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In 1984, when I bought my first computer, the "portable Commodore SX-64" with a built in five inch screen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_SX-64), LOL, I dreamed of what flight sims might become. I bought the computer at my oldest brother's urging for $500, he told me over and over again how important it was to learn computing. I did NOT want to become a computer nerd or video game Nut. But my brother insisted. I had just come home from a month long trip to Europe in 1984, which tanked my bank account leaving about $600 left over. I made the plunge, and bought the computer simply because of Sublogic's stencil graphic flightsim. As time went on I studied simming in earnest. I switched from a Commodore to an Atari ST, a color knockoff of the Apple computer. I got the Atari ST for the next version of Flightsim, which had framerates that jumped from the 4-8 fps of the C64 to over 18fps, so "fluid", LOL! To backtrack, in 1983 I interviewed at a hotel, I wanted to move from a low paying retail, part time job to a higher paying, full time job at a hotel. I was asked if I worked on computers, I said no, and never heard from them again. Two years later, after my brother had me buy a computer, I was still fresh and learning, I went back to that hotel. Once again, I was asked if I worked on computers, to which I replied "I own one". I was hired on the SPOT. I became their Rooms manager, and programmed all their sales and marketing data using code similar to Fortran or RPG. I was not, and still am mostly not, set out to be a programmer. I became a business systems teacher, traveling worldwide for the tourism industry, and along the way joined Avsim and got to know Tom Allensworth. During my brief visits at home, and picking up a beautiful bride during my journeys, who worked for an airline (of course but we did not join the mile high club), I passionately simmed and eventually was asked to be a forum mod. I was given high privleges but due to my work at that time, I just could not handle the dual pro bono roles. I pleaded with Tom to make me a Muggle again, and he did. Maybe I will become a mod here again if asked, I believe in fair and open exchange of our community and hobby. To get to the point, I just love Xplane11 and P3DV4 to death. They both have different approaches, but great hands holding up us student pilots, wannabe pilots, and real pilots in simming. Simming is not a "shoot 'em up" hobby, although I love the way some warbirds like the Spitfire, Mosquito, Mustang and Lightning are commemorated in the hobby. The other day, when I saw that Austin was including a FAR 103 ultralight in his sim, I was in sim heaven and rushed to get their beta. I have already put an ultralight trike out their for FS9, FSX and P3D. Now both sims have come full circle and they compliment each other. I think a hard core simmer must try both, even the other sims that are growing and out there. Thanks for letting me rant about simming and being a bore. WARNING, DO NOT READ THIS POST MORE THAN ONCE, MY BORING ALLITERATION MIGHT HYPNOTIZE YOU AND MAKE YOU THINK YOU ARE HARRISON FORD, PILOTING THE MILLENNIUM FALCON, AND LANDING ON THE TAXIWAY TO AVOID JABBA THE HUT AND THE BOUNTY HUNTERS...