In the days in which we must, that we like it or not, recognize the death of the FS franchise, butchered in cold blood by M$ itself in the hope of building a money milking machine with their FAILED little game called Flight... a small happy event. Happy birthday FS2004.

Cannot really remember when I gained my sim-wings. I have memories of a game of F117 Stealth under Commodore Amiga, where I for the first time managed to land on the gear (without smashing it to smithereens as happened up until then) AND managing to center the runway at the same time... it was so momentous that the excitation and adrenalin that followed made me literally jog on the walls like a ninja and dance on the ceiling together with Lionel Richie... then I went onward trying and an archaic version of FS under DOS (for which I first bought a back then not so cheap, yet QUITE cheap, if you get my drift, analogical joystick for PC that was to be connected to the port on the audio card and with difficulty recognized and calibrated by the sim itself ONLY) with only the USA available to be flown on and where I remember the read sky squares of the visual ILS help were always on for all the airports... then a long period of lull, as my life took other roads... then restarting with FS2002... then FS9, then, after the FSX debacle, FS9 still, but flanked by X-plane, first V8, then V9 and...

...and we'll see where we'll be tomorrow.