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Reply #15 - Oct 31^st, 2010 at 3:45pm

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From the M$ point of view anything that isn't their product is of the Dark Side...
Red Five going in Wink

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #16 - Oct 31^st, 2010 at 4:06pm

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ozzy72 wrote on Oct 31^st, 2010 at 3:45pm:

From the M$ point of view anything that isn't their product is of the Dark Side...
Red Five going in Wink

I still remember that episode from the Simpson ,Unfortunately I didn't find it in english ,but you know they buy everything that thread them and then...you have got to see this episode ,its a classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6HrUdr3xEc

...and yes its like that world from George Lucas and we are the rebels Smiley

Venezuela

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Reply #17 - Oct 31^st, 2010 at 6:08pm

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If I would have had 100 Euro for everytime I got bored with FS or gaming in common, I'd be a rich man by now.... But as always, you get back to it. Just wait for a while. I haven't finished a flight in a long time. Started a flight yesterday, flew for 5 or 10 minutes and got thinking; What the h3ll I'm a doing here, sitting behind my desk, with a stupid piece of plastic in front of me, when I could be doing something useful. So I shut down all of FS, got my little daughter by the hand, kissed my wife goodbye and went for a milkshake. One day when she is all grown up (or at least at an age where she can entertain herself), I'll be roaring around in the virtual skies again.

Carlo Wink

PS Somehow I never get bored with SimViation. I wonder why...

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snippyfsxer wrote on Oct 31^st, 2010 at 3:24pm:

In Europe people get to retire. In America, you are obligated to work until you keel over of a cardiac arrest.

It won't take long for that to happen here too. Retirement age in Holland went up to 67... Woohoo only 27 years to go Cry

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Reply #18 - Oct 31^st, 2010 at 6:53pm

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It seems like a pretty common theme, and I fall into this category as well: People who talk Flight Simulator, but rarely fly Flight Simulator. I do the same thing. I start up FS, fly a circuit, and then I'm done.
Setting up a new plane if FS is a lengthy process for me. I have to custom map all the commands to my hardware. I have to set up eyepoints, etc. Then, since I'm only interested in Payware planes with sometimes 100s of pages of manuals, then I actually have to sit down and learn it. Often times, instead of doing that, I find myself back online browsing around for the next plane to add to my Hangar!!! Strangely though, I guess because I'm picky, I have a surprisingly small number of planes.

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Reply #19 - Oct 31^st, 2010 at 9:32pm

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Flight sim lost it's fascination for me when I took my first flying lesson. That was about five years ago. I guess I felt that it wasn't real enough any more. Since then, my sim flying has been limited to just half an hour or hour here and there. Maybe a short cross country using actual paper charts, or doing silly things like flying through a canyon. Certain things still bring great satisfaction, like a "perfect" landing (which is harder to do in the sim than for real IMO) or navigating VFR and ending up right where I'm supposed to be. I guess what I'm saying is to put it into perspective, take a break, come back when you want to and do the things that you enjoy most about it. That is what it is for after all, enjoyment.

A&P Mechanic, Rankin Aircraft 78Y

Aircraft are naturally beautiful because form follows function. -TB

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Reply #20 - Nov 1^st, 2010 at 5:18pm

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ozzy72 wrote on Oct 31^st, 2010 at 3:28pm:

I've recently gone over to the Dark Side, I've brought X-Plane 9. The graphics aren't as good as FSX but the game play is incredibly realistic and suddenly I'm focusing on sharpening my skills on a variety of planes and being an aerobatic God in as close to realistic settings as possible.
Remember I'm a nutter.... scary or what? Grin

Not necessarily so... you can wind up with "Sorry, you're overqulaified" to most every job application, if you get a response at all... and forced to vie for assistance no matter how physically able you are.

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Reply #21 - Nov 2^nd, 2010 at 12:52am

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Since the day I took my first flying lesson to 2 years ago when I joined this forum...I have not been bored enough to ever consider giving up or stop flying sim.

As a matter of fact, I try to rack up as many hours as I can in FS like im a real pilot...since I cant be one yet. Try looking into FSP, that got me even more hooked. Cool

About 400+ logged hours...im so proud Cheesy

Sincerely, Tyler

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http://www.phoenixva.org/index.php/profile/view/PVA1557

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