Whats your FS background?

highlydebased · 01-05-2008 8:35pm #1

What is your background in FS? Do you fly addictivly? What do you fly? Where do you fly? etc!

To start the ball rolling....

I have around 1000 sim hours at this stage, coming up on 400 on VATSIM. Do most my flights on VATSIM now.......real world Ryanair routes! I mainly use the PMDG 738, great aircraft. I try to vary my destinations.....went to Malta recently which was a nice trip. Krakow is also an enjoyable flight, a bit long though.

Tell us about you.....

RoundyMooney · 01-05-2008 8:44pm

Only three threads here so far, but stuck for posterity nonetheless.

Kintarō Hattori · 01-05-2008 8:50pm

Well I was BIG into MS Flightsim back in the day and used to go flying every night. I was with Avsim for about 4 years as a Staff Reviewer and did plenty of reviews for them over 4 years which resulted in plenty of free software! But that was many years ago and I kinda became burnt out on it and haven't flown any soft of sim for about 5 years.

I'm getting older though and the easy pace and variety of a flightsim is appealing again. I don't think I'd get much to run on my laptop though so I'm thinking about building a PC to get back into it.

Yakult · 01-05-2008 8:51pm

Neon-Circles wrote: »

What is your background in FS? Do you fly addictivly? What do you fly? Where do you fly? etc!

To start the ball rolling....

I have around 1000 sim hours at this stage, coming up on 400 on VATSIM. Do most my flights on VATSIM now.......real world Ryanair routes! I mainly use the PMDG 738, great aircraft. I try to vary my destinations.....went to Malta recently which was a nice trip. Krakow is also an enjoyable flight, a bit long though.

Tell us about you.....

I have only 100 hours sim. and thats it lol! I got big into for a few days! Kinda bored of that now,

could you recomend any good add ons?

Darwin · 01-05-2008 8:52pm

Hi there, delighted to see this new forum. I'm very much a beginner - I bought a book (Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots Real World Training) to help learn the ropes but getting time to sit down and practice is hard. I have all the gear (TrackIR 4 and Saitek X52 Pro) which makes the whole flying experience much more enjoyable. Looking forward to posting regularly here though as I progress...

tracker-man · 01-05-2008 8:58pm

Hey,

I fly with VATeir on the vatsim network, mostly short flights within the country or to the uk.

eo980 wrote: »

I don't think I'd get much to run on my laptop though so I'm thinking about building a PC to get back into it.

Check out this link : www.ein117.com :eek:

highlydebased · 01-05-2008 9:01pm

tracker-man......are you the shamrock117? lolz

R_H_C_P...depends what you're after and what you're computer can handle. The default scenery and aircraft are crap and far from realistic. Have a look at the PMDG 737 series which is nearlly fully realistic www.precisionmanuals.com

Aerosoft do lots of lovely scenery, if you dont have a good graphics card frames can be a bit low though

tracker-man · 01-05-2008 9:12pm

no, wish I had that kind of setup though! I wouldn't even have room for it, never mind the money! :rolleyes:

Yakult · 01-05-2008 9:28pm

actually one thing about flight sim X

How can I make it more realistic? Going online?

highlydebased · 01-05-2008 9:29pm

Yea, the VATSIM network! virtual air traffic simulation network. Have a look at the Getting Started in Virtual Aviation thread, not too sure if its been moved from A+A yet

Yakult · 01-05-2008 10:28pm

^yeah just read that.

Thats the kinda thing I want XD
Do you have to know your stuff for that? Because reading some of it, Im a nOOb so some didnt click well =P

highlydebased · 01-05-2008 10:40pm

LOL yea you'd need to know what you're doing.

Look at www.vatsim.net/prc

You could logon and sit and listen to ATC before actually flying.....good few people do it now

Yakult · 01-05-2008 10:52pm

^will do man

I dont want no head on crashes haha!

BostonB · 01-05-2008 11:37pm

I first played around with Flight Sim on the Atari ST and the early Mac's. But I never really got into it preferring the combat flight sims. I've recently descide I want to get back into flight sim, and have 2004/fsx but haven't spent any serious time at them yet.

pclancy · 02-05-2008 1:45am

Been into FS since 4.0 on my 386

Since then i've had every version and been involved in virtual airlines, VATSIM and a/c repainting for a while. Made myself give it up as I was spending an unhealthy time on it up to about 2 years ago and sold PC to get a laptop. I'm in New Zealand now going for real flying lessons soon but I still fire up FSX a good bit and mess around, theres some good scenery and a good online FS community down here too!

I've also applied for a job with a company down here that actually builds 737 cockpits using FS2004 as the engine...watch this space if i get the job i'll tell more!

Fabio · 02-05-2008 11:04am

Fair play pclancy!

As for myself...I',m not sure how many hours I've done really, I havent kept a log and don't know if you can find out through some control in FS2004 (which is the flight sim i use). I run it on a Dell XPS M1330 with a 128mb graphics card which is by no means powerful enough for full settings on everything but it does the job.

When I get into it I love but then I wonder sometimes why I do it as the most interesting parts for me are the landings! I rarely use anything but default craft, though that's about to change cos I got the CLS DC-10 so that should be interesting. What I tend to do actually is, once I have all the bits I can control (take off etc), and it's on it's heading on autopilot, I tend to sit back and read a book or do some study and when I am coming in on approach I put everything away and grab the joystick again. If only I could bother my arse to learn how to use VORs and such....

Actually is using VORs a big thing? Would you need it for VATSIM?

I have flown a Tupolev Tu-114 from Samdim Design (look them up, some create freeware stuff there) around Europe, pretending to be Khrushchev's personal pilot haha! I even flew that one to Cuba using an adventure scenario available on avsim that recreates the conditions and course to get from Moscow to Havana in 1961 on this big turbopop.

A few days ago I touched down in Boston in a 747 (default) from Shannon but the hours crossing the Atlantic were far from interesting as it was on autopilot and all i could do was sit and wait. Anyone else get that or is there stuff one can actually do????

Mainly I fly the default 737 but I am prone to going for a few hours in a Beechcraft KingAir, again the default one.

So there's my story...

Steyr · 23-06-2008 2:12pm

Did EINN/KJFK last night, oh god how long!!! Bring back Concorde!, 5+hours of fun, only prob was when you get to NY the frame rate really starts to slow down and annoy me because of all the buildings etc, anybody know how to rectify this?

highlydebased · 23-06-2008 5:05pm

Steyr wrote: »

Did EINN/KJFK last night, oh god how long!!! Bring back Concorde!, 5+hours of fun, only prob was when you get to NY the frame rate really starts to slow down and annoy me because of all the buildings etc, anybody know how to rectify this?

Turn down the gfx......but if you're only using default the frames are killing you your gfx card must not be great!

What were the winds like last night on the NAT....which NAT did you take etc

ch252 · 23-06-2008 11:09pm

Steyr wrote: »

Did EINN/KJFK last night, oh god how long!!! Bring back Concorde!, 5+hours of fun, only prob was when you get to NY the frame rate really starts to slow down and annoy me because of all the buildings etc, anybody know how to rectify this?

Pyware planes can also do this, but most don't.

Mr Benevolent · 29-06-2008 7:51pm

I like FSX, I'm really only into the hyper-realistic stuff (which generally becomes too complicated for me after a while) and some messing around. My main flying is done on X-Plane as it makes the FSX flight model look like a really bad joke. Also, designing (it's not that hard really) and flying your own aircraft is very satisfying, although I'm going a bit nuts lately - a jet propelled Seat Ibiza gyrocopter anyone?

Incidentally, the sim with by far the best flight model is, believe it or not, IL2 1946. Staggering stuff - accurate spins, slow flight and manouvering.

Niall

Steyr · 30-06-2008 12:21am

Good input, Confab welcome!:)

derry · 16-09-2008 1:48am

Hi
done the original ZX81 and commador 64k versions when they came out
Been doing all the versions that came out since then through to about 2005

Have done micro soft FS , fly11 version , free down loads that are out there like flight gear

Fly 11 is very good cockpit details but a bit too much details for a single screen and heli is not so easy to fly

Planes when they land onn water and sink and land on the sea floor are are a bit weird

Anybody out there know how to program new features into open source flight gear FS like other planes or other features ???

I haven't bothered much since 2005

I liked the Heli in MS FS diving from 2000 feet and fly through the aircraft carrier rear starbourd door and then fly the fulll length of the interior of the Hanger under the fly deck and exit the front starboard door (tight squeeze)
The sign painted inside hanger says no smoking on the front wall
lucky its empty in there

I have over the years done a few hours of micro lights and light aircrafts total might be 10 hours

I would prefer to have a better class of flight simulator multi screen like 3 screens front and slanted side windows but I don't know any program that does that

Anybody any ideas preferably free download types ??? like flight gear or similar

pclancy wrote: »

snip....

I'm in New Zealand now going for real flying lessons soon but I still fire up FSX a good bit and mess around, theres some good scenery and a good online FS community down here too!

I've also applied for a job with a company down here that actually builds 737 cockpits using FS2004 as the engine...watch this space if i get the job i'll tell more!

any news on how you got on for the job

Any details on this 737 cockpit, is it multi screen ,is it affordordable , is it worth the cost,is it light eneogh to send through the post and not take out a second morgage

Anybody know anything similar and what the costs are preferably light aircraft type like twin engine prop or lear jet or 737 jets nothing to big like 747 or even if there is such a thing as a small heli cockpit

Anybody with a real cockpit type set up in the dublin region that I could view or even further afield but that might take a few weeks to arrange to drive to

Derry

A320-200 · 16-09-2008 4:09pm

R22/R44 http://www.simkits.com/product.php?prodid=616

C172 with vari pitch prop. Cant see if its Carb/Fuel inection
http://www.simkits.com/product.php?prodid=614

derry · 17-09-2008 8:07am

A320-200 wrote: »

R22/R44 http://www.simkits.com/product.php?prodid=616

C172 with vari pitch prop. Cant see if its Carb/Fuel inection
http://www.simkits.com/product.php?prodid=614

TRC472-M Flight Deck (Cessna 172)
Price: € 21.950,00

TRC2244 Helicopter Flight Deck (robinson 22/44)
Price: € 22.950,00

EEEKKKKK

I tHink I will look on ebay for second hand one preferably a fire sale with fire sale prices

Certianly the The 172 Sim it probably makes more sense to get a share in a plane than spend that kinda money on sim

Derry

Canberra man · 20-10-2008 5:12pm

I wish somebody would upgrade Red Baron 3D to Windows Vista. I was crazed on it when I was on Windows 98. Now I'm on Vista its no go. The 14 18 war was portrayed in a very realistic manner.

Ken

BostonB · 20-10-2008 9:16pm

The forums are down at the moment but I'd say someone on SimHQ would know how to do this. If all else fails I'd say it might work in DOSBox

Board Walker · 01-02-2009 7:19pm

Ive had fs98 and fs 2004

Knocked up god knows how many hours!

lately ive been flying my sea king around city's exploring lol

Ive my longest flight was barcelona - JFK with a an225 with a shuttle on the roof!

i normally fly around europe with european air lines!

im planning on doing a round the globe trip in a aer lingus a320 which im just about to start,

what ive planned for it so far is:

Cork - Birmingham - Glasgow - Bordeaux - Amsterdam - Hamburg - Dusseldorf - Zurich - Oslo - Copenhagen - Warsaw - Madrid - Lisbon

thats the European leg.

Shamrock883 · 03-02-2009 6:42pm

I have 3000+ hours online and offline flying in everything from Ultralights to Md-11s to space shuttles (i know i know:p) to helicopters.
I fly around the globe but mainly around europe.
I'm a proud member of VATsim with around 250+ hours as a pilot and about the same as a controller.
I've taken a liking to the Wilco airbus series 1 and 2 as well as all things PMDG.
See you in the skies;)

Board Walker · 04-02-2009 3:46am

Shamrock883 wrote: »

I have 3000+ hours online and offline flying in everything from Ultralights to Md-11s to space shuttles (i know i know:p) to helicopters.
I fly around the globe but mainly around europe.
I'm a proud member of VATsim with around 250+ hours as a pilot and about the same as a controller.
I've taken a liking to the Wilco airbus series 1 and 2 as well as all things PMDG.
See you in the skies;)

your a cork spotter.com!

Shamrock883 · 04-02-2009 1:16pm

Board Walker wrote: »

your a cork spotter.com!

Yep that's me alright

saudek · 05-02-2009 2:24am

Hi there,

I'm new on this forum. I'm a very proud member of the IVAO association since 2005 in which, I estimate having done a total amount of 5000hrs as pilot (3500 hours online) and 2000 hrs as ATC.
I usually fly PMDG aircrafts, E-jets series (by Wilco), A320 series (which is actually pretty crappy), dreamfleet Baron 58 for IFR traditional navigation, and carenado products for VFR flights.
FS9 and FS10 equipped.

I usually fly IVAO tours that make me travelling all over the world in front of my PC enjoying a lot of different procedures, while drinking a good tea

.

See you all.

pclancy · 05-02-2009 8:14am

saudek wrote: »

Hi there,

I'm new on this forum. I'm a very proud member of the IVAO association since 2005 in which, I estimate having done a total amount of 5000hrs as pilot (3500 hours online) and 2000 hrs as ATC.
I usually fly PMDG aircrafts, E-jets series (by Wilco), A320 series (which is actually pretty crappy), dreamfleet Baron 58 for IFR traditional navigation, and carenado products for VFR flights.
FS9 and FS10 equipped.

I usually fly IVAO tours that make me travelling all over the world in front of my PC enjoying a lot of different procedures, while drinking a good tea .

See you all.

Welcome mate

ryanch09 · 25-06-2009 12:41am

i dont know how people could go on a fs flight that lasts more than 30 minutes. i tried flying to new york from shannon and i ended up leaving it on autopilot and going to watch tv i was so bored(eventually sped up the sim rate but it still took a while lol!!!!

pclancy · 25-06-2009 10:31am

Personal preference I guess. You see a lot of long haulers on VATSIM doing massive trans pacific stints LAX to Sydney etc but I personally enjoy VFR and GA flying a lot more. Autopilots are boring

Events and stuff where you do maybe a 3 hour trip from Auckland to Brisbane for example are good fun because both ends have full ATC and theres loads of traffic.

I imagine (or hope) that people that do really long haul stuff (like 8 hours) MUST leave their PC for some extended period otherwise they'd actually melt with inactivity. There's only so many times you can check the flightplan and engine gauges before falling asleep

ch252 · 25-06-2009 11:29am

pclancy wrote: »

Personal preference I guess. You see a lot of long haulers on VATSIM doing massive trans pacific stints LAX to Sydney etc but I personally enjoy VFR and GA flying a lot more. Autopilots are boring Events and stuff where you do maybe a 3 hour trip from Auckland to Brisbane for example are good fun because both ends have full ATC and theres loads of traffic.

I imagine (or hope) that people that do really long haul stuff (like 8 hours) MUST leave their PC for some extended period otherwise they'd actually melt with inactivity. There's only so many times you can check the flightplan and engine gauges before falling asleep

Have to agree with you there, can't do long haul at all! medium haul and throw on a movie or just short haul/GA is the way to go!

14-12-2009 3:56am

I have been in to Flight Sim since 2000.
Started with FLY! then moved on to MS FS 2002 and 2004.

My first add-on was A340 Professional by PSS/Just Flight.
Then moved on to PMDG 737NG.

But my favorite has to be Air Simmers A320.
I bought/joined in to the Extended Team Program back in April and testing it ever since.

When this Advanced version is finished it's gonna be one of the best add-on to date.

As you might have guessed I'm a die hard Airbus fan

.
I aleady have most A320 training material (FCOM,CBT, etc) anything related to A320 I want it.

highlydebased · 28-02-2010 2:43pm

ft85915 wrote: »

I have been in to Flight Sim since 2000.
Started with FLY! then moved on to MS FS 2002 and 2004.

My first add-on was A340 Professional by PSS/Just Flight.
Then moved on to PMDG 737NG.

But my favorite has to be Air Simmers A320.
I bought/joined in to the Extended Team Program back in April and testing it ever since.
When this Advanced version is finished it's gonna be one of the best add-on to date.

As you might have guessed I'm a die hard Airbus fan .
I aleady have most A320 training material (FCOM,CBT, etc) anything related to A320 I want it.

(only noticed this now)

What do you think of the Air Simmer 320? On the extended team myself, bit disappointed that its gone a-rye at the moment though! was considering looking for my money back...

TPMP · 18-04-2010 1:29pm

I started playing FS2002 about 5 years ago and only recently switched to fs9 when I got a new PC. Absolutly love it. I usually fly either the captain sim 757, PSS A320 or level d 767. Have never flown online and not sure I want to. I'm sure its great and very realistic, but wouldnt there be much, much less traffic flying around?

highlydebased · 18-04-2010 3:39pm

TPMP wrote: »

I started playing FS2002 about 5 years ago and only recently switched to fs9 when I got a new PC. Absolutly love it. I usually fly either the captain sim 757, PSS A320 or level d 767. Have never flown online and not sure I want to. I'm sure its great and very realistic, but wouldnt there be much, much less traffic flying around?

Depends where you fly to really, all the major airports Europe wise see a large attendance at the peak evening time 6pm onwards, and with major events organised its very enjoyable. That combined with using almost real ATC- not a patch on FS default atc.

Shaneboyle · 22-05-2010 12:53pm

Starting with Fs2002 next then to FS2004 where i still am now.
I fly on IVAO and membership coord with the Irish division,
I fly with VA mainly pmdg 737, pss757 and wilco/pa merge A320.
I also control on IVAO.

shefellover93 · 14-01-2011 12:52am

Had fs98 and did the usual of installing it, crashing a few times, getting frustrated and taking it off for a few months before my curiosity got the better of me again.

Then I bought 2002 just because it was cheap, and decided that I was going to teach myself how to fly properly.

I really got into it and got myself FS9 but only ever flew 2 or 3 vatsim flights (Always had technical trouble) I still flew offline quite a bit.

Over the summer my brothers gaming pc was replaced with a mac, and so now I'm left stranded (Can't find a copy of x-plane anywhere) I really miss Flight Sim, and with Football Manager on the blink as well I'm going mad (Reverting to truck sim to keep myself entertained)

Used to love flying the 737-800, really easy bird to fly. But also liked the a320 as well (Aer Lingus of course) I got myself a joystick last christmas but now it's just gathering dust

I got the xplane demo but haven't the foggiest in how to work it properly (Gotten so used to the FS controls)

ct89 · 14-01-2011 12:55am

Cessna Caravan Amphibian FTW!

shefellover93 · 14-01-2011 12:57am

ct89 wrote: »

Cessna Caravan Amphibian FTW!

The plane that was near impossible to crash. Can't find a runway, just aim for the sea! :pac:

I forgot to mention that I was in a few VA's and have made a few vids as well on youtube, which I sometimes look at to remind me what it looked like

Steve · 14-01-2011 9:29pm

Unfortunately, I'm old enough to remember this:

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I'm pretty sure I've had every version from that to FSX.

It sortof comes and goes with me, every so often I get back into it and then give up for months on end.

Current favourite is the PMDG MD11 on FSX, mainly because of doing many many pond hops IRL on Delta.

I was also involved in IFSD in the early days - if anyone remembers the Howth scenery on approach to EIDW 28, I made it!

pclancy · 14-01-2011 11:57pm

Yeah I have the same problem. Keep getting bored of it after a while and needing a new challenge. I love the PMDG Jetstream 41 the most at the moment as its great for quick hops between regional airports around the world and has lots of interesting systems to play with. Quite hard to manage its engines and approach speeds too so lots of manual flying. VATSIM keeps some interest going too.

I'm looking forward to the PMDG 737X when it finally comes out. Might need a new PC to run it at its best though it will be worth it, i love the 737.

MonkeyDoo · 19-01-2011 3:29am

pclancy wrote: »

Been into FS since 4.0 on my 386 Since then i've had every version and been involved in virtual airlines, VATSIM and a/c repainting for a while. Made myself give it up as I was spending an unhealthy time on it up to about 2 years ago and sold PC to get a laptop. I'm in New Zealand now going for real flying lessons soon but I still fire up FSX a good bit and mess around, theres some good scenery and a good online FS community down here too!

I've also applied for a job with a company down here that actually builds 737 cockpits using FS2004 as the engine...watch this space if i get the job i'll tell more!

I had FS3 on a 286 i believe ;-) Chicago Meigs...

FS4 was cool even had and airplane designer built in was a bit cheesed off when they removed that from later versions.

I think am addicted to the game used take off from Dub, then do a transatlantic flight....and have the flight plan calculated so that I arrive in JFK about the time my alarm clock goes off...then do a landing first thing before breakfast ;-) Sounds interesting pclancy good luck with the job!

SteveSilverhead · 30-01-2011 12:23am

Hello all,

I've been into FS since Airbus A320 came out for the Amiga in the early 90s. Later on I got into FS3, and almost every version since then.

I've not been simming all the time, however - it's been more like an on and off interest - a few hours now, maybe a few again in a few weeks time. And I certainly used to do more when I was younger and single and with more time on my hands.

Recently got a new graphics card for the PC, and am able to get FSX to run on it quite comfortably with some nice graphics, at least in the airports I've visited so far. So, as and when I get time and money I am going to see about adding monitors to try and enhance the experience.

Will post here if anything remotely useful or interesting comes out of this!

redhot · 02-02-2011 8:13pm

I stuck with FS2004, and I think it was a wise decision.

Dell XPS gaming PC
TrackIR5
Buttkicker gamer (under seat vibed- great for "wheels up" and getting hit by bullets and shrapnell)
Saitek Cyborg EVO force stick
Force feedback Bass headphones
UK photographic scenery and airport add-ons

I maxed out with some serious long sessions, most challenging is the flightdeck aircraft carrier landings and take off (see Glacier girl pic), and having fun with inappropriate aircraft on the steam catapult!

Any of you managed to get FSX cloking good frame rates with max settings?

redhot · 02-02-2011 8:39pm

A few screenshots from my FS2004 for you

Firekitten · 07-06-2011 2:14am

Hi there, new to the virtual flying forum

I started out in fs98, moving through 2000, 2002, 2004, and now fsx. Probably been flying virtually for 8 years on and off....
Roughly 380 hours comercial, 450 light, 200 fast jet, and currently working on my rotary with 20 hours nearly. (I still suck)
First got the bug after taking flying lessons for my 16th birthday... thats when the casual interest took off for me.

Favourite aircraft? Beach King Air or the b738... hard to decide
Favourite moment flying? Gliding a 738 90nm and landing it on an island strip after a fuel leak... Never thought I'd make it, lost my avionics and flaps without apu, and landed on backup avionics and gravity gear deployment. White knuckles doesn't come close lol.

Well, Hey, and nice to meet you all

Steve · 07-06-2011 6:17am

Firekitten wrote: »

Well, Hey, and nice to meet you all

Oh no.. there goes the neighbourhood..

/just kidding...please don't ban me Andy..

Whats your FS background?

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