the numbers you're thinking of. Btw, i think this would offer far more granularity regarding individual VM backup rather than trying to backup the entire VM hope this helps

cheers Barry, all feedback really helpful. it's a heavy lift pulling this all together.

Cheers Simon appreciate the support and encouragement. As with all new ventures it's an uphill struggle. It's British, it's better than the others and doesn't rely on US equipment. So the Feds just can't wander in and have a look without so much as a by your leave. Imagine the earache you'd get off your kids if they lost their dissertation or their music? That's gotta be worth the cost just to avoid that Have a great day all.

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my pleasure to help. PHP is a pig to go through even if you're an expert (and i most certainly am not). as noted, it's not working for me but to be honest. I really do find just checking for new posts convenient as anything (inc replies) will turn up in there and that's just a single mouse click.

Just a thought. but has the option to receive PM's from others been disabled? have a check in user control panel>board preferences and check the setting to allow users to send you private messages. you never know, it might be turned off. hope this helps.