When you are driving through a shopping center and you attempt to steer your car into a parking spot using left foot on brake and right foot on gas pedals.

 

When you read METAR/TAF reports prior to driving to and from work.

When you read METAR/TAF reports prior to driving to and from work.

 

+1 I also have found myself doing this :-)

^ Quite nifty actually, if you're not a cager.

While driving; you start seeing your highways as jetways and exits as STARS.

Not so much a sign of too much FSX, but definitely a side-effect that I suffer from...when watching FSX-related YouTube videos, in VC shots, I reach for my hat switch to look around...

Or two hours into the flight, start looking for the pause button so you can go and have a cigarette!

 

Or, quietly hoping to be handed off to Unicom soon, for the same reason, for twenty minutes, before remembering you're actually on a 6 hour flight.

Ages ago a workmate I knew used to play a game a lot, can't remember exactly but the space bar re-spawned the player. One day he run his car into something and told me later that it only occurred to him he'd actually crashed as he reached out for the keyboard. Not sure he was joking.

When sitting with my wife in an airplane ready to take off or land and Im telling her everything that's really going on and she's pretending to listen.

 

+1! :lol:

Not so much a sign of too much FSX, but definitely a side-effect that I suffer from...when watching FSX-related YouTube videos, in VC shots, I reach for my hat switch to look around...

 

Absolutely, I do this all the time. I remember watching AOAs NGX videos are trying to pan around using the hat switch. I also do this with Youtube videos and even once had the urge to do it when watching a video of a real flight. It's an illness

...before takeoff on a long haul flight from Istanbul to Newark with your Level D767, your wife catches you taking a picture of your new simpit with your smartphone. As you feebily try to apologize to her, she gets her big brother to throw you out of the house.

I pretend to throttle up the engines

I pretend to throttle up the engines

 

I totally do that! Especially when in mowing the lawn I treat the controllers like the yoke and the throttle like the well, throttle and everything else like its equivalent on a plane. Even when I use my snowblower I plug it into the wall before I start it like using an APU or the primary exterior power at an airport.

 

 

Remy Mermelstein

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Oh boy, and here I have been thinking I was weird because I sometimes find myself pushing the grocery cart making motorcycle noises, shifting gears and pretending to twist the throttle grip...

Oh boy, and here I have been thinking I was weird because I sometimes find myself pushing the grocery cart making motorcycle noises, shifting gears and pretending to twist the throttle grip...

 

I do that totally!!!!

Come on now, time to move on from that kind of thing. Do you sit in the trolley with your arms out while your partner pushes?