June 19, 20223 yr Been simming since FS Version 1, on the big floppy disc in 1983. I played it at my job in the NYC government on a true IBM PC that was confiscated under the old RICO Act. That PC sold for about $5,000 retail at the time! (It had a 30MB hard drive and about 280 Kb of RAM). I'm 75
June 19, 20223 yr 112, feeling a bit tired and confused Cheers, Ed MSFS2020 Steam // Rig: Corsair Graphite 760T Full Tower - ASUS MBoard Maximus XII Hero Z490 - CPU Intel i9-10900K - 64GB RAM - MSI RTX2080 Super 8GB - [1xNVMe M.2 1TB + 1xNVMe M.2 2TB (Samsung)] + [1xSSD 1TB + 1xSSD 2TB (Crucial)] + [1xSSD 1TB (Samsung)] + 1 HDD Seagate 2TB + 1 HDD Seagate External 4TB - Monitor LG 29UC97C UWHD Curved - PSU Corsair RM1000x // Thrustmaster FCS & MS XBOX Controllers
June 19, 20223 yr 6 hours ago, turbomax said: so we have 25 the youngest 89 the oldest, majority over 50. many began on FS1/FS2 and are older than the Asobo developers or Jörg Neumann (56) 😊 It would be interesting to see if the ages represented were different if the same question were asked in the official MS forum or flightsim.com... Randall Rocke
June 19, 20223 yr I'm 52. Started flightsimming in 1984 with Sublogic's FS2 on a Commodore 64. Dave Simulator: P3Dv6.1 System Specs: Intel i7 13700K CPU, MSI Mag Z790 Tomahawk Motherboard, 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Video Card, 3x 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 2280 SSDs, Windows 11 Home OS My website for P3D stuff: https://sites.google.com/view/thep3dfiles/home
June 19, 20223 yr 56 First flight sims I had were on the Commodore 64, then I had SubLogic Flight Simulator on the Commodore Amiga (i.e. the start of the FS franchise before it became a Microsoft product). First version of MS Flight Sim I had for PC was FS95, but I also had some version of FS on Apple Macs. Started flying the real things in 1997. Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
June 19, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, RandallR said: It would be interesting to see if the ages represented were different if the same question were asked in the official MS forum or flightsim.com... In the Navigraph survey the most prominent age group is mid-20s and far more than 50+. It's heavily dependent on where you ask. I would assume flightsim.com to be largely the same as AVSIM, while the MSFS forums are probably more mixed and places like Reddit are probably more frequented by younger people, relatively speaking.
June 19, 20223 yr 62 and have been flt Simming since ATP by SubLogic bought each of the landclass areas that came with maps but was all green screen.
June 19, 20223 yr 71 Started simming on a Times Sinclair 2068 in 1983. My cardboard box was a spaceship! Edited June 19, 20223 yr by Penzoil3
June 19, 20223 yr Administrators 29 minutes ago, Penzoil3 said: My cardboard box was a spaceship! Mine was a fort! Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
June 19, 20223 yr I'm 63, simming since FS2 back in 1984. Two years ago I could let a dream come true : https://imgur.com/jgkqqlO Mike 1. A320 home cockpit (FSLabs, Skalarki), P3Dv5 Main PC : I7-12700K, GTX3080Ti 2. FSLabs A3xx, P3Dv5. Gigabyte Aorus 17G YC, I7-10700K, RTX 3080
June 19, 20223 yr Eighty-eight and a half. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
June 19, 20223 yr 8 hours ago, Adrian123 said: First Flight sim was a cardboard box in the back yard. From that perspective my first flight sim was wandering around my neighbourhood with die cast airplane flying “long haul” from my house to one block over 🙂 Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
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