My wife takes will happily watch an episode of air crash investigations with me and she likes to hear about aviation history and go to museums and we'll talk about the exhibits the whole way home.

 

She takes no interest in flight simming at all. *shrug*

My wife takes will happily watch an episode of air crash investigations with me and she likes to hear about aviation history and go to museums and we'll talk about the exhibits the whole way home.

 

She takes no interest in flight simming at all. *shrug*

 

Yeah actually my other half will happily watch Air Crash Investigation but again, no chance on aviation history or museums!

Despite many attempts to get my wife involved with my flight simming, she has shown no interest whatsoever. She thinks she will break something.

On the other hand, she has supported my love of aviation in many other ways. For my 50th birthday she surprised me with a trip to the Skyfighters Top Gun school in Denver where I got to fly a T-34 Mentor against another plane. Great stuff! ! My avatar pic is from that flight.

Then, she surprised me again when she took me to Oshkosh for Airventure 2008. When I say surprised I mean it. I did not figure it out until we were checking in our bags in at the Denver Airport!

She has also bought me a set of Saitek yoke and rudder pedals for Christmas a couple of years ago.

This year when we went on vacation to the East Coast, she made sure we got to see both the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. and the Udvar-Hazy Museum at Dulles Airport.

 

Bill

Despite many attempts to get my wife involved with my flight simming, she has shown no interest whatsoever. She thinks she will break something.

On the other hand, she has supported my love of aviation in many other ways. For my 50th birthday she surprised me with a trip to the Skyfighters Top Gun school in Denver where I got to fly a T-34 Mentor against another plane. Great stuff! ! My avatar pic is from that flight.

Then, she surprised me again when she took me to Oshkosh for Airventure 2008. When I say surprised I mean it. I did not figure it out until we were checking in our bags in at the Denver Airport!

She has also bought me a set of Saitek yoke and rudder pedals for Christmas a couple of years ago.

This year when we went on vacation to the East Coast, she made sure we got to see both the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. and the Udvar-Hazy Museum at Dulles Airport.

 

Bill

 

You're onto a good thing there Bill. I must get my wife to read your post.

Great post, Bill. I guess it acts as a practical example of the word love.

Thanks, guys.

 

Bill

 

Well, I was born with acute Aeroplanosis to start with!

Back in 1996 my dad bought me FS95 with a joystick and all hell broke loose! Initially my younger brother had some interest in the modding (he helped me with the panel for an SR-71 for FS-2000) but later on he took the road of racing sims only to become an amazing modeler! We ca talk about modeling and software stuff like crazy! As per my parents, they definitely support my aviation craze, they know it guided me to obtain TWO aerospace engineering degrees! My dadwill definitely enjoy FS, but he's got no time whatsoever. My mother has no clue around computers... just like my girlfried, I think se barely understand what a computer can do besides Facebook... a she's never seen the yoke and pedals as they were moved to my student's home in the US (from Italy!). I dont't know what she could think of it, but she knows I'm a nerd, so no worries. Never thought of having her try a cessna, she has enough trouble wrestling the steering wheel of her car around the mountain dirt road where here little house is located (in USA you will call her a sorto of very "coutry" girl, up there with some chickens and a doggy. Simple life FTW!) Most of my friends know but they have no clue what it is all about! And believe it or not I have not found any serious simmer among my student friends!! So it might as well be a conspiracy

Lets spread the sim virus then!

 

By the way, turns out that Mario is the author of a plane adding to that virus' strength. :Applause:

I also am the only one in my family that plays flight sims. I'm also just 13 years old and I treat flight sim as a sim not a GAME! I also take real flying lessons, and I want to be a commerical airline pilot someday.

 

Adam

Just little ol' me here on the flight sims, but then it is only me and my daugther here. She often comments when she sees me sat infront of another YouTube video either learning stuff from tutorials or watching RW stuff.

 

But at least I am 'outta the closet' to my work colleagues and friends. :lol: Did some work at Excel, London a while back and stayed in a hotel just nearby under the flight path for EGLC. I commented at dinner on the 5.5 degree GS having 'flown in' a few times myself! My boss and our Head of Clinical Services took it in their stride. Conversation ensued. Boss even commented the next morning about how true it was that it was a steep approach! Then again, both of them are ex MoD and my boss is obssessed with trains, so I figure I was in good company!

I also am the only one in my family that plays flight sims. I'm also just 13 years old and I treat flight sim as a sim not a GAME! I also take real flying lessons, and I want to be a commerical airline pilot someday.

 

Adam

 

Good for you. You're in good company here then. Lot's of experts ( not including me)

 

Did some work at Excel, London a while back and stayed in a hotel just nearby under the flight path for EGLC. I commented at dinner on the 5.5 degree GS having 'flown in' a few times myself!

 

Stayed there myself a few times. There's a pedestrian bridge directly under the approach to 09 ( I think, memory lapse). Well worth perching there for a half hour or so.

I also am the only one in my family that plays flight sims. I'm also just 13 years old and I treat flight sim as a sim not a GAME! I also take real flying lessons, and I want to be a commerical airline pilot someday.

 

Adam

You're sure getting started young, good luck with becoming a pilot though, keep at it and you'll get there eventually...

 

Regards,

Ró.

You're sure getting started young, good luck with becoming a pilot though, keep at it and you'll get there eventually...

 

Regards,

Ró.

Thanks! I always on a flight get weather, then get a flight plan and put it in the 737-400 on fs9, and then talk with ATC on my flight. I think you'd sure be surprised by how much I know about flying already. One thing I know is what sids and stars are. There Standard Instrument Departures and Standard Terminal Arrival Routes. Sids can either be radar vectored or a pilot navigation departure. I also know a lot more than just that though! I've also had the sim since I was 10 and that's when I started flying too. The sim tought me a lot. So thanks for your time!

 

Adam

Thanks! I always on a flight get weather, then get a flight plan and put it in the 737-400 on fs9, and then talk with ATC on my flight. I think you'd sure be surprised by how much I know about flying already. One thing I know is what sids and stars are. There Standard Instrument Departures and Standard Terminal Arrival Routes. Sids can either be radar vectored or a pilot navigation departure. I also know a lot more than just that though! I've also had the sim since I was 10 and that's when I started flying too. The sim tought me a lot. So thanks for your time!

 

Adam

 

Hi Adam, Good to see you are learning on FS9 as it is a great platform to learn on. I started Flight Simming when I was 12 and I am 40 years old now. When I started it was Flight Simulator Release 1.0, and shortly after I got a copy of Flight Simulator 2.0, back then it was published by SubLogic.

 

I learned a lot from it and went on to Flight School when I was 24 years old. So I wish the same for you, learn as much as you can and hopefully you can take it further then I did and get started in Flight School earlier then I did. FS9 is light years ahead of what we had when I was your age so it is amazing how much you can learn from it. Enjoy every step of your journey as you acheive your life goals.

 

Cheers

Thanks! I always on a flight get weather, then get a flight plan and put it in the 737-400 on fs9, and then talk with ATC on my flight. I think you'd sure be surprised by how much I know about flying already. One thing I know is what sids and stars are. There Standard Instrument Departures and Standard Terminal Arrival Routes. Sids can either be radar vectored or a pilot navigation departure. I also know a lot more than just that though! I've also had the sim since I was 10 and that's when I started flying too. The sim tought me a lot. So thanks for your time!

 

Adam

Well you certainly know more about aircraft than I did when I was your age, so that's a great start to have. Keep up the practice and don't be afraid to ask any of us for help or information, we all had to start out somewhere...

 

Regards,

Ró.