Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Re: Checkking in & TQW?
From:    Gamgee(21:2/138)
Date:    Thu Oct 08, 2026 12:11

-=> Dumas Walker wrote to Gamgee <=-

  NR> Not really. Not every hub/system carries every group.

 G> Sure, getting echos that your main hub doesn't carry from
 G> somebody else  is great.  I do that myself.  But getting the
 G> SAME echos from multiple  places is ... sloppy/lazy/unnecessary.

 DW> IMHO, what makes it sloppy/lazy but necessary is that the "sloppy/lazy"
 DW> is probably not happening on your system but somewhere else in the
 DW> chain -- an autopilot system for example.  It might be lazier, or more
 DW> unnecessary, than changing a feed every time you realize that (an)
 DW> active echo(es) have suddenly stopped flowing but it works so long as
 DW> you are using a modern tosser.

 DW> OTOH, there are networks that do not permit this practice and you need
 DW> to respect that.  But for FIDO, where in recent past we've had RCs just
 DW> up and disappear, it it almost necessary if you are a local hub.

All good points and thanks for that input.

Autopilot sysops are the scourge of the hobby, IMHO.



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