FSX And Children

[rich135 0]

My son (age 9) has been flying with me since age 5, both sim and real life. In the sim he has far surpassed me in air races and aerobatics. Just got him the RealAir SF260 for a good report card; he is loving it.

[DescendDescend 25]

My son (9) enjoys the helicopters but generally flies Pacific fighters and its relatives plus Falcon 4 and Lock On. Still has problems landing though.

[Guest NoobPilot]

I started about 6 years ago, when I was eight.

[phoenixphire 50]

Flight simulation is for daddy only. My gaming computer is a no fly zone for my kids. I got a separate computer they can bang around on.

[N562Z 4]

Same here Mike K-Even my wife is intimidated by the complexity of my flightsim rig. She stays on the wireless laptop, and is fine with that, as her most demanding software is the eBay applets. The 3 Triple Head to Go Screens wrapped around the yoke, throttles, GoFlight stack and center console have a way of making most people pause, as if afraid to touch it, which is good! But I regularly involve the kids, and in fact my son plays "Gutterball," a bowling sim, on my rig regularly, but only after asking me, though. http://www.my-buddy-icon.com/Icons/objects/red_3d_plane.gifAlex ChristoffN562ZBaltimore, MD

[AlaskanFlyboy 7]

I myself was 5 when I first touched Flight Simulator. Back then it was on a 286 and was the original. Though I was obsessed with aviation before that, apparently before I was a year old by most accounts.I'm currently stuck in between the private license and the commercial though thanks to being in the gray zone between my family making too much for me to qualify for financial aid, but too poor to fund me. Though as of this year I apparently qualified, but because I "failed" the flight labs courses when I ran out of money to complete them, I'm on academic suspension, but I fight on.So yes, Volkswagon Simulator X might be gentler to family and the child. :-hah ----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satellite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach