How many hours have you logged?

[ScatterbrainKid]

As I mentioned, the Psion Flight Simulator was my first sim (below) in 1983 and it blew my socks off (don't laugh), I must have put in countless hours on it..
There were no external aircraft views, the screen below is all we got, and the only "scenery" were the runway lights and that lake just below the horizon at top left.
But what was so sensational about it was the fact that we masses could for the first time in human history get inside our TV's (yes it played on an ordinary TV) via the cheap £160/ 220 US dollars mass-produced Sinclair Spectrum PC), and think in 3 dimensions, wow!



There were other slightly more complex sims around at the time which had rectangular blocks (buildings) and lines on the ground (roads) which we could only dream about because the machines needed to play them cost a lot more and were immensely powerful, eg 512k RAM.

[cm19]

With FSX time is all logged whether you want to or not so it's a little meaningless when you spend more time fiddling than you do flying which has always been the case with me.

Jim

Before I exit FSX I usually go into my logbook and delete the meaningless entries.

BTW

1500hrs in FSX current logbook. Should be well over really but I lost quite a few logbooks due to corruption before the free logbook fix tool.

And way way way more unaccounted hours as I have been simming since the early 90's and have had just about every MSFS since then with no records saved.

That's also not counting flight time in other developers sims.

[tres2]

I've been thinking about this (as I approach London city Airport in the Airbus a 321) and I think I need to insert a caveat; a significant amount of that 20,000 hours I'm claiming to have logged, would have been with the simulation accelerated. In other words, I did not spend 20,000 hours of real-time sitting in front of that computer screen. Only a very tiny minority of it would have been flown over 4X, and every approach and every departure would have been done in real time. As far as I'm concerned, an hour in the logbook is an hour in the logbook, for me or anybody else.

[btwallis]

My first thought was, in which decade, the 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's.....lol. Likely a bizillion.

[angels355]

I've logged all my important hours, not including just flying around for no reason , around 17,000 logged on a paper log, but I've been too busy to count the last roughly 4,000 hours. I have completed 401 flight around the world.

About 50 RW hours from 7 to 11 years old.

[JM)]

Good fact about the time advancement. If Im ever flying more than an hour (jets) I usually leave the computer running, turn on th Auto pilot and go and do something else. So not all of it is sitting in a chair in front of a screen.

Wish I could of seen the FS9 days when logs werent automatic, but I guess that the logging as gone the way of new airplanes. Almost All automated.

[robin303]

2500 hrs in 5 single eng airplanes and 3 Army Helos and over 8000 hrs in Flt sim.

[mepdraft]

Since october 2010 when I came back to Flight sim on FSX, my log book shows 199 hours.
I actualy started on flight sim in 2000 when my kids bought me FS2000. Flew until 2005 (I think), whem my computer crashed and I did not reload FS. I have no idea how much time I had back then.

Michel E Paquette

[djadlib]

1912 hours on FSX. Before that several 100s more on FS9 I guess

Harro

[cm19]

Good fact about the time advancement. If Im ever flying more than an hour (jets) I usually leave the computer running, turn on th Auto pilot and go and do something else. So not all of it is sitting in a chair in front of a screen.

I have tried setting autopilot and walking away from the computer on long haul jet flights but far to many times have I come back to my computer and my aircraft is sitting back at the gates of my departure airport.Most likely due to FSX wild wind shifts and overspeeding because of that which causes a flight reset. So now I only do flights short enough to stay focused mostly on the sim . Maybe no more than 2 or 3 hours.