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OT - Besides flight sim
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Mr.Mugel
SOH-CM-2024
Besides flightsim, I enjoy bicycling, I use it to get to work, about 14 miles every day, and if the weather isn´t too bad, I take another tour of 10-30 miles in the evenings. Gets me to about 5000 miles a year... Don´t have a car, bicycle is my main vehicle.
Sometimes when I want things a little faster, I tend to use my Kawasaki ZR-7, but that´s mostly on sundays just for the joy of riding!
Another hobby of mine is R/C flying, using a 55" Ultimate with a Laser 100 four stroke engine and since recently an Align T-Rex 250 18" diameter electric heli, mainly for indoor flying and flying around the house on calm days.
Sometimes when I want things a little faster, I tend to use my Kawasaki ZR-7, but that´s mostly on sundays just for the joy of riding!
Another hobby of mine is R/C flying, using a 55" Ultimate with a Laser 100 four stroke engine and since recently an Align T-Rex 250 18" diameter electric heli, mainly for indoor flying and flying around the house on calm days.
NSS
Charter Member
Flying Rc aircraft.
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Usually WW1 types. But anything that is airworthy at the time.
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Usually WW1 types. But anything that is airworthy at the time.
NSS
Charter Member
On the computer...waiting for Shogun 2: Total War due in March !
Reading ... just finished Bomber Command by Max Hastings, and now in the middle of Mark R Peattie's Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power 1909 - 1941.
Fiddling around with my Fender Stratocaster, and pretending I'm rock aristocracy.
Thanking goodness I don't own a television.
Reading ... just finished Bomber Command by Max Hastings, and now in the middle of Mark R Peattie's Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power 1909 - 1941.
Fiddling around with my Fender Stratocaster, and pretending I'm rock aristocracy.
Thanking goodness I don't own a television.
Interesting topic, I am into far too many games for the PC Mostly Flight / combat type games of one sort or another, I try most that I find in the stores. Right now I have (beside FS 9 & FSX) XPlane 9, IL2 1946, CFS 2 & 3, Hawx, DCS Blackshark, Lock On Modern Air Combat + Flaming Cliffs 2, X3 Reunion & Terran Conflict, and a couple more I rarely use. When you add in all the Mods it is quite a varied flight colledtion. I also have various other FPS and Sims, Mass Effect 2, Wolfinstein 3D, Silent Hunter 3 & 4 - my god it is really time I started that 12 step program - My name is Mike and I am addicted to computer games!
Aside from computers in general I have been known to do a bit of wood carving - mostly walking sticks, but I enjoy releif carving as well, and I occationally slip in a few hours here and there doing family history.
Aside from computers in general I have been known to do a bit of wood carving - mostly walking sticks, but I enjoy releif carving as well, and I occationally slip in a few hours here and there doing family history.
grunau_baby
SOH-CM-2026
Let´s see:
- Reading, mainly Graphic Novels and (literature) Mangas
- Lancia (italian cars in general) and car-design
- architecture and art-history (I love big books with good photographs)
- Musik (BIG), mainly hunting for rare independant productions all over the world via internet.
- webdesign (mainly only one leftover customer from freelance-days, who enjoys a free service where I can freely play out my creativity)
- Languages (currently planing on learning Japanese being my first non-european language...will see if I will endure...)
- eating tasty meals;-))))
Regards
Alex
- Reading, mainly Graphic Novels and (literature) Mangas
- Lancia (italian cars in general) and car-design
- architecture and art-history (I love big books with good photographs)
- Musik (BIG), mainly hunting for rare independant productions all over the world via internet.
- webdesign (mainly only one leftover customer from freelance-days, who enjoys a free service where I can freely play out my creativity)
- Languages (currently planing on learning Japanese being my first non-european language...will see if I will endure...)
- eating tasty meals;-))))
Regards
Alex
Quixoticish
Charter Member
Reading (a mix of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English along with Science Fiction, Modernism, Post Modernism and Retro-Futurism).
Martial Arts (Iaido, Kenjutsu, Jujutsu, and Kobudo primarily).
Archery (Mediaeval long and short bows and historical re-curve).
Gaming (aside from FSX I enjoy a lot of massively multiplayer games, and I also enjoy the odd blast on the PS3).
Much more such a cinema, philosophy, history, languages (currently learning Swedish), Astronomy, Physics, but the above are my primary leisure activities at the moment.
Martial Arts (Iaido, Kenjutsu, Jujutsu, and Kobudo primarily).
Archery (Mediaeval long and short bows and historical re-curve).
Gaming (aside from FSX I enjoy a lot of massively multiplayer games, and I also enjoy the odd blast on the PS3).
Much more such a cinema, philosophy, history, languages (currently learning Swedish), Astronomy, Physics, but the above are my primary leisure activities at the moment.
Bruce Thompson
Charter Member
Besides Flightsim,
Photography, Astronomy, Watch collecting and restoration, Holidays in the Austrian Mountains.View attachment 29133
Photography, Astronomy, Watch collecting and restoration, Holidays in the Austrian Mountains.View attachment 29133
fallenphoenix1986
SOH-CM-2022
I've been skydiving out at Strathallan and St. Andrews since I was 16, though not as often as I'd like due to the fantastic scottish weather. Almost nine years and only 400 jumps... Also building a Hummel Bird with a couple of Uni mates, very slow progress on that one though. Might have something worh showing in a few months. That kinda sums it up aviation wise.
I've also got a bit of a thing for languages, Russian and Japanese just now though should probably make a start on German since I'm heading out there year after next for a year.
Sort of handy in the kitchen, Itallian and asian, mainly Chinese with some Thai and Japanese ocasionally.
Started playing guitar about 10 years back, got a nice little collection of Gibsons and Marshalls to tootle about with.
Dont really have as much time to myself as I'd like, back at Uni for round two after developing a visual defect that put an end to my flying career.
Craig
I've also got a bit of a thing for languages, Russian and Japanese just now though should probably make a start on German since I'm heading out there year after next for a year.
Sort of handy in the kitchen, Itallian and asian, mainly Chinese with some Thai and Japanese ocasionally.
Started playing guitar about 10 years back, got a nice little collection of Gibsons and Marshalls to tootle about with.
Dont really have as much time to myself as I'd like, back at Uni for round two after developing a visual defect that put an end to my flying career.
Craig
c87
Charter Member
WWII Jeeps. I've restored one with another one in the works. I'm in the MVPA which is a military vehicle collector's organization. I also like collecting aviation art, mainly for the signatures of the veterans. LOL, I have too many for the little amount of wall space that I have!
kilo delta
Charter Member 2015
Drinkin'
Cussin'
Fightin'
And that's generally DUE to Flight simming!!!;p
Cussin'
Fightin'
And that's generally DUE to Flight simming!!!;p
Navy Chief
Senior Member
Oh, now THAT made me miss my 1945 Willys MB. Had to sell it to pay a divorce lawyer back in 1999. I have 1967 M274 Mule now, but will always miss my MB. Before that, I had a 1952 M38, that I'd bought from Rick Ropkey. The MB was bought from a collector near Victoria, B.C. It was beautiful. I also had been a member of MVPA, but not any more. My MB had a reproduction 30 cal. machine gun on a pedestal, and it was propane/O2 fired. No bullets, but one heck of a noise it would make. Also had a restored M100 trailer I pulled behind it, complete with canvas top. Gorgeous.
NC
jankees
SOH-CM-2026
Me, I ride my bike:
I teach geology at university, here's part of my classroom (look full scale):
I enjoy my daughters Catalina and Larissa,
I collect and drink wine, I enjoy the outdoors, on foot and with wheels, since were talking about MB's (though this is something else altogether):
I teach geology at university, here's part of my classroom (look full scale):
I enjoy my daughters Catalina and Larissa,
I collect and drink wine, I enjoy the outdoors, on foot and with wheels, since were talking about MB's (though this is something else altogether):
Bjoern
worst developer ever
I'd say "developing stuff for flightsim", but that's more of an addictive chore than an enjoyable hobby.
Staring at a screen, other things I like is other flightsims like Strike Fighters or IL-2, slow paced or round based strategy like Sins Of A Solar Empire or Civilization and reading whatever the internet offers.
Out-of-the-house activities include cycling, jogging and socializing, the latter mostly coinciding with drinking.
Staring at a screen, other things I like is other flightsims like Strike Fighters or IL-2, slow paced or round based strategy like Sins Of A Solar Empire or Civilization and reading whatever the internet offers.
Out-of-the-house activities include cycling, jogging and socializing, the latter mostly coinciding with drinking.
I play soccer and lacrosse. I used to play baseball and basketball too, but time is scarce nowadays. I also ride dirt bikes, fish, kyak, water ski, and wakeboard. I enjoy riding jetskis and boating. And tubing. I am beginning working towards my pilot's liscense this summer. I also enjoy watching sports on the television, the history channel, and military channel. Oh, and I also enjoy shooting.