10 years of Microsoft Flight Simming for me... How abou...

[Guest JimC1702]

Even before SubLogic's "Flight Simulator" and "Air Transport Pilot", I had a flight simulator for a Timex Sinclair 1000, and then another one for the Commodore VIC-20. Since then I've had every version of MS Flight Simulator, plus "Fly!" and "Fly! II" and Sierra's "Pro Pilot" and "Pro Pilot 2".Jim

[dfish 1]

1987, 20 (ARGH!!) years ago...........Dave FisherCYYZP4 Prescott 3.2e 478p 800mhz 1mg CPUP4P800SE Asus Motherboard1.5 gig PC3200 DDR RAM 400MHZGeforce Ti 4200/128Maxtor 80 Gig ATA 133 HD x2WDC WD800 80 Gig HDhttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/ng_driver.jpghttp://fs2crew.com/linepilot.jpg

[Nick75 0]

Another newbie here...started with FS2002 in June 2002

[OwenHewitt 0]

1992 for me. It was FS 4 that came on 5 1/4" floppy disks. Anyone remember the 747 expansion for it? :-) I ran it on a sleek new 286/12 with a whopping 30 MB (yes, MB) HDD. The case was enormous! Ah - I don't miss those days!!Best,Owen

[zfehr 1]

1986 for me, same year I got my PPL. I had done some lessons on an ATC-510 back in 1975 and even sat in a LINK in 1979 when I officially first started logging student time. I remember how I would use the computer sim to test out my dead reckoning, no winds back then so you usually ended up where you were supposed to be. I just find it incredible the advancements in computer simulation of flight... I thought it couldn't get any better 10 years ago, then again 5 years ago but it just keeps gettin better and better ;).

[Gdavis0101 0]

My real interest in this hobby started with Flight Simulator 2 by Sublogic... And I vaugely remember playing the first Microsoft release, in fact I think I still have it floating around somewhere. It only gets better with time, that is for sure!

[gab523 0]

I started in the mid 80's on my c-64 with soloflight. You could fly around Kansas, colorado, and one other state. You would do mail runs to different airports. Also had Flight Simulator 2 by sublogic. After that it was Airline transport pilot, then fs98, fs2002, and now fs2004, which I have only had for about six months.A few months ago I found soloflight on a c64 emulator, and had to laugh at the graphics. Computers and flight simulators sure have come a long way since then, and they are only getting better.Glenn

[Guest Stryker]

Well I'm 26, so, I guess 23 years for me? :(I'm not sure when I started playing it, but we had the SL FS2 for the Atari computer. I couldn't have been more than 4 or 5 years old. Of course I couldn't do much at the time other than take off. Touching the controls gave me about a 50/50 chance of survival.Later got FS4, then FS5, FS98, Fly!, and now 2004.

[David Vega 348]

subLOGIC Flight Simulator for the Commodore 64 around 1983. I can't recall the one I had before that, other than it was for the C64, and there was a game within it to deliver mail to several cities. Here's a good link showing our hobby's history:http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsh/index.htmRegards,Dave Vega

[Rottenlungs 0]

Snap, John!Same here - got a C-64 and FS-II in 1984 and very quickly got hooked shooting approaches into KOAK - if memory serves it was the only airfield that had a textured runway ; all the rest were wireframe..CheersJames

[Clutch Cargo 384]

I feel like such a nubie, only 4 years goin' on 40!Marcus Thompson

[Guest Ozark Dogfighter]

Proudly simming since September 2003, with FS2002, then FS2004 in December! Only a few breaks now and then, but I'm definately in for the long haul! Love FS!!-Jeremy Burchhttp://home.earthlink.net/~dawgfighter/sit...es/swvasig1.gifSWVA4806 http://www.virtualswa.com/home.phpThe Ozark Dogfighter http://forums.avsim.net/images/wedge.gifHappy Flying!BOAC: Heathrow Centre, British Airways Speedbird Flight 723HC: British Airways Speedbird Flight 723, Heathrow Centre, go aheadBOAC: Heathrow Centre, British Airways Speedbird Flight 723 has a message for youHC: British Airways Speedbird Flight 723, Heathrow Centre is ready to copy messageBOAC: Heathrow Centre, British Airways Speedbird Flight 723, message is as follows: Mayday, Mayday, Mayday ....

[Jure 36]

Sublogic FS on C-64 in 1984 for me. After a few years I switched to Amiga and boy, was that thing good! Stereo sound, great graphics. I remember just sitting there and listening to the purr of the engine. :)I stayed with the Amiga (1200 with a 040 turbo board) as long as I could before switching to PC's. I hated it, the Amiga was such a lovely computer, but there really was not much choice. I never flew MSFS much until version 2002. I bought Pro Pilot, then a long spell with the still wonderful Flight Unlimited series and finally Fly! and Fly!II where I began to "do stuff", not only fly. Then FS2002 came and that was it. Been "faithful" ever since. ;)Regards,Jure

[Guest thscholz]

Looks like many of you guys remember those days when Flight Simulator came on one 5 1/4 inch floppy disk (which really WAS floppy:-lol ).BTW, I still have one of those floppys that says "Microsoft Windows Disk 1 of 5".:-) With the first versions of the sim when you pressed the right mouse button (provided that you actually had a mouse:-lol ) the cursor would disappear and you could control the aircraft with the mouse...can you imagine?CheersThomas

[Guest Bell206freak]

Been roughly 10 years for me.. My aunt had Flight Simulator 5, and I played it quite often whenever I visited her.. Then I ended up getting Flight Simulator for Windows 95, and then FS 98 shortly afterwards. I skipped FS2000 and FS2002, and bought FS2004 shortly after it was released.