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OT: The Average Simmer's Age...

Hey Papab!

Fantasy Of Flight entrance was $25, I guess, they have senior discount which I did not qualify yet.... Short of a few inches :icon_lol: they honor AAA discounts as well.... There are Simming stations there.... A lot of kids, from as young as 5 and adults as old as 95, maybe, come and visit.... and sim.... and look around and learn about restoring aircraft... There are a lot to see... very educational to see the history of these aircraft...

http://sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=21768&highlight=Fantasy+Flight

Attach is the schedule... (oops sorry guys... back to the topic) :pop4:
 
:applause:HAPPY B-DAY HEYWOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry I missed you yesterday bud!!!!

I started about 10 yrs ago with Commanche on a Mac(it was a slide show) then I bought a desent PC and got a Novalogic/Jane's bundle with Mig29/F-15,then I bought Janes F/A-18 SuperHornet and I was HOOKED!!!:ernae:
45yrs young now!
 
I´m 20 now, don´t exactly know how old I was when I started... must have been some years now, I guess I started in the later part of the 90ies...

When I was about 8 I had my first own R/C plane... An old electric powered motor glider, with V-Tail... Went down when I couldn´t see that I was going down allready at about 400 feet, pushed a little more and that was when the wings decided they were old enough to go their own ways...
 
Started at 7, with good old Flight Unlimited II. Then moved on to the arcade game Crimson Skies (first version) which was rather buggy but a lovely game overall. That's where I got my love for old combat aircraft from. Then CFS3, eventually moving on to FSX...

18 now, will be 19 within about three months.
 
Oh dear.... I started simming before some of you were even at the yoghurt stage ;)

The first simulator I sat in was a Link simulator around 40 years ago and I was "Eagleskinnering" even then. (I had the "plotter" digging trenches along the map table and the instructor saying things like "You are NOT a submarine!")

But get me up in a plane or a sim, then my years disappear and I am still a teen with the wind in my feathers. You younger simmers have sooo much to enjoy and look forward to and I am already at the popcorn stage.

:)
 
First flight sim was way back in 1984...don't recall the name of it. It had one plane. Took two joysticks to fly it on my Radio Shack Color Computer II with 16K memory, a floppy drive the size of a Beagle, and a dot matrix printer the size of a Ford Pinto. I was 15 and had a headful of the most beautiful near-black hair.

Now I am 40 with a headful of some near-black hair and a lot of near-silver hair...but my back is covered in a luxurious carpet of the blackest hair you have ever laid your eyes upon LOL! Getting old SUCKS!

I now fly FS2004 mostly, some CFS2 when the mood hits. I think I spend more time painting and tweaking planes than I spend flying them...so I really don't have a flight simulator, I have an Aircraft Maintenance Simulator.

OBIO
 
Don't remember the year I started but it was with a 486 cp and Air Warriors2 after that most of the combat sims till I got FS98 and the rest of them and now flying FSX. Was a real world pilot for a will till it got to expensive to do it just for fun. I'm 73 now and still doing it every day.:icon_lol:
 
looking back its all kind of fuzzy now:isadizzy: but I started I believe in 1984...22 years old ( I am now 47 so that is 25 years of simming ......if my math is right. My computers were always slow, I never had the money to get a computer that could run flight sim the way it was intended until now. Still have all my programs tucked away in a box except the first one that I gave away with my commodore 64 (wish I could get it back now).

Jim
 
I went over to a friend's house to play football one night when I was 15, noticed a box for CFS1 on a desk in his house (which I had never heard of before) and it hasn't been the same since. :rolleyes:
 
I'm only 51 years old, but sometimes I still feel 16 ;)

Started with Red Baron and F29 Retaliator, switched to European Air War, tried CFS but preferred EAW, but when CFS2 was released went there, disliked and abandoned CFS3 and switched quite a while to IL2, moved to FS9 simultaneously, I fly FSX as well and made a switch back to a WW-I combat flightsim, but now Rise of Flight.

Cheers,
Huub
 
Commodore 64 for me, though the first flight simulator I was truly obsessed with was on an Amiga 500. Forget the name of it though... I'm only 26 now, so must have been about 8 or 9 at the time. Growing up an Air Force brat was really nice though...lots of real planes to go see.
 
Aviation/Simming

A friend loaned me FS2000 when I bought my first home computer 7 years ago, within weeks I had purchased FS2002 and have not looked back(CFS3, LOMAC, FS2004, FSX). I have worked in aviation as an avionics technician for 20+ years but now am off on long-term disability so the sim really helps me stay engaged in my favorite interest, aircraft of all shapes and sizes.

Regards, Rob:ernae:<-that's root beer for the young fellers.
 
Started in 1986 at age 26 with MSFS for Macintosh (the "fat" Mac, top-end model with 512k of RAM and an external floppy drive). Was thrilled to see that red package on the shelves - there was no warning about its coming out and I was convinced there'd never be a version of FS for the Mac.

I joined AVSIG at CompuServe and got together with another member on what might have been one of the early "networked" flights. By agreement, we entered local weather (by hand), then flew from our homes to Martha's Vineyard, met in CompuServe chat, then logged out, relaunched FS and flew home.

You could barely get the real pilots at AVSIG to talk about FS then. I once suggested they create a section for sim pilots and got turned down - they were afraid it would draw too many nonpilots into the forum.

Switched to the PC with FS 4.0 in 1989. Been simming in one form or another ever since, except for a brief hiatus around FS 2000.

I'll turn 50 in February and will probably celebrate with a Cub flight someplace, probably in the FTX Pacific Northwest.
 
My first "civvy" flight sim was Solo Flight on the C64... 1985 or thereabouts? I also had Dambusters on 5.25" FD, F-19 Stealth Fighter on two C90 cassettes (AAARGH! Finding a
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work with!!!!), Gunship, etc. Finally worked out what an ILS was using Thalion's A320 series on the Amiga and joined the MSFS world with FS4 and 5, pretty much within weeks of each other. Tried to make the paper plane when Flight Sim Flight Shop was released. Failed. Tried to make a Jet Provost when FS2002 was released. Failed. Gave up trying to make aircraft.

But I made a church over the last week! :wiggle: (Mainly on Monday because it was the day after my birthday and I refused to get up for work, so booked it as annual leave...)

Got my PPL about twelve or so years ago, medical ran out about four years ago, got my license signed back off about two months ago. Currently wondering what the blithering flippitts to do with it, other than go around in circles for an hour in a hired C152, because that's about all I can afford.

This dratted sim keeps stealing all my money! :173go1::engel016::icon_lol:
 
First sims: Top Gun: Fire At Will, Grand Prix 2, FS4 in 1996.
Then FS98, FS2002, FS9, FSX plus some military sims.

Age: See left. 1986 was a "shining" year. Ha.
 
Started with FS5.0, kept upgrading from there. Obtained PPL ASEL @ 20. Became air traffic controller at 24. Now 26.
 
I'm like Dain Arns

I also started with FS3 or FS4. Even earlier, with the B/W WW1 combat theatre in FS. Heavily played Aces over Europe, B17 Flying Fortres (big time:jump:), Apache, Falcon 4.0 and GP 1 and 2.

First thing I built was for FS2000: a panel including an updated plane, gauge set and flightmodel for the DC2 UIVER in 2000 (Not all by myself, I must add, I had a lot of help from some great FS folks).
I wanted to fly a DC2 from Londen to Melbourne. What a heroic and historic tale that race was, as was the history of the developement of air travel between the 2 world wars. Actually , it's history that really got me started on FS.
I continued to work on the DC2 for FS9 and recently for FSX. Ofcourse with a great team I can call friends now.:medals::medals::icon_lol::icon_lol:
I have to say, I didn't make it to Melbourne yet :kilroy:

Cheers, Rob
 
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