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Tim Capps Senior Member Offline Defense Lawyer & US Navy JAG (ret), Writer Posts: 1070 Location: Southern Illinois Joined: May 21^st, 2009	Black Friday Sales & Happy Thanksgiving Nov 28^th, 2013 at 7:20pm	Print Post
	While not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving (and a happy one to those who do), Black Friday sales seem to have caught on everywhere. So don't forget to check out the sales various flight sim vendors are having. Your Captain Sim airplanes still need airports to fly into! I picked up some nice scenery at 20% off, and have seen 35% off.

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FabioL Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Joined: Nov 11^th, 2012	Re: Black Friday Sales & Happy Thanksgiving Reply #1 - Nov 29^th, 2013 at 8:19am	Print Post
	Tim, you are totally right! Recently, before Black Friday, I picked up a bundle of three European holiday destination airports that were on sale, and it is a real delight to fly into these busy, bustling, and highly-detailed airports! I made a resolution to then buy more scenery, which sadly cannot explain the sudden uncontrollable weakness that I suffered when I bought, yes, another jet liner. My resolve for new scenery is still alive and well, but blast, my wallet is empty! PS. Captain Sim, can we expect a one day $9.99 BF sale?!

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Tim Capps Senior Member Offline Defense Lawyer & US Navy JAG (ret), Writer Posts: 1070 Location: Southern Illinois Joined: May 21^st, 2009	Re: Black Friday Sales & Happy Thanksgiving Reply #2 - Nov 29^th, 2013 at 8:29pm	Print Post
	I honestly don't see myself buying another airliner. I have quite a collection, from classics right up to the present. Unless someone comes out with a killer 787, then maybe. I am such a sucker for scenery, though. Airports with a good-sized surrounding area customized are great. The differences between default and payware is dramatic. And since I hate AI airplanes, I don't ever have to worry about frame rates. (I wish more would make static airplanes... or a company would come out with a product that put area-appropriate static aircraft at any airport. you depart or arrive at.)

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FabioL Full Member Offline Posts: 99 Joined: Nov 11^th, 2012	Re: Black Friday Sales & Happy Thanksgiving Reply #3 - Nov 29^th, 2013 at 11:05pm	Print Post
	That's a new concept, Tim, static AI traffic, AI without the I. I quite enjoy bustling airports and populated airspace, but as you rightly say, there is a premium to it.

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LOU Beta Team Offline 727,707,747,757,767= 40years of Boeings Posts: 1594 Location: Central PA, USA Joined: Mar 3^rd, 2010 Gender:	Re: Black Friday Sales & Happy Thanksgiving Reply #4 - Nov 30^th, 2013 at 9:02pm	Print Post
	You are so right, it has caught on everywhere! I took this picture just last Sunday in Bucharest Romania. Uploaded with ImageShack.us

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Markoz CS Team Offline Posts: 12373 Location: Victoria, Australia Joined: Apr 24^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Black Friday Sales & Happy Thanksgiving Reply #5 - Dec 1^st, 2013 at 1:13am	Print Post
	Why is it called Black Friday? I thought that Black Friday was when it was the 13th day of the month fell on a Friday. You know, an old superstition.

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Pinatubo Senior Member Offline Posts: 486 Location: Rio de Janeiro Brazil Joined: Apr 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Black Friday Sales & Happy Thanksgiving Reply #6 - Dec 1^st, 2013 at 2:18am	Print Post
	Markoz wrote on Dec 1^st, 2013 at 1:13am: Why is it called Black Friday? I thought that Black Friday was when it was the 13th day of the month fell on a Friday. You know, an old superstition. Wikipedia has a explanation for the origin of the term. I don't know if it is true but it makes sense. Please, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29

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Markoz CS Team Offline Posts: 12373 Location: Victoria, Australia Joined: Apr 24^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Black Friday Sales & Happy Thanksgiving Reply #7 - Dec 1^st, 2013 at 5:57pm	Print Post
	Pinatubo wrote on Dec 1^st, 2013 at 2:18am: Markoz wrote on Dec 1^st, 2013 at 1:13am: Why is it called Black Friday? I thought that Black Friday was when it was the 13th day of the month fell on a Friday. You know, an old superstition. Wikipedia has a explanation for the origin of the term. I don't know if it is true but it makes sense. Please, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29 Seeing as use of the term started before 1961 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975, I would have thought that Friday the 13th is the origin of the term, simply because it has been a suspicious day (often referred to as Black Friday) for at least 2 centuries. Thanks for that though.

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Tim Capps Senior Member Offline Defense Lawyer & US Navy JAG (ret), Writer Posts: 1070 Location: Southern Illinois Joined: May 21^st, 2009	Re: Black Friday Sales & Happy Thanksgiving Reply #8 - Dec 2^nd, 2013 at 6:52pm	Print Post
	It is supposed to be a huge shopping day for retailers so they can get in the black (i.e. show a profit in their books) as opposed to the red (a loss).

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DAL191 Senior Member Offline Posts: 388 Location: Tampa FL USA Joined: Nov 26^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Black Friday Sales & Happy Thanksgiving Reply #9 - Dec 2^nd, 2013 at 8:08pm	Print Post
	Markoz wrote on Dec 1^st, 2013 at 1:13am: You know, an old superstition. Mark Personally, I don't believe Friday the 13th is a superstition. I have had a lot of bad things happen on those days. When it is Friday the 13th I don't have to ask anyone what day or date it is. Michael Cubine

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Tim Capps Senior Member Offline Defense Lawyer & US Navy JAG (ret), Writer Posts: 1070 Location: Southern Illinois Joined: May 21^st, 2009	Re: Black Friday Sales & Happy Thanksgiving Reply #10 - Dec 3^rd, 2013 at 12:09am	Print Post
	And (unless it's Tuesday before you read this) don't forget the Cyber Monday sales! As far as I know for Friday 13, the story I like best is that King Philip the Fair of France sent out sealed warrants throughout his kingdom to be opened on Friday, the 13th. It turned out they were warrants for the arrest of all the Knights Templar in the kingdom, resulting in the effective suppression of the order. And now you know... the rest of the story. (There remains speculation about the famed treasure -- Philip's biggest beef with the Templars was he owed them a lot of money. Apparently the Templar fleet was never located, and one legend has the Templar treasure located on Oak Island, Canada. Various digs have yielded nothing, however.)

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Markoz CS Team Offline Posts: 12373 Location: Victoria, Australia Joined: Apr 24^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Black Friday Sales & Happy Thanksgiving Reply #11 - Dec 3^rd, 2013 at 12:26am	Print Post
	I'm not superstitious either Michael. At my first job, I worked as a Store-man and Packer. The parts were stored in a huge warehouse with lots of aisles and shelves that were very high up. We used these huge ladders to climb up to the top to get things. If the item were to big and heavy, I went up on a pallet raised by forklift truck, placed the item on the pallet and came back down. The top of the ladders were always on one side of the aisle, while the bottom was on the other side. Other workers navigated around them, NEVER going underneath them, but I didn't care, I just walked underneath them all the time (for entire time I had the job). My co-workers thought I was crazy because they were so superstitious. But don't get me wrong, I always checked to make sure no one was up there getting anything, or something could have fallen on my head done me some serious harm.

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Tim Capps Senior Member Offline Defense Lawyer & US Navy JAG (ret), Writer Posts: 1070 Location: Southern Illinois Joined: May 21^st, 2009	Re: Black Friday Sales & Happy Thanksgiving Reply #12 - Dec 3^rd, 2013 at 5:01am	Print Post
	Baseball players are notoriously superstitious. I wonder about pilots? I would think the responsibilities of a flight would leave little room for superstition. Even as a student pilot, what fear of flying I had was really fear of things out of my control... and if they are really out of my control, there's not much point in worrying about them. As a pilot, I was seldom scared, even in my first few lessons. But as a passenger... another story. Unless I can sit up front, which is, of course, impossible these days.

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