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Old Airmen

There is a saying.

A young man will fight you just to fight. An Old man will kill you just to save the energy.

We do have a lot of older members. I guaranty us young pups will miss you all when it your time. But its not time yet.

Happy be-lated Birthday.
 
Oddly enough I am active on two forums with great age disparity; SOH and ProMods. The average age at ProMods is 15, although most of us on the staff are over 18 at least. :very_drunk:

At sixty-six, I'm evidently the ancient granther of the group. :triumphant:
 
rdaniell said:
My friend, that's an offer I believe I can refuse...:running: (I wish this thing ran in the other direction but, you get my meaning.)
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Let me implore you to reconsider.

Now where did I leave that chopped off horse head...?



n4gix said:
Oddly enough I am active on two forums with great age disparity; SOH and ProMods. The average age at ProMods is 15, although most of us on the staff are over 18 at least. :very_drunk:
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It's always odd popping into their forums and seeing your posts there. Like "Wait, Bill has a life outside of flight simulation?".

(And I'm still bummed that every new version of any map add-on requires the Scandinavia DLC.)
 
Bjoern said:
Let me implore you to reconsider. Now where did I leave that chopped off horse head...? QUOTE]

AH! Classic movie...."The Godfather." I've lost count of how many times I've watched it over the years since its original release.

Now for all you youngsters here at the Outhouse, there is one thing that seems to happen to our fluid memory as we get older. We tend to forget rather easily things that we have recently learned. I've just discovered that again this week at least for myself. I wanted to do a little revision to one of my sceneries. Well....darned if I hadn't almost completely forgotten how to use SketchUp, ADEX, and Model Converter. After several revisions, however, I finally have the changes I wanted to make. I never did get my night textures to look exactly like I wanted, though.

Now where did I put that payment I owed Bjoern? I hope that's not him knocking on my front door.

RD
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Now for all you youngsters here at the Outhouse, there is one thing that seems to happen to our fluid memory as we get older. We tend to forget rather easily things that we have recently learned. I've just discovered that again this week at least for myself. I wanted to do a little revision to one of my sceneries. Well....darned if I hadn't almost completely forgotten how to use SketchUp, ADEX, and Model Converter. After several revisions, however, I finally have the changes I wanted to make. I never did get my night textures to look exactly like I wanted, though.
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Sometimes, I wish I could forget the countless unfinished projects piling up on my hard drive. But instead, they are firmy lodged into the back corner of my brain like tumours. *Groan*
 
60 going on 38

(61 in December.) Two years ago the government (US) sequestration cost me my job, so I've been on a semi-permanent sabbatical since. Funny thing about a job....I'm busier now that I don't have one! I haven't flown FSX much since winter ended early here in Minnesota, but I look-in on you "old farts" every now and then. Keep up the good work OLD guys...stay healthy. (If you have any interest and get a chance, stop by and see my HO scale train blog / store at http://trainstore.j-traxtrains.com/ . This is one of the things that has been taking up my time. It is more blog than store right now, but I have lots of inventory still to add. Thanks.)

P.S. Wife says it's time to vacuum. See what I mean by busy. I guess I need to find my inner cowboy!
 
Average Age

WOW!!!! I'm not only a rookie but I'm a younger one! I've been trying to find a teenager around town to teach me some of the tricks in FSX and flight sims. Maybe I should raise my sights a couple of decades. I also took a ride at an early age (J-3 Cub, dirty, ragged, noisy and wonderful!) but that didn't translate to becoming a pilot. After 24 years service I do qualify for the "Crimson Hemorrhoids" from flying in various military aircraft without the usual passenger comforts.

I'm very proud and pleased to belong to such an outstanding group and I hope to someday know enough to contribute something useful or at least pretty.

Old Airman
 
UFO

You guys kind of make me feel old. I'm still kicking around here at age 87. Haven't posted much lately. I can't offer much to you jet jockeys
Still flying with FSX and belong to UFO, United Flying Octogenation.
Monday I'll be getting a new Computer a nice new Motherboard with a hot CPU, a superclocked video card and 16 MB of RAM. I can hardly wait.

 
Helldiver said:
You guys kind of make me feel old. I'm still kicking around here at age 87. Haven't posted much lately. I can't offer much to you jet jockeys
Still flying with FSX and belong to UFO, United Flying Octogenation.
Monday I'll be getting a new Computer a nice new Motherboard with a hot CPU, a superclocked video card and 16 MB of RAM. I can hardly wait.
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Helldiver, you must be the senior (naval) aviator on the forum. Damn glad that you are with us and look forward to many more years of your inputs to this site.
 
Helldiver said:
You guys kind of make me feel old. I'm still kicking around here at age 87. Haven't posted much lately. I can't offer much to you jet jockeys
Still flying with FSX and belong to UFO, United Flying Octogenation.
Monday I'll be getting a new Computer a nice new Motherboard with a hot CPU, a superclocked video card and 16 MB of RAM. I can hardly wait.
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HD! Good to see you. Hope all is well with you.
 
Old and Bold

Hats off to you, Old Airman:encouragement: Thank you for your service to this Country. At 77 I think flight sim has kept me younger. Has kept me out of the bars and off the streets. As a kid (about 4) I remember watching Lockheed test pilots putting the new P-38's through there paces flying over my house in Glendale, CA. In 1946 I remember seeing some of the first P-80's flying over Lynwood, CA. Then, my solo flight in an old Luscome 8A at 18, was 12 Dec 1956, what a thrill, flying out of an old dirt strip, Kenmar now Jabarra airfield near Wichita, KS. SEL PPL out of Gulfport, MS. Flights in T-33 and T-6 out of Mconnell AFB while in KSANG. 20 years in USAF as a Controller. The older I get the more I LOVE aircraft! SOH has given me a lot of knowledge about flying and even more important is all the FUN it's been with being on line with all you wonderful folks! Thank you all!

sbp.
 
Darn, don't know how I didn't get on this bandwagon earlier. Happy Belated Birthday to you Old Airman. :wavey:
72 here. First airplane ride for me was a Pan Am 'connie' - 1947 - New York to Frankfort, with stops in Gander and London.
 
(I needed a spreadsheet for this.)

For this thread...

Members stating their age: 50
Average age: 63.58 years
Age group 0-20: None
Age group 20-30: 3
Age group 30-40: None
Age group 40-50: 2
Age group 50-60: 7
Age group 60-70: 23
Age group 70-80: 13
Age group 80-240: 2
 
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