Andreas H. G. Herbst
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in 1956, married to the `Boss' of Skydesign and father of two
lovely blond girls (18 months and 4 years old), Andreas started his
`aviation adventure' in the beginning of 1978 in Bremen. The flight
academy of Lufthansa, in former times called `Verkehrsfliegerschule
der Deutschen Lufthansa', was his first contact with active flying of
real birds. Before then he only enjoyed the branch of aviation by
building and flying model planes.After graduating from Pilot's School in March 1980 he started his transition to become First Officer for the Boeing 727 with `Condor Flugdienst GmbH', a subsidiary of Lufthansa German Airlines. At the end of 1986 he quit his preference for this classic old iron bird and started transition training for Airbus A310/A300-600 in Singapore, where most of the Lufthansa A310- pilots were instructed in this period of time.
After receiving the type rating for DC10-30 in early 1990 he flew as First Officer on long range flights, most of them were north Atlantic crossings. Another transition to the `Ultra-Modern Airbus A340' gave him nine months experience of `flying with a side stick', before it was his turn for the `commander training' of Flight Captain. In 1994, after logging more than 9000 hours on commercial heavy jetliners, the Chief Pilot of Lufthansa German promoted Andreas H. G. Herbst to act as Pilot in Command on a Lufthansa Boeing 737.
Curently the author's flight operational home base is Duesseldorf, waiting for the final stage of his carrer to fly the heavy Boeing 747.
Starting computing in 1990 he was using his simple ATARI 1040 as a kind of game-box. Soon he discovered his desire to know more about what else is behind the screen. Just a coincidence is the cause of his current activity for flight simulation design.
His very first plane design was a Boeing 737-800, which flew pretty good but wasn't that well designed graphically. Working hard on available information in the flight sim scene he finished the project of `747', where only the old classic style planes are presented.
`SkyDesign', which has been formed in the past and grew to a team of eight designers is under the technical lead of Andreas. The latest release, `Air Force One' in the US and 'Fly the Big One' in Germany, is now available at our `home publishers' AlphaSoft and Data Becker. Here he created his first professional adventure featuring correct operational procedures and callouts of commercial jet pilots for departure, cruise and landing.
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