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Should I stop downloading?

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huub vink

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This morning I when through all the aircrafts, cars, helicopter and even boats which I have installed in FSX. And I must confess there is a huge amount which I hardly have used and most likely will never use again.

There are only a few aircrafts I fly regularly. It will not surprise you but these are WWII warbirds in most cases and some other aircraft like Dave Garwood's Auster and Dragon Rapide, Uncle Milton's stuff and several aircrafts by Piglet. And when I fly these aircraft, in most cases, I will fly them with the same liveries.

So can somebody please explain me why I am always lurking around to see whether there are new models or repaints? And when there are; I can't stop myself from downloading them?

A puzzled,
Huub

One of my more regular rides.....
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Ahh, the dreaded. . ."I just need one more" bug Huub, lol. It's really bad when you realize that the ones you fly the most often are the freeware airplanes and not the payware ones you paid hundreds to get, lol.:salute:
 
I have an odd variation of this disease - I scan the download sites every day, and download everything that looks interesting (at the time), but hardly ever get around to installing any of it. I have no idea why I do this...

Jerry
 
I don't have that problem at all. Nope, not in the slightest. Ooooh, where did you get that RAAF paint for the Beaufighter? That's nice, I gotta have it! :icon_lol:
 
Same here
"My name is Andrew..and I'm a download-aholic!"

I guess it maybe because we might want to fly it one day
 
That's what's great about being a "sim" pilot. You can fly aircraft you probably wouldn't even get to touch in real life.
 
Huub, I use to have the very same symptoms. I was a possessive-compulsive downloading addict. Anything that looked interesting I had to have mothballed. Until recently I had an eye opener. Here in the states we have reality shows. One of them addresses hoarding. That's me..well, it was..in a flight sim sense.
....Something that curbs myself doing that I found is doing repaints.

By the way, what aircraft is that you're displaying? A Bristol Beaufighter? It looks very nicely done. Must be one of your repaints I'm guessing :salute:
 
Hello-
I agree with all of the above...
1) There's nothing wrong with us...(twitch, twitch)
2) We're enjoying something that we may never get to see/do/touch in real life... be it a Hughes XF-11, RCAF Voodoo, Mustang, Demoiselle, flight over Nepal, whatever...

For me, the flying is only part of the attraction... I look at it like having my own little virtual aircraft museum, where all the exhibits are flyable... if it catches my fancy, I download it- maybe even attempt a 'restoration' once in awhile... -Mike Z.
 
I have the same thing going on...cruise the usual suspects (flightsim.com, simviation, et cetera) nearly every day, looking for what's new; install it, fly it around the patch couple three times, then put it in reserve. If it's really cool it stays for a week or so in active. There are a few on my 'do not reserve' list but those are few and far between. I'm not sure if it's a disease or compulsion or what. I'm not willing to admit it's a problem...at least until I start running out of space on my hard drive. Oh well, guess I'll just have to live with it as I have for the last 10+ years. :monkies:

Oddly enough I don't have any variants of the Bristol Beaufighter in my virtual hangars...that's a very nice Beau you got there Huub...might have to do some looking around...:running:
 
And i thought it was only me ....
My FSX instalation is now at 165GB ... i think i really use 30Gb of it. Go figure!
 
downloading is not the problem I think, it's the fact that we do not delete enough!

(currently at 86Gb...)
 
jankees said:
downloading is not the problem I think, it's the fact that we do not delete enough!

(currently at 86Gb...)
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How right, you are, Jankees !!!!!!
And then when I finally decide to delete one ...... I end up storing it in a corner of my backup HD..... in case of future use
I think is a case of FS overdose
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Italo
 
I occasionally clean out any unused add-ons and think twice before I download anything new.

There isn't much stuff out there that fits my portfolio anyways.
 
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