Your first 'wow!' simming moment.

[peugeot309style]

Hi,

What was the first moment that really made you go 'Wow' when flight simming?

I was amazed with FS2 in the Sublocgic days. It was fantastic flying over polygon mountains and over rivers with a multitude of airfields to land at - though sometimes I ended up landing on the taxiway, because the wire framed graphics sometimes made it hard to determine the runway from the taxiway

I was really amazed flying FS2004 for the first time; the clouds still amaze me today, and the sky is full of planes; FS2 was a lonely old world to fly around.

Gets a bit annoying when a 767 charges passed you at 20ft and decideds it wants to get in front of you in the final approach order

The ILS still facinates me; it was a real 'wow' moment doing my first non-tutorial ILS app. I still think they are amazing to do.

Hope I haven't put you all to sleep!

[ReggieF5421]

I played with FS for several versions, but never caught the bug.

One day in FS2002 I was flying along and met another plane flying along near me. The ability to fill my skies with other aircraft, to not be alone - that brought me to FS full-time.

[erau2012]

My first "wow" moment was probably during the flight simulator default flight lessons. I didn't know just how precise I had the ability to fly until I began to work on the instrument rating course (as well as the ILS section)

[VERT002]

I have been simming since the 80's, so I can't remember the first "WOW!" moment, but there have been a lot, usually when a new edition comes out. I can remember one moment was when I first saw AI traffic (FS98 or FS2002?) taxiing a head of me at an airport. All of a sudden, the skies were no longer just mine.
Another was when I bought my first payware aircraft and I saw the difference in detail compared to most freeware aircraft. I am not trying to start a freeware vs. payware debate, just commenting.

[fxsttcb]

When "Airport for Windows" was released! For the 1st time, I could actually use a google satellite screenie and position everything accurately in the sceneries I was making.
With it, I also learned the FS98 tiling system to create a couple of photo real airports and Islands and started making my own APIs and models. 'twas an inspiration!...Don

[Ragtopjohnny]

My first Wow moment was with Photoscenery like Megascenery but now with Sim Savvy, the WOW became all capitol letters when ever I fly......

John Thuot II
A+/Network+

[kingnorris]

FS 2002. The ability to fly the big boys (i.e. the Boeings). Something I always wanted to do!

[///PESSO]

My first Sim "WOW" was when I found out about FS....I didn't knew anything about the game, about flying or about planes

[derrek_lee_25]

the day i got my new video card and 2gb of ram fs9 ran at 30+ fps with everything maxed out before it ran at 8-10 fps with everything maxed out and getting ultimate terrain, its alot better then default scenery and i was able to find my street that i live on

[ramjett]

My first big wow was inFS9, and after finding this and other forum sites, learning that there was a huge amount of freeware I could have for free. The following wow moment was looking out of the cockpit of a VC equipped 747 and I was in command. Of course that second wow was kinda short lived as it took me a while to learn to get it airborne in time. Ah but then there was a wow in that moment too, followed by a lot of them since then. This a wow making activity and I'm hooked.

good flights, Cal