FS forever?

PilatusTurbo

PilatusTurbo

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I don't know, this is something I've thought about a lot. I ran a review back in July, and really had a blast, and flew the balls off the simulator for it, too.

Since then, I haven't really flown at all. I've been starting to wonder if I'm kinda leaving it behind? I hope not, as I bought the Track IR right after that review, and have less than 2 hours of flight time with it. :d I've had long breaks in the past from FS, but never for more than a few months.

It's now been almost 5 months, and I can't quite find something new and interesting to bring me back for more.

I do kinda have an itch to get my FS9 reinstalled on my new more powerful rig, with Win 7, but I'm not sure what I'll do/fly when I do. I did install FSX, and it runs very nicely, but it doesn't work too well with my Track IR (It does work, just kinda weird), and you can't set your previous flight as your default! :d

I donno, what do y'all think? :ernae:
 
I seem to always find something to keep me in FS. I have several different installs.

I have been flying since i purchased FS2000 pro.

I am a student of aviation history, and i use the sime to help me get some experiance of what i study.

Though I do have other things I do as well.

I fly in in FS9, and CFS2.............both work well under Windows 7.

I hope you don't stop flying....it is a great hobby we have and a good stress manager.
 
I through myself into it. When I fly in the 1940's and 1950's, I use the maps and VORs. I use the Radio Direction Finding. Play around with it.....make it a challenge............
 
I come and go to FS9. Sometimes many months pass between visits. Recently though, I've been on it more, for what reason I really don't know. I'm in the home stretch of a Fiat G.59 series, that may be the reason, but who knows. I'm the same with online games. Discovered World of Warcraft last January, been playing that a lot, but recently not at all. Played EverQuest for years, but one day just up and quit as it had become a job rather than fun.

What the future holds in store, I really can't say, but.......
 
Yeah, I'm a WOW'er since March, and it's fun, but I take breaks on it, too. However, I'm just missin' something. I really love FS Maintenance for FS2002, that program made and kept you sharp. You could earn money, or brake your plane and have to pay for it. It was a simple program, too. None of the super fancy crap like today's mission/maintenance programs.

I donno, I just figured I'd start an interesting conversation on this topic. Maybe some of your guys' influence can get my flat 6 bangin' and poppin' again. :ernae:
 
I've been FS-ing since Fs4(way back in 1989).Aviation is in my blood so I guess FS is now too.
 
I agree, I love aviation and anything with wings and giant fans pushing or pulling them around. :d

However, I just seem to be missing some kind of spark that it used to have. Exploring used to be fun, but the Megascenery ruined that, because the rest of the world pretty much looks like a crappy cartoon compared to. Don't get me wrong, I love Megascenery, it's just too bad it all doesn't look like that.

And the lack of a direction or purpose doesn't help me. I did want to try Air Hauler, but refunded it after it just had issues and didn't quite work out.

Just trying to find some new ideas. Not necessarily Missions like FSX has, because once you've done them, you've done them.
 
another WOWer here. Warning to you guys who play WOW bad phishing email going around. If they don't trick you into giving them your account info, the mail has a dropper embedded that drops a back door on your pc. They then get your account info that way......my wife is dealing with that now on one of our accounts. Not fun.
 
So just don't open any email regarding WOW? Not a bad idea, and I never have. :d Sorry to hear the WOW account maelstrom. Those things can get valuable depending on the gear and char types.

Anyway, back to FS land. :d
 
PilatusTurbo said:
So just don't open any email regarding WOW? Not a bad idea, and I never have. :d Sorry to hear the WOW account maelstrom. Those things can get valuable depending on the gear and char types.

Anyway, back to FS land. :d
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I have been with FS since the Nova Logic days and despite having earned a real PPL and owning part of a real PA32-301 I am still flying on the PC.

Occasionally you go through spells where other things grab your attention and firing up the sim just doesn't seem to have that same draw.

One little "addon" that keeps it interesting is FSEconomy.com

First off it is free .... so trying it out doesn't come with the usual caveats of payware stuff such as getting your money back if you don't like it.

You start out with a little cash on hand and a pilots license....then look at the jobs board at the airport of your choice. You then rent an airplane and fly the jobs to their destination to get paid.
Once you have earned a bit of cash you can buy your own airplane and with it you can make more money on the jobs but also have to pay for it's maintenance.

While it is not perfect I think it does fill the giant hole left by the missing FS Maintenance nicely.

Stefan
 
Been hooked since EAW and shortly thereafter CFS. There was a time I thought about retiring from the scenery making, but then came a request and..........well, I'm still here mud moving, sometimes at a slower pace.

Cees
 
I have been flightsimming since FS2002 and took it more seriously since FS9, When I found out that you could add scenery and aircraft I was even more hooked.

I have not flown for a month as I needed to take a break from it, the trouble is I live in a small village and in the winter there is not a lot to do and watch TV and as it happens they are still repeating the same programmes that were on when I last took a break!

I understand the comments about megascenery, I have the same feelings when you land at a small airfield without and addons.

My last flights have been around the UK, but I have just reinstalled tongass and misty fjords and glacier bay, hopefully bush flying around alaska will get me hooked again.

Happy days
 
Been 'at it' for long before MS existed and can't imagine a life without it really. Before the computer age I did 'flight sims', or rather combat sims, with fish nets suspended from the ceiling of my bedroom.

So, that makes it a 45+ years of simming, really. There's ALWAYS something new, something you haven't done yet.... and after a while you'll also miss the things you HAVE done, when not flying for a while ! :icon_lol:

With the advent of the Internet now there's also the community and networking aspect added to the hobby, which is great !
 
I've been flying since CFS 1 first came out. I've had a few spells of feeling a bit burned with it, but I can usually find something to reflag my interest.
 
I have a feeling that most simmers 'just fly' without a lot of purpose and with not much motivation to learn the finer points (it's too easy to plug in the GPS and autopilot and GO). We seem to like acquiring new planes but after a few looks they begin to languish in the hangar. We also tend to find a favourite class, age, shape of aircraft and don't explore what else the 100 years of powered flight can bring.

Flying is a very complex activity and there are so many parts to test your skills and enhance the experience... not all of which have to be combined every time but all add to the knowledge base for future use. Take a look in the (badly mis-named) Around the World Race Forum... the current event is very much a solo flight experience but shared with others, can be competitive and if you choose... requires you to learn long-range navigation, flight planning (no GPS:jump:), fuel/altitude planning, ADF navigation, wind drift and a lot about actual performance of a variety of aircraft and tosses in some interesting history lessons at the same time. No, it's NOT flat-out, head-to-head racing (Reno style).

There are a lot of other 'events' that come up to challenge a variety of the skills involved in aviation and some have gotten a lot of people involved in the 'sharing' aspect of flight (not just playing with plane parts). Online flight is not required, but can be an added value as well.

We'll all have our 'comfort zone' to fall back on for that quick dose of simming, but there's so much more out there... I can't imagine it becoming boring (even after my 30+ years of real-world aviation experience)

Rob
 
Yeah, see, this is why I started this thread. I love hearing everyone's thoughts about this, and to learn I'm not the only one a bit burnt out here and there. Galahad, that's great stuff there. Kinda reminds me of when I decided to sim more seriously, actually learning the fine tuning and performance aspects of flying.

I enjoy reading the ideas, and some if it is giving me some juice. :d Also, I did discover my girl about a year and half ago, but I was still simmin' like a crackhead back then. :d LOL
 
Ahh....a classic case of FS9 withdrawl :D

I've been there myself recently actually, and am just getting back to my old ways. I do a lot of flying in the real world, which is a HUGE discouragement. Whenever you go fly the real thing, FS kinda seems ridiculous. However, trust me on this one: JUST START FLYING AGAIN. You will, within only a few hours, be back to your old ways.

Joe
 
I've flown FS98, 2000, 2002, and now 2004. I'll probably not be "upgrading" to FSX as I have far too much money invested in FS9 to have to purchase it all again. It seems that FSX was a bit of a rushed job with lots of service packs and other stuff needed, only to find that certain addons only work with SP1, and not acceleration etc :173go1: :rolleyes:.

I'll be flying in FS9 till it no longer works I guess!
 
Maybe what you need are a few good addon planes to excercise that Track IR a bit. The Samdim Tu-114 set is absolutely fantastic, with the ability to drop down into the navigator/bombardier compartment and have a look out the nose!

And as far as push-button flying goes, well, isn't that the way most airliners are flown anyway? While I'm definitely not into spending 45 minutes preflight punching stuff into an FMC, I still like to be able to take off and then let the artificial brain take over when I'm flying something like a triple-seven.

On the other hand, when I have something that flies easily by hand like the Quest or, well, anything from Uncle Milton, then it becomes fun to practice that throttle and trim stuff to see how level I can keep the flight without having to use autopilot.

Another fun distraction is to play "How Low Can You Go." Take off in a go-fast piston pusher like one of DCC's Lighnings from KGCN and head north to the Canyon. Once over the rim, you drop in and look for the river. Once you spot the water, turn left and follow it to Lake Mead. How long it takes depends on what kind of plane you take. The Lightning can take less than an hour, but something like a Super Deke can take, oh, just a bit longer.
 
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