OT: The Average Simmer's Age...

I am 17 but I wouldn't say I am a serious Sim pilot. I buy most of the new payware and I love flying but I don't have flight plans or anything like that. I usually just go where I feel like going.
 
:kilroy: 49 yesterday....

il2 demo, Il2, Pacific Fighters, '46

Lomac, Flaming Cliffs, DCS Black Shark

FSXdemo, FSX Deluxe, Acceleration

Rise of Flight

since what...1998?
 
I started flying real airplanes with my Dad around 9 or 10 ... Cessna 210's, Piper Aztecs and Bellanca Citabrias, the rest is History ...

Mike :jump:
 
Earned my real Private Pilot Certificate when I was 18 or 19. Long story very short, started flying MSFS at Version 2, maybe 10 or 12 years later to feed the habit I couldn't do for real, turned 62 a few days ago. I am very happy to see the new guys and gals coming into the hobby/addiction at a young age. :engel016:

Glenn
 
I've been simming since I was about 7 or 8. 21 now... yikes I'm starting to feel old! :isadizzy:

Haha Glenn, it is indeed an addiction. :monkies:
 
For me, my first sim experience started with MSFS 5.0, so it's been around 15 years for me that I've been simming. I always had an interest in planes since I was a kid, building models and the like, and once I discovered FS, I was hooked. I'm 39 now, and will be 40 in about a month and a half.
 
It's really a delight to see young people getting involved with flight simming. :applause: Sometimes I fear it will become the domain of us old f****. I started back in 1985. I upgraded my 4 Khz 8088 with an NEC V20 CPU chip which brought my computer to a screaming 8 Khz with 384K of RAM. That was FS3 which was pretty pitiful. FS4 was almost tolerable, but still absurdly two-dimensional. I'm 58 now and running FSX on a quad. Significant improvement. :ernae:
 
I started with this sim
Boeing_727_Simulator.gif

- and a bit later with FS2 (I'm 36 now). As you can see there have only been very minor improvements in grafics since then ;)
 
Notwithstanding some of the replies here, research has shown that the AVERAGE age of flightsimmers is over 50... and going UP..... :icon_lol:
 
I'm still young then....

edit: but forgot to tell about the past: first started simming on a silicon graphics workstation in the early '90's, no idea what program that was, but it looked a bit like FS4.
Later enjoyed shooting at everybody in European Air War, B-17 and CFS1, moved to FS9 and discovered paintbrushes...
No pilots license, but my first flight ever was in a Harvard (and the second in a Tiger Moth..)
 
Edging up on 60 now but started flightsimming on Bruce Artwick's Flight Simulator for 1982 IBM in 1984. I became a beta tester for Sublogic since I lived in Urbana-Champaign at the time.

I got my PPL in 1982 and Bruce wanted real pilots to test it. I was 34 at the time I started flightsimming, but I was accused of being 12 years old by my wife at the time. She thought it was silly for a grown man to get excited by a bunch of moving lines on a screen.

See picture 1 to get an idea of how it looked at the time. I could hardly wait for each new release. Proud to say I have been hooked ever since day one!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Flight_Simulator
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