I'm not as good as I used to be...

[CaptainTower]

With the coming of FSX, I noticed that my posts dropped off and I became more of a hermit in the FS world. I think that there are two reasons for that fact. First, FSX is much, much more complex than earlier versions of FS and, as the joke goes, I don't even know the questions, anymore. Second, I am getting old! I rarely finish long flights anymore (at least at real time). Long sessions of sitting at my desktop PC tire me. Having said that, though, I did a circumnavigation of the globe, recently with my Learjet 45. I kept a log of the flight and my trip totaled more than 22,000 nmi and the total flying time was 51 h and 26 min. That was spread over a period of about 2 weeks. I didn't fly every day. Sometimes I just get a little revival and get back in there. My FS experience spans a period of time from Jan of 1993 to the present, with a 17-month sabatical a couple years ago. It covers every version of FS from 4.0 to the current FSX.

I do like to read the posts here at Flightsim.com and admire all the knowledge that I have seen here.

Tim

[budreiser]

Know where you're coming from. I just turned 77 three days ago and can't sit in my nice office chair and fly as long as I did in the early flight sim days. But I do look at the new files everyday and at this forum. I've learned a lot here.

[CaptainTower]

Thanks for your reply, Frank, it is always good to know that one is not alone. I turned 67 last February, but in October of 2010 I had a heart attack and I think that has contributed to my slowdown. My doctor tells me that on a scale of 1 to 10 he would rate my heart attack as a low 1. He said, "You got a wakeup call." When I walk regularly, I feel much better.

I suppose I will always be a flight simmer. I've been at it since 1994 with FS 4 but I really got hooked with version 5. There are times I wished I hadn't but I did... I do think that FSX is much more complex than FS9 was, though. Plus, the hardware has gotten more complicated, causing headaches for Microsoft. I really think that is why they bailed out after FSX. They just seemed to continue their practice of reinventing the wheel with each new version, messing up features that worked great in the previous version.

Thanks,

Tim

[budreiser]

Hope you get the old ticker back on track. I'm having heart palpitations but the doc says not a big deal. Not for him it isn't.

Take care.

[CaptainTower]

Hope you get the old ticker back on track. I'm having heart palpitations but the doc says not a big deal. Not for him it isn't.

Take care.

That's a good point; doctors sometimes forget, or never knew, what it's like to be a patient.

You take care, too, my friend.

Thanks,

Tim