OT: The Average Simmer's Age...

I started with Bruces program too. 84? ....... don't remember. I'm 72 now. ........ If my math is right.
 
Shortly after I bought my IBM XT ... 1986, so lessee ... ummm 23 years of just simming.
 
jankees said:
what are you doing with my wife??
or are they all like that?
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Hey I gave her back as soon as I could! I got lucky...now I have one that will fly with me! txnetwife WOOOOHOOOO!
Ted

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Geez...I'm the new kid on the block. I started three or four years ago on FS 2004. I'm 53 now, but claim 39 at the outside (yeah...old enough to remember Jack Benny...sigh).

Jim
 
As my signature byline says, my first sim was the Link Trainer. My dad was a Civil Air Patrol volunteer and they had one at the facility. I was about seven then.

My first airplane flight was one or two years earlier with my dad and a CAP friend of his. I started flying while 16-17 and after college and AFROTC went to pilot training.

I started dabbling in Flight Sims in the early eighties. I remember boring almost to death a dinner guest by showing him flight sim on my IBM suitcase portable with its 7" yellow screen. I can still remember the little stick buildings. :icon_lol:

I got serious about flight simming around 2000 when I started flying myself for my business. I found FS-2000 to be a good way to practice business flights and possible approaches.

I lost my medical in 2003. Tried once to get it back but decided all the BS the FAA kept asking for wasn't worth it any longer. Ever since then flight simming has been my only form of flying. Although, I will get on an airliner when it is absolutely necessary and more than a 1000 miles from where I want to go.

I am 61 and will be 62 on Dec. 25th.
 
heywooood said:
: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?
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Dang I didn't see that it was your birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEYWOOOD!!

One day removed :)
 
Started building plastic models in 1958 at age 11 going on 12. Still build them. Was nearly 40 when my brother got the first Flight Simulator. Didn't do nothing for me. Only after he got FS98 did I become a dedicated simmer. I was 52 then. I'm 63 now and very well addicted to FS9 and FSX. :icon_lol:

It's a good indoor recreation for an old man and a great learning tool for men and women of all ages. If they used Flight Simulator to teach geography, I bet a lot more students would pay attention. Flight Simulator and Orbiter are two essential programs when I give seminars to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts locally.

Caz
 
I can't think of any other 'game' with an enthusiastic fanbase that spans such an age range, it's awesome.

Started at 11 years old with FS 2.0, and nearly failed grade 10 from doing IFR instead of homework. Still hooked 23 years later. :)

-Mike
 
If you combine Snuffy's and Cassie's post, that's me. :icon_lol:

Started building scale models in the 50's before I became a teenager. Started simming in the early 80's raight after we got our first PC for home.

--WH
 
Started with this:

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Hannah, my daughter is 8. She started simming February 2008... My competition, she flies better than me... I crash all the time, especially when a mountain or a building suddenly pops on my way.... I burn tires on landing and probably burned a dozen aircraft's belly....

I encourage her to this little learning how to fly on sim, and other kids (my friends kids who are interested)... Mark, who is also 8, loves flying as well, but has a very short temper when he could not let the aircraft do what he wanted to do....

This was taken at the Fantasy Of Flight ..... :applause:
 
Started in 1998, when i was 10 or so and still wanted to be a pilot... things changed and i ended up flying real world.. wait does a Parachute count as flying? first sim was Flight Sim 98.... ahhh Meigs... thems were the good days, IL2 (All expansions), Falcon 4.0, FS2000, FS2002,FS2004 and now FSX although my FSX Pc met an explosive end after blue screening me on a very bad day.... :icon_lol: yeah average age now of the simmer i'd put at around 50/52, and Lotus it's great to see the young and old working and flying together, gives a feeling of simming solidarity... :ernae:
 
I don't know ....
I don't remember ......
I don't ....... what was the question ???:pop4:
:ernae:

Italo
 
heywooood said:
Thank you, John :ernae:...just doing my part to bump up that average haha
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Sorry Heywood I didn't notice earlier Happy Birthday Amigo Hope it's your best one yet...here ya go I baked ya cake! :birthday2
Ted
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Started with wire frame mountains and and a couple of lines for the runway. Probably very early 80's. I am always looking forward to the latest state of the art release. Will be 76 in 2 weeks.

Tom
 
Chacha said:
Hannah, my daughter is 8. She started simming February 2008... My competition, she flies better than me... I crash all the time, especially when a mountain or a building suddenly pops on my way.... I burn tires on landing and probably burned a dozen aircraft's belly....

I encourage her to this little learning how to fly on sim, and other kids (my friends kids who are interested)... Mark, who is also 8, loves flying as well, but has a very short temper when he could not let the aircraft do what he wanted to do....

This was taken at the Fantasy Of Flight ..... :applause:
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Hey Chacha, I live in Tampa and drive past Fantasy Of Flight all the time
Is it worth the $$ to take a tour?

Here is a picture of the Connie outside FOF
Someone donated gallons of house paint to use on this bird....
 
Let's see. Actually flying ultralights came first, one of these type linked here, which is now a display in the EAA Museum. (Wow that can make you feel old when you find that out!)

http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/Eipper-Burgher%20Quicksilver%20MX-1.asp

I think it was FS3 or FS4 I started with. Favorites, surprised no one has mentioned these yet, definitely Red Baron and Red Baron II. Heavily played Aces over Europe and Aces Over Pacific. Apache the Combat Helicopter Flight Simulator, Tornado, Strike Commander, F-14 Fleet Defender, and any Jane's.

First plane I built was for FS5 was the Spirit of St. Louis. Posted 6-27-1996 on Flightsim.com at a whopping 663kb! It's still there! :icon_lol:

Enough about me...


<------- Age? Right about there, somewhere. :icon_lol:
 
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