Goodly morning all...

As I sit here sipping on my second cup of percolated coffee made from the coffee beans the old girl buys at the A&P Store and grinds to her selection, something got nagging at me...

One of our teenage grandson's asked me why I was waiting to purchase a new computer and a motion unit that it sits on.

He told me on the weekend I was a procrastinator (Someone who postpones work especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness).
Me a procrastinator?  Humbug...I bet he can't even spell the word.   

He has his Glider Pilot Licence and is working on his Private Licence through the Air Cadet Program.  He still has several years before he can be a licenced driver of a motor vehicle...

Loves computers and computer games...well don't all teenagers.  He uses FSX at home but his parents, one being our son are both very very strict with their children and the childrens times are very much regulated between studies, sports, organizations (Scouts, Air Cadets...etc...family and personal time. 

I remind our children sometimes that our grandchildren are not in the military and they need to be kids, will leave it at that...
Don't worry folks grandfather seems to stick his nose in with all his children when it comes to our grandchildren...the old girl is worse than I am...

Well this young buck asked me several good questions on the weekend about why I did not buy payware along with getting the new computer system.

My answer was I was waiting to see what comes about with this new Microsoft Flight which I think will be in the stores for Christmas 2011.
Flight should be much more realistic and I want everything designed to work with that program just like this electronic gizmo was designed only for FSX and Vista.

I can not see spending money on something now which may not work with the program I want six months from now.

Well, our grandson thought for a moment and then responded.

Gramps he said, when FS98, FS2000, FS2002, FS2004 came out you said they were only games and you used them for practicing your IFR work and procedures.

Now you have FSX and it has turned into a hobby for you as well a learning tool and grandma say's you spend a lot of time communicating on the computer with a lot of other old geezers who have nothing better to do with their time...

So much for Simviation and you lot...

Well I explained as one gets older and can not do the sports activities they used to do, maybe the old girl and I will not renew our aviation medicals, after all it will be close to eight decades we are slowly closing in on and not even sure how long we shall keep our driving licenses so we both need something to fill in the time.

So yes, the electronic gizmo and FSX have become a hobby of sorts.

The folks I communicate with on the electronic gizmo are very knowledgeable folks from all walks of life who have banned together because of their love of aviation, real or simulated. 
The forum is called Simviation they belong too and some of them are actual real aviators.

I shall ask your father if he will let you have some time to look at the forum, I tried to get him involved but he is just too busy aviating.

Perhaps in the fall of the year gramps was his reply, got to go to Air Cadet Camp again this year...it is going to be a great summer again...

Well I got my amunition stored for the little beggar now when I see him again...

The last two days I was having trouble getting a scenery download to work and two members of Simviation answered my post and low and behold I have more Freeware Scenery that works great.

So Payware I do not need right now for FSX as long as we have wonderful folks out there contributing to this fabulous hobby, game or learning tool.

Simviation is a medium, well regulated and respected.  The membership is much like the gang of Old Retired Rocking Chair Flying Geezers who gather around the Bull Shit Table on the weekend at the local bugsmasher field to dissect aviation in all it's forms. 
Giving and receiving freely information and assistance regarding simulated aviation or the real thing is what it is all about folks, and it can be found right here at Simviation making this electronic gizmo and forum a wonderful Hobby, Game and Learning Tool...

Have a Great Day...

   

Thanks Larry...one never knows what will come out of some of their mouths...I think kids today are growing up too fast.

When I was about his age we all swam in the river during the summer, swung out over the water from a rope and an old tire, sat on tire tubes to go down the rapids just north of where they live now and played pranks on our older brothers and sisters...

I guess some of our grandchildren still do that...     

Our parents never gave us too many chores, a few but not many until we became teenagers...

Hi "H"

You keep the rubber side down...
and
The shiny side up...

      

And just out of curiosity, Flying Trucker, I have nothing better to do than FS and repainting, does that make me an old geezer too? 'Cause I just turned twelve exactly one month before the date of this post.

Ah! Thanks for helping clear that up!

And by the way, what kind of geezer would a twelve year old be?  Barely-old?  Still-wet-behind-the-ears-old?  Whipper-snapper-old?

And an interesting thing for you to know Flying Trucker...  Another definition of Humbug is a mint flavored candy!

That was a very fine piece you wrote there sir.  So much so that I read it twice!

H wrote on Jul 10^th, 2011 at 5:03pm:

Afraid you lost me there H.

Dog year converter ---> http://www.onlineconversion.com/dogyears.htm

I don't know what H just said, but I do know one thing that I think might make it a bit difficult for you all .  You see, the problom is, dog years are not a constant, the length of the dog year changes as the dog gets older, with many more changes than the link hagar posted says. And due to that, not only might it make it difficult, it may well make it impossible, especially with all the millions of dogs and puppies in the world.

Flying Trucker wrote on Jul 11^th, 2011 at 8:46am:


Club508 wrote on Jul 10^th, 2011 at 8:03pm:

    LMAO...right on Steve...

U4EA wrote on Jul 11^th, 2011 at 10:18pm:

Just out of curiosity, what on Earth are dog years based on?!?!?!?

The average lifespans?
The average running speeds?
The average height or weight increase rate?

reply to H: And H, I still don't know what a solar year is or how you did your math, but if I understood it at age twelve thats good enough for me!!!

Goodly afternoon all...

The old girl and I just got home from the large mall in Belleville, Ontario where we purchased several items we could not get here.

On the way home we had to drive through the Canadian Forces Base which is where several of our grandchildren are for the summer camp.

Today will set record highs here in Ontario and the temperature will reach one hundred degrees plus or better by midday with no relief in sight for another week or so.

The Land Rover purred along with the air conditioner on low keeping us very comfortable.

The old girl saw them first, several flights of Air Cadets in uniform drilling on a hard surface parade square.

Good grief she exclaimed, don't they know what the temperature is?  She did not like the idea of those children/some several years younger than a teenager/teenagers and instructors out in this heat.

It is good for them, toughen those boys and girls up I replied.  The instructors know what they are doing I added.

There is nothing wrong with cadet or military training during above or below normal temperatures if done correctly.

Told the old girl she was going soft in her old age....    

I am getting a cold shoulder and a hot tongue and it is not even supper time yet...       

Interesting reply "Club508"...

There are some interesting replies in the:

"Current Flight Simulator Series"
"MS Flight"

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