Spanish Flightsimmer Community Is In Good Health, Thank You

Could we say that Spanish flightsimming enjoys good health? The answer should be: "Yes, of course". But we could not find the reason for this answer only in the argument above. These are important, but not enough to explain why our health is so strong as we mean.

Going deeper, we can find other powerful reasons to uphold this idea:

• Last year, a new staff was elected for our virtual flying club "Aeroclub Simuvuelo". They replaced the preceding team that was integrated by the pioneers who founded and promoted flightsim in Spain, pioneers who let in a new generation of flightsimmers, pioneers we are greatly indebted to. That shows a dynamic community, doesn't it?
• Frequently you will find controllers or planes in virtual skies of Spain at SATCO or IVAO networks. You can join an event organized by Aeroclub Simuvuelo, the IVAO Spanish Division or virtual airlines based on our country fortnightly. That is nice because I mean this is the future of flightsimming. Even foreign controllers help in these tasks.
• We are amazed by the excellent work of a great deal of Spanish designers developing local sceneries, visual model of planes, add-ons, etc. almost daily.
• Monthly electronic magazines are being published by VA's, Aeroclub Simuvuelo, IVAO-ES sections...to keep their members and readers updated.
• Every year, Spanish simmers meet in an aerodrome (Casarrubios, Fuentemilanos, La Juliana, Monflorite this year...) where people live in perfect harmony and enjoy virtual competitions and real flights. This annual summit is called "Simuvuelo" and, without a shadow of a doubt, is the main event and quite an affair for all. Everybody awaits anxiously the meeting to have a nice weekend, old and new good friends together, between last generation computers and traditional aeroplanes. People work hard to get everything ready starting weeks before. And people will work hard the days after, creating videos, photos and chronicles. Does anyone make a better offer?

All these elements show a view of flightsimming in Spain that is very promising, with plenty of people managing or taking part in this task. It is true that there are a lot of things to do yet, but taking a look at our fair present, anyone realizes that we will have an interesting and better future.

Finally, maybe the most important result of our good health is that, through Internet, it has been possible that people share this fantastic hobby; and in the "real life" a crowd of simmers and friends are growing all together, joining their efforts, experiences, knowledge...In our opinion, this is the heart of any kind of hobby and, why not? Of the human being.

As Freddy Mercury used to sing: "The show must go on", we hope.

We will greatly appreciate all feedback about this article; please feel free to send us an email.

Jorge Codina
codetronx@bbvnet.com

Juan Ignacio Torregrosa
JUANIG@santandersupernet.com

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