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!

[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

[733atyyc]

I remember being about 9 years old or so, with Flightsim 95, I just loved that fact that they made a simulator anyone could have, to fly jets, or props... I loved it. At that young age though I didn't really get *into* it, but flight is something I've always been a little obsessed with, and my personality type suits it, I have to be in control, so thats something the sim gave to me.

Nowadays I'm all about the scenery. I like to do fly-overs of places I've been, places I want to go, with good enough sat-photos it's like visiting without actually being there, and I am in love with little prop planes, they let me feel like I'm just a little closer to actually having a Cessna.

One of my Wow moments of course is ILS, why just today I flew a P51 Mustang down an ILS by hand, was a lot of fun and I was thinking just how much my flying has evolved over the years now that I'm taking the time to actually do things more "proper". I feel like I'm evolving with Flight Sim, and it's a special thing for me, because it's been part of what I enjoy for so long.

[ViperPilot2]

Hmmm... my "WOW" moments in FlightSim! I guess I'd have to count the past moments:

1) Completing the Maze in X Wing! (LOL)
2) Completing the Pilot Campaigns in both CFS and CFS2 (77 kills in CFS, 124 kills in CFS2).

My most recent "WOW" moment... Starting up FS 9, and it worked!

Alan