budreiser

That is when I got hooked on FS. Think it was around 1985 (or plus or minus a year).

I concur with Mr. Zippy. After I do all this planning to line up and configured for landing, I'll be damned if I'm going around. So I land and get chastised by an imaginary ATC for "Not being cleared to land". My immediate response is "So sue me".

WOW! After a career spanning 40 years in meteorology along with a lifelong interest in aviation, that is extremely impressive. I doff my hat to all involved in this development.

What? No B-737 (or 787). You're kidding! I'm not 100% certain on this but I do believe the 737 is the most popular airliner in the world. As an old fav of mine, I'd love to see the 727 in my FS hanger.

I would imagine for most it will be the field and city they call or once called home. For me that would be "The Big Easy".

Mucho refrences to Real-World Weather in this forum. Please do a search and you'll be informed.

Great! Ought to make this forum much more active. I know I've been waiting for that info.

Don't bury us old eagles yet. I still look forward to new flight sims as I did in the mid 80's. How many of you wanted to barf at square clouds and a four-sided Learjet fuselage? But I do agree we need to attract the younger gen. Get 'em away from some of those shoot-em-up games.

No, but am antsy.

Hope you don't mind two favorites, and they would be KNEW (New Orleans Lakefront) and KMSY (Louis Armstrong Intl), my hometown duo. I remember as a pre-teen boy hitchhiking to KNEW just to be around aircraft. WWII had recently ended and a myriad of aircraft were spotted around the field. To name a few: PBY's, P-38's, P-51's, A-26's, C-46's and 47,s along with a variety of primary, basic and advanced trainers. Two of the P-38's were dolled up in racing livery. The P-51's were LAANG property. Most of the adults who worked in the hangers enjoyed having my friend and I around but you also had the occasional grouch. I have a dozen or so of old photos I took of some of those aircraft around here somewhere. If I can locate will post some in this thread. Airline operations prior to your DC-4 was out of KNEW, but with 4 engine service longer runways were needed. I was at the inauguration of KMSY in 1946 and just about every WWII aircraft was on display...the crown jewel, the B-29. If my memory is correct, the guest speaker was Jimmy Doolittle. From 1959 until 1972 My wife, boys and I lived a mile or so north of the N-S runway. When those old Lockheed Constellations passed over, it shook the dishes in the cabinets. AH, the memories.

Merry Christmas to all. Let's all pray for a wonderful new year.

Probably not worth mentioning but, musnt't you start AS16 before you open FSX?

I recently caved and bought AS16 (ActiveSky16) and don't regret it. I'm probably going to get the ASCA (Active Sky Cloud Art soon to compliment AS16.

Hope it has better night lighting than the default. That has always rubbed me wrong. So much panel lighting it steals from the runway lights.

I'm Jealous... Just kidding. Very impressive.

Ever since I was a kid (born in 1935) I loved airplanes. A childhood accident at age 6 put out my left eye so that pretty much sealed my dreams of flying. Now that you can get a license with vision in one eye, I can no longer afford it, not that it was ever really affordable to me. But thanks to many along my path in life who let me take control of the stick, I got a lot of real in flight jollies. In the early 80's, when the first flight sim came on the scene, I felt like a kid in a candy store. I have enjoyed this game (or whatever you wish to call it) ever since. My big dissapointment was seeing Microsoft (so to speak) throw the Flight Sim program under the bus. I looked forward to getting a new version every 2 or 3 years and they always made improvements. Being a navigation freak, I love flying the big iron on long hauls, but, like a RW airline pilot, that gets old on a daily basis. I am actually good friends with an ex US Airways Captain (Female) who still loves flying but says how boring it was flying from KPIT to KCLT over and over and over and over. Now that she is retired she'd love to do it again. But I digress. When I get tired of flying a 727 from KJFK to KMSY, I take a Mooney or some other small prop job and fly VFR along the coast from KTPA to KPNS or KPDX to KSFO. Coastal routes are always interesting. If stuff like this bores you, you can always go out and cut the grass (or shovel snow if it's the season).

Hope us old dogs can learn new tricks. In the few pics shown, clouds and scenery look awesome. Also appears like most hardware will give good results. My two cents.