I am a 24/7 carer for my wife, getting on in years and enjoy flight simming. Ex RAF and glider pilot (not any more). I build my own systems, currently have a three monitor setup runninf off an AMD Radeon HD 7900 series graphic card. Mainboard is an Asus P8Z77-V mounting an Intel i5-3570K CPU (overclocked) 3.40GHz +. Memory is 12gb vengance, a WD1002HD cached with a crucial adrenaline 64gb SSD, all this in a HAF XM case. All in all I am fairly pleased with this system,it handles everything I have thrown at it (including FSX with VFR Horizon Generation X and Airfields maxed out in Eyefinity setup).

Although I am no stranger to FSX there is still plenty I would like to learn, particularly PMDG 737NGX it's awesome.

I am not an acedemic and find it hard going trying to learn from books or the screen, my wife will distract me and all I have just read goes out the window. Looking, seeing and doinng is more my forte.I get 5 hours two afternoons a week respite to do shopping and get a bit of time to myself,nomally on Eastbourne seafront doing the Sun crossword eating a bag of fish and chips.All other times I am at home looking after my wife.

This is what I am thinking:- Is there anyone in or local to Eastbourne, East Sussex that would like to meet up with a fellow simmer, I have a good coffee machine and make a mean sandwich. It's a no smoking house indoors, no objections to a quick puff in the garden though, my wife and I used to get through 80+ a day, not any more though.

 

So: in a nutshell, anyone local to Eastbourne that would like to meet up please give me a PM.

 

Posted in FSX and PMDG forums.

 

Take care      Mike M        flybinight

This might help a tad ... I created it so that people new to the plane can get a quick handle on how to get it up and running. It does not go into detail about how to program the CDU or anything like that but it might be a helpful first start.

 

http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=&Author=Blankenship&CatID=root

 

Hope you find someone ... I'm more than up to flying to England to help ... your dime of course :-)

 

This is what I am thinking:- Is there anyone in or local to Eastbourne, East Sussex that would like to meet up with a fellow simmer

Hi Mike,

You sure have it tough, though I imagine what you do for your wife still gives you a purpose in life and as we all get older, it is a lottery of which partner gets this task. I hope your health remains and you keep simming.

Now, in these busy times, maybe a tad difficult to find a tutor. If some one out there who lives local and has the time, I am sure they will come forward. I appreciate you have problems with books and the screen, but you could re-consider and look at some thing like 'Angle Of Attack training? Chris, who runs the company has some great training videos and material for the 737 NGX that you can watch over and over until the knowledge sinks in. Maybe a temporary solution until you can find a real tutor....Have a look at http://www.flyaoamedia.com/  

 

Best of luck Mike.

 

Regards