Yeah, very much fron the 1950's 'Beano' era, but it did still go on in the mid 90s, at least in a wild throwing them about the place as entertainment. It was indeed a simpler time.

A lot more kids in the background smoking cigarettes around the bike sheds as well, but that's another story :)

Professional Office Managers need an office to manage. It's like asking for Turkeys to vote for Christmas saying 'don't come and sit in and listen to my speeches all day'

It's obviously a personal taste thing, but a lot of people 'want' as much detail as possible; the satisfaction for them being that if they sat down in those cockpits, they'd have a good chance of being able to fly.. for a few minutes before crashing horrible anyway :)

That was my motivation and narrative for playing it anyway, and judging by some of the paid realism mods, I don't think I was the only one

'clamoring' No, they're most certainly not.

And I'm more than willing to believe the legal difficulties of the foundation would be a nightmare, but would an EU sponsored fork of some kind be such a terrible idea? A move of headquarters to a suitable city and so on.

Remove the tracking, maybe even a few mandates to offer it up in certain settings that receive EU funding already.

An interesting idea even if sadly unlikely.

'Cowboy' insert trade here. The ride into town, take on the job and your money, then ride off into the sunset never to be seen again and leave you to clean up the mess...

It's a really old, and well known, UK expression, and not an affectionate one.

Although 'Tradesman' (or tradeswoman) is the overwhelmingly correct term in the UK for those kind of jobs, whether the work they produce is good or bad.