Age of flightsimmers?

[Mooney]

I am asking this just beocause I wonder. How old are all of you? I am 14 June 5 (getting trainsim!!!)

[JarJarBlinks]

LAST EDITED ON May-30-01 AT 10:09PM (EST)[p]September 16, 1986 (im 14)

Steve

[Erick_Cantu]

Sixteen and proud of it!

-E

[font size=1]"You have Clearance, Clarence"

"Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?"[/font size]

[gotmilk2898]

5/15/89

12 and Proud of IT! Hanging in ATL (not the airport)! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

[danruth]

I'm 48 and have been flying sims since the first video-game-type appeared in the lobby of a local theatre in 1970. It was the 'Lunar Lander' which I handily set down to a soft landing regularly to the amazement of my friends(including my girlfriend). Even Flying magazines' Richard Collins agrees (has stated in his column) that the best use for flightsims is to practice procedures. It's still fun to pretend. . . even at my age. Have fun young man!

Fellow simmer,

Dan Ruth

[JonP01]

6th July, 1966 (about to hit 35). I am glad I was born in July and not June, otherwise it would have been 666(6)! Flight-simming for only around 18 months. Got into it by a very unique way. In 1997 I started to suffer the effects of a congenital spinal problem (developmental scoliosis). This caused (and still causes) me so much pain that it made work extremely difficult. So I bought my first home computer to enable me to do the work at home that I was in too much pain to do at work. Of course this machine had internet access and it wasn't too long before the Red Baron 3D demo found it's way onto my hard drive (I wasn't looking for a flight-sim at all. It just happened to be the first download I found that matched my system's capabilities and wasn't too big). It wasn't long before full blown flight-sim disease hit me. Red Baron 3D demo was followed by Red Baron 3D (full), Jane's WWII fighters, FS98, CFS, CFS2, FS2000. And of course FS2002 in November. I also became a sad case computer hardware nut and have built a number of machines for me and acquaintances since then. I'm also a motor sport simming nut, playing Grand Prix Legends exclusively in this category. But I have to keep my simming activities in moderation otherwise my upper spine lets me know well and truly. Which is proably good in a way - otherwise I'd have no other life.

[aman]

3-Nov-88, turn 13 this November. Have ben hooked onto flightsims since '95, though discovered fs.com and co. only last year!!!

Aman

[jwenting]

30 and a few months.
Into simming for over a decade (first one was Microprose F-15 Strike Eagle II)...

[teesee]

17 - 23rd March '84

been simming for about 3yrs :)

Tom

[gesmall]

I am 60 and learning each day more about this hobby. Glad to be here with you kids.

[AeroBob]

16, and I've been using flight sims for most of my life - since I was about five. I'm not much better at them now, though :-).

[Lou_Betti]

I figure I'd better chime in, and skew the age up a bit higher.
I'm 42, have been in flight simulation since Nov. of '97, and started in real aviation in 1974. I got my PPL in 1975, IFR in '76, and MEL and '77. Gee, just thinking of those dates really makes me feel old now! ;-)

BTW, the age of the average DreamFleet member is probably around
35+, with the youngest being 23, and the oldest being around 60.

Regards,

Lou

[Bagman]

My turn, I'm 34, and I've been simming since the FS 5 days on my old 66 Mhz Pac Bell with 12 meg of ram and only with the default aircraft since at the time I didn't have an internet connection or flightshop. Now I'm running a P3 500 and FS 2000 and CFS 2 along with FSDS pro and Airport 2.60

Brian Gladden

[CanuckInUSA]

I'm 37 and have been working in the computer business way too long (since 1984). I did a little flight simming back in the mid 80s, some more in the mid to late 90s. And now not only am I simming, but I'm also pursuring my real-life private pilot's certificate and possibly looking to aviation as a part-time career (though I doubt I will pursue a job flying the big iron as I am getting kind of a late start and am not thrilled with the thought of working for poverty wages in aviation as I work my way up the ladder).

[LT101]

Hey! I'm 19 (September 9, 1981)

I've been flying for about seven years (1994) . I started with FS5 with a 486 DX2 66 MHZ and in that moment it was amazing!!

After that I continued with all versions of this great sim.. FS95 , FS98, FS2000 and now.. I'm waiting for FS2002 to be released.

I still keep that old 486, does anyone want it for FS2000? :D

[fruit10]

Aged 12, June 22 1988. Been interested in planes since five( my first flight I can remember) and have been hooked on flightsim since FS95.

[be]

i am 14 december 18th 1986 (its the same as christina aguilara)(shes hottt) i've been into aviation and flying since i was 5 years old! and been workin on flying ever since.. so hope to be flying in da freindly skies of UAL soon!

[nmsmith]

I am 22, born 15/11/1978. I've been flightsimming since about 1988, using FS3, although I remember playing a 747 sim on the BBC long before that. All you had to do was land the thing, and I couldn't even manage that.

At the moment I am three quarters of the way through my finals at Oxford University. I finish on Monday afternoon, so wish me luck everyone!

My plans for the summer are to pack in the high-life and any ideas of a career as a high flying accountant in the city, and instead finish off my PPL and look for a proper career in aviation.

[balram]

LAST EDITED ON May-31-01 AT 12:33PM (EST)[p]I happen to be born on 6th June and will be turning 18 on wednesday. Started with FS5.1 around mid 1996. First visited this site around late 1997.

One of my earliest memories (around 3 years old) is of being terrified by the roar of an A300's engines.

::balram

[alastairmonk]

DOB 05/04/62 (UK designation !) Thus I hit the big four-O next year ! I've been simming (FS98 only) for about a year and a half.

Alastair

[Peter_James]

I just turned 34. Oh geez....

http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/who/pjames.htm

FlightSim.Com VP / Cheyenne Pilot

[antilles42]

LAST EDITED ON May-31-01 AT 02:22PM (EST)[p]March 27,1988
I'm 13, have always loved aviation, and have been addicted to flightsims since I was 10.

Adam

[maurimaglio]

I'm proudly 57 (maybe the older?). Starting with FS3.0
Sign Pisces, birth 10/3/1944 (please take a note about for
next birthday gift!!), living in Rome Italy. Brown hair,
brown eyes ... single ... any hostess around interested?
Any request over 35 will be refused. :-lol

Just joking...but not around age.

Maurizio Maglio

[bhebert]

I'm 42 myself, or was that 43, I can't remember. Your memory is the first thing to go when you get old. :-lol

Real Answer is 42.

Brent

[AirAusquin]

I'm 31 (March 9, 1970)

Flightsimming since 1986 (in a friends PC), started out with FS2.05 (for PC), keep on simming with FS3, FS4 (+ASD, AAF, SGA...), FS5 (+FSFS), FS98 (current), FS2000 (unusable in my PC), waiting for a new PC and FS2002.
Fanatic of flying controls (Stick and rudder!)
Become Aeronautical Engineer in 1991
Love ultralights and gyroplanes,
Want to become experimental aircraft homebuilder (Rutan fan)

This is more than you asked, but it shows how aviation and flightsimming can influence in one life!

Alejandro
Venezuela

[Mooney]

I didnt realize that I was not the only kid in here I thought you were all in your 30's (not to say you who are arent kids)

[Cessna6549E]

Hey Im 14 going to be 15 next january. I've been in this hobbie for 3 years and I seriously have learned more about real flying than I do when I go flying in Cessnas in real life in Flight Simulator.

[bleggers]

Looks like at 61.7 I'm the oldest so far. But I'd love to see a few 80 year old flyers check in here. I hope to be doing this 20 years from now.

Helicopter mechanic in the early 60's in the Marine Corp. Simming since the early 80's using sublogic and ATP. My 1st simming was done on radio shack's first laptop with a fold up screen, pretty crude, but felt as though I was really flying over the chicago skyline.

And it just keeps getting better . . .

[redhotchilipeppers]

Hello. Im only 14 as of May 6 and I am a very enthusiastic Flight simmer. I like to fly as realistic as possible-not like some little kid and probably do it just as real and well as some of you very seriuos 30-50 year youngs. Just letting you know.

P.S.-Also getting TrainSim-can't wait!
redhotchilipeppers™

[Tyler Reilly]

Birthday: July 9, 1986. I'm 14, going on 325. I'm gonna see the likes of FS 2254. That's my goal, anyhow. Until then, FS2002'll float my boat.

-TR

P.S. Teenagers seem to be taking over this computer stuff...

[CanuckInUSA]

Huh? Did I hear you right? You mean to tell me that you learn more from flying a simulator than flying a real airplane? You must be on some good drugs. There is just no comparison between flying a real airplane and pretending to fly with a computer (which does a less than ideal job modelling flight).

[redhotchilipeppers]

Wow I dint know there was this many teenagers-we need more zit creme!

[Stingray]

I first started flightsimming at the age of 13. Flying little Cessna's out of Meigs to little airfields further into Illinois. Look at me now. 17 years old (turning 18 July 7), and a seasoned 747-400 captain in Aerowinx PS1.3, flying for British Airways Virtual and Virtual Cargolux. I showed my flying skills at the Dutch Flightsim Days at Schiphol last April and the mayority of the people were quite stunned that a young and inexperienced person like myself can handle an IFR simulator with the greatest of ease. I too was surprised to see that a retired KLM 747-300 captain apparently had more difficulties with handling the sim than me... :D

Yannic Cathalina :-wave

[Flaps20]

I will be 40 in 65 days, and have been flight simming for 16 yrs. It all started with Solo Flight for the Commodore 64, and it has led to FS2K and also my PPL, and in the process of getting Instrument and Commercial ratings.

[Mike Hambly]

Hi:-)
I am a young 54, and getting younger by the day, us older guys are really happy to see the younger side of this hobby take an active interest at flightsim.com. Lets face it your the future of flightsim:-)

Trainsim is high on my priority list and hopefully I will be developing for it.

Best wishes my friend.

Mike

[kerttll]

I just turned 18 and i have been flightsimming for 3 years. My first was FS98 currently I hane FS 2000PRO and I really hope to get FS2002.:7

Kert
Estonia

[Michelle Sakayama]

22. But been at it since FlightSim was on 5.25in. floppies.

[Erick_Cantu]

Recalling a conversation with me comrades the other day:

"This music kinda sucks"

"Then why are you watching the video??"

"Well, the visuals are good....."

:-lol, actually I'm more of a 'metal person' myself, was born and raised on it!!!

-E

[font size=1]"You have Clearance, Clarence"

"Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?"[/font size]

[Erick_Cantu]

Does anyone here remember Chuck Yeager's AFT???

That was my primary sim until we got our 486 a couple years ago...don't laugh...we had an Apple IIe...

And when we got the 486, my primary sim became JetFighter II. Then we got our Presario last year...

And my first FS on that was FS95. I got FS2000 last October, then FSDS in...February I think....

And I just got FS98 (Captain Slarty was giving it away and I can never refuse an opportunity for a new (err...sorta) sim!)...I use it when I wnt to do aerobatics....

Really I have been making up for all that time I missed. I have done a whole butt-load of repaints. And then I got FSDS anf later AA, learned how to use it, and catapulted mysef into the 737 CEP!!!!!

-E

[font size=1]"You have Clearance, Clarence"

"Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?"[/font size]

[danruth]

Apple IIe days LOL! Man ol' Chuck was tough to hang with! The most fun for me was flying the SR-71 because at 145,000 lbs. was the 'heavy' in that sim. Another thing - wonder why the difference in sound(you knew when you you dropped sub-sonic in AFT) has never been duplicated in flightsim. Seemed wierd to me back then and still I wonder why no change when flying in fs2kpro? I still fly the most recent model (SR71pss.zip) i have. Be great to have an up-dated model, even w/out sound transistion. I just haven't yet tried the up-dated .air file which claims to fix the mach 3.5 attainment problem. All i've ever been able to achieve is M3.23@FL70.

Anyway. . . this forum has been so much fun for me.

Thanks for all who participate!

Dan

[JonP01]

5.25" floppies! Now my age is showing. When I was Michelle's age, I was computing in the pre-DOS days with 8" floppies! They were like pizzas. After we loaded the data into the machines we would frizbie them at each other just like Odd Job in the James Bond movies!

[JarJarBlinks]

My fathers first computer was a 8088, which was in 1989, 20 meg hd, 1 mono monitor, 640K, 5 1/4 floppy.

Steve

PS: Thats the oldest here, wouldnt run FS1

[MC]

7/8/75 Thats 25 for you old fogies :-lol Been flightsimming since 89'. Took a break to join the USMC in 94'. Was quite suprised when I got out in 99' and discovered how much FS had advanced in 4 short years. Currently finishing up my comp sci degree and building hours for my commercial ticket.

Regards,

Mark KRNO :-wave

[Aweiszman]

07/06/78 will be 23 in a month, starting Embry Riddle in 3 months for my Aeronautical Science degree. Wish me luck!

[CanuckInUSA]

LAST EDITED ON Jun-02-01 AT 09:17AM (EST)[p]Hey I'm not that old (I'm 37), but getting old is better than the alternative. Everyone get's a chance of being young, but not everyone is lucky enough to grow old. Once you live a few years you'll know what that truly means.

Respect your elders (this still applies to myself), as they know more about life than you do.

[Mike Hambly]

Hi Peter
Your still a young pup:-) And you remember steam? I was told today we will not see Trainsim until July 26th in the UK:-(
Amazing you would think MS would have Trainsim out sooner than that, here in the UK.

Best
Mike

[raygin]

14 (10/4/86) freshman in HS. Flying fs since i was about 6 and playing fs4.0 on my good ol' 386 free from Digital computer corp. since my dad was CFO and VP for the hardware and prephirels(sp?) division, lucky me :)

[Delta_747]

I am 12 and have been a enjoying Flight Simulator since FS98. I started downloading planes in the Fall of 2000. Now I come to FlightSim.com every day!

[JarJarBlinks]

Allot of teens around, and they have gotten into FSimming with FS4 like me!!!

Steve

[BrighidN]

I'm 23, but am 10 years old in my interests, and 85 in my wisdom!

Brighid N :)

[Mooney]

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[thegetter]

I have been Flight Simming since the ATARI 800 computer days,
about 20 yrs,I am 44yrs old.
Happy Simming To All!
thegetter! :D

[FangVV]

I was 34 in april this year. Been simming since my first Commadore 64. Anyone remember Dam Busters on that thing? Man that was a great sim.

Fang V^V

[planelover123]

i'm 14 and i have only been flightsimming for about 2 years.

Teens Rule!


Eric:-)

planelover123

[dil52]

LAST EDITED ON Jul-01-01 AT 01:50PM (EDT)[p]I've been 39 for 16 years now.:-lol
55 really...I still think I can out run all my children.... distance wise. Not off the line for the first mile or two.:-)
Can still do 5 miles non stop. If I don't quit sitting in front of this computer too long that will quickly diminish.

There's a wonderful group of people in here and I'm enjoying learning from all the youngsters as well as my age group, lol all three of us. :-)
The age of the average simmer is 36.5 years
The average age of all in this thread so far is 28.53 years.

Keep enjoying flight simming and makeing this feel like a big happy family. I feel that way at least.
Fred
http://www.flight-sim.net

[katlawn]

I guess that 12/12/45 puts me up in the "Oldies" as well!!!!

Ray

[rayN5432H]

I'm 16 (born 9/23/1984) and a soloed student pilot. Hope to get my PPL this Sept. 23. Started simming with FS5.1 in mid-1996 on my 1st computer (a Pentium1 100 MHz), then FS95, FS98, FS2000, CFS, CFS2, ProPilot 98,USA,& 99, Fly!, Flight Unlimited I, II, & III, and FS2002 this fall. Also have Train Simulator. In real life, I fly out of McVille (p37) (an airport in western PA with 2300 ft & 2900 ft grass runways) in rented 1975 C-172M's. Recently I got to give my future PPL FLight Examiner a 'check ride' on FS2000 to teach him how to use it! I use FS both seriously and to have fun. About 1000 hrs logged in FS, but many more 1,000s not logged. Just got the Internet this year, still discovering websites. If anyone knows a better download site than Flightsim.com, tell me.

For all of the elders out there, I love music from the 50s and 60s (long live the Beatles).

There's no sound like a round. (engine, of course!)

Ray Davidowski

[tjkotula]

I'm 14, turning 15 this December 28th. Been simming since 1998. I hope to get a PPL eventually.

Tim Kotula

[Dee]

I just turned 49 last month (June). Been simming since FS4, Mac version.
Dee Waldron (HJG)

[amartin1]

i'm about 13 (born 22 march 1988), ive been into flightsimming since some time in 1999 (i think). :)

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Visit my website at http://www.speedbytesoft.cjb.net!

[Mooney]

The link doesnt work.
http://www.mooney.com/images/logo_blk130.jpg

[md82usa]

18. The first sim i flew was Harrier for the Atari. Then Top gun for the nintendo. Now i have a whole collection, F-15, F-16, MiG-29, F-22, Hind, FS2k, X-plane, Warbirds II, Airport Tycoon, Combat Air Patrol, Orbiter, USAF, planning on getting Eurofighter Typhoon, maybe the next release of x-plane and maybe Operation Flashpoint (not only a flightsim, it also has 1st person shooting, trucks and tanks in it as well as helos and planes.)

[MaxLegroom990]

Yeah, I remember it, a friend of mine had it (or something with the Chuck Yeager name) on something even older than that. This was about '87 or '88. My first flight sim of my own was Stealth Fighter on my Commodore 64, from there the progression went to FS5.1 on PC, FS98 and FS2K Pro, the last two still on the system. BTW, I'm 38.

[MKaprocki]

LAST EDITED ON Aug-19-01 AT 00:06AM (EDT)[p]Get rid of the !

Matt Kaprocki


P.S. I'm 17, 01/01/84

[MaxLegroom990]

I'll wish you luck on that, I'll be trying the same myself if I can get my act together. I had planned to go to Comair's academy, but that will not happen. If what ALPA said was true, their newest pilots were (and the key word here is were) making less than I was as a E-4 in the Army. Go to school and file bankruptcy after 6 months on the job, or live in a trailer, or your car, if it's big enough, that is.

Maybe I'll get into the big jets before I get too old, maybe not. The worst thing would be not to try.

[dbeal]

Scoliosis huh? Well I have Lordosis, instead of my spine going to one side it is bent like a question mark, so it looks like I have a "Hump-Back" and yes I have Terrible pain too sometimes, it really sucks and I know what your going through, I feel for ya' man. :) p.s for the questioner, im 16!
Born Leningrad (USSR) Sunday November 4 1984 at 4:44PM! (So 4 is my lucky number ;-))

Best Regards :-wave
Derek Beal CEO Russian Aviation Site
http://flightsimmers.net/va/aeroflot724/logo01.gif
http://flightsimmers.net/va/aeroflot724

[dbeal]

WOW! Erick! We have ALOT in common! :-eek, of course your Russian Fascination ;-) j/k, and ME BEING RUSSIAN! :-lol,Flight Sim,Civil Aviation/Military,Girls! :-lol,METAL!! YEAHH!!, It's amazing to see that OLD enemeies are so similer, like back in Cold War Americans,Canadians were affraid of "THE SOVIETS" Or "COMMIES" were gonna fly over Washington D.C. in their TU-95 "Bears" and Nuke the country, Whereas we were worried also about, "Yankees" Droping Nuke on Moskva in B-52's/B-1B's, I'm glad it's over and last Friday was the 1st time I saw machines that scared the Hell out of my former Country, the B-52,B-1B,etc... I was talking to pilot of B-52, and he was a very kind and asked me alot of questions about life on the other side of "Iron Curtan" I would love to hear what our older audiances here have to say about the Cold War, Did you guys have drills in Class about how to survive Falout and whatnot? I'm very happy to see former enemies as friends and can relate to each other as they only knew of one side.

Best Regards :-wave
Derek Beal CEO Russian Aviation Site
http://flightsimmers.net/va/aeroflot724/logo01.gif
http://flightsimmers.net/va/aeroflot724

[marthaj]

You sad train spotter... no im 14 and 15 in november and getting FS2002 early (like the day it comes out) if they dont run out :(

[pipeline109]

9/87, got fs4 as a gift in 1997, went in with no manual, no knowledge of planes, no charts, no nothin. it took the family a year to figur out how 2 take off, then we got fe5 with the fs4 charts. that computer broke, and a few years later i got fs98, with its online help system, a great gift from microsoft(now i know how 2 fly!) i still dont know nething about planes or ne other simming teens.
pl109,
zFACTOR flight simulation team

[rabhaw]

42 years young. First sim was on a C64. Then used F16 Combat Pilot on an Atari ST til the disk drive went on it and it went to the attic. Just got my first PC last year and FS98 was first program purchased then 2000 Pro.Only things on my PC are flight sim related plus a word processor and photo program.

Robert

[drake1999]

I am 18 with 32 years of experence (50) when it comes to playing on the PC. Retired each year from June to September.

Started with Intelevision ($?) .. B17 Bomber.. paid $35 for the cartridge .. The game still works!

Next came the Commodore 64 ($150) and flew SOLO FLIGHT and Chuck Yeager AFT ... I have 20 keyboads in the basement, half of which still work (picked up at auction for $25).

Now using FS98 ($10) on a P400 ($600), hope to be around another 50 to see what the sim world will be like then!!!!

Drake1999 over and out

[SJ084]

HI,
My Turn! im 17 or 18 as of jan 10 :)
http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3b6fc5db24310362.gif

[BigAL727]

I am 60 years old also and first started with fs4..on some .25mhz. I like flying the heavy commercials and still trying to intercept the ILSs. Looking forward to the fs 2002 edition.
BigAL-Tucson,AZ

[FlyerJeff]

13 here. I began simming when one day we went to a nearby EggHead Software and I saw a flight sim, and kinda flew in it. It was back when there was only Flight Simulator... I dunno the version, maybe 5. I think I was anywhere between 5-9 when that happened.

-FlyerJeff
Keep on flyin'!

[spotlope]

I was born on Pearl Harbor Day (+22 years) -- before you hurt something doing the math, that makes me 37! I was in a computer store a couple of years ago with my son (who's 16 now, but much more into RPGs) when I picked up a copy of CFS1 just for fun. Then, about two months later, I got FS2000, then a week later a force-feedback joystick, then rudder pedals and a CH yoke, then CFS2, then.... ah, crap, let's just say I've subsidised the hobby as much or more than the next guy. This has got to be the coolest pasttime ever! I'm planning on going for my PPL next summer (winters just plain suck here in Oregon... too rainy) and then, who knows? Like another poster above, I can't see myself jumping from a well-paying high-tech job to slave airline wages, but it would be a lot of fun to someday be an instructor part-time.

-Bill Womack

[robbie1472]

Ah you're going to be one of the Echo Romeo's sitting on the runway blocking traffic at Deland then. :-wave
Just kidding , I'm still looking for an instructor I can afford.

To answer the topic question - I'm 43 and started w/ Flightsim2 on the floppy, one side was for IBM the other was for ATARI. I had an ATARI 400 w/ 56k of ram. I've been through a number of different Sims since then but currently using FS98.

[duffer]

Hi All, Just checking in on this topic. I am going to be 76 in about two weeks, Sept 13, but when I am doing this thing on the Fs 2000 simulator I feel like I am a kid again, I have been doing simming for about 10 years now and this is my first time on this forum. I used to have a pilot's ticket but got to be too expensive to fly, so I join the Navy Reserve and was a crewmen on a P3 Orion Willow Grove Pa. I now live in Florida enjoying this game of simming. Hope I can do this for a while , Take care and talk to you later. Harry

[alastairmonk]

I reckon 76 must be a record ! Happy virtual flying !

Alastair

[DanielF]

I'm 14 and have been virtualy flying for about 9 years! :-)

[johnnyswank]

I'm 19 and have just joined the Australian Air Force as a pilot. My training starts early next year, should be fun. I've been simming for about 8 years, still have fond memories of chuck yeager's air training and fs4.

cheers

[seimi]

Hi, I'm 24 (soon 25) and I'm flightsimming since FS2 on my old Atari ST!

have all lots of fun!

Simon

[raybel]

Hi,
I am 15 years old i was born at 5:15 AM, March 22 1986.
I been simming since October 2000 with fs98 the only civilian
simulator i have. Soon i will get Fs2002 just waiting for it.
Any one how which to email me to talk about fs98 or treat planes, feel free to email me at rrobles@candw.ky. This is my story.

BYE!!!!! :-wave

[cyclops02]

Hey what's up? I'm 18 and I want to be a commercial pilot and fly a 747-400 from KJFK to Heathrow!!!!!!!! Been a FSimmer since I was 8.
BYE!

[edgreenberg]

It's great to see such a wide variety of ages represented. Where else do we find youngsters such as the 12s and 14s, as well as retired folks, doing the same thing and working with each other.

I'll chime in to say that I'm 46. I got my first Flight Sim for the Apple II in 1979 or 1980 or so. I used to bring the Apple home from work to use it.

Today I went out and bought the new CH USB Yoke and Pedals.

Best,
</edg>

[J_Eden]

>It's great to see such a
>wide variety of ages represented.
>Where else do we find
>youngsters such as the 12s
>and 14s, as well as
>retired folks, doing the same
>thing and working with each
>other.
Hear Hear!!! :-)

Im 16, and just passed my medical this morning, and hopefully going solo next week. Good excuse for flightsimmming methinks :-jumpy :-lol

Cheers
James
[link:home.wanadoo.nl/gooisekust|http://people.ce.mediaone.net/timbo87/gaa/james.jpg]
-"Ill give you ten seconds to get outta there."
-"Give us a minute!"

[petermcleland]

I guess I'm at the other end of the scale...I was born 13th May 1933, so I'm 68 :-eek

Twelve years a Fighter Pilot, twenty-two years an Airline Pilot and now a Boat Bum :-)

Regards,
http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3ba871e238a74fb8.jpg

[JPRavain]

1) Married and father of 2 (Joshua - 2 y/o in Nov. and Julie - 3 months old).
2) Soloed a Cessna 172 10 years ago (at age 16 - KNEW). Geesh, why can't I remember the exact day and year?
3) Flight Coordinator/Dispatcher/NREMT (Part 135)- Air Charter Associates/Life Flight of New Orleans. (Learjet 25, King Air, Cessna 421). Do youn need an airplane?

Just a lil' bio of myself,
Jason

[Jeff S KDTW]

Peter-

Because of all three of those "stats," you are my hero!! :D (fighter pilot, airline pilot, boat bum!!!) :-lol

BTW, 31...

[hr width="100%" color="darkblue"]http://home.earthlink.net/~snyders2000/Remembrance.gif [font size=4 face="Lucida Handwriting"][font color=darkblue] Jeff Snyder [font color=black](KDTW)

[benjie]

15 and usin a flight sim since i was 8....yea baby!

Benjie

[millj]

Been flying (simulators) since about 86'. I've got most all of them from FS 3.0 to 2000 plus FUII, FUIII, several X-Planes, a couple of FLY's (not FLY!II), Pro Pilot 98, 99 and Falcon 50. The only one in which I've actually logged my time is FS2000 and I've got over 1800 hours there. I thoroughly enjoy this hobby.

I'll turn 59 this month. 30, 40 and even 50 didn't bother me in the least but starring 60 in the face is rather disconcerting (Dad died at 67).

Owen

[hogge2k]

Hi all! :-wave

Im 28.73 :-) That allmost makes me the the most average aged simmer here... hehe.
I think its GREAT to see ppl here in their 70's, that gives me hope for another 50-60 years of piloting!!!

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-All great men are dead, and I'm not feeling to well myself http://medlem.tripodnet.nu/hogge2k/div/eleph.gif

[alastairmonk]

Don't worry too much - even if you don't outlive your Dad, you should still see FS2010 and the new Pentium 16GHz chip ! (Based on MS releasing a new title every two years and clock speeds doubling over the same time period !!!)

This is from someone facing the big 40 next year !

Cheers,

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[Bagman]

not all that far behind you Alistair, I'm staring at 35 in January :-)

Brian

[petermcleland]

Thanks Jeff,

I call them Life Parts 1,2 and 3 :-eek

Regards,
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[rayN5432H]

I've only been in this forum a few months, so I haven't seen many long threads. Does this come close to or break any records?

Ray

[ahmedmumeni]

14 and proud of it!

I will be building a new system next week for FS2k2. I am an owner of FS98, FS2k, and soon, FS2k2. Will be a pilot and an aerospace engineer in the near future. I've been hooked on simming and aircraft since i was 8!

Proud to be a simmer!

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[gary2]

Last time I looked I was 69. 70 in Oct. Seems like the first flt sim I had was a box kite. You will enjoy the Train Sim but it's a little difficult to remember you are driving in only two dimensions - keep looking for the altimeter
Always keep at least two inches of air below the aircraft. :-jumpy

[gary2]

sorry- meant to add a couple of things to my last post. born 26 Oct 1931. Actually saw the Hindenburg (airship) fly over Corner Brook Newfoundland Canada in 1936 I think it was. Skippered two Canadian naval destroyers HMCS Terra Nova and HMCS Saskatchewan just before retiring in 84'. Probably should have served in the airforce. Good luck :-cool

[mobrien14]

Im 15 I dont have a licence yet but go flying with my friend about twice a week!! the pic of the plane is my friends plane

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[Starfy]

Talking seriousely, first time i've approached this forum
i was a bit shy because i told to myself "Probably they are
very young and me, i'm still playing with this game?". Happen
that about some months ago i saw the Mike Hambly and Lennart Arvidsson (ground textures replacement) and i said "pfiewwww ..
there are more older that me finally!". I started with FS4.0
creating sceneries, planes, and commercial add-ons for FS.

I'm italian born March 10, 1944 Rome Italy. (57 last March).

Ciao

maurizio

[millj]

>Don't worry too much - even
>if you don't outlive your
>Dad, you should still see
>FS2010 and the new Pentium
>16GHz chip ! (Based on
>MS releasing a new title
>every two years and clock
>speeds doubling over the same
>time period !!!)


Thanks for the encouragement Alistar but I was hoping to make this AMD Thunderbird 1.33 my last computer purchase.

All the best from Scottsboro, Alabama USA

Owen

[Draino]

I'll be 19 next Friday. I've been flightsimming for about 3 years, my first sim was FS98, then Hornet Korea, F-15, JF-18, F4, FS2000, EEAH/EECH and Flanker 2.0. I'll be flying the real thing in about three months though. I just got my acceptance to Embry Riddle in Dayton Beach about two days ago.

[simmer]

14 - March 1987.

http://www.keithloke.f2s.com/unitedlogo1.jpg

[stpeterc]

20. I'm a Private pilot and a student at Purdue University. I'm majoring in Aviation Administration.

[BraniffCEO]

Jeez, I feel old now...I'll be 30 on December 3rd. I've been into sims ever since I got a Commodore 128 and Flight Simulator 2 in 1985. I've done a lot of panel, scenery, and plane work and run Braniff International VA (if THAT doesn't date me, I don't know what would...)

Kristopher Crook,
Chairman and CEO, Braniff International
http://members.tripod.com/BIVA_2/BIVA.html

[Josh10524]

14

[ians]

I'm 46 (just had my birthday on the 4th...) and its not a toy - its a way of life (sad as it sounds...):-roll

[sperrygo]

I am 16, a junior in HS. I hope to go tu UMD and join USAF ROTC

[fltsimjock]

Well, shucks! Here I've been wading through all these replies from the younger generation and I was sure that I'd take the prize for being the oldest simmer. But, alas, I guess I have to cede the title to Gary...he has me by three days! I was born on 29 October 1931 in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit). I, too, remember the Depression, the Hindenburg crash in New Jersey, World War II (barely missed serving because I was too young) but I did join the Air Force in 1950 and served 23 years, six months before retiring in 1973. My start in simming was with Microprose's F117 Stealth Fighter, circa 1996. If anyone's familiar with it, I managed to achieve the rank of General in all ten slots, which required me to fly a minimum of over 1,000 sorties. Like all the rest of you, I progressed through FS5, FS95, FS98, FS2000 and am anxiously awaiting the appearance of FS2002...next week, I hope.

Best regards to all you simmers out there!
Dave Sprague (fltsimjock)

[esteiner]

I turned 80 this past June 29. Began with FS when it first came out, and tried all but x-Plane. My early experience with flying was as a navigator on a B-24 flying with the 15th AF out of Italy during WWII. My pilot, bombardier, and I are all that remain of our crew.

[millj]

Congratulations on your 80th birthday Mr. Steiner. Thank you for what you and all the others, including my father, gave for our country in WWII. My cousin, George "Buddy" Kirtley, also flew as a crew member in a B-24 from Italy during that time. He is still very much alive at 79 years.

I'll be 59 this month.

Owen

[alastairmonk]

Interesting. I'm currently reading a paperback called "Combat Crew" by John Comer, detailing his missions as a Flight Engineer-Gunner in B-17s during 1943/44. For him, too, there are few of his crew left, either due to being killed in the war or subsequent medical conditions.

The book is listed as available at www.amazon.co.uk, but out of print at www.amazon.com

Best wishes,

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[donationware]

Im 14 4/14/87. 4/14 was when lincoln got shot and the titanic sank. lucky birthday huh?... I started with fs original..i think. I was about 6 when i started. It was some on junk gray box. i then went to fs 5.1. later i got got a 486. i thought it was the stuff. windows 3.1 yyyyaaaaayyyy!!!! I got windows 95 soom on some machine. Still fs5.1. When i got win98 i had a new comp. something like a 166. thats when i started combat simming with jane's fighter anthology. i played that for a while. i then got a new comp, pII 300 with a diamond monster3dII video card. i was happy to have a 3d accellerator! I got 2 more combat sims:janes longbow2 and IAF. Then i switched to general aviation when i got fs98. Played that for a while. Then i got more combat sims. My favorite being jane's f-15. Next was another upgrade. athlon 750 and 128mb ram(same video card). I soon got fs2000 and an ati xpert 2000 with 32 mb ram. ive been playing fs2000 for about a year now. I also like to play b-17 flying fortress: the mighty eigth for a combat sim. Some where in there i upgraded to 320 mb of ram. I also got sick of fs2000's low framerate and got a geforce2 pro (also got it in preperation of fs2002). That my life of flight sims. i know this is just asking for age but i thought id throw that in.

[alastairmonk]

Fascinating sim history, but I have to ask - by my reckoning that's at least 4 computers in 8 years. How do you afford to keep changing, or have you just got generous parents ?

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[esteiner]

Another book about the AAF in WWII covers the B24 in the 15th AF. It is The Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose. The book is about George McGovern, preseidential candidate, and a B24 pilot. He was stationed at the same airfield I was at, but across the airstrip during the time I was there. Probably flew many of the same missions.

[alastairmonk]

Thanks for that - I see its only just out, August 2001 !

I intend to continue this thread in a separate thread, as I'm sure its of interest, and is rather buried here !

Cheers,

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[chohan]

Born in July of 1961 but it's not the year...
it's the mileage. :-lol

[munnst]

I remember Dambusters although the Balloons and Fighters used to get me first.

Do you remember ACE, had inflight refueling and speech all in 64k.

I also had FS1 from Sublogic (which later became FS2002).
The book supplied with that was invaluable and should be shipped now. Had everything from VOR, NDB navigation and even included maps of the various areas.

Ted.

[pilotrob14]

LAST EDITED ON Oct-22-01 AT 09:02PM (EDT)[p]I'll be 14 in february. I didnt think that there was so many teens in flightsimming! :P My friends think I'm weird because of my fsimming hobby.

Rob
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[Moose]

24 December 1961 - that makes me 40 on Christmas Eve! Oh Dear. Been flightsimming for over 16 years and lovin' every minute of it. Bad eyesight in one eye prevents a PPL or flying career, but FS makes up for it! About six hours in a Chipmunk at RAF Binbrook when I was at school - even did some aero's!

Spend most of my FS time in GA aircraft, currently a Piper Warrior - see http://www.shetland.flyer.co.uk

PS - I pity the poor souls who checked to receive email when a new message is posted to this thread!

All the best,

Rory

[b_bonnett]

I'm 15, born 22/06/1986.
I've been simming for about 2.5 years.
I envy you guys who have good enough computers to run FS2002 ... I'm stuck with FS98
Still, I can think of worse things to do! :-)

Blair.

[willem]

I am 68, from march 1933, started with my ATARI 400 in 1985.
I remember 386-90 mhz-233 mhz, and present 800 Mhz which I think will be replaced in 1 years time. 30.000 hours since (my wife think it's more)I started and I am enjoing every minute.
I am flying only and I will use this opportunity to thank all of those how are designing planes, scenery and the rest to upgrade flightsim, answering questions, help me out if things goes wrong (Roy Chaffin). This world is my world and I am proud to be part of this. My favorite site is http://www.flightsim.com.

[yokeman]

Didn't realize there were so many young whippersnappers out there flying their computers. Nice to know the torch is being passed. I'm 65 y/o retired electronics engineer. Simming is a great passtime.

Happy Landings

[paladinlord]

I am 22,11th of August 1979

[PeteStepanoff]

57 and happily retired. Flight Simming ever since I first bought Solo Flight for my Commodore 64, and later FS2 when it was first released. Had every version since then!
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[C172_Flyer]

38 and unhappily working. :-) I started with FS4, with the sound and graphics upgrade so I could hear the engine through my soundcard instead of the PC speaker and run it in 800x600 instead of the standard 640x480!

Got my PPL in November 1998. Lovin' every minute of it!! Because of the $$$$ I fly FS2002 a lot more than the real ones! Trust me... it's the next best thing to being there. Now if I could just figure out how to mount my desk and chair on a tilting base we'd really have something! :-lol :-lol

[flyingspanner]

hiya mooney,


just to let you know that i am 35 years old, but you know it does'st matter what age you are if your having fun with fltsim

[jhender501]

51


Jim

[CDreier]

How 'bout 57....:-)

[maniac]

I'm 40 yrs old. Been using Flight Sim since the Apple II days (16-17 years ago? I can't remember that far back). LOL

[jebarber]

26

Michigan

[Mooney]

Hey moose my mom is one day older than you. :-lol
http://www.midatlanticmooney.com/images/logo.jpg

[learpilot]

I'm 28 and washed out from practically every proffessional flightschool in Holland. So i turned to the one thing i could fly cheap: MSFS. I now work in the computerworld, and one day i hope to make enough money to start on a ppl.
In the weekends i help out at a foundation that builds/restores/flies WWI and contemporary aircraft. You may want to have a look at their website: http://fly.to/vroegevogels
(= Dutch for Early Birds)

[hlynur]

35 here, nothing more to say about that :)

[lonewulph]

39, ouch..did I say that?
First flight sim was drawing little planes on the edge of my math book, then flipping the pages to watch it fly...that was about 1976?
Bob 'Wolf' Hayes
Easy on the Stick!

[adamwarren]

I'm 13. I have CFS2 and Fighter Ace
Check out my web site! http://www.geocities.com/acecfs2

[newsflyer]

quick answer...I'm 60...but always tell my wife and anyone else who will listen that there is still a 17 year old kid kicking around inside, somewhere...:-)


Sherman Kaplan
Highland Park IL

[Captain_Slarty]

42 !!!!!!!!!!!!

u told me that was your chest size !

:-lol

Not old Lou........ just maturing, like a ripe stilton... :-roll

Captain Slarty... 44.. so calm down son... :-lol

(Joe)

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[Chern]

DOB 2 Aug 49
Started FS on Tandy 1000 in 1987, took a long break then got back in with FS95

[bjornhall]

Still 27, but I'll be 28 before this thread dies! :-lol

/Björn

[Sonar5]

36 Here ..
Joliet, Illinois

[Flying_Scot]

58 and been simming since FS2 for the Commodore 64.
Had every version for the PC since except FS for Windows 95.

[Fatts]

well I am well over the hill also and after reading the ages I even feel older now! I flew models in the 40s after the War and I am so tired of having fun that I may need to take a long break and then start my third childhood in this hobby.

Got to go water our victory garden OH my wife watched the flash from the atom bombs in Japan she is from Korea and older then me!!!!!

Have fun and I sure am glad that I am not the only older kid out here.

Mac/Fatts

[yokeman]

Hey Mac,

From one geezer to another. I grew up in NYC during the war and loved to build the old balsa jobs. I have numerous scars on my hands from my Xacto knives. The B-17 is still my favorite although I'm partial to the P-38 also. Don't give up the sense of humor. Mine has kept me going this far. Always leave em laughing.

Bruce

[HVB]

Im also 16 and just like you, dbeal, i also have Lordosis. It really sux. Wish i could just get straigt all right. Know what you guys are going through. Dont worry, your not alone.


Hans

[cliff]

Hi, well, I'm just one month short of my 76th birthday. I got in on MS flight sim. late in the game as I have always been a Macintosh user until I saw MSFS 2000 on a friend's window machine about a year ago.

Cliff

[DannyBoy]

37 (3/16/64)

Danny
from Walt Disney World

http://members.aol.com/dannycondra/images/hat_small.jpg
100 Years of Magic, Disney-MGM Studios

[donsherlock]

Hello! I'm 41 yrs old and a father of 11 and 7 yrs old sons, and a 2 yrs old daughter.

[esmith1721]

Age 58 and have been hooked on flying since 1966.

Elmer Smith, USAF retired maintainer

[Ditchlights]

Curious thing! I was thinking about the average age of flight simmers just last evening. I hoped I was not getting too old for this facinating hobby. I turned 50 Sept. 27, 2001. I am a locomotive engineer for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad but I'd rather fly.

Many thnaks to Peter Mcleland for his help earlier on in my flight simming experience. He got me through some difficult times simming. Glad to know he too is a senior pilot.

John Franklin
Victorville, CA

[rayethonman]

Hey! I was born in '88 too! I caught the FS bug in '93 or so though - back in the days of Win 3.1 and MSFS for DOS! I got FS2K, then I found my home at FlightSim.com.
-J. Garcia

[jkallinen]

11/26/1961=40 and father of a 5 year old son! Married for 8 years.
First computer was a Franklin Apple 2 clone bought in 1979.Still have it
in storage and it works, another 20 years and
it might be worth something to a museum.

Its nice to see a variety of people of all ages enjoy sims!!

[MChapel]

46, but i refuse to grow up - even if I am going to be a grandfather in March 2002. :-eek Been flightsimming since '95 when I finally broke down and bought a computer and a copy of FS5. I'm lucky to have a very understanding wife - every birthday and Christmas for the past six years she's bought me something to use with FS - yoke, pedals, headset, new monitor, RAM, etc. - I won't go into detail on when she acts as a "stewardess" }>

[DannyBoy]

37 (March, 1964)

Danny
from Walt Disney World

http://members.aol.com/dannycondra/images/hat_small.jpg
100 Years of Magic, Disney-MGM Studios

[DrFiasco]

HeHe Teenagers seemed to be taking over this computer stuff when I was a teenager too<G> I'm 27 and feeling like I'm being left behind by my younger counterparts. I feel no ill will towards them though as I had to fight against my age until recently. I've been in the professional arm of the computer biz for the past 8 years and that litterally makes me an oldtimer<G>

The Doc

[sunbird]

I am 34, with air force exp. And have flight simmed since FS5 and loving every bit of both worlds best to you all Sunbird

[zoynyne]

30 going on 7, unless I stay up too late or wake up too early - then I may as well be 109!

[dunbal]

I'm 33 (12 May 1968) and been playing Flight Sim on and off since the original for the PC. We used to play it in the computer lab at high school, where it was hard to tell things apart since they were all yellow. 4-color CGA monitors were very expensive. We didn't used to measure frames per second, but rather seconds per frame, back in those days. Sometimes the game would really slow down, and it took a lot of imagination and patience to fly. But of course the major competition were games like "Trek" and "Adventure", all text based. Apple was way ahead of IBM as far as graphics were concerned.

Now as I play fs2k2, I think about how far we have come in a couple decades...and I wonder when we will start reaching diminishing returns...

[legoman]

I am twelve years old and i sim yet since i am ten years old. I can ly a 747-400 in real ( i think i can) because i have 747-400 PRO (justflight) and if you want a realistic exapnsion, you should buy that one.

[gto]

52 Here !!!!
Nice to know I'm not the only Granpa that plays with flight sims. I think I own or have owned every flight sim ever produced,, Have had my Private Pilots License since 1985, but I enjoy simming in my old age as much as actually flying.
Take care all my fellow simmers!!!!!!!!!!

[ynchief]

I'll be 57 next week. Retired United States Navy Chief.

Jim Burke

[pelleplutt]

31, been in flightsimming since 99(newbie!).

Regards
Per

[TornadoWilkes]

29 From the West Midlands in UK

Flight History includes:
Nite Flite II: Sinclair Spectrum 48K (1982 - aged 10)
Fighter Pilot: Sinclair Spectrum 48K (1985 - aged 13)
US Navy Fighters (PC)
Private Pilots Licence (aged 22)
IMC (limited instrument rating) (aged 23)
TFX
MS Flight Sim 5.0
Air Corps Gold
MS 95
F22 ADF
MS 98
MS Combat FS
MS 2000 Pro
MS 2002 (2001 - aged 29)
And still struggling to land my 747 on the carrier!!! :-)

[TornadoWilkes]

29 From the West Midlands in UK
Flight History includes:
Nite Flite II: Sinclair Spectrum 48K (1982 - aged 10)
Fighter Pilot: Sinclair Spectrum 48K (1985 - aged 13)
US Navy Fighters (PC)
Private Pilots Licence (aged 22)
IMC (limited instrument rating) (aged 23)
TFX
MS Flight Sim 5.0
Air Corps Gold
MS 95
F22 ADF
MS 98
MS Combat FS
MS 2000 Pro
MS 2002 (2001 - aged 29)
And still struggling to land my 747 on the carrier!!!

[farvque]

I'm 44 years young and have had my pilot's license since 1977. Since I lost my medical certificate due to heart problems, flight simming is the only way I can still fly and I love it.

[TerryinABQ]

I am 48 and have been flying real world since 1974 and simulators (F-4E and F-111D) since 1977.

Terry

[tarzan]

Finally, my turn...I'm 37, first flight sim was fs2000, now fs2002 and loving every hours of it, and flown for real since '93. Allen Putzke

[whodaman]

Hey , im 16 an have been fsimming for about 1 an a half years now thanks to a friend of mine at school who gave me a shot of fs2k once at his house and that very night i went out and bought it :). Hard to believe that from a game that never really interested me that much one of my biggest hobbies has sprung :). Had few lessons in a Cessna 152 and luvin then loads !+ did my work experience at GLasgow int. airport and got to fly in the flight deck down to heathrow and back twice !! :)

c'ya

[Hakan_Olsson]

Another old boy here ! I'm almost 39 ! started my aviation career when I was 12 (I swept hangar floors with a broom, please don't tell anyone). The next step was gliding when I was 15, PPL when I was 18 and so on................

Hakan

[Mike_T]

33 years young! :-) (cough cough, weeeeeze)...er.... 33 years old :-(

Mike T.

[newyorkflyer]

12 years old...er...young! :-lol !

"May the force be with you"
Moses

[UAFORLO]

Well after almost one year, is my turn...I'am 48, be 49 on the 29th of this month, got my PPL at 15.6 in Los Angeles, and worked my way all the way to the right seat of '47 with United, flying San Fran to Honolulu till '89 when I left do to medical reasons, and been simming for about 2 years, and love it. I also like flying my ultra light over the Everglades and tease the alligators...lol, this such a great hobby that now I create my own aircrafts which I share with the sim. community.












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[zekemacneil]

LAST EDITED ON Jul-05-02 AT 11:52PM (EDT)[p]21 on july 15. enjoying life when I am still young.

[pacnorwest_simware]

I'm 16, only been simming since FS2000, but have always had an interest in aviation. When I was younger, I went to the Boeing plant in Renton & watched the rollout ceremony for the Next Generation 737s. I've loved aviation ever since.

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[walkerhds]

Born in 1963.

First computer used was a TRS-80 Model 1, and/or an Apple II. Cassette Tape Recorder for program storage. Graphics.. well, the multi-pixel blocks could be thought of as balls, etc. back in 1979.

First flight simulator I tried was Jetsomething for the Commodore 64. And FS2/Jet 1.0 for the IBM PC I got in 1986.

Walker

"The difference between flight attendants and jet engines:
The engines quit whining when they get to the gate."

[reza_fsim_4ever]

am 19 1/2 and ive been flightsiming since FS 95


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[walkerhds]

ACE is out there, or at least something like it. They have a website: www.flyace.com , and then click on the Airline Charter Enterprises button.

Walker

"The difference between flight attendants and jet engines:
The engines quit whining when they get to the gate."

[walkerhds]

Well, shucks! Here I've been wading through all these replies from the younger generation and I was sure that I'd take the prize for being the oldest simmer. But, alas, I guess I have to cede the title to Gary...he has me by three days! I was born on 29 October 1931 in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit). I, too, remember the Depression, the Hindenburg crash in New Jersey, World War II (barely missed serving because I was too young) but I did join the Air Force in 1950 and served 23 years, six months before retiring in 1973. My start in simming was with Microprose's F117 Stealth Fighter, circa 1996. If anyone's familiar with it, I managed to achieve the rank of General in all ten slots, which required me to fly a minimum of over 1,000 sorties. Like all the rest of you, I progressed through FS5, FS95, FS98, FS2000 and am anxiously awaiting the appearance of FS2002...next week, I hope.

Does that mean you remember when the Detroit airport was a grass field rather than the gleaming monster it is now? :)

Thing I loved about F19/F117A was that all the airbase runways were on a 0/18 heading. No having to worry about crosswinds, no having to do any of the stuff one has to do to safely land in M$FS. That, and when a single Vulcan burst can take out a MiG-21/23 over Pechenga.

Walker

"The difference between flight attendants and jet engines:
The engines quit whining when they get to the gate."

[adamwarren]

Wow, that is an old post! I'm now 14... and have a few more sims

-ADAM :-wave www.geocites.com/acecfs2 I play: CFS1 & 2, FS98, Silent Hunter I & II

Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal to the number of take offs you've made.

Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory.

"Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror." -- Gregory ''Pappy'' Boyington

"Hey, is that a 9mm? That's nothing compared to this 44 magnum!"

[rankin3]

Wow this thread is over a year old!! I'm 15 and have been in it since fs5.

Wyatt
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[pilatus96]

LAST EDITED ON Jul-08-02 AT 09:52PM (EDT)[p]I'm 17 and live in Phx, AZ. the first time i ever saw an airplane i was hooked (although i didnt know what they were until i was old eneough to talk) unfortunately i was born w/ Muscular Dystrophy and am physically unable to fly a real plane. so he next best thing was you guessed it...MSFS. when i was 6 my dad got me FS4, and ive gotten every version since. believe it or not, when i was 10, i flew the 737 on FSFW95 on a perfect ILS approach into runway 9R at O'Hare. sounds pretty easy right...well guess what, i did it inverted. if you dont believe me, you can ask my dad, heres his emial addy: wwoganw@websterbank.com to this day ive logged over 2000 hours on the FS.

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[Yarddart152]

LAST EDITED ON Jul-10-02 AT 06:27AM (EDT)[p]Wow,:-eek this post is more then a year old, and still going pretty strong. lol. That is freakin amazing. I guess ya have to add a year to everyones posted age eh :-lol.

Oh I guess thats been said already :-roll. I'll shut up now.

[cyclops02]

Just turned 19, with about 7 years of flightsimming experience!
~Ryan

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[macdonaldjr]

22... And loving it.

Jason
---Kitchen? We have a kitchen?---

[zacres314]

i am 15, born march 14 1987, same day as albert einstein but not as smart.
simming since flight sim 98

[Yarddart152]

21 here. Instrument rated private pilot soon to be commercial hopefully in real life. I remember FS on my commador 128 when i was 7 or so years old. Didnt get into it hardcore till I think the one I had on my 486 computer. Cant remember which one it was. All i remember is that it had the thing where u could build your aircraft by changing the wingspan and dihedral and other stuff. That was pretty cool. They should bring that back in FS2004. It was easy, and fun to make some wacked out airplanes.

[tinman]

I flew on a commodore 128 also... started on comm 64 and before that its was Vic 20 ..but no flight sim for the Vic. (don't want to date myself)

I'm 18... oh wait you wanted a physical age didn't you... 48

[jam6971]

I'm 20 mate from cardiff in Wales the uk but why mention a train sim this is flight sim city.

[Ivaneck]

Born July 4, 1966. Don't heard the celebration fireworks, i'm a bit too far. :-)

Regards,

Joan Coll
Barcelona, Catalonia

[pacallen]

WOW this is an old post heh. The original posters have already gained a year heh. I don't know why but I never posted originally (although I do remember this thread from the beginning. What happened to Mooney? I haven't seen him around in a LONG time. Anyway, to answer the question, I'm 15, almost 16.

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[jetBlue_A320]

15. January 22, 1987.

- Matthew Whittaker

"Long Live the A320!" "Lang lebe der A320!" "Vive l'A320!" "Lungamente Vivono I A320!" "¡Larga vida a los A320!" "Vivam por Muito Tempo os A320!" "Lang Leve de A320!" "Yechi ha-A320!" "Länge leve A320!" "Lenge leve A320!" " http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3d6fbfd22da640b1.jpg " "A320 za vinagi!" " Jeetay Raho A320!" "Aayushmaan Bhavo A320!" "Kore Kaalam Jeevicho A320!" "Viata lunga A320!" "Meri ma dee mota A320!" " http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3d6f13082bd1cc08.jpg " "Mabuhay ang A320!" "Omret Zeeyad A320!" "Tall Omrek A320!"

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[aspong]

Bump.....
Hey. This thread has been going on for 16 months!!!! :-eek

[Hakan_Olsson]

I,m now 39.5 !

:-lol


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[BillS511]

Almost 532 months. :o

Bill:-wave

[rayN5432H]

Forget 16 (my age above), I'm a few weeks from turning 18 :-eek .

Mooney seems to have been browsing a little in the last few months. Remember the large thread a few weeks ago about the 'poor little file' from the early '90s? He was quite active in it (he started that post, as well).

Ray - N89864
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[Horax]

I'm 14, June 25,1988, simmer since FS for DOS

[barrybern]

Well, when I started reading this thread I was 18, but now I am 52. Actually, I started flightsimming in 1994 with FS5.0. It was the first thing I bought after I got my first computer. I've had every version since. It is also nice to see just how many young kids are into it. :D:-cool

[Mikehoyer]

Just to keep this going, I am 21. Just gone back to college to study engineering so hopefully I will be a aircraft or racing car engineer in a few years...

[stvy1dr]

i'll be 48 March 10, 2003, if your reading this, you made it buddy!!
stvy1dr

[GFORCE]

I guess i will fill the 200th post in this message :-lol I am 16 years old.

:-wave -Scott :-wave