2 minutes ago, lehbird said:

I started with Flightsim4 so meh meh!!😆

Ok you win!!😂

Edited January 30, 20224 yr by flyinpilot212121

Well, I turned 85 on 1/22 so I meet the old requirement for sure -  but grumpy ?  MOI?  🙂 

36 minutes ago, vgbaron said:

Well, I turned 85 on 1/22 so I meet the old requirement for sure -  but grumpy ?  MOI?  🙂 

Question, did they have flight sim back in the dinosaur age?? Kidding 😂

happy belated birthday! 

Pretty sure all flightsim forums these days are geezers comparing their epeens and word not allowedting on Asobo...


There's the occasional good topic but  I do read an awful lot of moaning 😄 Makes me want to troll so hard, but I have to behave 😄

32 minutes ago, flyinpilot212121 said:

Question, did they have flight sim back in the dinosaur age?? Kidding 😂

happy belated birthday! 

LOL! Actually, the very first flightsim, if you can call it that, that I fkew was called 747 Simulator. It was all ASCII text characters as computers didn't have graphics then. No sound, you just watched the ascii spinners and the numbers changing. In a way it was pure instrument flight.  🙂

 

2 hours ago, AvAngel said:

Pretty sure all flightsim forums these days are geezers comparing their epeens and word not allowedting on Asobo...


There's the occasional good topic but  I do read an awful lot of moaning 😄 Makes me want to troll so hard, but I have to behave 😄

ouch! that hurts! AvAngel....I'm not a whinner, but I am old..ish... 😁

😄 age ain't a part of it, I've met some very young geezers 😄

3 hours ago, vgbaron said:

LOL! Actually, the very first flightsim, if you can call it that, that I fkew was called 747 Simulator. It was all ASCII text characters as computers didn't have graphics then. No sound, you just watched the ascii spinners and the numbers changing. In a way it was pure instrument flight.  🙂

 

was that on the  commondore 64  computer  🙂

5 hours ago, flyinpilot212121 said:

Question, did they have flight sim back in the dinosaur age?? Kidding 😂

I’m 65, and back in the day without computers, the closest thing to flight sims were kites. My first kite had a drawing of John Glenn’s head on it, so that’s 60 years ago. When Sublogic flight simulator came along, it was a stunning technological wonder, flirting with the possibility of breaking the 1 FPS barrier!

Edited January 30, 20224 yr by Mike A

We had to walk 3 miles every day to the public library flight sim computer. The white haired matron would spring out from behind her desk and whack you with a ruler when you over played the sound effects. We called her Miss Speedy because she ran so fast!

All this old geezer talk reminds me of the magazine I used to collect and read going back a few decades ago. It was called Full Throttle and died sometime around 2000 I think. I used to really look forward to each issue of that one.

10 hours ago, OneOfMany said:

You didn't bother to find out. I'm 37.

 

Dennis 

Youngsters, shouldn't even be allowed out ,yet alone to write on this forum.

4 hours ago, Mike A said:

I’m 65, and back in the day without computers, the closest thing to flight sims were kites. My first kite had a drawing of John Glenn’s head on it, so that’s 60 years ago. When Sublogic flight simulator came along, it was a stunning technological wonder, flirting with the possibility of breaking the 1 FPS barrier!

Exactly this but for me it was not that colorful on a green monochrome monitor 😂 

Cheers T.

Forget flight sims, my moaning started with the poor wing to fuselage joints on my Airfix kits, well before any flight sim!

My dad started me off though, so I blame him.  He said his 1929 link trainer was absolutely awful!  

11 hours ago, Chock said:

You should just out-trump them. Tell them all they are mere amateurs and 'noobs'; you've been moaning about stuff since the very early days of moaning, back when when moaning about things was done with 8 bit wireframe grumpiness.

🤣