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sixpak

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  • Birthday 10/03/1964

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    Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
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    Advanced Level Respiratory Therapist

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    Aviation, Flight Simulation, Computers

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  1. The recent earthquake in Haiti certainly has the news people hopping lately. While it’s true that I feel bad for these people it also seemed like a good opportunity to setup a situation in flight simulator and spend the day flying. Besides, I can't be there in real life and Flight Simulator IS the next best thing to being there. While I’m simulating a Learjet flight I might as well simulate the assistance I might be giving to the Haitians. Let’ see, in real life I work in a hospital. Perhaps I might create a scenario where I am flying a medical crew to Haiti. What an imagination I have, heh? First I launched FlightSim Commander to create the flight plan. I left my Learjet last in Omaha Nebraska, parked at KOMA. Currently my mom is there visiting he best friend, and the woman who helped raise me. Now, from KOMA (Eppley Field in Omaha Nebraska to MTPP (Toussaint Louverture Airport in Port Au Prince, Haiti) is about 1900 nautical miles. The Learjet would probably make that non-stop flight but then they would have to refuel. In my over-active imagination I pondered the thought of using precious recourses from Haiti, a country currently in need. I didn’t want to do that. I wanted to bring them help without costing them any money whatsoever. So I split the flight in half. The first leg was from KOMA to KSRQ (Sarasota-Bradenton International in Sarasota, Florida), where I refueled. Then I took off again for Port Au Prince to drop off my medical team. That way I would still have enough fuel to get back to Florida and I wouldn’t have to use any fuel from Haiti. Each leg was approximately 2 and a half hours. That kept me occupied and out of trouble for a good part of the day, although it did make the wife a little uptight toward the end of the afternoon. At that time It was time to do something responsible so I went to Discount to put tires on my truck. That at least kept me out of the dog house for another day or two. My next day off is Monday. I think I’m going to have to get my Learjet back home to Phoenix (KDVT). That’s okay to me. Any day I can spend flying is a good day off. I just might have to bring home some candy and flowers for the wife. PS: I truly do love my wife. I tell her all the time that “I am the pilot of our world. You are merely a navigator. You point, and I go. That’s how that works…” I think she likes that idea. Until next time, my friends… :cool: *** siXpak ***
  2. After all these years and I realize that I have a blog right here on Fllghtsim.Com. I've been a member here at FlightSim.Com for many years and, truthfully, I never knew this feature was here. What perfect timing too because I was actually trying to come up with subject matter for another blog site. (I have several personal blog sites now). What a treat this is... My name is J.D. and I've been a member here at FlightSim.Com since March of 2005. I've also been faithful to Flight Simulator since before it took on the name of Microsoft. I've actually has just about every version of Flight Simulator that's ever existed. If I missed one I'm not aware of it. I only wish I would have saved a copy of them because I still get a feeling of nostlgia when I think back to the older versions. Before you wonder: Yes, each and every version had bugs and quirks that had potential to be quite the irritant. Now I fly with Flight Simulator X and it's my favorite. But then again every version I flew with was my favorite during its time in my life. Some people ask, so I'll try to explain in one sentence. What's so good about "pretending" to fly? Well, it really is the next best thing to being there. I can't think of a better way to practice the one thing that I love the most without enduring the expense of it all. True, it's not QUITE the same but it does fill part of the fantasy. It's not just the flying that I love. I love everything about aviation that seems to be out there. Perhaps I'm a littlenutz, and perhaps I'm in a perpetual mid-life crisis. Either way I'm having a great time with it, it's not harming anything or anyone, and I can afford it. Yes, my wife thinks I'm a little nuts too. Well, I really just wanted to say hello, and thank you for stopping by my newly found, old, FlightSim.Com blog. I'll try to come up with something that's actually interesting to read about from time to time. Until then enjoy your aviation world, and your flight simulator world, and above all... Be SAFE... J.D. aka *** siXpak ***
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