I am back... it was close this time

[hasegawa]

On the 14th of 10th I was given a bypass and the aorta heart valve is also new. But it was pretty tight. The operation lasted just under 7 hours. On Friday I returned from rehab, was in Plau am See in Mecklenburg Vorpommern. After Latvia I can not get back once, must stay in Germany Christmas and New Year without girlfriend. I am not allowed to fly until at least May. Slowly I can't hear Corona anymore. Everything in Europe has become complicated. My girlfriend's son is stuck in Barcelona. I don't like to say it, but I don't really want to be optimistic. It was an annus horribiles.
As far as flying on the PC is concerned, I am now also re-enacting the MSFS. The platform offers a lot to hope for, but the Devel, opper kit is probably not there yet and add-on manufacturers are on the hose. Almost nothing happens with the planes and some scenery manufacturers try to polish up old garbage that already exists "eternally" and sell it again at full price. But I don't want to go back to that. Now that I am a pensioner, the euros do not grow on trees. We will have to see what strategy will help against it.

[jpreou]

Sounds very challenging time. Thoughts and prayers go with you. Glad the operation was a success for you. Hope everything else sorts itself out.
I have not yet jumped on the MSFS bandwagon, and I do very little simming - none really. Since I stopped IRL flying, the sim no longer holds appeal.

[toprob]

It's hard to imagine the complications of something like this now that covid is a major factor, so I do hope that the world will start to get back to normal within a year or two. In the meantime, do what the the cardiologists, cardiac clinics and nurses tell you, it can seem like a long time before things start to improve, but it does happen.

[Splitpin]

Look after yourself my friend. As Rob said ...listen to the experts and get well.
Good luck and best wishes ...Gute Besserung.

[deeknow]

Oh man that sounds scary, but glad to hear you have made it through. Hope you get back to something more normal soon

[hasegawa]

Thank you for your good wishes. Slowly I recover. It's all going so slowly. In December, my father died. by the way, not to Corona. He was born in 1932. He knew his watch was running out and died in his sleep.

In the meantime, I have started my work on MSFS again like The Rutan Long EZ and use the MB 339 by Aermachi.
I am am grateful to do something meaningful again. For FS Magazin, I am working on a review of Yekaterinburg Kolzowo Airport (USSS), the third largest in Russia.
Also in the works are "Tobruk" and "Operation Bodenplatte", the last Operation of the German Luftwaffe on January 1, 1945. Meanwhile 1C-Games, the famous Sturmovik team works on "Normandie", I already have the current version here and let you know when it's complete. At the moment waiting for the Flight szenerie with South England and the Normandy.

Covid19 is a nightmare. I am stuck in Germany and cannot visit my girlfriend in Latvia. We imagined it differently. But in Germany I can pay for my medication, in Latvia difficult. There is no statutory health insurance. Many Latvians do not have health insurance and people are dying like flies now. These small countries in the Baltics are simply overlooked.... In the fizzy EU, everyone is saving themselves. The famous sense of community is fiction. I believe that in the small states on the periphery of the EU and outside the EU, such as Ukraine, the EU and the Germans will not be forgiven.
In Germanyr In September is electon in Germany. The CDU is looking for Mrs Merkel's successor... The rest is trying to make a name for themselves.. The offer is just as creepy as in the USA. I actually want to vote, and as a "survivor" of the GDR I have my own attitude to it, I don't see anyone I can choose with a clear conscience at the moment. From my point of view, they are all of them.

[emfrat]

I don't see anyone I can choose with a clear conscience at the moment. From my point of view, they are all of them.

Sad to say, Andreas, that is a world-wide problem these days. Good to see you are still around, and my very best wishes to you and yours for the future.
ATB
Mike

[hasegawa]

Thank you Mike. I have been in this forum for so many years now. And I'm always happy to meet you" even though half the world is between us.

There is a book that always comes to mind when I look at today's politics...

"Shogun" by James Cavell

He lets Prince Toranaga (Tokugawa Ieyasu say)

"A rebelliousness against the lord of the state is unpresentable,
unless you win."

I have the feeling that something is brewing throughout the European Union. You can't explain it, but you can feel it.

That concerns me.