How did you get in to FlightSim?
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How did you get in to FlightSim?
Done a quick search and couldn't see this been done before so sorry if it has but given the total cross section of society found on CBFS I'm intrigued to know what got you in to Flightsim's in the first place.
These things generally turn in to a "Do you remember the Spectrum/C64 etc etc" but id rather hear about the emotions behind you "flying" for the first time.
My first introduction was about 1986 sat in an airport with my father while he was waiting for a flight to go away on business, a man my father had got to know through always staying at the same hotel in India and came over. He was an Air India captain and saw me watching the aircraft.
He pulled a very early copy of FS II (on tape!) out of his bag and said "Here, give him this, its what I use to practice" and handed it to me.... I still have it!
Alex
These things generally turn in to a "Do you remember the Spectrum/C64 etc etc" but id rather hear about the emotions behind you "flying" for the first time.
My first introduction was about 1986 sat in an airport with my father while he was waiting for a flight to go away on business, a man my father had got to know through always staying at the same hotel in India and came over. He was an Air India captain and saw me watching the aircraft.
He pulled a very early copy of FS II (on tape!) out of his bag and said "Here, give him this, its what I use to practice" and handed it to me.... I still have it!
Alex
Well my dad used to be, and still is a bit of a plane buff so as far back as I can remember Ive been going with him to the airport and watch the planes at Liverpool and at Barton. ( I can still remember the big noisey Shannon 1-11 that used to upset me when it took off! )
Again my dad used to mess around with the origional FS' but I only got interested when FS95 came out. When I had my own computer I lent Fs2002 off a friend and used to mess around with that but it was only when I bought FS2004 that I became "hooked" Finding DM's VC-10 and 1-11 helped too
Again my dad used to mess around with the origional FS' but I only got interested when FS95 came out. When I had my own computer I lent Fs2002 off a friend and used to mess around with that but it was only when I bought FS2004 that I became "hooked" Finding DM's VC-10 and 1-11 helped too
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- Garry Russell
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I was always interested in Aviation
In the early days it was a Vic 20 and Blitz then the BBC B with a programme called 747
I was without a computer for many years and then one day I went to see my brother and he showed me FS, which was FS98 :shock:
I briefly had 2000, then was without a PC for a while again and came back in in 2004 with FS9
Garry
In the early days it was a Vic 20 and Blitz then the BBC B with a programme called 747
I was without a computer for many years and then one day I went to see my brother and he showed me FS, which was FS98 :shock:
I briefly had 2000, then was without a PC for a while again and came back in in 2004 with FS9
Garry
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Always been interested in aviation and soon after purchasing my first computer I saw FS95 (think that was what it was) in the shops, bought it and enjoyed the sim but................it was not long ago after we went onto the internet that I found what was on offer for FS9......No, it wasn't trawling the net that brought me here but through buying a copy of PC Pilot and the main feature in it was of the two Daves' four Classic Aircraft along with them on a CD, also the magazine featured their flight with Tonks in the VC10 (lucky burgers) not to mention the Flight Simulator.
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I have that mag somewhere Also has Ricks chippie in it iirc.Nigel H-J wrote:Always been interested in aviation and soon after purchasing my first computer I saw FS95 (think that was what it was) in the shops, bought it and enjoyed the sim but................it was not long ago after we went onto the internet that I found what was on offer for FS9......No, it wasn't trawling the net that brought me here but through buying a copy of PC Pilot and the main feature in it was of the two Daves' four Classic Aircraft along with them on a CD, also the magazine featured their flight with Tonks in the VC10 (lucky burgers) not to mention the Flight Simulator.
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The latest version has the Argosy in it, although the magazine itself seems to have turned into one big advert for Just Flight.jonesey2k wrote:I have that mag somewhere Also has Ricks chippie in it iirc.Nigel H-J wrote:Always been interested in aviation and soon after purchasing my first computer I saw FS95 (think that was what it was) in the shops, bought it and enjoyed the sim but................it was not long ago after we went onto the internet that I found what was on offer for FS9......No, it wasn't trawling the net that brought me here but through buying a copy of PC Pilot and the main feature in it was of the two Daves' four Classic Aircraft along with them on a CD, also the magazine featured their flight with Tonks in the VC10 (lucky burgers) not to mention the Flight Simulator.
FS2002 was my first Flightsim, bizarrely only a few months before FS9 hit the shelves; I ran both of them for quite a while, can't see a similar thing happening at the moment.
My interest in aviation has been with me from childhood, due to summer holidays down the road from Duxford.
AndyG
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On Channel Five on Mondays there is the Gadget Show. Couple of series ago Jason Bradbury did a piece on FS9 & IL-2 Sturmovik comparing one against theother, which FS9 won.
Bought it that week, after much shall I shan't I, oh go on then
But the icing on the cake has to be you happy people :redface: with al your ideas suggestions & pictures.
Bob
Bought it that week, after much shall I shan't I, oh go on then
But the icing on the cake has to be you happy people :redface: with al your ideas suggestions & pictures.
Bob
I can fly now with my fantastic new PC