I play MSFS.  And P3D. And FSX Steam. And DCS.

In a moment of sanity, it occurred to me that I like playing (collecting, optimizing, hacking, fixing, troubleshooting) flight simulators more than I do flying flight sims. 🙂

I collect airplanes and set up start up flights with my Kodiak sitting at the airport ready to go.  I have a cople hundred such scenarios each with an icon on the desktop.  I click on the icon and go directly to my aircraft at the designated airport.  It's a project I'll probably never finish.

I'm also working on creating flight plans for an around the world flight that circumnavigates the continents.

Noel

Since you collect planes too, I'd suggest you try out WAMA if you haven't tried it out yet.

(https://secure.simmarket.com/lorby-si-where-are-my-aircraft-wama_fsx-p3d.phtml#:~:text=Lorby Wildfire Response&text=The "Where Are My Aircraft,simulator where you left them.)

On 4/14/2022 at 1:53 PM, bofhlusr said:

I play MSFS.  And P3D. And FSX Steam. And DCS.

In a moment of sanity, it occurred to me that I like playing (collecting, optimizing, hacking, fixing, troubleshooting) flight simulators more than I do flying flight sims. 🙂

 For the life of me, I would have a difficult time saying that I "play" Flight Simulation programs.  I guess I take it more seriously than a "game".  I'm sure the pilots that use flight simulators NEVER refer to their experience in the sim as "playing a game".

Sorry.  I guess it's just me.  Don't mean to start an argument on this topic.

Stan 

Pretending to fly

 

6 hours ago, spilok said:

 For the life of me, I would have a difficult time saying that I "play" Flight Simulation programs.  I guess I take it more seriously than a "game".  I'm sure the pilots that use flight simulators NEVER refer to their experience in the sim as "playing a game".

Sorry.  I guess it's just me.  Don't mean to start an argument on this topic.

Stan 

I thinks its both. You can play FS as a game , flying under bridges and dodgems iff thats their thing. And you can leran a plane GA or an airliner 'inside out' iff you want and fly a plane from cold/dark before pushback starts and land it 7,ooo miles away using all the IFR navigation tools ILS/glideslope VORs and so on.

People who dont use FSs in any way seem to take it seriously and are interested or the other half are a bit mocking about them (like two camps).

I said to o0ne in the second half, iff pilots were out of action (extremely unusual obviously) who would you want to take over from the passengers. He was

hard pressed to refuse that of course someone who knows the plane from a simulator.  In that sense i say its not a game so much as an educational tool, and good fun at the same time.

Edited April 17, 20224 yr by icewater5